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Starter: mikeyeven Posted: 4 years ago Views: 2.7K
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#5188607
Lvl 95
I see an add on the pic pages asking to consider becoming a premium member.... here are the three main reasons I won’t be renewing my membership anytime soon.
#3.... far too many “Facebook” pics are allowed to be posted, cluttering up the reason we come here.
#2 With the exception of unlimited credits, there are really no perks to being a premium member and no extra customer service is considered.
#1 Rating/voting... it’s been horribly slow since the new format. I took a lot of pride in voting on every pic posted... now it takes days to get a few pics voted on...

WBW wants the paying customer to help keep thing going but doesn’t listen to the concerns of the one that do pay
* This post has been modified : 4 years ago
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#5188616
Lvl 85
With the Facebook comment - personally, I agree with you that too many images that offer nothing are being uploaded, but I have to remind myself that someone else may find them of interest. The amateur/girl next door type of image seem to be very popular, in some cases more so than your more obvious porn images. I guess everyone has differing tastes so while these type of images aren’t your bag, doesn’t mean they’re not someone else’s. That’s why there are multiple category options on the site, so that people can select what appeals to them the most.

One thing I don’t fully understand - what do you mean it takes a few days to vote on images? Surely it’s still just a click vote system as it’s always been.
* This post has been modified : 4 years ago
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#5188641
Lvl 95
The voting used to be just hit the button and move on.. very fast.. now when you vote you must wait until it shows the it has registered. Sometimes that up to 30 seconds..I know that doesn’t seem like much but it is a huge difference. I put it as my biggest complaint because that has always been the best and funnest part of being here.
I agree with you on the “Facebook” pics ... it just now there are so so many of them
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#5188646
Lvl 25
#3: I am working on a filtering system that can help you exclude certain content.
#2: Customer service is same for non paying members as I personally think everybody deserves the same service.
#1: If rating/voting goes so slow, why didn't you contact me? This seems like a big issue that need to be looked into and fixed. 30 seconds is way too long it should be about 0.1 sec at max.

The paying members keep the servers running, if non would pay the site would be down within a couple of days. I don' t make much money off WBW. That's the reason I run a second business. Secondly there isn't even enough to upgrade our services that are almost 10 years old. Upgrading those servers would result in faster loading/more stability/less overhead costs ect. I could start with third party advertisements, but since I started WBW I have always been against it.
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#5188649
Lvl 62
Quote:
Originally posted by mikeyeven
The voting used to be just hit the button and move on.. very fast.. now when you vote you must wait until it shows the it has registered. Sometimes that up to 30 seconds..I know that doesn’t seem like much but it is a huge difference. I put it as my biggest complaint because that has always been the best and funnest part of being here.
I agree with you on the “Facebook” pics ... it just now there are so so many of them


Agree. The voting is very slow and has been for some time. I mentioned this before and it has not gotten any better
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#5188651
Lvl 25
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Originally posted by vegas365
Agree. The voting is very slow and has been for some time. I mentioned this before and it has not gotten any better


Something I am going to look into, I myself didn't have any problems, could be that at a certain threshold of votes made it gets slower. Is this with the "hot or not" or just general voting?
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#5188675
Lvl 62
Quote:
Originally posted by Diz-X
Something I am going to look into, I myself didn't have any problems, could be that at a certain threshold of votes made it gets slower. Is this with the "hot or not" or just general voting?


General
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#5188676
Lvl 28
OK. I'm old and will use that as a excuse. How does one tell if the pictures are from Facebook?
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#5188682
Lvl 37
Quote:
Originally posted by Diz-X
Something I am going to look into, I myself didn't have any problems, could be that at a certain threshold of votes made it gets slower. Is this with the "hot or not" or just general voting?



General voting. Not always, but sometimes, the callback is getting delayed on the server end.
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#5188683
Lvl 37
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Originally posted by babeologist
General voting. Not always, but sometimes, the callback is getting delayed on the server end.


Also, the same behavior can be seen sometimes when giving "Awesomes" to a comment.
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#5188684
Lvl 95
Diz.. I discussed the slow voting with you shortly after the new format upload. You said it was a new thing to prevent hackers from mass voting... truthfully I was hoping that an improvement had been made on this. I apologize about the customer service comment. I know how you feel on the subject... I’d just like a little something that makes me feel like my premium membership is a little more than free credits. And honestly if the voting got back to the way it was before you be getting my yearly membership in the bank tomorrow
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#5188685
Lvl 95
Quote:
Originally posted by kwb
OK. I'm old and will use that as a excuse. How does one tell if the pictures are from Facebook?


Quote:
Originally posted by kwb
OK. I'm old and will use that as a excuse. How does one tell if the pictures are from Facebook?


Quote:
Originally posted by kwb
OK. I'm old and will use that as a excuse. How does one tell if the pictures are from Facebook?


Quote:
Originally posted by kwb
OK. I'm old and will use that as a excuse. How does one tell if the pictures are from Facebook?


You can’t... it just an expression of pics that are easily approved on sites like Facebook
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#5188686
Lvl 39
I agree with the "facebook' comment, and it definitely includes way too many 'plastic' model photos being uploaded. All the photos of girls who look like plastic manikins aren't why people come here. Maybe some people like them, but I don't care to look at 5 pounds of makeup and tits blown up like balloons.
Also general voting is slow since the upgrade. It takes several seconds after you rate a photo before the rating shows up, and if you move to the next photo before it shows up the rating doesn't take.
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#5188694
I have been a premium member for a number of years and I think the small quarterly fee is well worth it. On the subject of voting I am surprised at the number of comments here, I find the voting to be virtually instant and rarely otherwise. I agree about the facebook images, too many girls who look like they've botoxed their lips. One thing I have noticed recently is the number of watermarked images slipping through but I don't blame the mods for this, the watermarks are often concealed within the image itself. Just my thoughts.
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#5188723
Lvl 28
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Originally posted by mikeyeven
You can’t... it just an expression of pics that are easily approved on sites like Facebook


I get it. Even at my age one can learn. I do see it occasionally in the non-nudes and beach sections. Hell, many of the babes in the non-nudes look as if they are going to the prom. I seldom look there as I’m afraid I’ll see my granddaughters! Lol. As for as voting, I do it probably out of habit. No problem with the speed. I still say a “mature babes” section should be added.
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#5188765
Lvl 19
Coudn't agree more with your description !

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Originally posted by strictguy
I agree with the "facebook' comment, and it definitely includes way too many 'plastic' model photos being uploaded. All the photos of girls who look like plastic manikins aren't why people come here. Maybe some people like them, but I don't care to look at 5 pounds of makeup and tits blown up like balloons.
Also general voting is slow since the upgrade. It takes several seconds after you rate a photo before the rating shows up, and if you move to the next photo before it shows up the rating doesn't take.
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#5188782
Lvl 95
So I did a little experiment... I made a new account... hit a few votes... freaking fast voting... so apparently the problem is in the older accounts the have a huge number of votes, comments, and favorites. I’m sure hoping you can fix our older accounts to work like the new ones
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#5188926
Lvl 22
looking through the accepted uploads of the last 1½ days. I know we all have difference in taste. But looking at the scores and reading the comments, im not alone in being utterly disgusted by some of the pictures being uploaded and furthermore accepted. I have been a frequent visitor for, well.... a decade and there has just been a steady decline in quality for a long time.

If there was a bit of a standard to what is accepted or if that option to not show uploads from a certain user was to be implemented, that alone would make me want to get a premium membership, i didnt use to have the money for it, i do now.

I am all for the amateur pictures, but it can definitely reach a point looking like the result of mommy and daddy who met each other at a family reunion party.
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#5188927
Lvl 37
Quote:
Originally posted by Diz-X
Something I am going to look into, I myself didn't have any problems, could be that at a certain threshold of votes made it gets slower. Is this with the "hot or not" or just general voting?


Only time I notice a slow down in voting is when it appears that the image database is possibly being compacted/indexed (just a guess). I am guessing this based on that it usually occurs when the images get reordered on a page and different images appear on a page after refreshing it. An example, let's say I go to Babes -> New and am looking at page 2 of images. Now, let's say I vote on every image on page 2 and hit F5 in my browser. The refreshed page 2 is now very different. I has a mix of images voted on and many unvoted on pics that weren't on page 2 before being refreshed. Whatever happened to change page 2, can cause voting to slow down it seems. It also happens when , what I guess is the database index number for an image, gets changed (due to database compaction/maintenance?). Image file names seem to show that. The files names seem to be in the format of babes-norm-<image number>-<database ID>. The same image will suddenly have and entirely different last string of numbers/letters. What I have termed the <image number> always stays the same, but I called the <database ID> will be completely different for the same image. I've always guessed that this is due to database compaction, but when whatever process that causes the file name change to happen is when I usually notice voting slow down. I also notice that it normally only occurs within the first 4-5 pages of images and pages with images older than that on higher page numbers stay relatively the same. This made sense to me because I thought most image 'volatility' (when accepted images get removed due to review/reports) early on in their 'lifespan' and rarely weeks down the road.

TL;DR version: Voting slows downs possibly caused by database operations that may freeze/lock image data/attributes and possibly queue votes and/or slow voting down. The same type of slow down could also be due to what some have speculated to be 'older account' syndrome (where older accounts have a big vote record) and something server-side slows down updating on the users' or images' voting records (depending on how voting history is stored (attached to user data or image record to prevent multiple votes on same image by same user)).
#5188933
Lvl 52
I too have problems with slow voting. It doesn’t matter what time of the day I vote it is never as instant as it was before the site was updated. I always thought it was something to do with my internet connection. From reading the above comments it’s not. I view the site on an iPad and again thought maybe this was the issue. Viewing the forum photos the “awesome” button is instant.
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