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anyonebutme (0)
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Totally agree with you there, their release schedule drives me up a wall! By contrast I love the way Only-Tease handles updates, they have a very random/sporadic schedule but you have the option to grab a limited number of future updates each month, and pay extra to download any number of future updates immediately.
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12-28-10 10:51am
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Drooler (Disabled)
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Gee, I remember someone telling me (03-13-10) that "It's just porn." What happened? No more swooping down with another make-you-wrong-so-I-can-be-right-petty-ass head trip?
Oh, well. With you, MargulisAZ, it's a different story. I don't like how they break things up at ALS Scan, either. The promo pics is one item in particular. Once I download the pics of an actual scene, then I have to find the promo pics I saved and pick out the ones that go with the scene and put them in.
Well, I guess I don't have to.
It's nice that they let the users vote on the scenes, but it would be nice if at least after the vote we get the scenes sooner. And they probably do it as they do because it gets the users more involved, so they'll more likely stick around.
Actually, it used to be worse when they had separate categories of outtakes and bloopers. Maybe that got too complicated even for them.
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12-28-10 02:27pm
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PinkPanther (0)
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REPLY TO #2 - Drooler :
I think the "Method to the Madness" is that they have decided on the rate of updates that makes them a marketable commodity and they just shoot way too much stuff to be putting it all through the pipeline in a short period of time. They definitely have a great craving for feedback - they want responses to the polls, they want e-mail responses to the blogs. Alex doesn't care all that much if you agree with him, he just wants to know that people are paying attention to what he's doing, which I can understand. I've got to say that ALS Scan is clearly not unique in the random updates over a long period of time.
I still see many sites putting out updates with Nella pre-boob-job.
I think it stands out more with ALS Scan because they give more info about when you can expect this or that set to be posted.
The only time it really gets to me is when there's some "story" that you're supposed to remember from a blog of a long time ago by the time the related set or vid is posted.
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12-28-10 06:57pm
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Drooler (Disabled)
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REPLY TO #3 - PinkPanther :
I think you're quite right about their intentions, and also about how common it is for sites to release updates over long periods of time.
And there are worse sites. Pretty Nudes might be the worst of all in terms of how shoots are piecemealed, with the pieces being released over many, many months and even years. I doubt it makes for much popularity.
And ALS Scans used to do the same kind of thing with their shoots. It is nice to know now that when you get a shoot, you'll get all of it. Well, except for the pics in the promo release. Oh, and the blog ... ;)
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12-29-10 01:30am
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Sarah (Suspended)
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I want to personally address this because it is not quite as simple as one may think (I am using Sarahs account to post because I do not have one). The fact of the matter is that this comment would not even be brought up if we did not give our members so much information. We are being negatively viewed because we show our members more than we should, perhaps. Step back and look at this for a moment. When we release a model we show you a full preview of all of her sets that were shot. We then allow our members to vote on which set they would like to see first and in what order they should be released. Everybody has his or her favorite set and if it comes in last place or near the bottom of the voting then that member is not happy. But the voting results are clearly posted and we go with what the majority wants. Plus many think the voting is kind of fun and it provides us feedback as to what types of sets are most popular.
All of this could be avoided if we simply did not present the promo pages, and if we did not allow the members to vote, and if we kept the members in the dark about what content is even available.
As it is we still release new content every single day of the week including weekends, during a time when many sites are moving towards updating once every 5-7 days. Every day we release either a full photoset (usually 200-400 pictures, while most other sites release much smaller sets of 50-70 pictures), or a full-length video scene of 15-30 minutes. During a single shoot we also shoot about 5-7 times the content that most other producers shoot during a modeling session. We do this because we are not in Los Angeles and we do not have ready access to all the models so when we do fly a model out we need to shoot as much as possible in as short of a time as possible so that she can get back to her other bookings. Keeping members in the dark has big advantages from our viewpoint. We could do what other sites do and simply release what we want when we want and the members would have no idea of what types of sets were shot or anything really about that particular model. We have been operating under the principle that we are not the experts – you members are, so we should give you as much information as possible about a model and her shoot and then let you tell us how it gets released. We believe members like having this ability – are we wrong? I would rather not go the route of keeping members in the dark because I prefer to have ALS Scan stand above the others in the area of giving members some input and control. We are only trying to do our best and give our members what they want. Hope this helps explain. Thanks, Alex
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12-31-10 10:19am
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