Hi
I just wanted to point out that above or below every, picture posted, every thread started, every comment made on that thread, every clip for sale, in fact in nearly every conceivable part of UMD there is a heart logo associated with the work.
Every time you click on this heart you are showing the member concerned your appreciation of the work they have done and made available to you, more often than not totally free of charge, what clicking on this heart logo does is award a number of points to that member then during and at the end of the day the points are used to calculate things like the Wammer of the day award, the hottest pics, positions in charts, things that mean something to the member and often encourage them to continue to contribute, hopefully continuing to bring us more in the future.
Now I just wanted to say this on this forum we regularly have threads that get views in the thousands, we get pics that get views in the thousands, we get free trailers that are downloaded in the thousands yet some of our highest numbers of hearts awarded to any one pic, and these are pics that have been available for quite some time, is in the 20-40 range, that's 20-40 members out of thousands that have viewed it and taken the time to click on the pics heart, so that means only one of two things, either....
1. These pics are actually so god awful only 20-40 people out of thousands like them and as a result those 20-40 people are now dictating what kind of pics will appear on UMD in future...or, as I suspect
2. people are either not bothering to click because they didn't know it was there, what it meant, how it worked or just couldn't be bothered.

Well let me tell you it is free to click a heart, it is discrete to click a heart, no one will know it was you and further more it is a fantastic way to encourage some of the great members who make this place what it is to continue to do so.

So, Please, Please, Please click on the heart when you like something and show your appreciation.

thank you very much
Jonn

Also, the member who has the most hearts at the end of each month gets to boink Paris Kennedy.

Well, color me guilty of #2 - I just didn't know there was any 'reward' or benefit for the person if I clicked.

I feel that most people are just lazy and self absorbed. No I am self absorbed because I was trying for some time to be the most active user leaving hearts... I haven't as much and just got lazy and just was to busy checking out all of the nudie chicks getting wammed. I actually prefered the old method myself. There is sometimes when you could grade the item with 1-5 dots you could at least show that you were tired of seeing the same boring cut and past posts by the same person time and time again, but i guess people were too lazy to care either way. Just my personal observations.

i felt like I was the only one clicking those things

I pretty much agree with what Yamtree says especially in terms of people who don't actually charge for photos etc getting recognition.

However I think its important to remember this is a forum - its not a viewing gallery for pictures. I think its going to be a pretty sad day if the messy forum is just loads of pictures and the only way people show their appreciation is by clicking a little heart. To be honest although getting "Wammer of the Day" is nice I actually take far more notice when someone actually takes the time to reply to my threads. As a producer its actually quite hard to get feedback sometimes - people saying they like stuff is all well and good but its much more interesting to me if people say why they like something (or dislike it if done in non offensive way). I also love a good bit of witty banter as anyone who knows me well will testify.

What I am saying in short is, use the heart system yes! However don't use it as a replacement for posting comments, questions etc on threads because for me that's what this place is all about! If you do both good work keep it up, if you don't do either get your arse in gear!

Bob

Excellent post, Yam! A lot of the stuff you do on the site weighs in on the person's overall UMD rank. Simply viewing posts and pictures and stuff will give the person additional rank. But it's clicking on the hearts that is very-heavily weighed. So clicking the hearts is mostly what would get someone higher on the Top Contributors list and maybe even Wammer of the Day!

Well clearly it's malfunctioning or else my clever quips would have me topping the heartmeter every day!

I just clicked your heart Regis, hope it's apreciated, lol

I love myself why can't I click my own heart?

I did not know how to use the hearts. I shall use them to enhance the members we love most.

You got a for this post form me