Why am I unable to comment on videos?

Will65 "The quality of your Bic Mac has fallen off since you started selling Mc Eggrolls, Mc Sushi, Mc Blubber Nuggets, Bubble tea, Mc BBQ, Mc Spaghetti, Mc Pizza, Mc VeganBurgers, McFajitas, and McDoughnuts. Now you have 100 middling products and the 3 good ones I loved you for are poorly made or out of stock

Go look at the last 50 SLR originals and tell me how many of them are the "plastic" women you don't care for and how many feature girls with natural bodies.
Your argument simply isn't true, you're being hyperbolic. 90%+ of the "menu" is still natural girls. You're probably going to just have to deal with the 10% of the content that doesn't specifically suit you that other people may like. If your expectations are that 100% of the scenes will be exactly what you like, and nothing will ever be created for anyone else, you're just setting yourself up for disappointment. It will never be that way.

Will65 I wrote a post on the Cj Miles video about disliking the amount of plastic performers recently

It's pretty funny that this thread is still going while you still refuses to accept that you used derogatory language in the very fist sentence in this thread. Zero self-reflection on your side, bro...

It's also actually kind of telling that instead of just owning up on your own mistake you point the finger on others.

I mean, we all make mistakes. Just admit it and go on. You said that I made mistakes as well and you're right. And yes, I was banned from posting as well in the past. Some of my posts were deleted as well. That can happen when you are emotional about the stuff you like or dislike, often despite better knowledge. But it's one thing to make a mistake and owning up to it and accept the consequences and a totally different thing to play the victim, pointing with the finger on others and act like you didn't even do anything wrong in the first place. Sometimes even a tiny bit of self-reflections is all it needs.

And come on, being banned from posting for one week isn't actually a hard punishment. It's basically a soft slap on the finger.

rerun119 Some people are really fuckin' loud about not liking it so the directors understand their side of dislike.

This is the part I'm having a hard time getting my head around. I understand the primal human desire to be heard. Totally.

But watches and likes are votes for more of that kind of content. Comments are a great way to be more specific with that feedback. That's the most useful way to hear from thousands of people.

Nielsen doesn't ask people to describe what TV shows they're not watching and why. That's not data, it's just noise. Instead they spend a lot of money finding out what people watch, then compile that data to discover trends and report those trends to networks. Someone sending Nielsen a letter to say they don't like something is one single data point in a sea of millions. Even if thousands of people send similar letters, that's not how they compile data because it's wildly unscientific and arbitrary.

A comment that someone doesn't enjoy, I dunno, BBWs for example, doesn't negate the hundreds or thousands that watched/liked a BBW video. I'm not saying people should be prohibited from doing it or anything. Yeah, for sure, speak your truth. As a member of the community I prefer that people be cool about it. You know, be kind and shit. But that's just me asking nicely. I'm not here to censor anyone.

It's just...taking a negative position against content many others are seemingly happy consuming...I just don't see the benefit. It just feels futile, like misspent energy, IMHO.

Will65 i've been over this point exhaustively because it is important. If all criticism of model appearance is prohibited, we have no way of explaining to the company why we dislike a particular type of model. It's more than a bit ridiculous, especially in light of the horrible - and directly personal - comments I see users make here every day.

You're missing the point. It's not about what you don't like, its about what you and others do like.
If you like a studio, but not the model, you can suggest they also film with a model you do like. There is no need to say nasty and hurtful things about a person to try and get a video you want made.

Will65 I could say that we have way too many blondes, and that I hate blondes. That is also a comment on appearance, and could be taken as "derogatory".

No, it couldn't. Don't act like language was completely arbitrary since it isn't.

The whole rest of your post is pointless since you obviously don't understand that it's not about what you say but how you say it. Nobody says that you're not allowed to criticize things but you should watch your language because offensive language can actually hurt people. For example, don't call people names and don't put them in derogatory categories. You can voice your feedback with the very same meaning without using derogatory language. It's as simple as that and I think deep within you know that as well.

It's also pointless to continue with pointing the finger on me since I already admitted my mistake and took respective action. And by the way, I would probably tell Demi in a one-on-one conversation in real life that I didn't like her tats and that imho they're pretty ugly if she asked me for feedback on it (of course only hypothetical). That's imho honest feedback although I admit that it could also hurt her (it's one of my personal issues that I'm often way too direct without thinking through what the other person could feel but I'm working on it). That's why I deleted my post after thinking it over. I wonder though whether you'd call CJ "plastic model" in a personal conversation...

Anyway, since there's still zero self-reflection on your side, it's pretty pointless to continue this conversation. Obviously you have zero intention to improve your behaviour or even accept that there was something wrong with it in the first place.

Hunky-Dory over analising user responses and using tbat as data feedback rather reading the room

I truly don't see the distinction between "over analysing user responses" and "listening/reading the room". The two seem synonymous to me.

As an example, for my PMVs, I get comments that they're too aggressive and use too many effects/cuts, and I get comments that they need to be more aggressive with more cuts. They're literally taking opposite positions at the same time. I listen to all of them, eagerly, but the only way to resolve that conflict is to look at the data and see which style more people enjoy. I can't make everyone happy, but I can try to make more people happy.

That's really the best I can do.

Hunky-Dory
You insulted me and I made a joke about it. I think we're done here.

Mutiny It's just...taking a negative position against content many others are seemingly happy consuming...I just don't see the benefit. It just feels futile, like misspent energy, IMHO.

You have a good point there. I was giving negative feedback to a lot of scenes in the past but in the last few months I mostly only comment on stuff I like and just ignore the content I dislike. I mean, it's pretty pointless anyway and I actually don't want to spoil the fun for others. Sometimes I fall back in old behaviours, especially when it's about stuff I really looked forward to or when something actually pisses me off enough, but most of the time I'm able to resist writing negative comments. Like you said, it actually makes much more sense to give positive feedback and to try convincing people of the stuff you actually want to see. I mean, the recent "communication effort" here in the forums is the best proof for it with Alex Nash, VRfanservice and you actually asking for ideas and suggestions for upcoming scenes. That way you can really have an impact on the direction of the site or at least certain scenes which is a lot more worthwile than writing negative feedback in comment sections with little to zero impact other than pissing other people off who like that content.