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#12
from nygiants03:
(RagingBuddhist's Reply)
hmmmmm ..... Im a current member of yanks, im going to have to look out for that. I'll make sure to cancel early, plus its alot easier for me because I can view my account online and check without hassle.
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#12
from Monahan:
(RagingBuddhist's Reply)
I agree 100%. I see a Trust Rating as useful, but only when they communicate something worthwhile as well. A "No" without any explanation is useless except in making the reviewer not want to waste his time writing additional reviews.
A "Yes" without a comment doesn't do much either except that it doesn't drive away those who sincerely want to write good reviews.
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#5
from Schnitzel:
(RagingBuddhist's Reply)
Heh, yes I guess that's true.
My CRT does have excellent picture quality, but it's just so damn bulky. It's got to be 6 years old now, and the rest of the PC equipment is only about 3 months old, so it looks really out of place.
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#6
from apoctom:
(RagingBuddhist's Reply)
Wow! 8+ TB. I can only imagine the electric bill and the amount of heat that all those drives generate! How many drives are you using to get that capacity? My PC only has room for 4 internal HDs and I've got just over 2TB (2x750GB and 2x320GB) in it.
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#1
from messmer:
(RagingBuddhist's Reply)
You're welcome,RB. Actually the watermarks don't exactly cover the fun parts, in reluctant defense of this site, but quite often intrude in the hair and foreheads of the models.
I just timed myself doing this, and it took 4.5 seconds (including page load times), and three clicks. We have 6000-odd shoots, that seems pretty reasonable to me...
From there, you can indeed filter down more specifically by release date, and adjust the sort order, or just browse.
I feel like I am missing something from your complaint, but I cannot decode more than this.
Due to feedback like this, we're overhauling tags - they've never worked as well as we hoped. We're instead going to focus on curated collections of things customers tell us they want (for example, a collection of images of models "Topless in jeans"). We already have a bunch of these on https://www.abbywinters.com/fetish.
You can read the discussion of this project on our forums at https://forums.abbywinters.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=20911.
Because videos are 20 to 50 minutes long, it's difficult to tag them meaningfully. For example, tagging a 38 minute video as "topless in jeans" is not so useful, as the model is only going to be topless in jeans for a small portion of that video, and it's not practical to expect a customer to watch all 38 minutes, just to find the two minutes they want. For this reason, we have not been adding videos to Fetish pages (unless the entire video complies).
We've recently been exploring targeting specific timecodes for Fetish pages featuring videos, and it works well (but we have not yet actually made a fetish page with videos yet). This will be ideal for "events" like squirting, orgsam, yoga, frottage, dancing nude, and so on.
We have a huge amount of material we have created over the last 20 years, so we organise it very precisely by MODELS and SHOOTS. An overview of how this works is described at https://support.abbywinters.com/how-is-abbywinters-com-organised/.
I know you've been a member several times before. It'd be really useful to hear some specifics from you, to understand where the problem lies _specifically_ (like, "I go to THIS page, I click THAT link, and I end up THERE... but I wanted XYZ instead!"). Without that, it's difficult to address your frustration. You are welcome to email me on garion.hall@abbywinters.com if you prefer, or post here.
Intimate Moments and Solos used to be labeled as such. Now they're all Video Masturbation, set at the default random sorting. So, now I have options. Click on Any, Video, or Images (even though I'm already looking at just videos), move the slider to narrow the release date, click to change the sorting to date ascending or descending, model name A-to-Z or Z-to-A, or Scene Name A-to-Z or Z-to-A (which in this case is the same as Model Name) OR I can go Advanced where I get more lists and dropdowns - User filters, Subgroup and Fetishes - none of which really apply to video masturbation except for the one that says Video Masturbation which is the page I'm already on. And I've still yet to figure out what the MultiSelect Mode option does. According to your help page it says I can select multiple images and videos and "do stuff with them", but it doesn't say what stuff other than add to "My Faves". Ok... then what? How do I download my selections?
All I wanted was Intimate Moment scenes. Where's that filter/option? This is annoying.
I took a look 10 of their most recent videos to help answer your question. Except for the one fully clothed video, they all showed tits at or before the half way point. On average they showed tits just a couple minutes into the video. There were 2 videos that never showed pussy, and one that waited until after the half way point, but in the rest the models ditched their panties at about one quarter of the way into the video. It seems that they did change this in response to member feedback.
I hope some members reply soon, but int he mean time, I'd like to update you. We took your feedback on board (it was not only your feedback, in fact). Over the last year, we have made a significant change in this.
I'd like to extend you an offer of a free membership for a week to see if the site meets your expectations now. If you hit me on garion.hall@abbywinters.com , I'll set it up.
Im sort of a member but i do not subscribe any longer, instead
there is a option to add credits to your account and then download
any video across any section & then stays on your account-
This works for me- Im too scared to pay a subscription ( $2.49 a video)
There does seem to be more solo models with dildo's or using fingers/masterbating & boy/girl videos than in the past.
But im finding "That girl next door " A little less harder to come by than in the classic abby-.
(Abby admins- Leave the weed & get yourself to the uk and tap the market here ;-)
I can confirm Abbywinters.com has plenty of skin in its content. We release one Boy Girl sex video per month now along with one girl girl sex video a week. Along with several masturbation and solo videos.
Sometimes we get criticism for models not being revealing in their solos. But we let the models choose their level of comfort in terms of the level of nudity. But there is still plenty of hardcore content to satisfy the user who likes that.
I've not joined abby winters... but if you like the idea of natural Australian girls (although there may be less of them since they moved out of Australia?) I can recommend Girls Out West. It's possibly a bit more down to earth than AW, but there's plenty of explicit nudity and action there...
Well, this certainly isn't the old days. Used to be you make a comment about this site and at least 2 or 3 people would chime in. Guess I've got enough an answer now.
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#1
from Ergo Proxy:
(RagingBuddhist's Reply)
Maybe I can put it like this...if you see people idolize something which you can't appreciate or comprehend why they do it, it pisses you off. The time I wrote this comment my "tolerance button" was temporarily switched off. Therefore my weak excuses "erase, dismiss, ignore". Nothing profound.
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#3
from abbywinters:
(RagingBuddhist's Reply)
Actually, since that five months ago, we have significantly "shaken things up", largely due to the feedback offered here on these forums (but also on our forums). The original poster, above, selected a shoot that was shot 1.5 years ago.
If you look at the more recently-shot shoots (some examples include kelly_r, masie, rachel_e, anna_l_2, elisabeta, nichole, and gretchen) you'll see we've changed a fair bit.
It's ok if YOU don't like the new shoots, or AW in general, or me, or the models, or whatever - this site is designed to let people air their views. But it's not cool to bitch about people DO like the site. They have an opinion, and it's just as valid as yours.
Problem is, as long as people keep giving them these high reviews, they won't change a thing. They can read the negative feedback, but at the end of the day a high score means X many more people will signup after visiting these review sites. With that being the case, there's no reason to change anything -- it's easy to keep doing things they way you do them.
For a site the size of Abby Winters with what I believe is an active owner, people need to stop overlooking the blatant flaws and give scores that reflect the current state of the website. 95 is way to high for what everyone seems to agree is a stale pattern. If their average starts to dip and dip and dip, then they'll wake up and see that continued bad review will equal loss of sales.
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#4
from redcreative:
(RagingBuddhist's Reply)
Hi
Thanks for the comments. I agree totally that the site dipped for a while and became a little softcore for some tastes. It's interesting that your comment about my enthusiasm being merited if I was a first-time, i'm not ,but of course my review was written exactly for those people that have not yet been a member of the site and therefore my score of 90 takes into account all of the historical content. The score based on the site over the last 6 months would have been lower.
Incidentally, I think the site has been great the last couple of weeks with some very attractive girls and no softcore frustration.
Hopefully a sign of things to come. :-)
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#3
from messmer:
(RagingBuddhist's Reply)
Yours is a very fair assessment, RB .. I was a member three times and last time was definitely my last because of the dive the sites had taken. As far as the review goes I think the "cons" are right on!
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