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@soytupapiperra I guess reading isn't your thing... lol. I provided a name on the very first one you cited.

For the other two, I spent 2 hours each and they have no name available at this time.. Can you name them? If not, then, STFU. Typically, people ask "What is her name?" for two reasons: 1) because they are looking for more content and/or 2) they already have content and they are looking for some criteria by which to classify that content.

I provided as much identification and content as is available at this time. Try to step out of your literal, narrow mind for a moment and think about the intent, not just the specific question that was asked.

@harold
Model not pornstar:

Name of this babe?

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6 years ago

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No name just more photos and asking to be selected as correct:
name of that girl please

name of that girl please

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1

5 years ago

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What's the name of the curly girl?

What's the name of the curly girl?

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16

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5 years ago

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You're skipping these ones, and they’ll probably get selected as correct... even though they’ve got a bunch of false confirmations... because they don’t actually answer the question.
That’s exactly why this process should take time.

@D-Mac Regarding the followings, you can click the bull horn icon to remove a post from the following list.

In my maintenance process, I do this for any answer I have solved once it is marked as solved. If I still have an interest in the post I mark it as a favorite. This means my followings are primarily things I have answered but still haven't been marked correct.

As for untitled, I assume those are inappropriate posts that the Mods have deleted for whatever reason such as not a pornstar. I have a few of those. I have been told there is no solution to that at this time. They are slowly drifting down my page to the bottom.

Hey there@harold unfortunately my privileges on the site do not vary of yours, best I can do is to drop a confirm those answers I think to be good; Same as you I'm bound to the limits offered to a regular user of the site; On that topic I advise you to remove the tag of the photographer Mark Hollywood from your answer (below), as he's not a performer therefore has no place on the database, however I do applaud the attempt of providing credit to the hard work of the photographers and advise you to leave the name if you want but do it in a less intrusive way and just add format to it to make it stand out :)

Who is she? More of her, please?

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8 years ago

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Here you can see how I'v done it as well, photographer is there but isn't tagged.

Who is this tanned blondie hottie?

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12 months ago

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Friendly advise don't get hasty on not getting accepted unfortunately thousands like yours or mine remain unsolved for a long time before getting noticed, auto_moderator is after all an algorithm and just as us is flawed, most of your answers seem to be good and contain clues of hard work and an excellent tracker, in this scenario the best advise I can provide is to befriend som high scoring users (maybe confirm some of their answers for some good will) and most surely they'll be glad drop a confirm here and there that could finally get you solved by auto_mod :D

Cheers!

@Operator @Don @Yoni

The auto_moderator appears to be broken. I have the following answers waiting to be marked CORRECT:

12 days old - 7 confirms -

What's the name of this pornstar ?

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3

2

7 years ago

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7 days old - 6 confirms

Another unknow beauty, who is she ?

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24

5

9 years ago

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7 days old - 5 confirms

What's the name of this girl in stockings taking 2 bbc at 2:31

1,519

13

2

7 years ago

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7 days old - 5 confirms

Who is she? More of her, please?

1,628

23

4

8 years ago

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5 days old - 7 confirms

Anyone got the source?

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9 years ago

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Could someone please look into this? Maybe mark these CORRECT manually or something?

@LonelyCurious13 Well, atm, I am more concerned because the staff seems to be asleep at the wheel. I have been pointing out that there is an issue with the auto-moderator because a bunch of my posts have been sitting there for >4-5 days with 5+ confirms each. I haven't had a single response from anyone.

Let's be reasonable...Can a brother get his answers marked CORRECT ffs??? It's like 20-30k of points which isn't much to ask for HOURS of my FREE research time spent to contribute to this site.

@LonelyCurious13 100%. It's complete bullshit that someone would delete CORRECT answers to requests and/or their own requests that were confirmed as CORRECT. It's the behavior of an utterly selfish cunt...

Trusted Links

List of all Trusted Links

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52

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7 years ago

Are trusted links still useful to the Mods or Auto Mods?

I find them less than useful and usually counter productive. At one time, most sites allowed you to come browse pornstars and images of their movies. I rarely find that to be the case today. Almost all now require you to sign in to view anything beyond the first page.

This is counterproductive when the "trusted links" are provided as proof, especially in the cases when it is the only proof. How can you confirm based on a trusted link if no one can see the pornstar? I personally won't confirm a post with only a trusted link.

Do these links provide a revenue source to the site. I can understand that, something has to pay for this. If so, should we always include a trusted site link even if we can't see it. I occasionally find links to sites in places like data18 but don't post them because I can't see them.

Happy to help the site when I can, I just don't see the point.

@Operator I want to delete my account, I have tried using the account termination/deletion option but it is not available. I have followed the standard procedures but I am unable to successfully delete my account using the method provided. Please initiate the process of terminating my account.

@soytupapiperra And, I don't trust you either... member for 9 years and you only have 69.4k points... lol. I joined because I had a few questions; none of which have been answered to this day. Recently, I have had more time to kill and "tracking down" IDs etc. is like solving a puzzle to me. I have a background in forensics. So, similar in a way; gathering evidence, proof, support, etc.

My point is at some point you have to trust people because you cannot rely on rules to keep people honest. And again, it wouldn't just be based on points alone. As you say, if someone has 1.2M points in a month, I might even consider suspending their account, let alone making them an admin. On the other hand, there might be someone like yourself who has been on here a long time, is helpful, not "cheating" etc. who would be a great moderator. Moderators don't just fall out of the sky, but we certainly need more of them to handle the ridiculous backlog of answers that have been CONFIRMED but are sitting there waiting to be marked CORRECT. (Read: there are a LOT)

Another super power that would be great is the ability to delete posts. E.g. there are a LOT of requests that say "Who is this girl?" from 7-9 years ago and the only other clue is a PH link that is now dead. Unlike other sites, PH doesn't have anything descriptive in their links. Just their own unique ID number. So, you cannot even search a title for the clip on another site. Those are essentially unsolvable.

@harold Even if someone had 16 million points, I wouldn't trust it just look at mbvalentsage: 1.2 million points and only a member for a month, #1 on "TOP 15 IN JULY".

Yes, I trust the admins. They take their time to clean up the nonsense and have kept this site afloat for a long time. I've been around for 9 years, seen a lot of changes, but they've always held it together. I lost my temper on a previous post in this threath for kinda logical reason, but i trust them.

“there could be 100s of rules and some people would still find loopholes.”

Exactly and having a system that allows users to gain mod-like powers or mark answers as correct would be the number one loophole.

I mean, I don't trust you — you're new to me. I see you've been a member for 7 years, but your activity is minimal compared to others and just started to be more active a month ago.

@soytupapiperra It could be 3M points or whatever, could be some other criteria... I just used 1M as an example. AND as I said, there would need to be an additional verification step of some kind. Or, a vote. There are a few users on here who have been SUPER helpful and generous with their time. I would trust them if they said "Yes, this answer is correct." because I know that they took the time to review it instead of just rubber stamping it.

I mean, do you trust the admins of this board?? You know nothing about them. The other mods?? You know nothing about them, I don't know you, you don't know me. On some level, there could be a system that works better than the "auto mod" which isn't cutting it rn.

BTW, I am with you on confirming things. I spend time to actually confirm everything I mark as CONFIRMED. Maybe there should be a rate imposed for that or some kind of throttling like with other things on here.

When it comes down to it, there could be 100s of rules and some people would still find loopholes or ways around the rules... There has to be a balance between efficiency, effectiveness, and "safety".

@harold I'm strongly against it. Giving the power to mark a post as correct to just anyone is one of the worst decisions you could make all because they hit 1 million points? Nah, man. There are plenty of users who confirm 30–50 posts in under an hour, while it takes me 20–30 minutes just to properly verify 10. That’s going to create more problems than it solves.

@EphraimGadsby Having been an admin and mod on various boards (BBSes) and sites going back to the 80s, I disagree. Are there high-level people who suck? Sure. For the most part though, I think people are trustworthy, especially after they have been around a while.

Perhaps a more refined approach would be that a certain level makes you ELIGIBLE to become a moderator but there would still be a vetting process by the other mods and Admins of the site. I am talking like 1M points or something like that. It would likely be a great solution based on my experience over the last 40 years...

Having a solution where high-level people are able to bless answers as CORRECT would be a capability, not an obligation. E.g. if I hit 1M points, maybe I earn the ability to mark things correct but I am not obligated to do anything.

I see some answers that are so awesome that only a complete imbecile would argue that they are incorrect; i.e. lots of proof, thumbnails, links, etc. They are so obviously CORRECT, I would mark them as such. I mean, the OP for each request already has this power (mark answers correct for their own posts). Why not someone who has been on the site for a LONG time and has a lot of experience?

I myself couldn't care less about points or levels apart from earning additional capabilities... whatever those are. It isn't clear what you get after Level 5, if anything. I can certainly see how someone at Level 5 or above who is unscrupulous might just run down the list of Confirm Requests and mark them all as CONFIRMED (without even looking at them) just to get the points.

I think the leader board is a horrible idea. The minute you introduce competition, then the risk of sheisty behavior increases exponentially.

Anyway...

Yes, I am have been resubmitting my confirm requests. However, that is only part of the problem, as you have also pointed out. I have like 20-30k worth of high bounty posts sitting there waiting for the "auto_moderator" to get back from vacation (or whatever tf it is doing or not doing) so that they can be marked as CORRECT.

Yes, I have learned my lesson on responding to posts that are not strictly speaking porn. For one of the posts that I am stuck with, I just marked it as a favorite. The post is from a year ago:

#314347 - What's the name of this porn actor?

The other post I am stuck with, I favorited and followed it:

#1730278 - What's her name?

I answered this one by pointing out that it appears the female in the picture was photographed without her knowledge or consent and that she looks like a "civilian" (non-porn). I suggested that maybe it should be removed. In retrospect, I should have just flagged it.

And, yes, the features for organizing posts on here are essentially non-existent. So, I bookmark things in my browser instead of marking them as favorites or following them.

I am also starting to flag posts that are unsolvable. E.g. it seems like PH has been deleting / disabling a LOT of videos lately. Way more than XV or XH. It's odd because I will see a thumbnail in the sidebar here on NTP that looks interesting, but when I click it, the post has a video that is no longer available. Why not at least show the thumbnail on the actual post?

Anyway, keep up the good work, my friend. Your advice and opinions are valuable.

@harold
The problem, as I'm sure you're aware of, is that for some people on the site, there seems to be an obsession with accumulating points for their own sake.
Rules are broken, answers are stolen, people confirm answers where no proof is provided, people confirm when the OPs original question has been ignored in the answer.

I have to say that your idea of allowing high level users to mark posts as correct would likely be a disaster.
I suspect very few people take the time to actually review an answer before confirming as it just takes too long.
If you check someones posts who submits 30 answers (all different), it's going to take you at least an hour minimum to check them properly, & most people haven't got the time, or, the inclination to do so.

Always make sure to keep resubmitting your answers to the Confirm Thread if they don't get picked up the first time.

The auto-moderator does have its faults/blind spots.
I have an answer (from someone else) that I have been trying to get confirmed for ages, which had 26 confirms at the last check, but it's obvious the auto-mod isn't going to pick it up. I've also got two of my own answers (featuring the same lady) which are now in double figures for confirms & again aren't looking likely to get picked up.

Finally, regarding the disabled posts.
Make sure the posts you're favouring/following are porn only.
This is another problem, people answering a question & starting off by saying 'Not a porn star.'
This is a site for porn only.
No woman who doesn't appear at least topless is suitable for the site.
Even if a person has appeared nude, say, an actress in a mainstream movie, it shouldn't be posted on here.
If you have any doubts at all save the post off site, the bookmarks bar, or a folder.

Is there any level at which an individual is able to simply mark an answer as CORRECT? One would think that if a person is like over Level 100 or has 1M points, they would be trustworthy enough to mark answers as CORRECT instead of just confirming them. Might be a good solution to consider to address the significant delay that I am seeing in getting answers marked CORRECT.

Hi, SW Dev for 40 years here... can someone please explain what this so-called "auto_moderator" is supposed to do? When does it run? What criteria is it looking for? How many confirms does it need? How old does the answer post need to be in order to be closed out as CORRECT? What limits does it have (if any) on how many posts it marks correct / hour, / day, etc?

I have answers with 4+ confirms that have been sitting there for almost two weeks and still, not marked as CORRECT; i.e. no points.

+1 "very high level users ask others to confirm their answers instead of the first correct one."

...or, anyone for that matter. I can understand if the first answer wasn't formatted properly or maybe the person didn't post it to the confirm thread, which may not have even existed when they posted the correct answer.

However, I have been focusing on helping with confirms lately and when I click on some and go to the post, I am like "WTF?? There was already a CORRECT answer posted 3 years ago that didn't get any confirms and wasn't marked as correct by the auto mod or the OP. Now what? Which answer should I confirm, the recent one or the original one?"

Another thing about the confirm thread that is annoying for a relatively low level user like me is I might post 3-4 answers in a single post asking for confirms and then 5-6 other people will slam 3 posts each with 10 requests each in there after mine which pushes my meager requests out to like page 50...

Perhaps a better solution for a confirm type thread would be one that is auto-populated somehow. E.g. when you think you know the answer to a request, you post it (vs. a comment) and it is added to the confirm thread automagically. Then, people can surf down the list of recently answered items that are waiting to be confirmed and each answer is treated the same.

IDK.

I have answers that are days and even weeks old with many confirms and I still haven't received the blessing of a "correct" from the OP or auto mod. It's very discouraging.

Another unrelated issue, there are two posts that I followed and favorited because I provided answers to them. Then, the staff decided to "disable" the posts for whatever reason. And now, I am stuck with those two posts in my favorites and following list that say "This content is temporarily unavailable." I can't unfollow or unfavorite the posts. If there is something that is questionable or whatever, just delete it, don't mark it as "temporarily unavailable" when you know you have no intention of restoring it at any point.

What I do know is that I like this site a lot in principle; getting help to answer my questions, helping others answer theirs, etc. and I appreciate the effort that goes into operating it. I just wish there was a more immediate and fair path to being rewarded when putting in the time and effort to answer things correctly.

@Moderator
As I said before, I genuinely had no idea until just before I posted that it was possible to circumvent the 3 posts per day rule.

I agree with you about users limiting their posts to 30, but I got the idea from your reply that it was something you were fully aware of & were happy to turn a blind eye to.
Regarding my interpretation that you were annoyed, if I read it wrong, I apologise.

You & I both know that if the Confirm Thread is suspended there wouldn't be much point in continuing the site.

I've said before, I think, that I know very little about computers, but if it is possible to allocate minus points for confirming a wrong answer, refusing to accept an answer, etc, why can't something of the sort be used for people who break the rules? I believe this would bring the rule breakers in to line.