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Hello,
First of all, thanks to the creators of this site for the concept and all the work it represents. Also thanks to the great people of the community which take from their precious time to try and help with clear answers, comments or confirmations.

I had 3 questions re points:
1. Is there a way to find unsolved questions sorted by points?
2. Is there any value of having a huge number of points? (I guess it's just for the fun and a kind of competition spirit, and it's already nice to have that :-))
3. How are points calculated? Is it an algorithm that takes into account the number of people who put a follow/favorite + the number of days the request is there?

Many thanks in advance!

Somewhere there should be a table with each level of how many points it equals. For example, from 40 to 50 level. Level 41 is equal to 3000 points?

What exactly happens to cold cases that have been answered with confirms but not solved?

from sex.com, how can you upload gifs from that site onto here properly, can't find out how?

@NinNin tags are an issue to you? Really? What do you need to solve a question? I would say clear image/gif of the scene with the girl's eyes opened and knowing the studio really helps. But if the girl doesn't look familiar to you, they can put 100 tags to describe it and you will still not find it.
@TwSex is a polite user who confirms answers practically instantly, I solved lots of questions for him without knowing any particular tags (other than studio).
If you wanna hassle someone, hassle the users who ask questions and never confirm the answers or worse, delete the questions after someone solves it before it gets automatically confirmed like@amroamro . I once solved a really difficult question for him, the only thing I knew was the studio - VivThomas. They have 1483 scenes on data18 and I went through images of almost all of them until I found it - did he confirm? no, he deleted the question on next day.
Or how 'bout users who have multiple accounts which they use to confirm their answers or users who exchange confirms. Those are issues, not tags!
I'll solve the questions for TwSex, no problem...

@NinNin Ok I'll try to add some more specific tags with automatic translators whenever possible, but I should only do this after posting the questions, as I ask a lot of questions in sequence.

@TwSex That's fair, but I've solved many questions where all the links are in a different language. I've done okay with a translation tool. Can't you just come up with terms in your native language to describe the scene, then translate them?

The tags probably seem unnecessary to most OPs. That's because they only ask questions and never answer them. If they did, they would see their usefulness.

@NinNin

I don't speak English, so it's hard for me to familiarize myself with pornographic terms in English but in the end....

When I make a "request" I really find the tags unnecessary, for example, I don't know which tags I would put in my post because I don't know the terms in English, so I put generic tags.

What is the name and official website of this scene?

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Why tags work

Who's this lady amazed by this cock and who's the owner of the cock

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Before you submit a new post, you're asked to "describe your post through tags." It's no different than what you're asked to do on practically every video hosting site. Even if you never upload videos, surely you've used tags to find content. (And to be clear, I'm talking about descriptive tags, not name tags.)

Some people clearly have trouble with this like@TwSex , unless you think "babe" and "face" are particularly descriptive on this or really any site.

What is the name and official website of this scene?

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Appropriate and descriptive tags will help others answer your questions faster, while inappropriate and nondescriptive ones won't help anyone, especially you, the OP.

Another consequence of using inappropriate tags is you make it harder for others who want to find specific content. Because@ssiilvia11 uses the same tags – amateur, model, camgirl, blonde, Russian, American, busty, couple, and others – for every question, regardless of the content, he's adding a bunch of posts to each of the these categories that don't belong there.

who is this sexy girl?

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It's only fair to ask OPs to put some thought into the question. Imagine god forbid you had to find porn on your own, what search terms would you use to find it?

@hlenhart you're the very model of a modern gentleman

@bubba37 - Who the Hell are U to start a public discussion on my Answering Preferences ??

WHEN You have NO CLUE what you're Even talking about

I just hang around whatever page I'm on & GO ... & I got like 1000 Tabs open
one minute it's an Old 1000 pointer,
next minute it's a Bump;
next minute it's a Crying Newbie'
next minute it's Mainly WHATEVER the FK thumbnail I LIKE

U just Dont see how many I Quit, even after an Hour .... Wasted

I have ABSOLUTELY NO INTEREST in POINTS .... AT ALL

I actually Couldn't Care LESS .... (Unless I can Redeem them for CASH)

The ONLY difference is that I'm Willing to Spend 2 - 3 Hours WORK for a "REAL" answer ,
compared to Non-Stop RIDICULOUS 25 point Amateur Selfies

What's The Big PROBLEM ???

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And your "Theory" that these people "FORGOT" about their old Requests is also RIDICULOUS ...I'm Waiting 4 Years for one myself,

that YOU so Graciously FK'D Up ... for NO REASON

Name of Brunette with Silvia Saint, it's NOT Gabriella Rossi....

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@bubba37 It wasn't always the case that a confirm was needed for a level 1 to accept, but OPs were accepting poor and unformatted answers. They still do, it's not a perfect system.

a level 1 user cannot accept an answer without a confirm.
@NinNin points out another way answering new questions is discouraged by the current rules
I hope these rules will be adjusted to encourage answering them instead.

I'd also like to add that the majority of newest open questions that I know the answers to have already been answered by other users

@BatterMaker you could probably answer many more questions on the front page than just the ones you already know the answer to after searching for a bit. Answering years old threads is the best way to earn points, but it doesn't help the questioners, who probably forgot about their questions long ago.

This is a pointless discussion. To whom does anyone need to defend which questions they chose to answer? Most of the questions I answer, if@bubba37 hasn't beaten me to it, are new. But, man, am I tired of users who flood the front pages with question after question. It's not unlike spamming. Does one really need to post 20 questions in an hour? A lot of them ask questions like a set of demands, and they don't even bother to accept answers.

All that we're talking about here wouldn't be an issue if more users confirmed off the confirm thread and more OPs accepted answers. Remember a level 1 user cannot accept an answer without a confirm.

@Operator
@Don
@herkalurk
@bubba37

@WorldsBestPorn has the most accurate take.

I'd also like to add that the majority of newest open questions that I know the answers to have already been answered by other users. I go through about the first 10 pages usually daily before I head to the back.

There's also many times that someone answers a new unsolved post while I'm looking for related proof in the 5-10 minutes between opening a post and answering it (and realizing it after I click submit).

@Operator
@Don
@herkalurk
If you compare times of posting the question and of posting the answer of the three threads you mentioned, you will see that@hlenhart answered them when they were 4,2 and 1 years old respectively.

If you want to see another example look at@potro , the top points scorer. At the current time (5:35 EST 06/16/22), of his last 10 answers, 8 are for 6 year old treads, 1 is 7 years old, and 1 is 2 years old.

@BatterMaker the 2nd top scorer: of the last 5 answers, 4 are for 6 year old questions, 1 is 7 year old.

They are rationally following the optimal strategy for scoring the most points. It's just not fulfilling questioners' needs for solvers to solver 6 years old questions.

@Operator @Don @herkalurk
It's 5:15pm EST on a Thursday. I looked at the latest 20 comments displayed on the front page, of these, 16 are answers. 8 are answers to questions posted during the last day. 8 are answering questions more than a month old, of these 5 are more than a year old.

At the same time, I looked through the questions at the bottom of the front page. I counted 7 answered ones (I didn't check if they were correct or not) and 16 without any answer.

Conclusion: half of the solver effort is going to answer old questions, while majority of new questions go unsolved
This is bad for serving questioners' needs.

You're welcome to do a random sample at some other time and report your results.

@bubba37

I've never had an issue getting newer posts answered from users chasing big points. I don't think many would "ignore" a new post if they knew the answer, but they likely wouldn't spend tons amount of time to find an answer if they didn't know it, which is reasonable. But again, if there's a new post and they know the answer, they will answer it for no other reason but to keep the solved ratio high.

@bubba37 my average is probably over 1000 per answer as well, but I always check the front page too. Part of the reason I'm getting high amounts of points is I have knowledge of different porn. Most of the front page stuff is quite recent, and some tends to be camgirls, which I have no knowledge about. Also, if you remove the ever increasing points value for old question you are doing the opposite of incentivizing people to answer old questions and close them out.

Also, it only takes a few weeks for a front page question to jump from 25 points to 40 and then continue growing. I have numerous front page answers waiting on confirms that will probably grow into more points simply cause people aren't confirming those answers.

That brings up another problem, WHEN did@hlenhart answer those questions? I have answers that still have yet to be marked correct going back 5 years. I might have even answered those questions when they were front page at the time. 5 years means lots of points too. See the below answers from@hlenhart , last modified YEARS ago, not recently answered, but only marked correct in the last couple days.

Who is this chick

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What's the name of this porn star?

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Who is this webgirl?

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You need to have more data to back up the theory that a user is ONLY answering old high points questions.

@Operator
@Don

Large points rewards for old questions incentivize solvers to ignore new ones.

The point rewards for answering old questions are almost 80 times higher than for answering new ones. So any solver that cares about points will ignore the new questions page and instead solve several years old inquiries. Many of them are difficult, but many of them just weren't looked at when they were posted and are comparatively easy. That makes looking at only ancient threads the most efficient way to gain points, but it's bad for the site since it doesn't serve the needs of the questioners. Does the questioner really care if somebody solved a 7 years old question? He probably already forgot about it. While, at the same time, many new questions don't attract any eyeballs. It would be better if the solvers' efforts were directed toward the new questions page.

Here's one user that's a good example of this strategy:
https://namethatporn.com/user/hlenhart.html
He only answers old questions, gets confirms and then gets the answer marked correct by auto_moderator. As a result, he gets an average of a 1000 points for each answer. Pretty smart. But does it solve the needs of the users any?

Suggested solutions:
1. Remove the big points section from the homepage
2. Cap the maximum points allowed per answer at a low multiple of the staring 25 points. Maybe 150?