Not so long ago (relatively) SG introduced a tip system for Hopeful and SG girls here. I think this is a great and delightful idea: users can provide support by turning it into physical and material form, Hopefuls can keep fighting to become Pink and move towards their big goal due to that, you can help models with maintaining their accounts or solving life problems, and so on. The only little nuisance for me personally is that you can’t tip members of the site - I mean simple users - due to whom (and for whom) this site lives and develops. After all, each work of art must have a spectator, otherwise the very meaning of its existence is leveled, right? .. IMHO, it would be great if there was an opportunity to leave tips for members, in particular, because they also have their own difficult life situations or a banal decline in faith and interest in the site. I personally have a friend here who has been using the site for a long time, but he is far from being always able to renew his subscription due to financial reasons, and it would be great if the support he provides to the models here could be “returned” to it - at least sometimes - in the form of support for his own staying here. It's just a subjective example; I think there are much more of them, even more valuable ones...
And now, here is the important - as I can see from the reactions of some people and in particular from the models here - moment which is connected with this function. Most of the tips (not all of them, as I understand) can be seen via news feed, they even have a separate column. You can see both anonymous and non-anonymous tips, you can even leave a comment and like them, as any other item from the newsfeed...except the cases when you're banned by a person who has left the tip :) Thus - as I can consider it, this is only my opinion, remember! - you can show your personal agreement with the user that a certain model is worth encouraging, you can support both, express your admiration in this way or support a conversation. Yes, yes, words and likes seem to mean less than giving some money tips now, but...really? I personally know some models here who cherish both tips and comments, and they keep staying here due to the support which is reflected through both money and good attitude.
AND. Moving closer to the evident fact.
Yes I understand that many models like other people's tips just to draw attention to themselves! But ... so what?
Really. So. Damn. What.
In short, what is the point of spreading “noise from nothing” around someone else's attention to the tip?
And, if to speak in details...
Just in case, in order to avoid accusations of bias, I must note that other people also put likes on the tip given to me. And I see how other models - those who have been tipped to and have seen other people's likes under these tips - do not like such attitude. Some of them write back negative comments to their “likers”, they often even spam with their negative messages and go too far in terms of politeness and tact. But what's the point? What good, useful and beneficial does it give? Do you really believe that your potential enemies (whom you regard as such only because they like your tip) will read your negative comments and stop liking the tips? Do you yourself lose a lot from this? Forgive me for my naivety - you most likely regard my question in that way. I still can’t understand how such actions can be dangerous for you personally.
Tips are likable and commentable; plus, many of them are anonymous, so the "liker" can even not know that it is a tip for you or by you. Their actions cannot be unambiguously regarded as spam - unlike some “comment attacks” that you end up with. They are designed to have the ability to be liked and commented by other members of SG, so it cannot be reviewed only as a rude intrusion to your personal space - if you are afraid of that, just delete the message about tipping, so noone will be able to like and comment it, hey ;-). Aaand, finally, such actions do not essentially affect your success and popularity on the site, isn't it?.. We're initially here not for the tips - and if you, on the contrary, are precisely for them, then this is your problem, right?..
Some of you advise "likes" to work on yourself, like your sets and posts instead of like your tips and all that. But the same can be said to you as well - work on yourself, make interesting content, achieve your goals and do it by yourself, without asking other people for attention and arranging argues and low-level relationships with other site participants. And the same touches me as well; I consider self-growth more important than writing negative comments and messages to people who put likes on tips for me. And I wish the same to you. Yes, for some self-confident SG girls here I may seem just a Hopeful, a newbie to who is trying to impose her "condescending" point of view. But I'm the same person as you. And I - just like you - know that patience, composure, kindness and desire to understand are very valuable in our self-taught, self-developing and making the world better.
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Thank you for all your efforts here, @rambo and @missy . And, @rambo, enjoy your maternity!
xoxo
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P.S. I've used the portrait drawing of me made by a talented @kaskelot as an illustration of the blog post - I am very grateful to this talented person for his work, work and attention. There are so many talented and wise people all over the SG-land, I'm happy to know some of them.
