Recently in the Chinese forum, there is a curious practice. A poster requests viewers to award him points (金錢) before the viewers get to see more pics of the WG via attachments in their email. This poster actually lets you see 2 preview pics first.

http://www.141hongkong.com/forum ... extra-page%3D1.html

http://www.141hongkong.com/forum ... extra-page%3D1.html

[ Last edited by  pickyprick at 31-12-2010 10:49 ]

That is so, so cheap. Must have a lot of karma whores there. What are these posters thinking? If each karma point can be traded in for HK$10 I see the point but sneak preview for extra points? That is just so childish.

It's definitely one of the things I appreciate here on the English side. With the exception of a few noobies asking for karma, just about everyone here is sharing for the sake of sharing and there's more of a sense of community and a spirit of brotherhood here. On the Chinese side there are a lot of fake ad reports, complaints and bitching about real pictures not being good enough and harming the business of the WG and endless one liners giving thanks or comments without adding anything at all to the usefulness of the thread

Since it's hard to get RA 30, i should appreciate his effort. This is symbiosis Mutualism.
Coz sometimes people dont appreciate our effort, we spend time to read and write reports,
upload pics, and some of them just read it without say thank you, or give some karma or acceptance.
In fact, if they don't like about something just easily give karma -10 to that poster.
Some of the old members treat newbie inappropriately

In the past, a few bros from the Chinese forum posted a few reports asking either openly on the forum or pm for karma points to post pics on their reports. Nonetheless, they were quickly shot down for their whoring action

PP, this is standard practice over there. sometimes the pics will be send by PM or email after the points have been received.

geoduck,
over in the Chinese forum I think there are people who don't mind giving k's to see more pictures. K's ultimately are not real money and k's get replenished periodically. It really doesn't hurt to give k's so I suppose this poster's strategy actually works.

stage6,
I frequently browsed in the hotel girl section in the chinese forum. However I just skimmed through them just to catch a few more ad pictures posted by the agents. I don't have any RA over there and hence I don't get to see as many pics as one possibly could. I could have easily built up an account with sufficient RA's to enjoy more stuff over there but the English forum here is more than enough to keep me busy. Yes the culture is very different on both forums. Apart from the things you mentioned, what I find interesting over the other side is that viewers seem to enjoy the fact to make the very first reply in many of the reports there. I wonder if making the first reply to a thread has extra bonus haha.

SilverBird,
I can feel your frustration. But RA30 is not that difficult to achieve. You should get there sooner than you anticipated. Make a report or two and give me a yell. I will come over to read your stuff and give you the recognition and k's you long for. Just make sure you make sensible statements in your reports haha. I will honour the promise. Cheers.

[ Last edited by  pickyprick at 1-1-2011 11:10 ]

asia-play,
I have come across a good number of not-so-young members in the Chinese forum, asking in a sort of nice way but openly at the end of the report, for k's, from viewers if the latter do find the uploaded pictures are any good. I have not followed up the matter and see if they actually got shot down.

Could you kindly elaborate what you meant by shot down? Totally banned (which I doubt) or like get a warning in the pm?


DaBestHK,
Yes I have come across many people asking for pics via emails over there. Even Goose and Happppsex (known as crazyman) get many of these replies/ requests in their reports in the Chinese forum.

But it seems I have never come across a report where the poster openly asked for k's first, before sending out pics to the person who requested them. I must have been not thorough enough to observe what's going on over there, since you mentioned it's standard practice.

[ Last edited by  pickyprick at 1-1-2011 12:15 ]

Yup, I was exactly the same as you   I used to browse the chinese side HG reports frequently to see some of the additional pics to get an idea of what the girls looked like. Found it quite illuminating even though some/many of them may have been agent ad's. It was there I got my first reality check into the amount of PS'ing in the DB pics.

Nowadays, I find the English side is more than enough to keep me busy and I enjoy the back and forth dialogue I'm having with several members here incl yourself. We also have the valuable WG's uncovered thread which takes care of a large portion of why I used to look over on the Chinese side

*cough* In actuality, I probably spend perhaps a bit too much time on this forum

I totally agree with u. Karma is not real money, and it doesn't hurt u to give Karma to somebody. It's actually to give
appreciation to someone's report.

And u can see some of my reports in International Report section. Hopefully u can leave some comments.

Giving first reply to someone reports has special meaning in my country's Forum. u can take a look at one of
the largest forum in the world, www.kaskus.us.

thanks for bringing this issue into discussion.

to me, this is totally ridiculous (though i have paid for viewing those real pics), coz there's already a reading access system established to stimulate members giving more contribution in order to gain access level, now, gotta pay for viewing photos sounds like erecting a barrier to members and discouraging real sharing.

hope this practise won't last long.