Miss FreeOnes 2014
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Ace Bandage
The one and only.
With any luck there won't be a contest this year.
One can dream...
One can dream...
tartanterrier
Is somewhere outhere.
I think that was Roald's baby, as he got to shag the winners 
ApolloBalboa
Was King of the Board for a Day
Last year, a bunch of slander, libel, and other stuff erupted between a few competing OCSMs, and the winner ended up being accused of cheating or "not winning fairly" or something. Basically, a lot of people, both regular members and pink-lettered ones, acted poorly and unfitting of the contest and the admins had to step in multiple times to try and stop things, with varying degrees of success.
That said (and I'm sure someone else could give you a more detailed account of what happened), I'm not surprised that things are being "overhauled". The notoriety it had during its early years has worn off, and now it ultimately amounts (as many people will probably tell you) to starlets making accounts to beg for votes, usually with the promise of rewards, and then ceasing to post once the contest is over. Those same people will also tell you that they're in favor of making the contest only apply to those OCSMs who regularly post and interact with board members, but it's unlikely that such a revamping of the rules will occur.
bobjustbob
Proud member of FreeOnes Hall Of Fame. Retired to
And for this reason let the games begin.
Harley Spencer
Official Checked Star Member
If it is being overhauled or changed in any sort of way, I would be very interested to see what those changes are. While I enjoy participating in the contest, I hate that the few girls who are content-only posters make those of girls who post year round look bad since we can tend to get lost in the mix. That whole bad apple ruining it for the whole bunch sorta thing. And there are a few things I would like to see changed, so if those few changes are in the works, or at least one of the changes, I'd be ecstatic.
Mr. Daystar
In a bell tower, watching you through cross hairs.
If it makes you feel any better, even if I love watching a girl perform in adult movies, if she doesn't post HERE regularly, I won't vote for her. I don't converse with most of the ocsm's on the site, but the fact that some of you are always on, and talk to your fans, means something to me, even if I'm not familiar with your content. A lot of the ocsm's appear for a few days before it begins, a couple of times during, then disappear. Case in point, last years winner signed up, made a couple of posts to defend/refute claims of impropriety...hasn't been on since, that I've seen. I think the other problem you ladies face is, a good deal of the members on this site, are lurking, and never come to this section, they go straight to the porn, and could care less about much else.....but they vote.
Harley Spencer
Official Checked Star Member
Yes, that definitely does make me feel better. I know that there's a number of members on here who vote based on this, but far too many don't. The biggest change I'd like to see if that only registered members can vote. But that'll never happen. FO wants traffic, so if they require everyone to sign up before voting, that's less traffic, since if guests are only voting because a girl asked them to on twitter or facebook, most of them aren't going to want the hassle of having to sign up, they just want one click and done. But it's my personal opinion that if someone wants to vote and they're interested in the site itself, they should sign up. If most of the traffic they're getting for votes is from guests, how many of those guests will end up signing up for the site? But yeah, probably not going to happen.
The Miss FreeOnes contest is a fantastic stepping stone for girls on here, who may otherwise struggle to get known at all. I think the the introduction of OCSM category provided the balance, allowing a board posting girl to have some success, while the non register categories can attract the outside vote. The obvious attraction for FreeOnes as a company, is to attract new people to freeones. If they join great, if they don't great too, they may take up on some of the offers and provide FO with income.
When there is a contest, there will always be people who do not read the rules, chose to ignore them or deliberately set out with a scheme. It is naive to think otherwise. All that can be done is to create rules to control as best you can and then to enforce the rules where breaches are discovered. It is the non enforcement that can cause issues for obvious reasons.
I hope the contest runs again and that the girls who post here regularly, continue to benefit from the support of their loyal fans. The main category of MIss FO will be very difficult for one of our regulars to win but you never know, it could happen. The other categories have been won by board girls in most cases.
Long may FreeOnes run the contest and good luck to all who take part. I enjoyed my time in the contest and I hope others will continue to do so, girls and voters alike.
Miss Hybrid
When there is a contest, there will always be people who do not read the rules, chose to ignore them or deliberately set out with a scheme. It is naive to think otherwise. All that can be done is to create rules to control as best you can and then to enforce the rules where breaches are discovered. It is the non enforcement that can cause issues for obvious reasons.
I hope the contest runs again and that the girls who post here regularly, continue to benefit from the support of their loyal fans. The main category of MIss FO will be very difficult for one of our regulars to win but you never know, it could happen. The other categories have been won by board girls in most cases.
Long may FreeOnes run the contest and good luck to all who take part. I enjoyed my time in the contest and I hope others will continue to do so, girls and voters alike.
Miss Hybrid
look scooter, the message boards don't define freeones. Miss Freeones represents Freeones, not the fucking message board. You see all those searched babes on the home page, they all get a chance to be Miss Freeones, whether they interact with you or not! Now, if you want a Miss Message Board 2014, then I'm with you.
Harley Spencer
Official Checked Star Member
This is all very true and I agree with you.
I hope I'm not coming off as a total whiner with my post about wishing people would have to sign up to vote. It only makes sense from a model's perspective, not so much for someone who is voting or the folks who run the site. I completely understand why it is the way it is, me complaining is just me being a whiney complainer.
Regardless of that, I do enjoy the contest and will continue to participate for as long as I continue to be a member here. I think it's great for FreeOnes to be doing this. They don't have to do it, they don't have to give out prizes. They do it not just for themselves, but as you said, it can be a great starting point for a lot of girls, so winner or not, our names are still getting out there and FreeOnes is kind enough to run the contest at all and their hard work with it is much appreciated. We may all have our preferences and personal opinions, but we do in absolutely everything, it's human nature. No one can ever please everyone, and FO is doing great for what they can.
BCT
Pucker Up Butter Cup.
This
Which is an excellent reason not to reward this kind of behavior.
I've only been through one Miss FreeOnes contest, but I think I understand it pretty well. FreeOnes (as we were reminded many times by Roald last year) is more than just the board, and the brass doesn't want to limit the contest with that in mind, but essentially the folks who post here are the board. While the posters here may not be able to control the contest, they do control their own (weighted) votes.
And that is an interesting observation. Even if they aren't lurking per se, there seems to be a bunch of posters who never leave, say, the ID section and still have weighted votes, having been here for years with several posts under their belts. Makes one wonder how that particular resource could be tapped...
Rey C.
Racing is life... anything else is just waiting.
While I understand where you're coming from (and you're correct that this site is about more than just the message board), a point can also be made that it's rather odd when there is a highly placed Miss FreeOnes contestant who has no connection to the site (not even a membership that she has only posted to once or twice), other than the possibility that her name is a popular search item. If there was ever a Miss Google or a Miss Apple or a Miss Ferrari, you can be absolutely certain that before she got a crown, she would have to demonstrate her loyalty or devotion to those companies and/or decent knowledge of their products. I mean, the whole purpose of this contest is to promote FreeOnes.
The contest lost its meaning to me a couple of years ago (and I stopped voting regularly) once certain porn stars began telling their site members to join this site and vote for them, yet the girls never came here at all.
Hi Harley,
I think it works very well for FreeOnes, the sponsorship covers the prizes and the girls bring traffic. FO get the agro to organise and oversee.
It must have been difficult for them last year.
You are not whining at all. There would be no point whatsoever in FO limiting the event to board members, hence we have the dual system.
The regular posting OCSMS have the ability to win the board limited OCSM of the year category. The regular members have high post count and mostly high weighted votes, enabling newbie votes to be of little influence to the overall event. I guess if the OCSM votes were not weighted, I would not have taken it twice. I suppose that is an unfair system in its own right, but I am not complaining!
Members see the sudden influx of the very busy OCSM's, who have no time to post from end of one contest, to a week before the start of the next and have a chuckle. You just need to look at the results to see that.
The place has changed here and the "breeze in" for the circus and out when the curtain falls brigade do little anymore.
I think the main event of Miss FO will go to the big social players and big name girls. I gave it a shot and with the board vote and my small Twitter following, made 5th. Lets see if one of the board girls can beat it this year.
Miss Hybrid
I think this is an excellent post in a thread with several other excellent posts. I understand that FreeOnes is much, much more than this board, but I would be curious to know what percentage of the votes are cast by board members. I mean board members that are regularly active, and that means a lot of lurkers who don't necessarily post. And I agree that it is curious that these porn stars win the contest without having to fully embrace FreeOnes, including the board, which is, after all, at least PART of FreeOnes. I think winners in all categories need be required to post at least weekly on the board. It's not an onerous request, and even if they only post in the threads that are dedicated to them, it would show their fans that they are actually reading their thread and responding.
I dunno. Throw us schleps something like that. Just a thought.
" I would be curious to know what percentage of the votes are cast by board members."
Yes Dirk, wouldn't that be interesting. There were a number of counts over the last year, tallying the votes declared by members on the threads. I wonder what the total would look like.
Roald always said FO was much more than the board. Roald still thinks the board is important, even in his new employment he still comes to post in his Roald account as well as his 17 one.
I agree there are some very good posts on here.
I would be interested in Petras comments too.
Regards
Miss Hybrid
Ps
Stripe says hi.
Roald has two accounts? Let's ban the fucker.
It will be interesting to see if the Admins take any notice of this thread on Monday when they get back to the office.
It will be interesting to see if the Admins take any notice of this thread on Monday when they get back to the office.
Not wanting to appear biased, but....
... this point, out of context, makes it sound as though her board membership was purely about last year's Miss FO, when in actuality she had signed up and started posting early as September '12 to speak to fans, answer questions and also refute some of the bullshit being spread concering other matters about her career, often in a pithy manner that doesn't exactly scream "six month campaign to try and earn Miss FO votes." I won't deny that the aftermath probably had something to do with her saying "to hell with this place" but to be honest, the board does not have a sparkling record when it comes to retaining active "big name" pornstars as OCSMs anyway.
Let's be honest - Miss FreeOnes is a popularity contest ran by a porn website, voted for by porn fans, the vast majority of whom consume their porn and know what/who they like without feeling the need to join a message board to talk about it, and thus have no reason to care about whether their favourite performer is an active member or not, they'll just see her name and vote for her. For all the complaining we could do about contestants not playing an active role on the board, from Jayden Jaymes to Kortney Kane to Rachel Starr, the board manages to turn off an awfully high proportion of the pornstars that do sign up and make an attempt at interacting with their fans. Futhermore, I can imagine some active stars might look into the board and consider signing up only to change their minds at some of the horrible things written about them in their own threads. To my mind the complaining that our OCSMs don't get more votes or rank higher in the main category belongs in the same boat as some of the comments in the "FO top 100 searched in 2013" thread - it's a popularity contest, a big part of popularity is due to visibility, and the non-board voters are likely to outnumber the rest of us, simple as.
That said, the active OCSMs deserve a lot of love and respect for the interaction they have with us and perhaps also for being thick-skinned enough to stick around even though there can be an unpleasant side to the board. They deserve our support, and they also deserve recognition. That's why we also have the "Best OCSM" category, which not only gives we the board members a chance to vote for who we love most, but also gives a chance for non board members to have a glance while they're doing their voting in other categories.
In summary ; as has been written many times, FO is much bigger than this board, and Miss FO will not just be about who we the board love. Accept that, don't get too stressed about it, let your votes do the talking and try and enjoy the likely influx of fresh fapping material the scramble for votes will provide.
... this point, out of context, makes it sound as though her board membership was purely about last year's Miss FO, when in actuality she had signed up and started posting early as September '12 to speak to fans, answer questions and also refute some of the bullshit being spread concering other matters about her career, often in a pithy manner that doesn't exactly scream "six month campaign to try and earn Miss FO votes." I won't deny that the aftermath probably had something to do with her saying "to hell with this place" but to be honest, the board does not have a sparkling record when it comes to retaining active "big name" pornstars as OCSMs anyway.
Let's be honest - Miss FreeOnes is a popularity contest ran by a porn website, voted for by porn fans, the vast majority of whom consume their porn and know what/who they like without feeling the need to join a message board to talk about it, and thus have no reason to care about whether their favourite performer is an active member or not, they'll just see her name and vote for her. For all the complaining we could do about contestants not playing an active role on the board, from Jayden Jaymes to Kortney Kane to Rachel Starr, the board manages to turn off an awfully high proportion of the pornstars that do sign up and make an attempt at interacting with their fans. Futhermore, I can imagine some active stars might look into the board and consider signing up only to change their minds at some of the horrible things written about them in their own threads. To my mind the complaining that our OCSMs don't get more votes or rank higher in the main category belongs in the same boat as some of the comments in the "FO top 100 searched in 2013" thread - it's a popularity contest, a big part of popularity is due to visibility, and the non-board voters are likely to outnumber the rest of us, simple as.
That said, the active OCSMs deserve a lot of love and respect for the interaction they have with us and perhaps also for being thick-skinned enough to stick around even though there can be an unpleasant side to the board. They deserve our support, and they also deserve recognition. That's why we also have the "Best OCSM" category, which not only gives we the board members a chance to vote for who we love most, but also gives a chance for non board members to have a glance while they're doing their voting in other categories.
In summary ; as has been written many times, FO is much bigger than this board, and Miss FO will not just be about who we the board love. Accept that, don't get too stressed about it, let your votes do the talking and try and enjoy the likely influx of fresh fapping material the scramble for votes will provide.
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