Hi Yenta
So basically there are a few things that we look at to
Gage Owens how a model fairs with the community. In order of importance, we look at the rating of the scenes they are in (the stars you can see underneath the player), the models performance rating (the popup where you rate each model in the scene individually), and to a much lesser extent the rating on their individual bio page, comments on the scene page, and comments in the forum. Finally, we monitor the full tour page and can track what people click on and join for. So when you came to
Broke Straight Boys, we will track what thumbs on the tour you click on and track which one it is that gets you to the join page and convert. This is the sales funnel and is an important factor in what models come back.
When we put up a scene anywhere between 600 - 1500 people will use the stars under the player to rate what they thought of the scene. Up to a thousand people will rate the individual models in the popup after the scene finishes playing. Only about a hundred will ever go to the models bio form and use that, you might get a couple of dozen people that will leave comments under a scene, and then there are a couple of dozen people here that regularly use the forum. The people in the forum account for significantly less than 1% of our membership base. Most people that are members, never make it into the forum. So we have a real silent and significant majority. But they will use the ratings system. The two most important factors for models are... which ones get people to pull out their credit cards and join and how are the rated cumulatively in the individual scene performance rating.
We don't track hits to a scene for determining if a model will come back. The metrics we use are way more advanced than that now. It's funny because there will be major backlash in the forum for certain models where they get roasted alive over here, but we've seen it where they will have the highest sales funnel conversion from the tour or have stellar performance ratings from the larger user base rating the scene performance. We constantly have to resist the urge to give the squeaky wheel the grease (no shade, but the forum) and let the number's guide our decision process.
So after everything is tabulated (which happens in real time, all day, every day) we can still end up with a model that is a "absolute must come back" based on the numbers but they may not want to do porn anymore, they might have psychological issues (no lie, it happens) and any of a myriad factors that will cause a rejection for the sheer fact we can't trust them or are fearful of them. Only a couple of months ago a new model showed up at a
College Dudes shoot and pulled a knife on the director as soon as he walked in the door. Luckily it turned out ok and the director and other model where able to get him back out the door without injury. There is a crazy vetting process we go through and most guys are 100% awesome like our current stable of boys. But, peaking behind the curtain, there is a lot that goes on that would cause the hair on the back of your neck to stand on in end... if you only knew. I say all of that to say that there are so so many factors that go into model selection and retention and its not nearly as simple as some think.