(28-06-2015 15:20 )eyres42 Wrote: Looks like she's been reading the forum going off her Twitter meltdown this morning...
Yeah, I just saw that.
I don't want to be the self-appointed resident geek, but as ever, I couldn't resist a bit of armchair analysis of the stats.
I'm not sure exactly what set her off, but this is what Lily Roma posted on June 27 in a sequence of 4 tweets:
"I hate reading the babe forum but 2nite I did again, and reading that @SinTVGirls saved my career made me wet my pants. I'm on the channels because I want to and not because I'm forced to be, so get this right. I will stop the channels when I feel like I had enough and not when u think, and most of u who think that u know everything oh well u know, u sit at home do nothing but watch the show but never rung once, so keep your thoughts to yourself."
A bit verbose for Twitter, but she was much more pithy last night when she said:
"I think the heat turns most of u into assholes"
Sweety. This was, of course, promptly re-tweeted by Ree Petra.
But "most of you" is a quantitative statement, so let's check it out...
This is post 98 in Lily Roma's thread. By my count, this is how the other 97 posts break down:
31% VERY COMPLIMENTARY
58% COMPLIMENTARY
6% NEUTRAL
3% CRITICAL
2% VERY CRITICAL
For the benefit of DB83 (who checks my math), I define "VERY COMPLIMENTARY" as anything that verges on hyperbole or has a lot of well intentioned exclamation points. "COMPLIMENTARY" includes caps with no comments and any anodyne comments like
"good show by Lily last night" with no further explanation. "NEUTRAL" is anything purely informative, like
"Lily is on tomorrow". "CRITICAL" is any mild criticism about a no-show or just being dull. "VERY CRITICAL" includes anything particularly harsh about her performance or her character.
All told, almost 89% of this thread is basically saying positive things and providing her with free word-of-mouth advertising. "Most of" this Forum is, in fact, saying nothing but nice things about Lily.
And given that her own twitter feed is essentially a long string of posts that are flogging one thing or another (e.g. her website, cam shows, TV performances or wishlist), then free advertising generated by other people is presumably no bad thing. If you are basically selling yourself on-line, you have to love the fact that other people (almost 90% of them, to be precise) are singing your praises on-line too.
With those kinds of numbers one cannot escape the conclusion that -- whatever the provocation -- going onto Twitter and indiscriminately slagging off "most of" the forum is not the best response to criticism. It's a bit like a hotel with 4.75 Tripadvisor rating going online and saying that most of its guests are prats because of the one person that gave it a bad review. At best, bad marketing. At worst, it's bad manners.
In short: get a grip.