How are views and fan points calculated for celebs?-pg 4/29 Modnote 40 - Page 10

Originally posted by: bs_deeps

copying my quote from other thread..

"I was thinking of that..what if IF restricts the number of views per id, the way they restrict the comments...if not 5 per day, little more than that..or may b only one unique view per page on any given day...

but will IF hits come down? wil that impact them in any way..if it does, will they do it? it will b really good if DT can answer this "

Originally posted by: saalu1

A member can view as many times as possible but only unique views or 5 or 10 views should be counted towards the view points..that way there is less chance of manipulation and everyone gets equal and fair chance

Vijay Sir,

Since you were so kind as to explain some of the details of the ranking system for celebrities recently to one set of fans, we would like to ask you for more clarity. As you are well aware, IF is one of the biggest online platforms and is visited by many TV celebrities, so it would be nice to have clarity and transparency in the ranking system.

We would like some clarification about the definition of active fans in a celebrity's profile and how the points are counted every week.

Is it the number of fans in the fan clubs that are counted? This seems unlikely, given the fan counts of the top four celebrities as shown in the picture posted below.

Or is it according to the number of posts made by the fans in forums across IF. Also, if it is the latter, are the posts in Fan Fictions and Chat Clubs also counted in the post count, or is it only the active show forums of the celebrities which are counted?

If fans are members of more than one fan club, where are their posts counted? In the forums of the respective actors' shows or chat clubs, or for all the actors they are fans of? Many members are fans of onscreen couples, both current and past, so will their posts count in both the actors' fans activity in the respective forums, even if they mention only one name?

Or is there any other criterion you use to calculate the fan count every week?

We would appreciate if you could clarify this in the interest of fairness and transparency on the site, as many fans spend their valuable time commenting for their favorite celebrities and discussing their favorite shows.

At TM, thank you so much for making this post as it's something I've wondered about for a long time.

Vijay sir, please would you clarify what constitutes fan activity. Is it defined by how active certain members are in the forum...in that case wouldn't it make more sense to have a separate ranking for active members instead of attributing their activity to a celebrity.

If a fan club member of a particular celebrity posts on a forum that has nothing to at all to do with the celebrity who's fan club they belong to then does that celebrity get fan activity points for that post. If so why, when the forum has nothing to do with the celebrity?

Same scenario with chat clubs...do celebrities get fan activity points if their fans are active in chat clubs? Again if so how does the chat club in which they may well be discussing other celebrities be fairly counted as fan activity for the celebrity whose fan club they belong to?

We would like some transparency as to how this work because it seems highly unfair that fan activity should be attributed to a celebrity when in reality they have nothing to do with the posts made apart from the fact that their fans are members of a fan club.

Originally posted by: bs_deeps

we may not get a reply..there was a similar post two weeks back..Vijay replied there..but it wasnt very detailed..it didn't clarify anything

Originally posted by: bolt

@Newbiesoapfan
Thank you for making this thread.
Eagerly waiting for a response from Mr Vijay. 😃