Johnnydevil's blog: "Fu Education"

Hello kids, Happy Easter and April Fool's Day!..Hope you are doing well. This one is specifically for the people who play the "game" portion of the program...

Today's topic:

Famplifiers, Rates, Red and Your Family

It amazes me that almost eight years after the Famplifier was released that people still have a hard time grasping the impact that it has had on the game and what actually is all involved.

See, a long time ago, before "Famps" as we call them, people actually busted their ass for rates, they rated profiles, they made friends, they actually had a reason to spend what amounted to some for a large part of their day (no judgement, just fact) rating profiles hoping to get a rate back from anyone. The would "welcome" people to Fubar via profile comments on newbies. They ran blasts to bring attention to their page, and if I am not mistaken, ran boomerangs (before famps) to get rates, etc. That was in like, the pre-mid 2010 era.

Then the "Top Dudes and Chicks of the Week" came along and with it, the "Fake" red darker tone name that the Top 10 males of the females get on a weekly basis.

Here's a Q&A I created to make this easier for people to grasp:

Q: What determines what male and female profile get that "fake red" name every week?

A: It simple - they have the most combined profile rates obtained either on their own or by being "rated by (someone's) famplifier."

That's really it.

The week for this starts on Thursday reset Fubar time and ends the following Wednesday night at Fubar reset. Every week. So the people that get the most combined profile rates during that timeframe in each gender get that "fake red" color.

In the very beginning of this, people that were , shall we say "popular" were in so many families and their weekly ranks were very high just because they knew people and they ran famps and well, the weekly rank came along with it.

But then came the concept of the "buy in."

People would offer you (x) amount of credits to get into your family if you were running a famplifier (especially if you were running one during a happy hour) to soak up the profile rates you get and pass along to them via the famp.

I mean, that's fair right? The concept of "family" on Fubar began to take a nose dive into the dumpster rather rapidly due to this and people figuring it out (and it really hit rock bottom before they added the extra family spots for VIP.) But, bling costs real money. So as with any kind of game be it online, Xbox, Playstation or whatever, the more money and time you put into it, the better the outcome. The site has to make money also, let's not forget Fubar is a business. So that makes sense from that point of view.

But then families were gutted and replaced with those who "bought in" or also ran a lot of power up bling. If you didn't run you were labled a "freeloader." And promptly booted out.

Like if you look at older profiles and picture comments, they all basically stop toward the end of 2010 from a volume point of view. When the famp started, the interaction ceased. It's like that layer of sediment that scientists used to determine when meteors killed the dinosaurs. It's that drastic. People struggle for 100 comments on a pic these days. Back in the day that would literally take an hour - and so many, so many people would status it and help out until they got it.

Now? It's like if a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it does it even make a sound?

So simply, the more profile rates they get, the closer toward the goals of that "fake red" name and "real red" name they get. It's really a very simple process.

The problem becomes when those people compete and some of them don't have the money to get that red name.

They will lie to you, they say they will swap (for the record, a male swapping with a female is RARELY a fair swap because they simply don't get the rates a female does) they will offer nominal "help" or promise you with world as long as you put them in YOUR famp to get free rates. They don't care, some of them, not all of them by any means, but some of them are total parasites. Honestly most hope you forget you added them and ride your rates until you wake up and take them out.

They all compete so much they have more drama than most lounges. And that's only because to be honest, who visits lounges anymore?

That's the problem. So if someone wants in your famp to soak up your profile rates to sponsor their journey toward either the fake weekly red name or the real lifetime red name - make them pay. With real money. With real credits or with real bling. Don't fall for some of their lines because my friends they have been doing this for so long they know every angle.

Some even use their own profiles to sell monthly spots like a subscription. I mean, if you do the math that explains why so many of them have those nice shiny exotics! Profit is good when other people pay for your bling to run I guess right?

But the biggest crime they commit is straight up telling you who to put in your family and who to kick out. That's a crime like betting on and playing professional sports to manipulate the outcome. Think Pete Rose or just about every NBA, NFL or College Basketball official. Same concept.

You determine who your family is. You determine how you handle YOUR Fubar business. In order to stop this nonsense, you people:

HAVE TO SCREENSHOT WHEN SOMEONE TELLS YOU TO KICK SOMEONE OUT OF YOUR FAMILY OR NOT SELL THEM A SPOT!!

This is the ONLY way these people can be held accountable in most cases. I am tired of people saying "oh so and so told me that" and when I ask where the screenshot is they say "oh I lost it" or "oh I didn't get it."

That's like dumb AF and infuriating because that's another chance for  us to rid ourselves of these true freeloading parasites.

If you don't then you are letting them play you for a fool.

Are you a fool?

There are plenty of honest, good people here that offer credits or bling to be added to your famp. Swaps are a slippery slope and well, usually suck for at least one party involved. And of course, I always advise to leave those people who are your real friends in your family no matter what, they are the ones that matter. With maybe less than 10 exceptions these fake red name people come and go like the wind. Is that worth losing a friend over? If you have a VIP you have 105 family spots and there's nowhere near 105 people playing the "buy in" game. You're good. That number is well below that, maybe not even half, but who's to know.

So that wraps this up. Any questons? Feel free to ask and comment below. I hope this little educational program helps those of you who didn't know the reality or are new to running bling , God modes and having happy hours understand why you are being bombarded with these people in your shoutbox asking to be added.

The above is why.

They want your profile rates for their rank and colors - it's that simple.

The choices you make and how you handle them -  are up to you.

But if you read this, you can no longer say you had no idea.

Please tell a friend about this blog before they turn on a famp or have a happy hour.

You'll be doing them an amazing service.

Peace.