ameliagem:
Good ideas! I used to have a cupcake-scented lip gloss that was my favorite

justenjoy:
Not only is $10 a month a horrible deal for people who only come here for stories, but now half or more of the front page of Stories is premium content. Please fix this.

fatchance:
As I said, no critique. It takes work to maintain a website and people like to be paid for their work.

I assume FF has gone to the current model because advertising revenue has not be sufficient.

The fatter you get, the fatter you get. I’m fat because I’m lazy and I’m lazy because I’m fat. Certainly fat people can be active, but there’s just something about embodying the stereotype of the lazy glutton that frankly turns me on.

Bicepsual:
^Ha, see my wife was the reverse.

She was a clean freak, always on the run, never sat down-type.

And it's so hot to see as the weight creeps on, they become lazier. The activity declines and then the moment they start to acknowledge that they're "fat", the transparency of being lazy has the weight absolutely pile on as they know to avoid specific activities, ie. bending over or stairs, etc.

It's a big turn on for me because they really become plump princess who don't want to lift a finger for anything any more and have no issue blatantly asking you to do it for them.....because....you know.... "I'm fat and lazy now".

Jack-Elray:
I agree that transformation is really interesting to see.
A friend of mine was a personal trainer as was his girlfriend. They met at work actually.

She slowly but surely started gaining, they’ve been together 3 years now and well suffice to say she isn’t a personal trainer anymore.
It was such a natural progression for her but so interesting to see her go from a 130 lb lean trainer to a 250+ couch potato.

FF Team:
Hi all,

As you know, here at Fantasy Feeder we're always trying to improve, so you get the best experience using our website.

We have been contacted by a lot by members, who feel concerned about the majority of users that seem to be only using the site to promote their own personal paid for services.

They have felt that trying to find a genuine person to date, meet, or chat with is becoming harder and harder with the increase in users, that are only here to possibly exploit our website, and membership base for monetary gain.

We have been thinking about how to improve the site in a way that makes it easier for like minded members to find each other. So we have thought about the idea of validating profiles, but we would like your input before we start implementing any major changes.

Would you find this sort of feature helpful?

Look forward to hearing your opinions on this.

Thanks!

c00kie
FF Team

FF Team:
Thank you to all those getting involved in this discussion, your feedback really is appreciated.

In regards to the way validation would work, we can work out those kinks as and when developed. Anyone who had been validated and then turned out to be someone selling content would simply have the validation removed from their profile. This would be a matter of mod spot checks, and reporting from you guys using the abuse report tool.

Anyway the main question really we want answered...

Is this a feature that you want, or feel is needed on the site?

Or are you happy with how things currently are, maybe it's not a big an issue as we have been led to believe?

hiccupx:
We've considered two types of validation so far that might be useful but would love to hear your feedback. These are:

* Verify that users are who they claim to be, to reduce fake profiles. This would work in the same way as it does on many sites, where the members publishes a pic of themselves holding a sign saying 'fantasy feeder'

* Perhaps more controversially - verify that users aren't trying to sell something or asking for money. So long as there's nothing to suggest otherwise in their profile or posts, we'll verify the profile, however if we see or hear otherwise, we'll remove the verification.

Verified members would have a badge shown on their profile and could be searched for. Whilst there's nothing wrong with trying to earn money online, the idea is to try to improve friendships/dating/conversation by highlighting those people genuinely interested in the fetish.

Post your thoughts/comments/suggestions below.

clive2007:
To part 1 - as you say, this procedure is being used already to verify certain members, holding up something that validates that they are a real member, and this can certainly confirm things like age (although anything proving that would I imagine have to be sent in privately, can't have pics of drivers licences or passports being made public) - yet this would prove they are a "real person" - it wouldn't stop them from then going on to post details about running paid services etc and so on.

To part 2 where physically checking a profile on joining FF to make sure paid services or otherwise asking for money in return for something isn't being posted would work in the interim, but they could then start making such posts after being validated - yet you do say that you'd remove validation (presumably through policing) if such posts were made.

I'd say a third possible option, so that we could include posters who do have paid services to be able to feel included would be to maybe enhance point 2 and include an extra tier of membership reserved for those that have paid services which would mean that they would be paying (via subscription) for the privilege of advertising externally.

If they joined under that tier, and subsequently canceled this subscription down the road, then they would then still be subject to the second option where profiles/posts would be checked for illegal content.


Clive