A couple of years back, Gamelink did one of those sports-based playoff / bracket type contests, where girls were pitted against each other. The ones with the most votes went on to the next round.

I participated in the first round, and after I progressed to the second round, I started being pretty public about what the prize for the winner would be, because we were all “working so hard to drive traffic to GL”. No answer. I kept asking a couple times a day for a few days, with no answer…so I stopped asking people to vote. Obviously, I didn’t win that second round LOL.

The Feminist Porn Awards is similar – it drives traffic to a sex toy store in Toronto. Every year people send in DVDs and clips to see if they’ll win, and it drives traffic to the brick and mortar as well as their online store. They win because they’re a small, specialized store trying to compete with the two giant mega-retailers in Toronto. Knowing that going in helps you not take things all that personally either – it’s all business at the end of the day.

As long as a model entering a contest knows that what she’s doing is helping to drive traffic, I think it’s fine to participate and encourage guys to vote. I’m currently pushing votes for Exxxotica because (1) I’m attending the thing and (2) I KNOW it’s driving Exxxotica traffic. I don’t have some false assumption that if I win it’s because I’m the “most popular girl everrrrrr” LOL. If I win, I know it’s because I kept (technically) begging guys to vote for me. If I don’t, it’s not a critical award anyway (and are ANY awards these days critical awards?) so it’s no biggie. By helping drive Exxxotica traffic, it’s also letting the guys know I’m going to be appearing, so it’s kinda a win-win. I don’t mind helping drive traffic to an event I support anyway.

But yeah, entering a contest and pretending you don’t know you’re helping the event/website running it is kinda stupid, esp these days 😉

Huh, I didn’t know that, Mike. So all it takes is one hater and…

hey nick did you know that AVN has a very similar system for voting on the avn awards….now you know the REST of the story

Ahh Mike thats sweet of you to say, reminds of my stay at Ruckers. Anyway…with that said I conducted my own survey on my blog and though the results are not entirely in, one would be fairly safe to say that Christy Mack would not have come close to winning any competition. Not totally surprising, her own crayon box put a whooping on her, and then she let a Flowbee sneak up on her. That is a sure sign of someone who just doesn’t have her head into the game. Just saying. Yeah…probably gonna get poked in the eye on this one but not too worried about it…I have safety goggles. Vivid is handing em out.

The cash prizes would probably be minimal compared to whatever ad space they sell — the higher the traffic the more money they can charge for the ads. Also if they are getting ready to sell their site more traffic can raise the site’s price. Alexa is (relatively) easy to manipulate but I understand is widely used in the adult business to measure the traffic of a website. Sean wrote a nice analysis of this regarding Donkey Long’s (meanest person to ever grace porn) XXX Film Jobs ripoff site on his site The Real Porn Wiki Leaks (www.therealpornwikileaks.com). You may have to search for the article but it is an interesting read.

LOL