HOPING FOR ADVICE, PLEASE

When Monday's card/show was not available at the usual equivalent time in Australia - and still not there, I checked the internet.

I can see that French Daylight Savings Time expired overnight. Clocks going back an hour would account for a delay - although that card is still not available much more than an hour later than usual time.

Another situation this week may arise from a French Public Holiday on 1st November. Will there be a show issue on that day? Will there be two shows on Tuesday to account for the Public Holiday - like the three shows on Fridays to account for the weekend?

Any assistance on this matter will be appreciated. Thank you.

First part answered - Kristina's latest show being downloaded now - thank you!

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About French Public Holiday Wednesday?

HOPING FOR ADVICE, PLEASE

Another situation this week may arise from a French Public Holiday on 1st November. Will there be a show issue on that day? Will there be two shows on Tuesday to account for the Public Holiday - like the three shows on Fridays to account for the weekend?

As one who is always ready to collect a brand new card (passing over only about two in all of October) - which would normally be available for download of an Australian week-day evening - I am hoping that someone might shed some light on what WILL happen for French Tuesday. And what might NOT happen, on this French Wednesday. Please! Rather than keep coming back to the site, looking for a card, that is simply not going to turn up.

Please ... anybody? Thank you. 😦

In the ***** of any other information, I can advise anyone who is interested that I have just started downloading Kate Shoo's Halloween card. Only the one show - at least so far.

Presumably, Public Holiday (according to a Google search) or not, there will be another new show tomorrow. Or I will be wasting a considerable time waiting.

Thanks me!

Now the trick after downloading and having my text `stick' is getting my 5 stars to be calculated in the average. The first reviewer has alloted 3 - I have resynched the servers 25 times - twice - and still it reads average score `3'.

I have raised scoring anomalies in the past. This is just the latest case!

Maybe that is the Halloween `trick' - still no change to the average!

@ktab

Firstly, how do you know how many people have rated a card, because you can submit a star rating without leaving a comment.

Secondly, I don't think Totem use a simple average because some time ago they said that they had adjusted the rating system to provide more resolution at the high end.

@TheEmu

Even though midnight here, I have other anomalies that lead me to this conclusion - BEYOND the fact that I downloaded the show from Girl Store even before it appeared on the carousel. And that the score remained at exactly 3 - the very same score as the first reviewer. If lots of scorers were involved how would it - incredibly coincidently - stay at that first reviewer's score?

As stated there is an unexplainable precedent, quite recently - noted on the card to which it happened - in my review. I left no comment only a score - until the anomaly was seen on revisiting the new card. It was a Friday, so 3 cards downloaded and it was the last to which I would leave a review. The declared average score was 4.5 when I arrived. I scored 4. Resynched 15 times - OCD is my excuse! Allowing each time for that link to return to full colour. Back to the show in question. The average now showed as 5 - the maximum average! Even allowing for the deletion of the score of 4.5 (who knows?), my 4 was still there. How is a maximum score achieved - no matter how many voters - when it includes a 4 out of 5? We have all seen scores close but not quite 5!

Although you have no way of knowing this to be true, I will write it anyway. Before retirement, I was a management analyst and a (computer) systems auditor. It was what I did. On my anomalies, I have screen prints - old habit - of all that I have seen as anomalous. Not that it matters anymore - I expect no further action on the matter. It does not mean - community wise - I should not point this out. After all it is a component of Talent of the Month.

But certainly, @TheEmu, I thank you for placing comment - truly. Being Australian, I have always wondered at your choice of an avatar - Australia's flightless bird on our coat of arms. But feel free to ignore the curiosity - that is all it is.

@ktab - It may not involve lots of reviewers. One possibilty is that as with many competitions such as skating the top and bottom scores are discarded - I doubt very much if that is the explanation but as we have no idea how the final rating is calculated, or even when it is calculated, we have no way of judging if it is an anomaly or not. All we can say is that we do not understand.

The emu avatar is an in house joke related to my job.

@TheEmu

Thank you for your reply.

Hopefully, when using phrases like `average' - just for the sake of transperancy - it is what it is. That, of course, was the whole point of `system' audits around the world. I am still in email communication with a few of my international and local colleagues - now all friends (or I hope so, or that system has failed). Certainly, they expressed dismay IF there was some other method that a `straight' average of all scores assigned - whether anonymously (without comments - which they unanimously thought tended to be `unheard of' in itself, as scores contribute to further flow-on - in this case Talent of the Month) - or accompanied by member ID and comments. All except me, are still in the `business' - just nowadays given different titles.

Many thanks about the `name' advice.

Again I appreciate your engagement on this issue. Otherwise, it was me muttering to myself - or maybe talking to my wife. Likened to screaming in a vacuum - both examples. 😊

PS - Oops - how do I know it is an `average'? I am usually one of the very first to download a day's show - check the reviews. After multi-`pressing' `synchronize to server', there (usually) is my score. I check back often. When there is another comment-accompanied score - back to synchronize - multi-press. Sure enough, the average of our two scores.

Added for the sake of clarity. Quite often, this can have all happened BEFORE the show actually appears on the carousel. After multi-sychronizing, when show is due, it first appears in Girls Store. No ***** caused - as I have been doing this for at least two months! As, obviously, have others.

@ktab

According to the following post from @Rex almost exactly a year ago it is quite clear that the rating system can not be using a simple average.

http://www.istripper.com/forum/thread/34538/1?post=514140

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@TheEmu,

I will follow through on the link - thank you.

I expect to be surprised - based upon your accompanying remark. Whether it is the first two or three or four of the non-anonymous scores, apart from the mentioned `anomalies' (obviously subject to clarification with the provided link), they have averaged out to the star rating shown! Being retired, having OCD and iStripper representing a sizeable part of my retired `world' - I am a constant checker and re-checker. But wishing to learn as well

As soon as I get off the `on hold' wait on my phone, I will follow-up your kind lead.

Thank you. 👍

@ktab, I may have been misunderstanding Rex, but I can't see how they could have changed the system to "zoom" in on the upper range unless they are using something other than a simple average. For a while I thought that it might just be a visual thing with the row of 5 stars not running linearly from 1 to 5, but I have just checked a few low ranked cards and the number of stars and partial stars does correspond to the quoted ranking.

@TheEmu

Ummmm - I have read and re-read Rex's advice. I must admit to being totally *****. And I must admit I probably should not comment/score anymore - because I have no idea - now - on how it will contribute to anything at all.

Seeing I am to no longer bother with casting polls and FanSigns (having reached the same incomprehension of those areas) - and, now, no longer understand the point of providing `scoring', I am thinking I will have very little need of my keyboard at all, in iStripper. The mouse - yes - to buy, but ...

As a management analyst (which I was, but am no longer), I would have recommended a re-vamping of the wording. Clarify the clarification. You seem to, at least partially, share my *****.

Which does not detract at all from your appreciated referral. If my interaction with iStripper - besides purchases - is token, then I see little point.

Regards and thanks again! I appreciate your not leaving me on my own in this thread. 😀

I am beginning to suspect that the answer not received to my question:

Another situation this week may arise from a French Public Holiday on 1st November. Will there be a show issue on that day?

would seem to be no. By the internet, it is after 10am in Paris - and no new show. Usually by now, there normally would be, so ...

It would have been largely expected that iStripper Paris would provide a short advice of this on their own - after all the public holiday would not be shared by international customers - probably not even known.

Certainly, while there have only been two members making exchanges here, there are quite a few `views' recorded. Hopefully those members, who looked in, were made aware of the holiday, by the visit - in the ***** of anything `official'.

My experience with other on-line providers - in all sorts of things - is advice on such things being always provided WITHOUT being asked.

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How about that - no sooner do I write the above and now I am downloading a SELENE show.

FOR ANYONE PASSING BY - A SELENE CARD IS ON THE NEW CARD CAROUSEL!!! 😶