playmobeach.com

[Richard]

... and there is strange things on this site.

For example, yesterday our site www.playmoboys.com were 9th and today 82th 

Something 's really strange isn't it ?

  All you need are a few "one star" votes and your position drops like a rock!

As I said in an earlier post, "... whoever set up Playmobeach certainly must have a lot of courage to create a site that has the potential to generate hurt feelings, induce anger and disappointment as well as invite a lot of criticism."

However, they are generating a lot of activity and interest (just count the number of votes posted).

Playmobeach doesn't provide a useful database like Heather's site, or an illustrated catalog of Playmobil sets like Bart's site, or a fun place to meet and discuss our hobby like Sylvia's site. So, what do they really contribute to the Playmobil community?

A bunch of links? Collectobil has most of those links. And, hosts them WITHOUT BIAS!

Does Playmobeach have any real value for any of us?

What draws us (like a magnet) to such a site?

Perhaps we are all like a bunch of moths looking for a warm light. But, everyone knows what that "warm light" does to the moths ...

[Sylvia]

The only time I bother to look at that site is when someone posts a reply to this topic and mentions something odd about the ratings.

I was happy to see that PlaymoFriends and JustForKl!cks had been included simply from a promotional point of view rather than hoping to get a high rating. And I expect many of the other site-owners on that page feel the same way.

I noticed that some fan-sites and forums are asking people to visit Playmobeach and vote for them, but I don't really see the point.

[socrates]

Perhaps we are all like a bunch of moths looking for a warm light. But, everyone knows what that "warm light" does to the moths ...

word! 
Richard, you are having a good point here.
Competition spoils it all. We are all spoiled.

But on the other hand, the idea of a voting system is good. that way you can see which pages are the popular ones and a page that is only a zombie with contents changed the last time three years ago will slowly drop lower.
obviously, there is almost not a single page that is of such a holy content that people are refusing to mark it down, just to get their own favourites up... too bad.
Give it a time. if people get used to it, they will start to vote more unbiased and then there will be a real order of favourites maybe spreading more significant from 2 to 4.
 

You have to see things positively. divide the number of votes given for each page by 2 and you have a rough estimate of the people that really prefer your page. so thats good news, or what?    

peace,
socrates

[D2]

We don't realy care about our position on this classment  because since the creation of playmobeach, there is a lot of surfers who come on playmoboys 

... we said just that is realy strange that we have more negativ votes than visits in one day  ... 

Like says Louis JOUVET (a old French actor you don't know) :

"Bizarre, bizarre, vous avez dit bizarre ?"