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It’s a lot easier for people who are reading your post when you quote the post. But it gets confusing if you just copy it and paste it in, as it seems like it’s part of what you wrote.

When you want to quote a post in a forum, look for a “quote” button or link at the top or bottom of the post you want to quote from. Click it. When the post appears, it will have the entire post you are quoting in it.

Like this one:

(Nothing will happen when you click the button.)

Then you can delete everything but what you are replying to.

First of all, “LVS” stands for Listing Value Score. It is a system that was designed to rank the value of a listing in order to determine its relative worth to Niteflirt. It was used for two purposes: to determine the order in which listings should appear, based on that perceived value, and to set a relative price that individuals should pay to feature.

Niteflirt created pages for us to help us understand our LVS. They never told us what our “scores” were. The blue boxes (on a scale of 1 to 10) were never meant to give either accuracy or precision to our understanding. There were many factors they used, and we were never told what all of them were or how they interacted.

Prior to the LVS, everyone paid the same to feature for a position, and “featured listings” were in a separate section on top of listings that were not bidding to feature, which were ranked by points. And prior to that, all listings were ranked by points earned, so the 6 girls with the greatest number of points were always on the front page.

Back then there were plenty of guys scouring the indexes looking for new girls, so not having any points did not mean you were not going to get any calls.

Now that is impossible. One of the unintended consequences of LVS featuring is that one of the few avenues for a flirt’s increasing her business has been increasing the number of accounts she runs. From the implementation of the lvs up until the transition, the number of listings on the system maybe doubled. But now there are hundreds of thousands of new listings. Really.

One problem with the LVS is that when the decision was made what to reward (ie, getting clicks and calls directly from the indexes), it was also being decided that other types of business were of no value to Niteflirt. So girls who attracted calls through their websites got no credit. We still get no credit for signing up new customers, and Niteflirt directs them to the front page to prevent the flirt who attracted them from getting the call they signed up in order to make. There is no commission Niteflirt has to pay for doing that. Flirts pay money to give traffic to Niteflirt in exchange for absolutely nothing. Why should they ever change it?

You got no credit for mail purchases unless the customer was already a customer whose first transaction with you was a qualifying transaction. And there were lots of times you’d be paying for clicks that were entirely unfair. We were paying for clicks to blocked customers, who were never going to call. A $1 click a day from a blocked customer is going to cost a girl $365 a year. For 1000 accounts, that would be $372K a year of essentially unearned income for Niteflirt. Is it any wonder they refused to stop that?

After the transition, the LVS that was current about a week prior became the standard listing sort for months. Girls who had been consistently high earners were there, as well as girls who just plain got lucky.

After a while, they started to implement changes. What we have now, imperfect as it is, has been in effect since early this year. They keep making changes to it, but the fact that there is an LVS in effect is not new this week or month.

A lot of girls are so eager to get featuring based on LVS scores back that they are willing to pay for lots of clicks that don’t lead to calls. There is nothing in the implementation of that feature that is going to fix anything that is broken on the site. Niteflirt recognizes that girls are willing to throw money away and it is working mightily to provide that service.

The LVS we have is not the same as it was before the transition. Prior to that, listings in an account were linked together. A big purchase on one would pull up the rest of the account. Now they are not. Only the listings that earned a lot of money will show high on the indexes.

Featuring will be based on the LVS we have now. Giving flirts the ability to feature will not revert anything to what it was before the transition. There are probably 5 times as many accounts active as there when we last had the ability to bid. That’s 5 times as many girls desperate to get calls. You do the numbers.

It’s just a matter of supply and demand. Calls coming into the site are fixed. The demand for those calls is ever-increasing.

Many girls are now using Photohostess to host their images for Niteflirt. Unfortunately, although photohostess is intended to host photos for girls on Niteflirt and provide them with links to use, it does not provide you with Niteflirt-safe image code or the information you need to fix the links to make them work but keep them from getting your listing suspended.

In my last entry I gave instructions on how to clean up Photohostess links by editing them. That is no longer necessary. I have created a page that you can enter your image url, which will give you a working image link to copy.

There is also a second form which will generate a working link. So you can use it to create HTML code for payment mail buttons, image links to your blog, or whatever you want.

There is a third form you can use to create text links.

You must enter naked links with no tags. There should be no spaces in your links. If you miscopy, it will create HTML code for you that just won’t work. If you are making payment mail buttons, copy the plain HTML link from the window that comes up after you create or edit your payment mail button, not the popup that links from the payment mail index and provides you with a gray payment mail button code.

These are standard links. They will work with any text or image anywhere you need an HTML image or link code on the web. They will not modify your image size for you.

Photohostess link generator

Photohostess is a photo hosting site intended for use with Niteflirt. The site requires photos uploaded to meet Niteflirt photo requirements. Therefore, it is rather odd that of all the links they give you to use your photos, none of them is Niteflirt-safe and ready. (Click to enlarge the image if it appears small to you.)

You have a choice here, but either way you have to do some editing.

You can take the hotlink for websites code, and remove the link (shown in red):

<a href="http://photohostess.com/etc…"><img src=”http://photohostess.com/etc…></a>

Or you can take the direct link and turn it into an image link by adding the parts in green here:

<img src="http://photohostess.com/etc…">

Also see How to host an image on Niteflirt.

I’m not going to take credit for figuring this out, as I saw someone doing it this morning.

Upload your photo as a profile thumbnail. When the listing is saved, click on the thumbnail to enlarge it in a popup. Right-click to copy the url. Put it in an excel file or text file somewhere safe, so you don’t lose the link. Now put it in a regular image tag:

<img src=”http://i.niteflirt.com…etc.”>

Even if you change the thumbnail, the image will stay hosted. Wasn’t that easy?

Put this code at the top of your listing, substituting a named color or a hex code color (also found on the same charts). You can pick an unnamed hex code color using a free color picker.

<body border=”0″style=”background-color:black;”>

Leave the spacing exactly as it is.

Unless you are using the old pre-transition callbuttons (which stopped working but then later became active again), your flirt-installed callbuttons do not change status when you change status. Code for those callbuttons is no longer distributed.

The link to callbutton code on your My Account page no longer is present. The link on our listings has not been coded, and if you click it the page ends up being refreshed. The only way to get current callbutton codes for your listings is to open a listing as if to edit it, submit twice without editing (unless you need to edit, of course), then click the link on the page that also has links to your account and help in getting started.

A callbutton whose code is obtained in this way while you were available is static code. It will always be set to available, though customers cannot complete a call by clicking it when you are unavailable. It will not send mail when you are Away.

I got this button while I was available:

   <a href=”http://beta.niteflirt.com/calls/new?listing_id=5734291″ title=”Yes – Taking Calls”><img alt=”D5_cb-call-now-136x40_v5″ border=”0″ height=”40″ src=”http://beta.niteflirt.com/niteflirt/images/D5_cb-call-now-136x40_V5.gif” width=”136″ /></a>

A callbutton whose code was obtained while you were away is also static code. It is supposed to send mail, and cannot change to “taking calls”. But the server is left off the code, so it refers back to your own server, and actually can never do anything if you place it anywhere but on your Niteflirt page. And why would you need to do that? There already is a ‘send mail’ option on your pages.

I got this code while I was set to ‘Away’:

<a href=”/messages/compose?message%5Blisting_id%5D=5734291&message%5Brecipients_list%5D=Principal+Angela+Quattrano”><img alt=”D5_cb-mail-away-136x40_v4″ border=”0″ height=”40″ src=”http://beta.niteflirt.com/niteflirt/images/D5_cb-mail-away-136x40_V4.gif” width=”136″ /></a>

If someone were to try to click it to send me mail, the address it would try to send mail to is http://help4flirts.com/messages/compose?message%5Blisting_id%5D=5734291&message%5Brecipients_list%5D=Principal+Angela+Quattrano, which is definitely not a real email address.

With the pre-transition codes, both the image and your availability are controlled by the Niteflirt server, not by the button. So the image changes when your availability changes, as does what happens when the button is clicked.

This pre-transition callbutton displays my correct availability status:

<a href='http://www.niteflirt.com/calls/PT_interimcall.asp?sid=XXXXXXX'><img border=0 src='http://www.niteflirt.com/calls/callimage.asp?sid=XXXXXXX&ImageType=1'></a>

I have changed the listing SID number to a series of x’s. Just substitute your listing SID number (found in the url of your listing).

First, you need to understand the difference between profile thumbnails and photos within the listing. If you are getting a message that the filesize, picture size, or filetype is wrong, then you are talking about the thumbnails that link from the category indexes to your listing.

You upload a profile thumbnail through the link at the bottom of your listing edit window that has a little box where your picture will be displayed when you get it uploaded.

IE simply doesn’t work for most girls.

Some girls have problems with different browsers. I was able to do this with Firefox, Opera, and K-Meleon. Other girls have found that only Google Chrome will do it. Try downloading that.

The regular photo uploader has not been installed yet since the transition. We do not have an eta on that. You will have to find an image host to upload them to. Some people use photohostess, which does not have private accounts. Some girls complain about downtime.

Most photo hosts are not adult-friendly. They will delete your account and you will lose your pictures in a heartbeat.

I think there are adult-friendly paid photo hosts.

If you do find some kind of photo hosting situation, better back up your photos. Who knows what could happen to your account? The site could shut down leaving you with no photos and no options.

Consider buying a domain and a regular hosting account. It is actually really straightforward to create a directory to host your own pics, videos, recordings, or whatever once you get the hang of it. You can also host your own blog or website.

I have dreamhost and I am satisfied with the service they give me. Email me if you want a discount code for them.

Standard HTML image code is:
<img src=”http://imageurl”>

Background image code:
<body background=”http://imageurl”>
which you would put at the very top of your listing edit window.

There’s been quite a discussion in the forums about the way individual listing availability control should be designed by Niteflirt, and I won’t get into that here. There still seems to be a lot of confusion about how it currently works, and that’s what I would like to clear up.

If you’re still trying to use the listing availability links as before and it’s not working for you, you are fighting the new system. If you are finding it does all kinds of unpredictable things, that’s because they changed it without notifying us or changing the help file. It operates in a completely different manner. It works, but it’s like a new feature which is not equivalent to the old feature it replaced.

The old system was designed to permit someone to change the status of one listing. Either from within your listing or from inside your Listing Details page you could click on the availability status of that one listing, go to another window, and change it. If you only wanted one odd listing on or off on an occasional basis, it worked great with that.

So, things the old system was good at:

• Turning on only one listing;
• Turning off only one listing.

Things it was not so good at:

• Managing multiple listings, rather than just one with a different status – could take a while to change all the ones that needed changing;
• Managing listings in multiple accounts – could take a whole lot of time.

What it couldn’t do at all:

• Save your chosen settings for next time. They were gone every time you changed your account status.

Listing availability is now focused on managing multiple listings and saving your settings, rather than having one listing different from the others.

Changing the availability of a listing within the listing itself or inside your Listing Details page now is changing the preset on it. Listings that are set to Away on the Listing Details page will not go on when the account is turned on. Listings that are set to Available on the Listing Details page will turn on when your account is turned on.

There is no need to make your listings show as Away on the Listing Details page when your master Availability is set to Away.

The settings will stay with your account until the next time you go in there and change them.

First, you have to know how to use a stylesheet to format an HTML page in at least a general way. I can’t get into that here.

Put the link at the top of your listing edit textarea.
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
href="http://stylesheeturl">

The reason why the <h1> tag doesn’t work anymore is because Niteflirt has commandeered it in its stylesheet and assigned it to be gray 7 pixel. The only way to reassign it in a stylesheet is to take advantage of the fact that your entire listing is within a table cell with the class of “user”. The best way to change that default is to take advantage of that class:

.user h1 {
    color:black;
    font-weight:bold;
    size: 1.5em;
    font-family:georgia,garamond;
    text-align: center;
}

This will produce a heading that is big, black, bold, centered, and has the font I have chosen.

You really need to work with the “user” class, your own classes, or your own id’s within your listing, or you can seriously break the page by changing global defaults.