About the camscore manipulation thing...
There is precedent. When they had the porn stars, they artificially inflated their scores to put them at the top of the front page. But, they didn't touch the scores later, and the porn stars mostly fell pretty damn fast when they had to rely on tips.
About the newer models getting awesome camscores right away... the new model tag works wonders! Also, the camscore is an average of the last sixty days. But, if you only worked one day, then it's just your average for that one day. Which means the first day, everything that happens counts more than any other day. Each day after that, the average is diluted a bit more, so it's not as wild of a ride. By the time you've worked 60 days, one good day just isn't as awesome any more.
So, new model has that new model tag and members who sort by experience get funneled into their rooms. Thus, they get more members, more chances to find a whale. Any big tips count far more for them than for a model whose camscore is already low, because it doesn't get diluted down by the poor camming hours from the previous 60 days.
Example: say a model gets 100 tokens an hour usually. For the past 60 days, her average was 100 tokens an hour. Let's say she usually works 8 hours, to make a total of 800 tokens a day. One day, she gets a very lucky hour. For that one hour, she gets 10000 tokens. The other seven hours, she gets her normal 100, giving her 10700 tokens for that day! But, that has to be averaged in with the other 59 days where she only made 100 an hour.
59 days * 8 hours / day = 472 hours * 100 tokens / hour= 47200 tokens + 10700 tokens = 85600 tokens for the month, instead of her usual 48000 tokens.
She worked the normal 60 days, 60 days * 8 hours / day = 480 hours
85600 tokens / 480 hours = 178.3333333 tokens per hour.
Now say a different model is on her first day. She works the same 8 hours, and has the same 10700 tokens at the end of it. but, it's her first day, so it's just 10700 / 8 = 1337.5 tokens per hour
178 tokens per hour for the established model, vs 1337 tokens per hour for the newbie, both of them with the exact same earnings in the exact same time frame.
This is why it's so hard to come back from an established horrible camscore. One hour in which she made one hundred times the amount she normally made didn't even double her average tokens per hour for the 60 days. Means her camscore will be about three quarters bigger than it was before (take her original camscore and multiply by 1.78 to find out what her new one will be.) If the model was below 1000, then that's not going to be a very big jump.
