It's my impression, from reading the monthly stats threads, that a lot of the BME's are Bronzes or below (what is that canister called, Ghost?). And more and more, the WME's are Diamonds. If this is true (and I realize that it's all anecdotal), it confirms what I've been thinking about a statement Kelly made about how the payouts to contributors keep increasing. He seemed to use that statement to justify that the RC targets were fair and that everybody was happy. But what he fails to understand, apparently, is that a statistic like that is cold comfort to the individual contributor whose income keeps dropping. It's just like when he said that we'd make 50% of our sales in the last quarter of the year. Again, that may be true for the company overall, but it doesn't take a math whiz to understand that it's not necessarily true for the individual.

You know what I'm saying? So do you think that the growth of the company is due to a lot of newbies, but at the expense of those of us near the top?

It's my impression, from reading the monthly stats threads, that a lot of the BME's are Bronzes or below (what is that canister called, Ghost?). And more and more, the WME's are Diamonds. If this is true (and I realize that it's all anecdotal), it confirms what I've been thinking about a statement Kelly made about how the payouts to contributors keep increasing. He seemed to use that statement to justify that the RC targets were fair and that everybody was happy. But what he fails to understand, apparently, is that a statistic like that is cold comfort to the individual contributor whose income keeps dropping. It's just like when he said that we'd make 50% of our sales in the last quarter of the year. Again, that may be true for the company overall, but it doesn't take a math whiz to understand that it's not necessarily true for the individual.

You know what I'm saying? So do you think that the growth of the company is due to a lot of newbies, but at the expense of those of us near the top?

Overall it looks like the golds and diamonds did ok with many of them having BMEs.

I do not think that they are gaming the best match to demote files from diamonds. I'm sure it would be easy to do but it would also be counter-productive if it tended to keep the best material away from buyers.

After a certain point you really can't expect growth every month. You only add maybe a couple of percent to your portfolio per month while newbies grow their percentages enormously. Your older files find they are competing against better, newer material so they effectively drop out of consideration. There are many reasons why it is hard to keep BME's rolling.

Overall it looks like the golds and diamonds did ok with many of them having BMEs.

You know what I'm saying? So do you think that the growth of the company is due to a lot of newbies, but at the expense of those of us near the top?

Quote from: traveler1116 on April 01, 2011, 12:34

Overall it looks like the golds and diamonds did ok with many of them having BMEs.

not this diamond.

Quote from: BaldricksTrousers on April 01, 2011, 12:50

After a certain point you really can't expect growth every month. You only add maybe a couple of percent to your portfolio per month while newbies grow their percentages enormously. Your older files find they are competing against better, newer material so they effectively drop out of consideration. There are many reasons why it is hard to keep BME's rolling.

True, but it's doubly hard when your royalty percentages have been cut.

I'm diamond and much to my surprise I had a BME at IS this month, about 20% more than any other month.

ETA: Have you ever thought about how strange it is when you get the same number of dls per day? Always at least one? Or whatever your numbers are? Seems there should be much wider swings and variance. That also leads me to believe there's something funny going on with the numbers. I'm no mathematician, but the probability of getting such consistent sales on a daily, weekly, monthly basis seems kinda off to me. Right? Or am I the only one who's thinking this?

Quote from: ShadySue on April 01, 2011, 13:41

Quote from: traveler1116 on April 01, 2011, 12:34

Overall it looks like the golds and diamonds did ok with many of them having BMEs.

That's not what I'm reading on that thread.

Just a quick look for me shows that these diamonds had BME: nicolesy, Alina555,  Studioxil (not sure BME but seems to imply it), LeggNet, ilbusca, RichVintage,
diamond saying very good: anouchka, sjlocke (I guess up 10% from last march is good), Talaj, adamkaz, Zemdega, nullplus (not very good but up from last march), inhauscreative
golds saying bme or very good month: dan_prat, AYImages, whitemay, ManuelVelasco, wdstock, MichaelUtech, Gannet77, antb, holgs, traveler1116

Looks split between very good months and very bad months with a few in the middle.  I'm guessing the ones that had the WMEs lost a lot from a % drop this year.