IMVu has banned my account, without evidence of any wrongdoing by me, from reviewing products for the 5 predits. I wrote in the forums about how unamed acquaintances use a bot to automate the reviewing and was higly critical of IMVU, its policies, the forums, many people that responded to my posts and the moderator. I was warned by a moderator and started sparring with her in email (calling her a IMVU bot, basically)as well as continuing my arguments in the forums. Then that I was told I was being banned from the forums reported for "bashing IMVU, giving away corporate secrets, baiting and trolling" Basically, the "giving away... secrets" was a lucky guess. I said IMVU doesn't monitor the reviewers for bad reviews like people seem to think, and will never hire staff to do that when they can get people like the forum moderators to do it for free. And I said the way they monitor it is to put up for review a blantantly obvious fake product that violates the TOS and then ban any account that voted for the phony product. For writing that I got permanently banned from the forums (even reading them , whoopee doo, like there is anything in them worth reading) suspended for 2 weeks and permanently banned from reviewing because I "admitted to fraudulently obtaining credits" in my forum posts. But of course I never admitted to anything like that, I just loosley described what others were doing (that I taught them, hehehe) Anyway IMVU arrested, tried convicted me on trumped up charges. I know they can do that because I've agreed when I joined that they 'can make any determination, take any action they see fit on my account inlcuding permanently banning it for whatever reason they wish or for no reason'. But I see in here about Mafia protection from abusive staff members and my rights as a human being in the pursuit of happiness have been violated without evidence and I know it is a long shot to ask if the Mafia can do anything about it, but I am asking to be sure. Besides, isn't my story wonderfully illuminating of this sorry organization called IMVU?

lol...everyone in the mafia hates IMVU and its policies but then we love using it at the same time.
Weird, but it also makes sense in a twisted sort of way...I love shopping and chatting on IMVU, but I also hate the way they separate the Guests from the VIPs.

rubrtoe wrote:

unamed acquaintances use a bot to automate the reviewing

cool...teach me!

rubrtoe wrote:

I see in here about Mafia protection from abusive staff members and my rights as a human being in the pursuit of happiness have been violated without evidence and I know it is a long shot to ask if the Mafia can do anything about it, but I am asking to be sure

Try PMing Don Von Free Credits

Well I hate the way they allow developers to sell faulty products we can't try on and then can't get our credits back as well as allowing AP developer to hide their IMVU email from non AP mebers and then say in the help section "first contact the developer if you have a problem with a product" I hate the way they never answer a help ticket. I loathe the way they don't allow any meaningful criticism in the forum. I hate the way we have to agree when singing up that they can do anything or nothing to us for any reason or no reason with no explanation. That's like agreeing to get figuratively raped and keep your mouth shut. I hate the way that the forums are absolutely worthlesss for anything. I finally came across real tutorials with actual useful information and all the things needed to develop clothing outside of IMVU. I hate the way IMVU exploits the builders of the company, the developers, by charging them to develop. IMVU should be paying developers, not charging them. Same goes for Microsoft and their vcolunteer beta testers. I hate the way there are all sorts of keyboard shortcuts that are usefull that they publish nowhere and there is no access to a list of them anywhere in the program and that I cannot go to the forum and find a list of shortcuts or answers to any of these issues, for that matter. I hate the the fact that there is a browser string you can enter before the number of any product (in the address window, replace everything but the product number) you are viewing in your browser from the catalog and thereby try on absolutely anything in the catalog, but IMVU keeps it secret. And here that is if it isn't posted elsewhere in the Mafia forum: imvu:PeerReview?mcg=0&pid=

Teach me 2!!!:D

okay, but more things I hate now: I hate the way the IMVU crashes more and more until it is practically unusable,. then you update and everything is fine again, for while. I hate the way the program "updates" never adress any of the longstanding issues I have with it. But most of all, I hate them for making "imporvments" to the client that take things away from us. The new dressing room sucks in so many ways. For one thing, I used to be able to try stuff on in some of my rooms and put furniture in the dressing room. What I dressed in in one room was what I had on when I went to the next room, but now it reverts back to whatever I was wearing at "home". I can't get used to that and it is not like real life what made the idots believe that is better anyway? I hate the fact thtat they took away the ability to do the update and still use the old client interface.I can't reemeber now all the little things they have removed that I liked, but I've written to "feedback" and listed them all.

Go to Cnet and find a little mouse stroke recording program called Ghost Mouse .http://download.cnet.com/Ghost-Mouse/30 ... ?tag=mncol . Install ghost mouse. Sign out of the client and start it up, but leave it at "logon" so the preview windows don't actually open while you are peer reviewing. open your browser to full screen and go to peer review http://www.imvu.com/peer_review/ . Start Ghost mouse and positoin it in front to the side on top of the peer reveiw page
click on the yellow tab of a product and click the box that says the product is okay and check at the bottom and make sure the big grey button that turns green is fully visible at the bottom of the page. If oit isn't eliminate some of your borweser bars (in "view") at the top of the page until it is. Click the ghost mouse rcord button and do a review, but taking care not to go fast. do a deliberate, slow click on each thing and hover for a second or two before moving the mouse. If you don't know how to do a review, it is self explanatory, you clcick the yellow box first, tick a little check box next and then hit the greeen or red huge button at the bottom when it comes up. So after record and yellow, tick a box and then wait for the green to come up. when it comes up, hesitate a second or two and then click it toward the top and right hand corner of the green box because a review of a sticker will move the box up and if you clcik it in the middle it will miss a sticker and stop running. After clicking green, go down to your start bar and clcik on ghost Mouse to bring it in front, hesitate, giving it a second or two for the page to fully load (for high speed internet) and click "play" on the recorder. Now watch it for a cycle making sure it is working properly before you walk away. keep checking it once in awhile if you can cuz sometimes stuff goes wrong and it stops. To shut it down temporarily or permantently, just click Ctrl+Alt+Delete. when you are through for the day, you must force shut down IMVu using crtl+alt+delete. so once you've borught upthe task manager, go to the second tab in it that shows you all the programs running, find IMVu and right clcik and make it shut down. If you don't, all those windows you didn't open will want to pop up and if you just did 500 reviews, that will take awhile for them all to clear out. This is cheating and if they catch you they will permanently ban you from peer review . They like to run phony products that blatantly violate the MCG or TOS or both and then ban everybody that votes for it. That is their only method of "monitoring" what you do in peer review. I have seen a person banned after 12 bad reviews and somebody still doing this after 120 bad reviews in one month. It is my theory that they run the phony product once a week at most on thursday and friday. It seems to me so far that the weekends and the beginning of the week is good for doing the automated peer reveiwing. When I was doing peer review by hand (spending hours to get like 250 credits), I saw the phony product several times and did not vote on it. I also voted on blatant ones both by hand and automated that didn't get me banned I guess because they were real and by a flaming idiot (who had several bad products up at the same time, the phony one will never be more than one) then a friend got snagged by the phony product and I knew what was up. Now they accuse me of "revealing company secrets", lol! This method is worth 2500 predits per day.

Hell yeah! I just got promoted from "nobody" to "gangster"! more cheats I've discovered coming up, namely how to get unlimited real credits 10k for $2 which is 50% less than the wholesale sellback price of $40 per 100k. Note that all of my methods require patience and /or work. the most work intensive one is my one for getting real credits.

OK........

General Free Credits wrote:

OK........

Well said man, well said. Nothing like posting in a thread full of paragraphs with one word, lulz.