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gingerstripper
02-10-2014, 07:00 PM
dude today was troll day.
SpaceyLaceyButterfacey
02-10-2014, 08:37 PM
indeed it was, i think i blocked more people than I had privates with. i had a better night on the website i splitcam with, and that never happens.
dude today was troll day.
oops sorry about the double post, totally didnt realize that
SpaceyLaceyButterfacey
02-10-2014, 08:55 PM
So I have seen this once or twice in popular girls' chats, but this is the first night they came into my chat. This really grinds my gears :bomb:They came in 3 or 4 times posting this, and they leave so quickly, I don't have a chance to ban them. After a while, it became a game to sit there and wait to ban them, carefully keeping my mouse cursor right where I would expect their name to show up in my list. But no, it had to be every time I got distracted that they would come in. Sent this to SM. I asked my guys in there chatting with me if they saw it and they said no, thank god. I think ill go sign up and splitcam with that site to cover all my bases :rotfl:
Magical_Hoohah
02-10-2014, 09:00 PM
^^ I got spammed by them for the first time today, too! It's weird though, cause I was in Classic Chat, so whats the point?
TheBrownFox
02-10-2014, 09:38 PM
Yeah, I've been seeing that ChatNews person in A LOT of SM rooms. I'm not a model on there, but seeing that was even pissing me off.
Thymian
02-10-2014, 09:48 PM
^^ I got spammed by them for the first time today, too! It's weird though, cause I was in Classic Chat, so whats the point?
People who are not logged in can still read it in Classic Chat. Gotta say, as much as I hate them it's pretty genius because I'm sure there's exponentially more people perving than logged in and it's easy for them to dart off somewhere else. Not defending it, tho. To me they are like stinkbugs, their little flashing emoticons stinking up the place. Any other gals in the South will know what I mean. God at this point when a regular uses that hearts symbol it spikes my blood pressure!
One thing I do when they appear bump it off my posting lots of my presaved messages. It's a small sense of victory if I can't catch them to ban to at least let their message stay visible for as short a time as possible. Blergh.
Using the encoder vs. just using widescreen HD isn't making any difference whatsoever in my traffic... is this just me? Everyone says to use the encoder but I seriously don't see any difference in traffic or income.
Blovely
02-11-2014, 02:26 AM
Several pages back in the thread, ladies were getting weird sounds during exclusive, as though other people were coming in and out. Did anyone ever figure out what is causing that (sorry if it's there and I missed it)?
A bit ago, the same thing started happening to me during an exclusive. It sounded like people were coming into paid chat, but there were no leaving noises, and no one appeared to be there. It was really making me nervous because I thought maybe I was in private by accident, or worse, in free chat. When I opened up the "guest chat" window, people were in my free chat, even though it normally kicks everyone out of free during exclusive. Then, SM kicked me off before my exclusive ended. I immediately checked my earnings, and they weren't there, which really freaked me out. They did show up after about 15 minutes, and I did get paid for exclusive, so that's good.
Obviously, this is just one of many glitches, and probably nothing to worry about. But is it possible/likely that someone other than my custie (and SM, of course) was able to watch my show? If so, hopefully they hate SPH and their cock withered and died of shame.
I've heard the sound as if people were trying to come into exclusive a few times but I didn't get kicked out of exclusive nor did I check to see if people were still in freechat. No one appeared and no other glitches happened so I was like "ummm ok whatever".
I dunna if this is a glitch but I've been in a premium a few times and got put into exclusive because someone was trying to go exclusive. I didn't know that was possible.
Laptop Vs Desktop.....lol. Well here's another point for Desktops. I use a gaming desktop as well. The only glitch I've experienced so far was google chrome crashing on me and that was a chrome issue not SM. Besides that I haven't experienced any glitches beside the one above.
Marina Starr
02-11-2014, 06:45 AM
I see no difference either. I don't use the Encoder on days that I just don't give a fuck! Pretty funny but some of my highest paid days are without the Encoder.
Using the encoder vs. just using widescreen HD isn't making any difference whatsoever in my traffic... is this just me? Everyone says to use the encoder but I seriously don't see any difference in traffic or income.
Magical_Hoohah
02-11-2014, 10:57 AM
People who are not logged in can still read it in Classic Chat.
:thinking: Ooooh. That explains quite a lot, actually. Thanks!
hf487
02-11-2014, 11:27 AM
I get that Spam too....... Urgh... i just gotta ignore it now there too f*ing quick!
SoloDesire
02-11-2014, 11:40 AM
I've gotten two of the spammers blocked and reported. Sometimes they just aren't quick enough! Mwhahahahaha!!
Glamourmilf
02-11-2014, 11:40 AM
Regarding the glitch others above had mentioned^^^, ...It happened to me today. Had a guy take me premium block, yet heard that noise of other people entering, but never saw their names in my private.
I didn't get nude, because I couldn't tell if my chat room could see me, so I didn't want to risk it.
Luckily it was a fetish that didn't require nudity on my part, but,,, does anyone know if peeps in free section can see into the prvt. when that happens?
I did get paid from the block, and from 1 other person who decide to stay for a while, so idk
Thanks
Rosemary Rabbit
02-11-2014, 11:40 AM
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Incantatious
02-11-2014, 12:10 PM
I had a site spamming some other site in my room last night too! So incredibly annoying. It spammed, but I couldn't find the username to ban it, so it just kept doing it. Grrr! I hope SM actually does something about it and it doesn't turn into spam city. O_O
kittykrane
02-11-2014, 12:14 PM
I got two messages today today..one regarding the improved CPS (phone) and another saying "Congratulations! You have met the necessary criteria to charge higher per minute chat rates!"...(umm...what criteria?) . Just me with that one or everyone is able to raise their rates now? I can go as high as $14.99....I emailed them 3-4 weeks ago to get my rates raised as high as 9.99 and have had that rate for that long, so I don't know if this is related or not? If I work more nights i'm raising my rate to 5.99/7.99 as an incentive to get on..It's really hard to get more than 5.99 with the day crowd.
Renton
02-11-2014, 12:21 PM
I got disconnected twice in less than 2 hours today, during privates and I'm sick of it ugh...
kittykrane
02-11-2014, 12:27 PM
^ I had an exclusive yesterday..there was a delay when he popped in and then during the entire show I heard the bell like when guys are popping in and out of private, but i was in exclusive..I sure hope other guys couldn't see for free..that bugs me.
Glamourmilf
02-11-2014, 12:46 PM
^^ I wonder if it's even worth e-mailing sm, since I didn't get my check yet. I feel like i'm working for free at this point, and the wind is out of my sails. Blah!!
SpaceyLaceyButterfacey
02-11-2014, 12:52 PM
I got two messages today today..one regarding the improved CPS (phone) and another saying "Congratulations! You have met the necessary criteria to charge higher per minute chat rates!"...(umm...what criteria?) . Just me with that one or everyone is able to raise their rates now? I can go as high as $14.99....I emailed them 3 weeks ago to get my rates raised as high as 9.99...I have not charged that much yet...but if I work more nights i'm raising my rate to 5.99/7.99 as an incentive to get on..It's really hard to get more than 5.99 with the day crowd.
I got that email too. mine went from a 5.99 cap to 7.99. I was also wondering by what criteria. but hey im not complaining.
xxtinamariexx
02-11-2014, 12:55 PM
Regarding the glitch others above had mentioned^^^, ...It happened to me today. Had a guy take me premium block, yet heard that noise of other people entering, but never saw their names in my private.
I didn't get nude, because I couldn't tell if my chat room could see me, so I didn't want to risk it.
Luckily it was a fetish that didn't require nudity on my part, but,,, does anyone know if peeps in free section can see into the prvt. when that happens?
I did get paid from the block, and from 1 other person who decide to stay for a while, so idk
Thanks
OK I think I figured out the in and out noise in exclusive. I think it's guys on ipads..
I did ask 2 of the guys today, and they were both on them. So maybe something with them?
kittykrane
02-11-2014, 12:56 PM
I got that email too. mine went from a 5.99 cap to 7.99. I was also wondering by what criteria. but hey im not complaining.
Maybe they are trying to get more gals to raise their rates so they are raising the limits automatically based on ...who knows?
Cam_Model_Jess
02-11-2014, 01:56 PM
OK I think I figured out the in and out noise in exclusive. I think it's guys on ipads..
I did ask 2 of the guys today, and they were both on them. So maybe something with them?
Yes... I said that back in the summer time. I mean, I said it in regards to the guys logging out without logging in (to regular private) & the associated noises, but thought it was obviously the same issue. Yes, it's the iphone and ipad users. The problem has simply grown instead of getting better.
kortneykay
02-11-2014, 05:30 PM
^ I had an exclusive yesterday..there was a delay when he popped in and then during the entire show I heard the bell like when guys are popping in and out of private, but i was in exclusive..I sure hope other guys couldn't see for free..that bugs me. This happened to me all last week. My concern is that SM now has this new "look" going on and one of two things are happening:
1. SM is obviously having technical difficulties.
2. SM is allowing guys to come in during EXL, and is charging them a "voyeur" fee, unbeknownst to us, (aside from the chiming) and we aren't being compensated for it.
Ohhh conspiracies right? Yeah, except as much as I like SM, I don't trust them for shit.
I've seen both this static image below, and the old status image which says (I'm in a pvt right now) I'm not entirely sure the one below has been posted while we're in PVT only. I'm pretty sure this static image pops up no matter if you're in an EXL or a PVT. This may explain why we keep hearing guys come in and out of EXL as if they were entering and leaving a PVT. If so, please see #2.
http://i60.tinypic.com/2nrpjis.jpg
kortneykay
02-11-2014, 05:41 PM
Since it's the Iphone/Ipad users, I may be indeed very wrong...hehe.
~Carmen~
02-11-2014, 05:44 PM
Kortney, you made me wonder so I just checked it out with my customer account. No peeks allowed in exclusive. It still shows as "Unavailable because this model is in an exclusive session".
GlamourRouge
02-11-2014, 05:53 PM
What does the new and improved phone feature do? What did they do differently?
kittykrane
02-11-2014, 05:54 PM
^^ i only had problems with one exclusive where I could hear the chime going off repeatedly..maybe it got stuck? The rest of my exclusives were as normal though.
GlamourRouge
02-11-2014, 05:55 PM
This happened to me all last week. My concern is that SM now has this new "look" going on and one of two things are happening:
1. SM is obviously having technical difficulties.
2. SM is allowing guys to come in during EXL, and is charging them a "voyeur" fee, unbeknownst to us, (aside from the chiming) and we aren't being compensated for it.
Ohhh conspiracies right? Yeah, except as much as I like SM, I don't trust them for shit.
I've seen both this static image below, and the old status image which says (I'm in a pvt right now) I'm not entirely sure the one below has been posted while we're in PVT only. I'm pretty sure this static image pops up no matter if you're in an EXL or a PVT. This may explain why we keep hearing guys come in and out of EXL as if they were entering and leaving a PVT. If so, please see #2.
I wish they would allow voyeur for exclusives! I would make a killing off that.
However, I suspect the sound you are hearing are people who own studios.
GlamourRouge
02-11-2014, 05:59 PM
I got two messages today today..one regarding the improved CPS (phone) and another saying "Congratulations! You have met the necessary criteria to charge higher per minute chat rates!"...(umm...what criteria?) . Just me with that one or everyone is able to raise their rates now? I can go as high as $14.99....I emailed them 3-4 weeks ago to get my rates raised as high as 9.99 and have had that rate for that long, so I don't know if this is related or not? If I work more nights i'm raising my rate to 5.99/7.99 as an incentive to get on..It's really hard to get more than 5.99 with the day crowd.
They actually go up to $19.99 now as of like December. Maybe they are taking into consideration what models ask for now, because like a year ago I emailed and asked for $19.99 rates and they said they don't offer it that high. Then lo-and-behold, in December they upped it to $19.99.
temptingmodel
02-11-2014, 06:02 PM
I swear I have heard of girls doing voyeur in private. ppm? Am I wrong or is just a select few.
I wish they would allow voyeur for exclusives! I would make a killing off that.
However, I suspect the sound you are hearing are people who own studios.
They come in silence, never to be heard. :(
GlamourRouge
02-11-2014, 06:05 PM
I swear I have heard of girls doing voyeur in private. ppm? Am I wrong or is just a select few.
They come in silence, never to be heard. :(
Private mode is kind of voyeur already because it is hard to accommodate all these random requests. Most girls do it first-come-first-serve I think. Luckily most of the custys I attract all want the same thing or what they each want works well with everyone in the room.
RubyRapture
02-11-2014, 06:26 PM
I've been having a lot of problems with SM lately. I've also been hearing that chime go off repeatedly in exclusive. I've also been taken into exclusive, but had it look like premium, where guys can still sit in my chat room. It's super confusing. I'll also get the exclusive chime in free chat with no notification and it dumps me out of paid at least once an hour. I never used to have these kinds of problems. SM really needs to get their shit together. I'm losing money because of all of this. :(
temptingmodel
02-11-2014, 06:38 PM
ok, not private as in premium. Lets see if I can word this properly
These girls go into private never to come out of private. Its not a GS.
Its almost like no free chat, kinda like ifriends where at ifriends we have a mask and they must enter to see , making it so the model is only chatting w paying members.
ON SM it reads this performer is performing live. The performer will have up "voyeur" "folding clothes" little things like that. When I click to see how much is being charged, such as a gs, instead it will have the premium rate.
Private mode is kind of voyeur already because it is hard to accommodate all these random requests. Most girls do it first-come-first-serve I think. Luckily most of the custys I attract all want the same thing or what they each want works well with everyone in the room.
GlamourRouge
02-11-2014, 07:27 PM
These girls go into private never to come out of private. Its not a GS.
That is called the "external show button" and you can get it if you have a website you can stream your feed to. Its permanent private mode regardless if you have customers in there or not. You have to give SM your website to verify that you have a paysite, otherwise they won't give it to you.
TheBrownFox
02-11-2014, 07:30 PM
I'm not a SM model, but I was just curious about something. When a model says in her room topic that she'll show pussy for 20 Gold, do you think she's just referring to camel toe with the panties? Or is she actually gonna show pussy? I wonder if she's aware of the rules, or if she just doesn't care. That's too bad...she's gorgeous.
temptingmodel
02-11-2014, 07:32 PM
and of course I left that question out if it was for models w sites. etc.
That is called the "external show button" and you can get it if you have a website you can stream your feed to. Its permanent private mode regardless if you have customers in there or not. You have to give SM your website to verify that you have a paysite, otherwise they won't give it to you.
Snowy0Star
02-11-2014, 07:33 PM
I'm not a SM model, but I was just curious about something. When a model says in her room topic that she'll show pussy for 20 Gold, do you think she's just referring to camel toe with the panties? Or is she actually gonna show pussy? I wonder if she's aware of the rules, or if she just doesn't care. That's too bad...she's gorgeous.
probably full view of the pink and she just doesn't care
Snowy0Star
02-11-2014, 07:40 PM
That is called the "external show button" and you can get it if you have a website you can stream your feed to. Its permanent private mode regardless if you have customers in there or not. You have to give SM your website to verify that you have a paysite, otherwise they won't give it to you.
so how does that work exactly she can just be in there the whole time if she wants to avoid free chat? how is that controlled ? does she have an external chat button on her model interface on sm or is she using a special interface on her site ?
GlamourRouge
02-11-2014, 08:33 PM
so how does that work exactly she can just be in there the whole time if she wants to avoid free chat? how is that controlled ? does she have an external chat button on her model interface on sm or is she using a special interface on her site ?
Its just a button
PrincessLavender
02-11-2014, 08:37 PM
I was getting the "enter" sound over and over in exclusive for a few days. One time it kept saying the customer that was in exclusive kept logging on. Every 30 - 45 seconds it would say "XXX has logged on". Haven't heard it yet today so hopefully it's fixed.
Marina Starr
02-11-2014, 09:48 PM
I went over my goal but what is up with SM tonight? The weirdest fucking traffic. Thank the Lord for regulars and long privates!
http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t94/tsmelania/tumblr_inline_myy30ayFYf1qcq31a_zps12ea960f.gif (http://s158.photobucket.com/user/tsmelania/media/tumblr_inline_myy30ayFYf1qcq31a_zps12ea960f.gif.ht ml)
SadieTaylor
02-11-2014, 10:53 PM
Ugh, I thought they made the phone feature "even better?" It kept disconnecting on me tonight, NOT cool!
Thymian
02-11-2014, 11:10 PM
Well, I did wonder if the phone feature had changed because the last week or so there has been muzak while I wait for it to connect to the caller. Not sure if this is part of the new provider or not but at first it weirded me out but now I find it strangely comforting, like at least the call has not dropped. . . yet. And the phone feature has seemed to be much more stable lately, so there's that.
GlamourRouge
02-12-2014, 01:36 AM
Well, I did wonder if the phone feature had changed because the last week or so there has been muzak while I wait for it to connect to the caller. Not sure if this is part of the new provider or not but at first it weirded me out but now I find it strangely comforting, like at least the call has not dropped. . . yet. And the phone feature has seemed to be much more stable lately, so there's that.
I'm wondering if maybe they switched providers or something.
Blovely
02-12-2014, 01:59 AM
I want to try $14.99-$19.99 a minute just for shits and giggles.
Bobo12345
02-12-2014, 04:34 AM
I still don't understant this site coz well I show up on the first page and I'm 5stars and use encoder and so on,but can't raise my rates .On my first month I was at 1 99 and then I just went at 2 49 but it was ,well just fucking dead for like a week ,so I just went back at 1 99 and innow time it just started work again.JUst don't get it,it was't a big change and still .....also I ve seen girls that are haveing like 50 and up guests in their rooms but me ,well like the higgest number was hmmm 20+ ....I so wanna makd it work:(
h0ttie
02-12-2014, 05:09 AM
I was getting the "enter" sound over and over in exclusive for a few days. One time it kept saying the customer that was in exclusive kept logging on. Every 30 - 45 seconds it would say "XXX has logged on". Haven't heard it yet today so hopefully it's fixed.
that happened to me tooooo, but it didnt say xxx has logged on, it would just make the sounds in an excl it was so weird
Snowy0Star
02-12-2014, 05:14 AM
I still don't understant this site coz well I show up on the first page and I'm 5stars and use encoder and so on,but can't raise my rates .On my first month I was at 1 99 and then I just went at 2 49 but it was ,well just fucking dead for like a week ,so I just went back at 1 99 and innow time it just started work again.JUst don't get it,it was't a big change and still .....also I ve seen girls that are haveing like 50 and up guests in their rooms but me ,well like the higgest number was hmmm 20+ ....I so wanna makd it work:(
i think u mentioned this in the gen chat once that anytime u go higher then 1.99 u stop getting shows. so heres some things that could possibly be the reason
1) ur hustle needs improvement (it may or may not i dunno)
2) ur comp needs upgrades and ur stream quality is somewhat capped and its best isn't good enuf for streammate
3) ur internet needs to raised - ur bandwidth plays a role in the stream quality as well. A good cam feed requires more data so you may need to contact ur ISP to talk about a better speed package
4) ur going on at the wrong times - i think u mentioned in gen chat u have kids and can only work certain hours?
if im right about 4 and u figure out its the times ur going on and it cant jive with ur personal life maybe try a different site? or a different adult industry avenue. you can make clips and extra lunch money has a text to talk system u can look into theres pso work on niteflirt and indie camming thru skype with cam model directory. maybe start off trying different sites by going on token sites for a bit instead of going on sm ?
if its 2 or 3 its because if ur stream isn't up to snuff then 1.99 a min is about all they are willing to pay for a subpar stream anything higher and its hard to get shows. so what i suggest is running a speed test from speedtest.net and report back with the results from the site. what processor windows version and how much ram does ur comp have?
it just takes time and patience too sometimes. but to give u an example im on an i7 with 4 gigs of ram and im 2.49 right now when i started this go round at 1.50 (ive been having spats with sm for the past year where i go on and off every few months) i raised them from 1.50 to 1.99 then 2.24 and 2.49 but i know for a fact that i need more ram because ive had other camgirls watch me and i watch my own feed and the frame freezes up for a few seconds then restarts or it gets choppy and i have a good net like 100 down and 30 up speed. id like to raise my rates to but i dunno if i should because it does that . i know when i go from having 3-4 guys in my room actively talking and my room clears out in the blink of an eye or they all leave aside from the guy who is talking and has no money and is staying because he doesn't give a fuck because im giving him free attention.
so if i can go above 1.99 with known tech/stream issues u can too .
Snowy0Star
02-12-2014, 05:22 AM
that happened to me tooooo, but it didnt say xxx has logged on, it would just make the sounds in an excl it was so weird
i heard the dinging too in the last exclusive i got before i logged off about an hour and half ago. but i think i figured it out i think its a glitch in the sound notifications. i think the reason it dings is because its making the wrong sound for ppl coming into free chat and its making the dinging like they are coming into pvt.
if u can , try and test it the next time the error happens. if u hear it in ur rooms start counting the number of times u hear it and how many ppl came into ur free chat.
if im understanding currently whats happening to all of us when this glitch happens is in exclusive ppl are still allowed to go into free chat and were hearing dings like ppl are coming into ur shows but no is there because thats what happened to me just now. my theory makes sense if that's the case .