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Vlodina
06-22-2014, 02:13 PM
Woohoo, my hours on SM are now at 80 on the ranking page, and it's "good". :-D
BritishBecky
06-22-2014, 02:27 PM
Woohoo, my hours on SM are now at 80 on the ranking page, and it's "good". :-D
oh wow!!
temptingmodel
06-22-2014, 03:46 PM
I'm getting there with you, Im at 73 .. in ONE MONTH! Some ppl work 70 hours in one week, vanilla gigs.. barf.
:D If I'm not camming on SM, I am not running cams other places, this is my true online
I think its funny how we go from worrying about "rates" to time online. More time, more money? It definitely can be more money as long as we stay happy.
When I'm a TRUE " GO FUCK YOURSELF" mood, money goes away.
Usually this comes from marathon camming
No one should ever cam in this mood but sometimes we have to do what we have to do
Woohoo, my hours on SM are now at 80 on the ranking page, and it's "good". :-D
SarahTime
06-22-2014, 04:05 PM
I'm getting there with you, Im at 73 .. in ONE MONTH! Some ppl work 70 hours in one week, vanilla gigs.. barf.
:D If I'm not camming on SM, I am not running cams other places, this is my true online
I think its funny how we go from worrying about "rates" to time online. More time, more money? It definitely can be more money as long as we stay happy.
When I'm a TRUE " GO FUCK YOURSELF" mood, money goes away.
Usually this comes from marathon camming
No one should ever cam in this mood but sometimes we have to do what we have to do
I'm only at 41 lol I WILL get up to the "good/excellent" range! :)
MissNicole2U
06-22-2014, 09:51 PM
Yay for SM support! Got a guy in my room last night doing the usual "can i see ur ass, BB?" crap and when I rejected his request, he named dropped another model and left quickly. I email support 5 mins later and they emailed me back today saying the customer is banned from the site permanently..
woot woot one less dick to deal with! until he makes a new account, I guess :-/
Nocturnelle
06-22-2014, 11:06 PM
Wait so why did he get banned? He just talked about another model? I'm lost..
MissNicole2U
06-23-2014, 12:14 AM
^^ It wasn't just a friendly "go check her out, she's cute".. it was more like "take a lesson from ________ (her name deliberately in all caps) she knows how to turn a man on"
maybe not every girl would be offended, I honestly could care less about who she is, but to me it seemed like it was either the model herself trolling other girls or the model's bf or something trying to get her some free (and rude) promotion. A big no-no in my room.. good news is, I'm pretty sure it didn't diminish my earnings for the night. :-)
Good! That's why we need to be able to ban after dickbags leave.
Rosemary Rabbit
06-23-2014, 07:08 AM
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MissQuirk
06-23-2014, 12:37 PM
Hmm
3 privates all under 5 mins without the person says goodbye alll the shows were going well.
I think they're being booted. Because that's strange. Anyone else dealing with this?
SoloDesire
06-23-2014, 12:42 PM
It's been strange for me today as well. You're lucky that you're even getting privates lol...I've had one in two hours! I've had a lot of guys start talking in free chat and then suddenly leave. I know that's normal for SM, but it's been more than usual and at odd times. Not sure if there's an issue or they're all just being dicks.
i've been having a lot of short privates too.. when i check how long the session was its a string of dudes with all the exact same time in private. i was wondering this too.
also i have a question. i had a guy buy a 15 minute block session in private he stayed about 8 minutes and then left and never came back. i had to go right after that and signed off ..will i still get the full amount?
Issabelle
06-23-2014, 02:44 PM
^^ Yes you will. You can't end the block session until the pre-paid time has passed (SM will give you a warning and countdown in the show to follow when it's nearly over), but if he ends it early you keep all the $$$. If you get booted off, you have 2-4 hours (check the Preformer Manual, as I can't remember) to get back on and finish the show.
temptingmodel
06-23-2014, 02:53 PM
^^ It wasn't just a friendly "go check her out, she's cute".. it was more like "take a lesson from ________ (her name deliberately in all caps) she knows how to turn a man on"
maybe not every girl would be offended, I honestly could care less about who she is, but to me it seemed like it was either the model herself trolling other girls or the model's bf or something trying to get her some free (and rude) promotion. A big no-no in my room.. good news is, I'm pretty sure it didn't diminish my earnings for the night. :-)
I get offended and go tothe models room with my name in all caps only IF I KNOW for a fact ( I watched a hubby go room to room and when he said her name, i clicked on it and he was on the side trolling models, saying "babe, you will get them all" This guy was pimping his wifes cam name in my room, wrong move.
Once I had a "member" say to me that I thought i was better than xyz model? A model I consider to be on a friendly model to model deal.
HOW can I be better or how can she be be better than me when we have two different shows?
She does females and splits income
I perform solo, refuse to split any money
she is tall and skinny , Im short and fat
PLUS I KNOW HER so go away :D
Noone is better all of us offer different
I hate those trolls and if it is model, lets just hope it was a trolling member
MissNicole2U
06-23-2014, 03:49 PM
Yeah, it came off as really desperate actually. Like if she "knows how to turn a man on" then why the fck must you come in my room to try to promote her?
Guess it's just a dog eat dog camming world :-P
PlayfulDesire
06-23-2014, 04:05 PM
I was on for 4 hours today. I made what I normally do in two. :/
Alylondon
06-23-2014, 07:41 PM
Does anyone work from 7am- 12pm pst? or around that time How is it? I'm thinking about getting my hours done all in 1 stretch instead of logging out and coming back in the evening.
temptingmodel
06-23-2014, 07:49 PM
yes and it depends... I do good for the most part.
Alylondon
06-23-2014, 09:51 PM
I'm going to give it a go for a while and see what happens
temptingmodel
06-23-2014, 09:54 PM
I always just get on when I can and that happens to ALWAYS be one of my times to jump on.
KarmaComa
06-23-2014, 09:56 PM
I don't take kindly to custies talking about other models in my room, good or bad because while I do believe I am engaging, guys might become curious and go check out that room which means their boners/money may surf their way elsewhere. 90% of the time I get the vibe I am being baited to talk shit (I won't ever take that bait, we need to build one another up for fuck's sake) or it is some desperate model trying to poach my traffic. I'm even wary about other models visiting my room if they aren't hiding their chat. I have cam idols, friends and girls that do things I won't that I happily promote but customers name dropping throws me off and I feel like so much is dirty hustling from a model herself/her minions.
Alylondon
06-24-2014, 08:01 AM
Anyone else's room traffic dead this morning? or is it just me?
sammii
06-24-2014, 08:11 AM
I get offended and go tothe models room with my name in all caps only IF I KNOW for a fact ( I watched a hubby go room to room and when he said her name, i clicked on it and he was on the side trolling models, saying "babe, you will get them all" This guy was pimping his wifes cam name in my room, wrong move.
Once I had a "member" say to me that I thought i was better than xyz model? A model I consider to be on a friendly model to model deal.
HOW can I be better or how can she be be better than me when we have two different shows?
She does females and splits income
I perform solo, refuse to split any money
she is tall and skinny , Im short and fat
PLUS I KNOW HER so go away :D
Noone is better all of us offer different
I hate those trolls and if it is model, lets just hope it was a trolling member
A troll went into my room with my exact SW name awhile ago ... I was like "great, now people from SW think I'm trolling them." :/ I think that happened to h0ttie too.
And yeah "your better than x model" has happened to me too. Well buy a show then ... I'm not here to discuss other models." Exactly why I like classic chat.
RedAlice
06-24-2014, 08:44 AM
Does anyone work from 7am- 12pm pst? or around that time How is it? I'm thinking about getting my hours done all in 1 stretch instead of logging out and coming back in the evening.
I work 3pm-6pm my time, which is 7-10am PST, and it's alright. Don't forget you will get traffic from other time zones too (guys in the UK are finishing uni & work during those hours) so you won't just be relying on US customers w/ morning wood or whatever. See how it goes.
Although, many World Cup matches start at 9am PST. So it might be quiet from then until the tournament is over. I was doing well today until 40 mins ago when I realised the England pre-match tv show had started. Lol.
RedAlice
06-24-2014, 08:55 AM
On the subject of dudes talking about other models, I did send someone from my room to another girl today, because he was demanding a GS. They're not enabled for me yet and I wouldn't do them for demands even if they were. I sent him in the direction of a similar model who was online & was currently in a GS countdown. I don't mind talking up other models on my terms.
SimoneGray
06-24-2014, 11:42 AM
I usually work the 5pm - 10pm PST or longer and its been so dead...but I am hoping that it'll pick up this week.
SarahTime
06-24-2014, 11:58 AM
Regarding other models trolling... I had a person come in my room last night and his username was "GoCheckOutModelsName" and I saw it right away and immediately banned him/her.
chubbycookie
06-24-2014, 12:50 PM
I have a SM rating question for you chicas... I haven't cammed in awhile.. so I wasn't surprised when I login to my SM model account and see that my star rating automatically went into a 4 star rating... but then, my first day back, I get 5 ratings from pvts all 5 stars... and the next time I login... another 4 ratings.. all 5 stars.. for a grand total of 9 ratings (all 5 stars)... and my rating is still at 4 stars...
So I emailed support explaining this and I get a canned response telling me to check out their new manual on ways to improve my placement. I responded back saying that I did read the manual, however, I am concerned about my rating as the manual clearly states that if a model hasn't logged on for some time, it does go to 4 stars.. then as soon as 5 ratings are accumulated - it displays the average of the last 90 days. To which I got a response saying that I need to wait 90 days and keep logging in.
Can someone shed some light on this please?
SarahTime
06-24-2014, 12:54 PM
I have a SM rating question for you chicas... I haven't cammed in awhile.. so I wasn't surprised when I login to my SM model account and see that my star rating automatically went into a 4 star rating... but then, my first day back, I get 5 ratings from pvts all 5 stars... and the next time I login... another 4 ratings.. all 5 stars.. for a grand total of 9 ratings (all 5 stars)... and my rating is still at 4 stars...
So I emailed support explaining this and I get a canned response telling me to check out their new manual on ways to improve my placement. I responded back saying that I did read the manual, however, I am concerned about my rating as the manual clearly states that if a model hasn't logged on for some time, it does go to 4 stars.. then as soon as 5 ratings are accumulated - it displays the average of the last 90 days. To which I got a response saying that I need to wait 90 days and keep logging in.
Can someone shed some light on this please?
You need to get enough 5 star ratings accumulated to make the new average 5 stars rather than 4. Over a span of 90 days, nine 5 star ratings isn't going to tip the stars to a five quite yet.
Give it a while longer, it should start going up. Check the "My Ranking" page and it will tell you your current rating average.
chubbycookie
06-24-2014, 12:59 PM
Oh ok... thank you.... that would definitely make sense to get a bunch more 5 star ratings to make that average tip towards 5 stars once more...
I am never taking a long time away from camming again... thought I needed it to regroup - I was wrong - I missed it and now I miss my 5 stars... now I'm determined to get my ratings back... challenge accepted...
SimoneGray
06-24-2014, 01:00 PM
I got messaged by someone on SM, not quite a regular yet but still a nice client, to make some custom clips. I'm ok with this, but how do you ladies accept payment for this? He wants to pay upfront, but I know PayPal won't accept adult related payments. I also don't want him to tip me the payment because that means I won't see much of it...what should I do?
SoloDesire
06-24-2014, 01:12 PM
I got messaged by someone on SM, not quite a regular yet but still a nice client, to make some custom clips. I'm ok with this, but how do you ladies accept payment for this? He wants to pay upfront, but I know PayPal won't accept adult related payments. I also don't want him to tip me the payment because that means I won't see much of it...what should I do?
You can only accept payment through GOLD on Streamate. It's against their rules and they will ban your account if you take any traffic off the site for payment. They do monitor your messages so be very careful with this. Tell him he has to pay through the site or tell him you can't do a custom if you don't want to lose the money. I won't sell my videos on SM because I would never make enough with the percentage they give.
SimoneGray
06-24-2014, 01:26 PM
You can only accept payment through GOLD on Streamate. It's against their rules and they will ban your account if you take any traffic off the site for payment. They do monitor your messages so be very careful with this. Tell him he has to pay through the site or tell him you can't do a custom if you don't want to lose the money. I won't sell my videos on SM because I would never make enough with the percentage they give.
Yikes, thank you so much for this :) I'd rather then make a C4S store or something and let people buy and pay through there. Definitely won't promote that through SM though.
temptingmodel
06-24-2014, 01:28 PM
i don't mind talking up other models on my terms. exactly! :)
Snowy0Star
06-24-2014, 01:44 PM
Yikes, thank you so much for this :) I'd rather then make a C4S store or something and let people buy and pay through there. Definitely won't promote that through SM though.
tell them to google you. thats not against the rules if u branded urslef and u use the same name everywhere ur stuff will pop up in a search ur other camsites ur c4s ur twitter
SimoneGray
06-24-2014, 01:48 PM
tell them to google you. thats not against the rules if u branded urslef and u use the same name everywhere u'll stuff will pop up in a search ur other camsites ur c4s ur twitter
Perfect :) thank you! I will definitely give that a try. I do use a different name on SM, but I'll just update a lot via twitter etc so that people know they can buy
SoloDesire
06-24-2014, 02:15 PM
tell them to google you. thats not against the rules if u branded urslef and u use the same name everywhere u'll stuff will pop up in a search ur other camsites ur c4s ur twitter
Actually it is against the rules. Girls have been suspended for telling members to google them. I've read about it on this forum. It's a risk you take if you decide to direct traffic off site.
Blovely
06-24-2014, 02:38 PM
Random thought but has anyone ever thought about using fluorescent overhead lighting? I notice when I go to public places the fluorescent lighting makes the place very bright. I use fluorescent lights already but I wonder if overhead fluorescent lighting would provide good lighting for camming???
RedAlice
06-24-2014, 02:45 PM
Actually it is against the rules. Girls have been suspended for telling members to google them. I've read about it on this forum. It's a risk you take if you decide to direct traffic off site.
Yup, I am careful not to mention any sites or search engines. If guys ask for something I can't talk about on SM I'm like "I can't/don't offer that service on this website". Cue them asking "where then?" and I will make an offhand comment about being easy to find. If dude is serious about finding me off SM, that should be enough. If he is lazy or clueless and just wants me to spell it out for him, I boot him.
SoloDesire
06-24-2014, 02:58 PM
Yup, I am careful not to mention any sites or search engines. If guys ask for something I can't talk about on SM I'm like "I can't/don't offer that service on this website". Cue them asking "where then?" and I will make an offhand comment about being easy to find. If dude is serious about finding me off SM, that should be enough. If he is lazy or clueless and just wants me to spell it out for him, I boot him.
I do the same thing lol. I say "I don't sell my clips on this site" and when they ask where I just say "Do you really need me to tell you how to internet?" Haha!
caramelDip
06-24-2014, 03:06 PM
Im on a new laptop and i accidently clicked "remember" when it asks if you allow this site to use your webcam....the built in webcam was on, not my external one. I cant figure out how to change it now. Help? :(
RaeRae
06-24-2014, 03:11 PM
If you right click on the flash video and go to settings, you should be able to change it under the tab that looks like a webcam.
caramelDip
06-24-2014, 03:34 PM
That little option box wouldnt pop up anymore. But i had to clear my browsing history to fix it. Thanks anyway RaeRae :)
gingerstripper
06-24-2014, 04:37 PM
its so slow on sm... guys... but to those who feel like logging off DONT. i was patient. for 3 hours today with no shows.. no nothing.. nothing was happening.. then i had people who were tipping and i made goal today.. and my goals are high.. How i did it.. i dont know.. but be patient even if its cringing slow. Miracles happen even when its completely dead on the site. I was going to wak away with 32 bucks.. but walked away with more than my goal.
JaneBurgess
06-24-2014, 07:26 PM
Three hours without shows means something is wrong with that site. I keep seeing more and more people say they're are sitting on there for hours and making only tips or a few bucks. The traffic overall is freeloaders and we are paying the site for traffic. I'm sorry but I would rather take a higher percentage and have to market myself over 35 percent and this crappy traffic. Dating traffic sucks and yes you can covert some into shows but a lot of it is worthless traffic. If I cant give out my personal info, then why promote me as wanting to date customers? Its not smart marketing at all and technically breaks their own rules.
its so slow on sm... guys... but to those who feel like logging off DONT. i was patient. for 3 hours today with no shows.. no nothing.. nothing was happening.. then i had people who were tipping and i made goal today.. and my goals are high.. How i did it.. i dont know.. but be patient even if its cringing slow. Miracles happen even when its completely dead on the site. I was going to wak away with 32 bucks.. but walked away with more than my goal.
SoloDesire
06-24-2014, 07:36 PM
Three hours without shows means something is wrong with that site. I keep seeing more and more people say they're are sitting on there for hours and making only tips or a few bucks. The traffic overall is freeloaders and we are paying the site for traffic. I'm sorry but I would rather take a higher percentage and have to market myself over 35 percent and this crappy traffic. Dating traffic sucks and yes you can covert some into shows but a lot of it is worthless traffic. If I cant give out my personal info, then why promote me as wanting to date customers? Its not smart marketing at all and technically breaks their own rules.
But she still was able to go over her goal...it just took a bit longer. My question is why do you even bother to keep camming on SM when all you do is come on this forum and bash it all the time? Move on. Go to another site and quit camming on SM since you hate it so much. Im growing tired of reading your constant Streamate bashing. We all have rough days, but it's still the best site for a lot of us.
PlayfulDesire
06-24-2014, 07:55 PM
its so slow on sm... guys... but to those who feel like logging off DONT. i was patient. for 3 hours today with no shows.. no nothing.. nothing was happening.. then i had people who were tipping and i made goal today.. and my goals are high.. How i did it.. i dont know.. but be patient even if its cringing slow. Miracles happen even when its completely dead on the site. I was going to wak away with 32 bucks.. but walked away with more than my goal.
Men are stupid. I've been on dating sites before and lets say I'm super desperate so some hot dream girl says hey here is where I am . So I go to streamate... I"m not like oh wow this clearly is a dating site, NO. I'm like oh hmm this is a cam site and I'm pretty sure everyone knows its a cam site. If you can join then you know what you are doing.
JaneBurgess
06-24-2014, 08:00 PM
Why do you care what I post? Don't read it if you don't like it. I like the people that run Streamate and I did think it was a great site. I get frustrated with the site and yes I post that frustration on here. I dont bash the site either, I think they made bad decisions and hopefully if enough people point it out they will correct it. They changed the wording of the new contracts due to performers posting about it and contacting them. Perhaps if they read what upsets or makes performers unhappy they will change it.
I'm growing tired of cam performers worrying about what other cam performers do and say. I also see performers bashing on other performers on here all the time. Not saying their name doesnt mean we don't know who you are talking about.
But she still was able to go over her goal...it just took a bit longer. My question is why do you even bother to keep camming on SM when all you do is come on this forum and bash it all the time? Move on. Go to another site and quit camming on SM since you hate it so much. Im growing tired of reading your constant Streamate bashing. We all have rough days, but it's still the best site for a lot of us.
gingerstripper
06-24-2014, 08:35 PM
yikes guys. nooo fighting. lets all move along.
GracieBlue
06-24-2014, 10:08 PM
Because you post this stuff everyday! We all see it! And you don't worry about other performers...you always complain about what girls are doing...
Why do you care what I post? Don't read it if you don't like it. I like the people that run Streamate and I did think it was a great site. I get frustrated with the site and yes I post that frustration on here. I dont bash the site either, I think they made bad decisions and hopefully if enough people point it out they will correct it. They changed the wording of the new contracts due to performers posting about it and contacting them. Perhaps if they read what upsets or makes performers unhappy they will change it.
I'm growing tired of cam performers worrying about what other cam performers do and say. I also see performers bashing on other performers on here all the time. Not saying their name doesnt mean we don't know who you are talking about.