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Staples
07-18-2015, 01:19 AM
I've had a few block sessions tonight and they don't seem to be appearing in my paid time online but all my other sessions are. Do blocks not show up right away or is it not counting my time in paid chat correctly for some reason?
AlyssaJane
07-18-2015, 02:46 AM
I've had a few block sessions tonight and they don't seem to be appearing in my paid time online but all my other sessions are. Do blocks not show up right away or is it not counting my time in paid chat correctly for some reason?
I'm so scared of setting up blocks. Like what if I get stuck with somebody I really don't want to be stuck with? Sorry I know that doesn't answer your question. Do a lot of customers sign up for them?
AlyssaJane
07-18-2015, 03:00 AM
So after 150 hours with my $1 per minute raised rate, I found I was consistently making $6 an hour less on average. Dropped the rate again and boom, making $8 more an hour average after doing about 15 hours at the lower rate. On the gocams link it appears most girls in my category charge $2.99/$3.99 a minute. It does really seem to be my sweet spot to make the most in the least amount of time. At least for the level I am at now. Maybe after some experience and practice I can try raising it again. Thoughts?
SaraLaughs
07-18-2015, 03:04 AM
I'm so scared of setting up blocks. Like what if I get stuck with somebody I really don't want to be stuck with? Sorry I know that doesn't answer your question. Do a lot of customers sign up for them?
It's definitely a concern; I only accept blocks that are 15 minutes from first-time clients, and only have 15 or 30 minute blocks enabled. Usually it's easy to figure out if someone is truly vile within 5 minutes. You have to eat the cost of you end the session, but in my experience it's worth it- I've only had to kick someone out of a block once, but I've roped in a few with a block session early on.
Staples
07-18-2015, 03:08 AM
I'm so scared of setting up blocks. Like what if I get stuck with somebody I really don't want to be stuck with? Sorry I know that doesn't answer your question. Do a lot of customers sign up for them?
I usually get one or two per shift but they are never bad. If I just really hate them I just revert back to me policy that I reserve the right to say no to anything they ask for. Even if they leave in the middle of the show I keep all of the money for the block of time as long as they've been in the show for at least three minutes. If they leave before three minutes they just pay for the minutes they were in the show for.
Staples
07-18-2015, 03:20 AM
I say whatever is working for you is what you should be doing! I've played around a lot with my rates so do what makes you the most! Don't feel like just because others are charging more you should be too. Do you girly!
AlyssaJane
07-18-2015, 03:27 AM
ok it now feels like trolling. After getting nothing but 5 star ratings for months, I consistently am getting bad ratings the past 3 days. a 3 star, then yesterday a 2 star, and just now a 1 star. And each of these shows gives no indication they don't love whats happening. I'm not doing anything different, I'm not sure what the deal is.
FOLLOWUP EDIT:
I emailed support and they removed all 3 bad ratings!! Which I think is totally fair, as I put a lot into making sure my customers are satisfied. OMG that seriously does a lot for my feelings of being engaged in my job and overall warm fuzzies for streamate. Anxiety gone. I want to bake them cookies. :D
AlyssaJane
07-18-2015, 03:31 AM
I say whatever is working for you is what you should be doing! I've played around a lot with my rates so do what makes you the most! Don't feel like just because others are charging more you should be too. Do you girly!
Ahhhh thank you for the validation. I appreciate it. Everybody does this job different and has a different approach. I love that this forum really helps each other.
SophiaSylvan
07-18-2015, 10:02 AM
Maybe u got the "I am back" 'treatment' like on Ifriends for example? I went there yesterday & got the red banner on my profile pic with the I AM BACK label on it lol, did not cam there for more than a year. Ah & i was on top row on their model's list haha. Pity that site is just dead, not sure who is making money in there anymore, obviously they have models still making money but to resuscitate that account i have there i'll need to put on nice hrs plus lots of content, not willing lol.
SM is different Sophia, yea, would be nice for u to get back on SM, live on cam, i bet people do miss u ;)
I do miss the way iFriends used to be, it was much less draining than SM. But I never made as much on IF as SM, even with the lower %, sadly. Good luck returning I hope your old regs are still there! I'm hoping my dudes find me on indy as I'm still not sure about rejoining the S&M fray. One or 2 weekly Gold Shows I can handle, and if anyone catches me right before or after (for my new, higher rates & new rules). Finally recovered from serious freechat burnout. Thanks for your input Kat <3
Oh trying Ifriends was just a ... try lol, i dont want to use my PC & connection resources on that site cause it's simply dead, no traffic there for me, my old regs are gone since maaany years ago.
Yes, free chat, SM is so draining, it was a shock for me when i switched from IFR to SM, i can only work pretty short shifts on SM, like 3-5 hrs max per day because it get's me tired pretty quickly. While on IFR i could work 7-8 hrs (no freechat so i could relax & close my eyes for a few mins or put light off) on SM i need to be very attentive watching the screen & interacting with people & hustling with all lights on my eyes ...well that is more difficult to handle at my age & health status ;) Tho i make better money in these few hrs than i did on IFR in the last year i cammed there.
Good luck whatever u decide to do Sophia, u have an admirer here just so u know, Hugs!
Addison Lynne
07-18-2015, 02:37 PM
After about an hour of dancing, flirting and generally doing the best I can to be seductive with only pop ins to show for it, I go check out a top girls room for motivation and she's on the verge of tears because she's been one for hours and had no more than 4 people in her room at a time. FML. Why SM! I don't want anything crazy, I just want to work and pay my bills so I'm not homeless! Rant over.
I gave up and went on MGF and did good. Its so bad on SM right now
JessRyan
07-18-2015, 05:51 PM
I'm so scared of setting up blocks. Like what if I get stuck with somebody I really don't want to be stuck with? Sorry I know that doesn't answer your question. Do a lot of customers sign up for them?
don't be afraid of blocks. My best regulars are block guys. And really the time flies by for 15 minutes. Plus, most times these guys stay longer than 15. I only offer 15 min blocks because my price per minute is already on the moderate side. I get more guys that take the whole block AND stay longer, than the very few that skimp out after 1 or 2 minutes. It's worth it to offer it, for me at least.
AlyssaJane
07-18-2015, 07:27 PM
don't be afraid of blocks. My best regulars are block guys. And really the time flies by for 15 minutes. Plus, most times these guys stay longer than 15. I only offer 15 min blocks because my price per minute is already on the moderate side. I get more guys that take the whole block AND stay longer, than the very few that skimp out after 1 or 2 minutes. It's worth it to offer it, for me at least.
That's good to know. I think I might try setting up blocks for smaller chunks of time. There are some requests where having blocks might be useful I'm realizing. Oil shows, or when they want something that involves dressing up or getting set up for a fetish. I like the idea of knowing I have time to really to a good job. You might have convinced me.
lolabunny
07-18-2015, 08:54 PM
All these changes to the site and we still can't get a model support number?
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Blovely
07-18-2015, 08:58 PM
^^^Maybe that's why they're having all these glitches, crosses fingers. I really hope all these glitches aren't for some silly little change like a new font or background.
Kitcatt
07-18-2015, 10:01 PM
Yep, I can't go exclusive at all. Kicks me back into free chat
Jinxxi_
07-19-2015, 02:23 AM
Ugh, SM is terrible tonight. C2C wasnt working. Had to log off and back in. Then people would say my feed was freezing. Then it would log me off but it owuld stills ay I was in paid chat and I wouldnt notice til I was like "hey, they are uber quiet..."
So. Annoying.
SweetieBitch
07-19-2015, 03:04 AM
Hmm I had some waves of free chat glitches with certain people saying my feed wasn't loading or getting kicked in and out, but otherwise my C2C worked fine and I had no issues with block sessions or people getting disconnected from paid shows. Sorry it was glitchy for you ladies. :-\
Jinxxi_
07-19-2015, 03:11 AM
Yeah, it finally sorted itself out after a half hour or so. Thank god I had some guys dedicated on getting an exclusive with me, or it would have been a terrible cam shift.
beauvoir
07-19-2015, 04:15 AM
Why is SM not allowing my delete photos? How annoying.
QueenBitch
07-19-2015, 06:04 AM
I think this problem with not being able to enter excl is still there... i got a request and clicked accept right away and nothing happened... BITCHES PLEASE COME ON NOW I LIKE $$$$
^^^ I had this happening too & i was not back in freechat but somewhere 'in the air' with my session, i had to stop streaming & reconnect to fix that.
SophiaSylvan
07-19-2015, 07:16 AM
Is Streamate totally down right now for anyone else? O_o
Nevermind, it was just down for a few minutes as far as I could tell. Good luck with the glitches, ladies, I feel for you.
QueenBitch
07-19-2015, 07:25 AM
I also just had someone who hit his limit and wanted to add more money to his account and it wouldn't let him :/ now I don't have a customer account so I don't know if this is something to do with sm or his account settings or whatever. someone enlighten me?
SophiaSylvan
07-19-2015, 07:32 AM
If it wouldn't let him he might have no more money on his card, it could be a glitch or there could be a max amount and he can't add more until tomorrow. They have limits in place to try to keep down on fraud. They're raised as the dude spends more time and money on the site and doesn't chargeback.
QueenBitch
07-19-2015, 07:42 AM
thank you! well we'll never know until/unless he comes back haha
JustCallMeBree
07-19-2015, 10:24 AM
So I just saw a top girl running a intro video in her room. It was like she split her screen and had one nice sized panel with her room still running in it on one side and a video with her basically showing off her personality and clips from her videos that' give a taste of everything she and her husband do in Gold Shows, etc. I had no idea you could do this! It would be an awesome tool to show case my toys,outfits,wigs,etc. without me having to take 20 minutes off cam lacing unlacing a corset from an exclusive and missing my favorite reg. ( happened today). Does anyone know how to co-stream video like that?
ginganinja
07-19-2015, 10:51 AM
Quick question about streamate's geoblock.
I have my state geoblocked and I am still able to see my room and profile when I am not logged in. I had someone come into my chatroom who said he was from my state (which is supposed to be blocked). My boyfriend (who is also in the same state) searched streamate and was able to find my cam and profile both when he was just searching and when he was logged in as a customer. I have contacted streamate about this more than once and they have still not fixed this problem. This has been an ongoing problem for well over a week. I thought that when streamate offered to geoblock a region that they would actually geoblock the region in question rather than fooling me with some false sense of security that they are when they are doing nothing. Is anyone else having this problem with streamate?
PrettyInPunk
07-19-2015, 11:37 AM
All these glitches have me about to jump ship. A girl can't make money like this!
Edited to add: My geoblocker isn't working either all the sudden. It's been working fine for months and then today somebody from my state not only pops in BUT FUCKING RECOGNIZES ME!!! What the fuck? I am so pissed right now.
Blovely
07-19-2015, 12:26 PM
So I just saw a top girl running a intro video in her room. It was like she split her screen and had one nice sized panel with her room still running in it on one side and a video with her basically showing off her personality and clips from her videos that' give a taste of everything she and her husband do in Gold Shows, etc. I had no idea you could do this! It would be an awesome tool to show case my toys,outfits,wigs,etc. without me having to take 20 minutes off cam lacing unlacing a corset from an exclusive and missing my favorite reg. ( happened today). Does anyone know how to co-stream video like that?
It sounds like she was using PIP(Picture in Picture). Seems like she used desktop as one of the video sources and opened a video player on the desktop to show the videos(probably even uses a separate monitor to showcase the videos so that no other windows get in the way).
I was actually just researching "streaming multiple angles/streaming 2 videos in 1" a few weeks ago. Manycam has the PIP feature. Verysoft also has it but I think its only available in the Pro version. Here are the threads that I came across when I was researching..... if you're interested in reading them.
Multiple webcam to view front and back angles? (https://www.stripperweb.com/forum/showthread.php?179013-multiple-webcam-to-view-front-and-back-angles&highlight=multiple+angles)
Can you have two cameras on at the same time on the same site? (https://www.stripperweb.com/forum/showthread.php?179501-Can-you-have-two-cameras-on-at-the-same-time-on-the-same-site&highlight=multiple+angles)
So I just saw a top girl running a intro video in her room. It was like she split her screen and had one nice sized panel with her room still running in it on one side and a video with her basically showing off her personality and clips from her videos that' give a taste of everything she and her husband do in Gold Shows, etc. I had no idea you could do this! It would be an awesome tool to show case my toys,outfits,wigs,etc. without me having to take 20 minutes off cam lacing unlacing a corset from an exclusive and missing my favorite reg. ( happened today). Does anyone know how to co-stream video like that?
This sounds nice promotion tool, never seen this before but i remember SM (and all cam sites in general) saying always "all streams have to be live & we not allowed to stream a recorded video" ?! What u saw was half live stream half video, not sure where this stands at cause it's in a gray area somehow. I wonder if the video they run there was part of the promo free video(s) some performers beta tested? New tool on SM or a great idea of this performer?
ETA: if this is allowed it will be an amazing tool for me to display all my outfits & accessories i use in my fetish shows :)
Pls if anyone knows :)
BritishBecky
07-19-2015, 12:55 PM
It's not a feature of SM, it's using a split software (probably verysoft)
Got that Becky, just like Blovely said but is it allowed i mean? :)
BritishBecky
07-19-2015, 02:42 PM
Not strictly, but as a picture in picture I would have thought probably would get away with it (as the model is appearing 'live' while also showing the vid). The person you are talking about is very popular on SM. There is a theory that top models get away with more than 'normal' models. You were asking if it was the beta thing - it's not, those are literally free videos in the vids section and can't feature nudity etc.
^^^ All right, thank you for input Becky, yes i also asked about the beta testing free vids some models have cause i was thinking the model could have had used it to stream in the half side of her live stream, i was thinking SM could have allowed this somehow as a new tool, i dont even know who the performer is on SM but i shall find out eventually. xxx
taylorgirl1120
07-19-2015, 09:42 PM
Glitching again! Urghhhhhhhhhh, keeps kicking people from free chat.
OMFG!! I got disconnected while i was in pvt with 2 guys, the show lasted about 40 mins all together, one guy was enjoying me & was able to type & see me properly while the other guy saw me with huge delay, he was in & out a few times (he was a newbie), when i realized he cant see me in real time i looked up encoder log while in the show, 2 times during my show i had bitrate dropping heavily & at the end it disconnected me all together!
I haaate when this happens, just when i had an amazing shift finally! WTF SM??!! You either dead or this glitchy!!?? I dont dare to get back on cam, i dont want the pissed off guy to return to me tonite, the other one seemed happy but i bet none of them got to cum there ehhhh. Happy about the money but pissed off about SM's glitches, i was checking my cammodels link time to time while in the show just to make sure i dont stream my cum show in freechat, i was seriously scared it could be the case... luckily i was still in pvt.
Arwen25
07-20-2015, 01:53 AM
Re photos: If I am not wrong you have to upload a certain number before deleting any..really awful, in my opinion.
Re Geo-block: I have..or rather *had* my county blocked..had someone in my room saying they were from there after half a day lol. I just took it off after that, think a lot of people use tunnel bear and other high quality ip address hiders.
Not doing great on sm..especially compared to AW. I think it's probably to do with my stream (dsl) and porobably have rubbish placement. If I go any higher video is glitchy though - sigh! :(
Tsepmet1
07-20-2015, 11:10 AM
I just got my account suspended for promoting my modelcentro page.
Sphynx Lions
07-20-2015, 06:21 PM
Can I ask what are your main sites? do you know which ones pay more percentage?
PhatGirlDynomite!!!
07-20-2015, 06:34 PM
I just got my account suspended for promoting my modelcentro page.
How were you promoting it? Did you say the name of the site so that they could go to it directly? If you do that then sm gets bypassed and doesn't get their cut. They have to go through the yellow button on your profile, that is if you linked modelcentro. This way they get their cut. The House Always Wins
KarinaGiselle
07-20-2015, 06:38 PM
Minor FYI but I got an email from SM stating the following about streaming resolutions:
Coming Soon: HD720 Encoder Settings
For those of you using the External Encoder, we will soon be releasing new settings files to let you stream in an even higher resolution: HD720.
HD720 video is a higher quality than the current HD settings. The video is crisper and more detailed. Because of this, HD720 will become the preferred streaming quality on Streamate.
When it launches, HD720 will have the same placement bonus as the current HD settings. A week or two after the settings are released, we will adjust how placement works; the HD720 performers will have the highest bonus, and performers using the current HD settings will be right behind them. Remember that video quality is just one of the many factors that affect placement (read more about Placement).
We will be sending out more information in the near future, including the technical requirements for running HD720.
To put it short: SM Will now require you to stream at 1280 x 720 if you want to be placed as HD. As long as youe upload is equals or above 5Mbps, and have a good enough PC, you'll be fine. Also, consider switching to OBS, as it's MUCH LIGHTER than Adobe Media Encoder.
Jinxxi_
07-20-2015, 06:50 PM
Minor FYI but I got an email from SM stating the following about streaming resolutions:
To put it short: SM Will now require you to stream at 1280 x 720 if you want to be placed as HD. As long as youe upload is equals or above 5Mbps, and have a good enough PC, you'll be fine. Also, consider switching to OBS, as it's MUCH LIGHTER than Adobe Media Encoder.
If you use OBS, do still get the same placement that you would if you used the AME?
Jinxxi_
07-20-2015, 06:51 PM
Also, anyone else getting a glitch where it says you have an unread message, but there isn't one in your inbox?
Did not get the email here but it makes sense, I KNEW they were cooking something big!!
When i had my last shift i tried exactly very high settings as a test to see how much my connection & PC can take, i tried exactly this resolution 1280x720 with 30 fps & 2500 bit rate, it was when i had that 2 guys in pvt, i wrote about this in the page back, one got to see me well but the other saw me with huuuge delay, might be he was mobile or something, he did not answer my questions of how he connects (kinda dumby guy lol).
Anyway, my show lasted about 40 mins where i saw bitrate dropping & coming back to 2500, i was able to continue my show until i got cut off completely & the adobe encoder were stuck.
Without actually knowing i just 'beta-tested' the new feature haha, how funny that is!! I normally cam with lower settings. I wonder if we'll continue to use a third party encoder like the Adobe one or they might come up with own SM encoder to support the new streaming resolutions?
Also, anyone else getting a glitch where it says you have an unread message, but there isn't one in your inbox?
U may need to sort them by date to see the last entry? ;)
Jinxxi_
07-20-2015, 07:07 PM
No, it seems it was a glitch. The only way I figured out to get rid of it was by marking one of my previously read messages as unread, and then reopening it. :P
At least now my inbox isn't lying to me. Silly SM.
SimoneGray
07-20-2015, 07:08 PM
What is OBS? (tech noob here) also damn, don't have upload speeds higher or equal to 5mbps...guess I am screwed :( boo
Yay for having an upload speed of 'up to 25Mbps', a new 1GB capture card & a strong PC, somebody up there loves me, ty God! I wish us all good luck with the new SM feature!
ETA: got the email from SM regarding the new feature & they also have a survey about using the Help section of the site, i went on to take it but to the 2 questions they have there i wanted to answer "I find my answers & support on Stripperweb" :)
Canceled the survey just because ;)
Soo happy to have this place to share info with u amazing people, i swear i would be lost w.o u like i was before year 2012 when i found SW :)
LaylaLovely
07-20-2015, 07:27 PM
Also, anyone else getting a glitch where it says you have an unread message, but there isn't one in your inbox?
I'm having the same glitch I unread message it was sm support but I already read it n refreshed multiple times..I also spent the whole day with no noise notifications of ppl entering or going pvt