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CharlotteD
10-30-2015, 08:14 PM
So guys did get a message:
Are you excited about Halloween? We're going all out this year and holding a massive costume contest. The models are competing for big cash prizes, and they need your votes!
The contest begins on Oct 31st GMT (please note that in some time zones, the contest will begin as early as the evening of Oct 30th). Participating performers will have a festive profile picture and will be in costume all day!
Vote for your favorite costumes by giving GOLD. 1 Gold = 1 vote! Gold counts when given during free chat or during shows (not including Gold Shows). For this contest, Gold Show pledges and tips given during Gold Shows will not count as a vote. All Gold given outside of Gold Shows count as a valid vote.
Give one performer all your votes, or spread them out. At the end of the day, we'll tally up the performers who earned the most Gold. The top 100 participants will earn cash rewards between $50 and $1000! Make sure your favorites don't walk away empty handed.
We hope you'll have a great time deciding who to vote for!
Happy Halloween!
Streamate Support
LittleSexBunny
10-30-2015, 11:47 PM
Nobody is posting about it....lol Okay... I'll post! I thought tonight was bullshit. Maybe it was my fault though. I tried to be there the second the contest started and with all the models online at once, I had like zero traffic. I'm not used to that, so I started having anxiety... That CLEARLY showed...I just fell apart so quick. I basically said fuck this and logged off lol. Saw some wonderful ladies out there rocking it though! Next time I need to have my nerves under control... 1000 dollars isn't worth me doubting myself or making such a big deal out of this. If I really want an extra grand, I should get off my ass every other day of the week!! If I worked this hard every day, I wouldn't have to even worry about a contest. That's just my opinion. Hope you ladies had fun. I didn't!! ha!! I then kept finding myself perving on other models lol. So many looked upset...i just kept tipping people to make them smile! This contest isn't worth our happiness ladies. Tomorrow will be a better day.
MistressX
10-31-2015, 12:32 AM
Yeah I'm with you on that. I did the same thing. So many girls selling videos in their chat, 100+ videos for like 20 bucks tip. I cant compete with that because I have no videos. I didn't even know that was allowed. So, I gave up. I made bank the first hour I was on... Kind of gave me a little boost knowing guys still thought I was sexy even though I was ridiculously goth... But I don't know, it could just be that its halloween. This will be the last time I work Halloween though. The only reason I did it was because all 3 of my hearses are down for the count right now.. What's the point of going out on halloween without one of my hearses?
But yeah, tonight was basically pointless. I spent 4 hours getting ready and I saw girls with paltry costumes and store bought costumes getting tons of tips and I was getting nowt... No traffic after 6pm PST as well... like NONE. It's because its friday night AND halloween weekend. I can't say I'm surprised. I am going to hop on tomorrow morning before the pay period ends though to try to make a few more bucks. For now, I give up lol
webcamcutie
10-31-2015, 02:12 AM
For me it was just an extra night I could dress up and surprise my members by wearing stockings and heels (which I never do) and was an excuse to buy some amazing sparkly red high heels, on the upside I made double on a Friday night then what I usually do so that was a win! Its fun seeing everyone dressed up though, Halloween is one of my favorite holidays!
Kitcatt
10-31-2015, 02:12 AM
I just knew I couldn't compete with free show hostage taking and was a shitty bitch of a Baroness and everyone ate it up, so I had fun:) That's all you can do, in the end
webcamcutie
10-31-2015, 02:15 AM
I just knew I couldn't compete with free show hostage taking and was a shitty bitch of a Baroness and everyone ate it up, so I had fun:) That's all you can do, in the end
And honestly, thats what matters most in the end! I think tomorrow I'll throw on my costume I'm going to wear when I take the kiddo out (its a onesie pj set thats a COW with ears and eyes and all, lol) and chill tomorrow night instead of trying to kill myself in heels, although fun, I have no idea how girls do it all the time plus my cam space is very small and cramped! LOL!
Vlodina
10-31-2015, 04:22 AM
Getting ready for cam. I see there's free vagina all over Streamate today in zero gold shows. Marvellous.
Nobody is posting about it....lol Okay... I'll post! I thought tonight was bullshit. Maybe it was my fault though. I tried to be there the second the contest started and with all the models online at once, I had like zero traffic. I'm not used to that, so I started having anxiety... That CLEARLY showed...I just fell apart so quick. I basically said fuck this and logged off lol. Saw some wonderful ladies out there rocking it though! Next time I need to have my nerves under control... 1000 dollars isn't worth me doubting myself or making such a big deal out of this. If I really want an extra grand, I should get off my ass every other day of the week!! If I worked this hard every day, I wouldn't have to even worry about a contest. That's just my opinion. Hope you ladies had fun. I didn't!! ha!! I then kept finding myself perving on other models lol. So many looked upset...i just kept tipping people to make them smile! This contest isn't worth our happiness ladies. Tomorrow will be a better day.
I feel for you, i posted in the Venting SM tread about it, i tried to work normally not taking part on the contest cause i have no costume but it was dead simply, i mean no traffic at all, all popular models were online competing for the cash prizes so i understood there was no chance for me and logged off.
Today will be the same i feel, it's saturday & Halloween contest so not going to work for me, i better relax & enjoy the day, dont wanna mess around with feeling down, anxiety and self esteem thingy.
PumpkinSpicy
10-31-2015, 06:00 AM
As BS as this contest has been, it's really forced me to be creative and do some out of the box shows to compete. I know I've made a lot of repeat custies today because of the raffles, bingo games, and general fuckery I've been doing. Maybe a blessing in disguise? IDK all we can do is have fun and carry on knowing the shitshow will be done tomorrow.
JessRyan
10-31-2015, 10:12 AM
Nobody is posting about it....lol Okay... I'll post! I thought tonight was bullshit. Maybe it was my fault though. I tried to be there the second the contest started and with all the models online at once, I had like zero traffic. I'm not used to that, so I started having anxiety... That CLEARLY showed...I just fell apart so quick. I basically said fuck this and logged off lol. Saw some wonderful ladies out there rocking it though! Next time I need to have my nerves under control... 1000 dollars isn't worth me doubting myself or making such a big deal out of this. If I really want an extra grand, I should get off my ass every other day of the week!! If I worked this hard every day, I wouldn't have to even worry about a contest. That's just my opinion. Hope you ladies had fun. I didn't!! ha!! I then kept finding myself perving on other models lol. So many looked upset...i just kept tipping people to make them smile! This contest isn't worth our happiness ladies. Tomorrow will be a better day.
It's not really "fair" when some girls have videos and some don't. Some have great gold tipping customers some don't. Some will have an awesome costume, but no gold. Some will have a shitty costume and tons of gold. too much competing in my book and it ends up making women a little grumpy. A better way to encourage fun times with costumes would have been just to have a little bonus to ALL models who stream anytime during Halloween who are in costume. Even just a few bucks, or constant rotating placement to the front page for all models in costume. They have enough of our cut to pay a little back and without the head-ache of competition.
sweetgapeach
10-31-2015, 10:23 AM
Well...I tried last night and had NO traffic...not my normal traffic at all. But I got fifteen votes ha ha. And I learned something great...I JUST LOVED wearing a wig. Never had before.
Girly_Girl
10-31-2015, 12:26 PM
Same here, last night was DEAD for me as well and today has been very slow as well but right before I logged off I got a 15 block that went over 5 minutes at least :) I kinda figured it would be dead today with the contest going on!
Glamourmilf
10-31-2015, 02:27 PM
Best Saturday on SM in a l-o-n-g time!
Happy Halloween to me!! Weee!;D
SweetieBitch
10-31-2015, 02:59 PM
I wonder if the winner of the contest is going to be someone who does financial domination... it just occurred to me that those kinds of extra tips in a private or exclusive would count towards gold for the contest, which sounds like it could add up quickly with a couple of good findom sessions.
Anyone care to share what their gold tips added up to in the end? I'm super curious... I think I did decently but have no idea if I even placed in the top 100 rankings. I made a little over $900 gold (total / before my cut), and that was earned entirely in free chat just getting tips for weird costume changes and random fun stuff all night (no video/content sales.) Personally I'm glad they had this competition; if anything it pushed me to be more creative/entertaining. I haven't cammed on MFC/CB yet but I think last night gave me a good preview of what the token hustle will be like.
I wonder if they'll post the top 100 list with names and amount of gold earned, or if they'll just add the bonus money to the winning models' paychecks kind of anonymously.
GracieBlue
10-31-2015, 03:48 PM
I got on last night for a few hours and did fine. I sold vids and did a few flashes. I perved girls and found the vibe to be fun so I jumped online. I wasn't competing with anyone, I thought that guys were more in the spirit of tipping and seeing costumes, kind of like a costume parade in school lol.
Kitcatt
10-31-2015, 03:53 PM
I think the win will go to people who have big gold show followings who had them tip in free chat then started the show for $0. That packaged with big huge video deals, that's pretty hard to beat. I had a lot of findom last night, but it's just 1 guy tipping you in excl for the duration of the show not a bunch of guys tipping, so, eh. Maybe a findom with a lot of big whales that they called in for the night :)
MissMoore
10-31-2015, 04:57 PM
Ladies!!! I'm looking at the ranking page ( bitrate, frames per second, round trip) and my stats are going CRAZY. All day they have jumped from excellent, good, average, below average to poor. I don't know if it's the internet or what? If anybody has any insight on what might be causing this I would immensely appreciate it.
MissMoore
10-31-2015, 06:05 PM
^^^^ I also checked the encoder settings and they were all correct. :O
webcamcutie
10-31-2015, 06:09 PM
Ladies!!! I'm looking at the ranking page ( bitrate, frames per second, round trip) and my stats are going CRAZY. All day they have jumped from excellent, good, average, below average to poor. I don't know if it's the internet or what? If anybody has any insight on what might be causing this I would immensely appreciate it.
When this happened to me my ISP was the culprit, altho everything looked fine from my end I called them out anyways and had several things done to fix my net and now it works great and haven't had an issue since.
MissMoore
10-31-2015, 06:16 PM
When this happened to me my ISP was the culprit, altho everything looked fine from my end I called them out anyways and had several things done to fix my net and now it works great and haven't had an issue since.
Thank you!
Hopefully that is the issue since I'm moving Monday and switching over to Fios. I've been pretty underwhelmed from the service I got from Comcast.
BadBitch
10-31-2015, 06:36 PM
I had two glitches so far - first the time reminders didn't show up in a block session, and then I got stuck in the exclusive limbo thing. I tried the pause button "hack" when I got stuck in limbo but it didn't work. I think it's because I'm using the new broadcaster.
Overall it's been a great night though (especially compared to how it was earlier for me this week...oy vey). TONS of good traffic. I'm at 72% paid chat for the night and made $300 in less than 2 hours.
Congrats! How do you see how much time you spent in open?
BadBitch
10-31-2015, 06:36 PM
Ladies!!! I'm looking at the ranking page ( bitrate, frames per second, round trip) and my stats are going CRAZY. All day they have jumped from excellent, good, average, below average to poor. I don't know if it's the internet or what? If anybody has any insight on what might be causing this I would immensely appreciate it.
Mine have been all over the place as well.
BadBitch
10-31-2015, 06:40 PM
So I've been having a weird problem recently where I can't set my room topic? Like, the button is grayed out no matter what I do, whether or not I'm streaming. Not the end of the world, but I like having my tip menu up without having to continuously spam the room with my auto-message. Has anyone else had this issue or has any advice on how to fix it? I searched the threads a bit but had no luck.
I had this happen to me yesterday. I cleared it. Then pasted it again. It was still greyed out. I kept doing it over and over until it finally cleared up. Just another SM glitch.
BadBitch
10-31-2015, 06:43 PM
Am I the only one who really likes gold shows? I way prefer them to privates/exclusives, but I run into problems not getting enough star ratings.
Yes. Hahaha! I HATE doing them! Worst feeling during the countdown when no one contributes and they all stare. Ugh.
Cutie101
10-31-2015, 06:56 PM
Nobody is posting about it....lol Okay... I'll post! I thought tonight was bullshit. Maybe it was my fault though. I tried to be there the second the contest started and with all the models online at once, I had like zero traffic. I'm not used to that, so I started having anxiety... That CLEARLY showed...I just fell apart so quick. I basically said fuck this and logged off lol. Saw some wonderful ladies out there rocking it though! Next time I need to have my nerves under control... 1000 dollars isn't worth me doubting myself or making such a big deal out of this. If I really want an extra grand, I should get off my ass every other day of the week!! If I worked this hard every day, I wouldn't have to even worry about a contest. That's just my opinion. Hope you ladies had fun. I didn't!! ha!! I then kept finding myself perving on other models lol. So many looked upset...i just kept tipping people to make them smile! This contest isn't worth our happiness ladies. Tomorrow will be a better day.
That's why I didn't even bothered to participate either.
Besides I am not a GS model, so I said I lose from the start in front of the popular models that do GS's and will be tipped by their fans.
But congrats to the model that won the contest! whoever she is!
BambiCutie
10-31-2015, 07:13 PM
Getting on later tonight since there isn't too much to do, just go with traffic. Love seeing all the ladies costumes, so sexy and cute! Best of both worlds!
CharlotteD
10-31-2015, 08:53 PM
I wonder if the winner of the contest is going to be someone who does financial domination... it just occurred to me that those kinds of extra tips in a private or exclusive would count towards gold for the contest, which sounds like it could add up quickly with a couple of good findom sessions.
Anyone care to share what their gold tips added up to in the end? I'm super curious... I think I did decently but have no idea if I even placed in the top 100 rankings. I made a little over $900 gold (total / before my cut), and that was earned entirely in free chat just getting tips for weird costume changes and random fun stuff all night (no video/content sales.) Personally I'm glad they had this competition; if anything it pushed me to be more creative/entertaining. I haven't cammed on MFC/CB yet but I think last night gave me a good preview of what the token hustle will be like.
I wonder if they'll post the top 100 list with names and amount of gold earned, or if they'll just add the bonus money to the winning models' paychecks kind of anonymously.
LOL well damn I thought I did ok but now I'm thinking I suck ahhaha I only made around 350 in tips though I'm usually more of a exc/pvt model I had a couple of regs that tipped me nicely. If I'm even getting an extra 50 I'll be happy.
gingerstripper
11-01-2015, 12:25 PM
i thought the contest was great. For me i just did it because it was fun not to win the contest or anything. it was a fun way to interact with my fans and hell i have a new fans and my current fans just loved it. I didnt do any raffles i basically just let them vote for me with the costume i had on. I didnt do any shows. just sat there for hours apon hours and i made such gooooood money doing absolutely jack! :D that right there is a win win :) and since i participated in the contest i know ill win something. Again.. thats a win win too. freeee moneeeey
justlurk
11-01-2015, 03:53 PM
Has anyone had their payments "On Hold" randomly? I got a reply that my address isn't correct and it had been correct for years. This is odd and frustrating.
Chellyinparadise
11-01-2015, 06:06 PM
Has anyone had their payments "On Hold" randomly? I got a reply that my address isn't correct and it had been correct for years. This is odd and frustrating.
I had that happen before with the same thing, maybe just updating their files or something. They were pretty quick for me anyways to update it and take the hold off. I would just message support and let them know youve took care of it and to please remove the hold, thats what i did.
justlurk
11-01-2015, 06:21 PM
Chelly, thanks for your reply! I've messaged support a couple of times and I'm getting the same generic response. Everything is correct and I've been receiving payments for years. I'm not sure what to do at this point. As I'd like to get paid next week.
Chellyinparadise
11-01-2015, 06:26 PM
Chelly, thanks for your reply! I've messaged support a couple of times and I'm getting the same generic response. Everything is correct and I've been receiving payments for years. I'm not sure what to do at this point. As I'd like to get paid next week.
You are welcome, did you use the scroll down to select accounting dept when you sent the contact message? I sent mine to that department. I know some others mentioned to contact liz if no replies but i dont remember what her email is, maybe one of the other girls on here can help with that.
Hope you get it corrected soon.
Kitcatt
11-01-2015, 08:40 PM
Girly_Girl
11-01-2015, 09:20 PM
what is the best browsers for guys to use if they are on a cell wanting to do a pvt?
PhatGirlDynomite!!!
11-01-2015, 09:22 PM
what is the best browsers for guys to use if they are on a cell wanting to do a pvt?
Currently on my samsung galaxy s5 Chrome is doing well. But for months it was not. Firefox still says im in private when im not. But the flash browsers i recommend to guys are puffin,dolphin and photon. Bline is another but its mostly for ios.
Girly_Girl
11-01-2015, 09:37 PM
thank u Phat:)
ZoeLee
11-02-2015, 12:20 PM
I havent been on cam in awhile...
Im having issues with my feed. I have a macbook pro i7, my internet speed is amazing, but people are saying my feed is out of sync and/or choppy.
I tried using OBS- choppy.
I tried using CamTwist- my sound was out of sync.
I tried just using the new encoder settings and people said my feed was choppy.
Can someone PLEASE help me?! Im dying right now. I dont understand what im doing wrong!
Glamourmilf
11-02-2015, 12:29 PM
I havent been on cam in awhile...
Im having issues with my feed. I have a macbook pro i7, my internet speed is amazing, but people are saying my feed is out of sync and/or choppy.
I tried using OBS- choppy.
I tried using CamTwist- my sound was out of sync.
I tried just using the new encoder settings and people said my feed was choppy.
Can someone PLEASE help me?! Im dying right now. I dont understand what im doing wrong!
I've never used any of that, or even encoder, and I always have a busy chat room, and make great money.
I use i7
My upload is between 5-6
Marina Starr
11-02-2015, 12:35 PM
What is your UPLOAD speed? Go here and test: testmy.net
I havent been on cam in awhile...
Im having issues with my feed. I have a macbook pro i7, my internet speed is amazing, but people are saying my feed is out of sync and/or choppy.
I tried using OBS- choppy.
I tried using CamTwist- my sound was out of sync.
I tried just using the new encoder settings and people said my feed was choppy.
Can someone PLEASE help me?! Im dying right now. I dont understand what im doing wrong!
Via Flaminia
11-02-2015, 01:20 PM
For the camtwist part, this thread was helpful to Mac users. https://www.stripperweb.com/forum/showthread.php?203398-MAC-users-using-new-720HD-settings-that-get-the-8-11fps-ISSUE-do-this
JessRyan
11-02-2015, 05:22 PM
Block session abuser. "prayprey" won't say anything else but don't accept.
DeepThoughts
11-03-2015, 02:46 AM
Just got this Email but I deleted the names of the winners because they might not want it posted here and you all can check it in your own mail boxes. I didnt get to participate cause I was away and found out about the contest too late but I hope they do it next year cause I had some Great Ideas on how to win! Still seeing this makes me really excited! I loved the contest and I really hope we get to find out who won the $1000 and how much they made to win it cause I find it motivating! Congratulations to everyone who Won anything at all! I hope you had fun with it!
A big thank you to everyone who participated in our costume contest. It was a big hit and we saw a lot of fun and creative costumes! In fact, due to amazing participation, we are expanding our prize pool! Instead of the top 100 models, we're giving prizes to the top 200 models! Places 101-200 will receive a $25 bonus.
The votes have been tallied and prizes will be awarded soon! If you're a winner, you will see your prize as an adjustment to your earnings this week. This will happen sometime in the next few days. Congratulations!
For privacy reasons, we will not be listing all 200 winners without their permission. However, we contacted the top 10 winners, and those who got back to us are listed below!
Performers in the Top 10 (in no particular order):
All 200 winners will receive their prizes within the next few days!
1st place will receive $1000
2nd place will receive $800
3rd place will receive $600
4th place will receive $400
5th place will receive $200
6th–20th places will receive $100
21st–100th places receive $50
101st–200th places will receive $25
Win a prize and want to let people know? Tweet about it and add @streamatemodels, and we'll RT it!
Thanks again to everyone who participated!
Streamate Models Support
gingerstripper
11-03-2015, 08:05 AM
whooohooo! i won something :D
so much fun. you guys should do more contests!
If they do another contest again i hope it will be a contest where everyone has chances to win, not only the people offering lots of content and $0 gold shows for votes cause i tell you what guys, for the ones who dont normally do gold shows, dont have a GS following & dont sell content on SM ~~IT WAS AWFUL~~, i took saturday off after a dead friday shift, FOR ME it was NO fun at all & i know others had the same, they just dont post much about it cause well, it's embarrassing.
Take note SM, while some models won nice prizes a lot more lost money due to this contest rules, i repeat myself, make it possible for everyone to win next time.
EllieGold
11-03-2015, 09:33 AM
I banked without needing the costume... so yeah that was fun I guess. No dressing up for me this year. Congrats to the winners!
DeepThoughts
11-03-2015, 11:32 AM
I didnt bank cause I only had time to put in a few hours on Saturday but I also didnt do costume and I still a bit better then I expected. Plus there were lots of visitors to my room so I would say the contest was great for drawing guys in and getting them excited to tip, even if was just $1
kortneykay
11-03-2015, 11:35 AM
If they do another contest again i hope it will be a contest where everyone has chances to win, not only the people offering lots of content and $0 gold shows for votes cause i tell you what guys, for the ones who dont normally do gold shows, dont have a GS following & dont sell content on SM ~~IT WAS AWFUL~~, i took saturday off after a dead friday shift, FOR ME it was NO fun at all & i know others had the same, they just dont post much about it cause well, it's embarrassing.
Take note SM, while some models won nice prizes a lot more lost money due to this contest rules, i repeat myself, make it possible for everyone to win next time.
Are you ever content with anything? You could've been one of the 200 winners (which I think is rather generous from SM) and still you sit here and complain. Everyone did have a chance to win, you just chose not to participate. I played, didn't win, but I still banked. I was tipped for my modest maids costume and tipped meagerly but I still hustled and played the game. No content to offer, still got tipped. I didn't take Saturday off, I worked for my money. Change your mindset/attitude, KatM or you're going to be unhappy, a chronic complainer, and still broke. Mark my words.
IvyAdams
11-03-2015, 11:42 AM
If they do another contest again i hope it will be a contest where everyone has chances to win, not only the people offering lots of content and $0 gold shows for votes cause i tell you what guys, for the ones who dont normally do gold shows, dont have a GS following & dont sell content on SM ~~IT WAS AWFUL~~, i took saturday off after a dead friday shift, FOR ME it was NO fun at all & i know others had the same, they just dont post much about it cause well, it's embarrassing.
Take note SM, while some models won nice prizes a lot more lost money due to this contest rules, i repeat myself, make it possible for everyone to win next time.
Everyone did have a chance to win. If models chose to not participate, then that's on them NOT Streamate. Bottom line is, you're a product and should always be marketing yourself as such. There are plenty of ways to get guys to tip in free chat without doing $0 gold shows. Flashes, booty shakes, playing games, etc. If that's not your hustle and you didn't want to adapt to have a chance at being one of the 200 winners then that's nobodies fault except for your own.
Personally I love that SM is starting to do contests. I think it's a great way to retain paying traffic and bring it to the site, and to let the models be creative in ways maybe they wouldn't have been before. Plus, nothing wrong with a little healthy competition. :)
Kitcatt
11-03-2015, 11:51 AM
I won something, it was fun, but I DO understand KatM's complaint. I only do tvgolds and don't really have a gold show audience, so I couldn't spend the night holding guys hostage in free chat until there were enough tips in to run a free gold show ( I don't mean this term to be bitchy, that's how one model described it who was doing it). I also don't sell content, so another strike against me for the possibility at a top 10 run. Also, I was in shows 50% of the time so that was time that no one could tip me.
BUT, I got around $500 in tips for doing absolutelyfuckingnothing except showing up in a costume, AND I was in shows 50% of the time on a night that generally sucks balls for me, so I am not going to complain. It would be nice if it didn't bend so far to the gold show side but, eh. The only other way I could see the contest working is total income and that would equally piss models off.
ZafinaX
11-03-2015, 11:54 AM
Are you ever content with anything? You could've been one of the 200 winners (which I think is rather generous from SM) and still you sit here and complain. Everyone did have a chance to win, you just chose not to participate. I played, didn't win, but I still banked. I was tipped for my modest maids costume and tipped meagerly but I still hustled and played the game. No content to offer, still got tipped. I didn't take Saturday off, I worked for my money. Change your mindset/attitude, KatM or you're going to be unhappy, a chronic complainer, and still broke. Mark my words.
You are so awesome every time I see you post, it inspires me to make money. Thank you for that :)