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ravenskyy
09-04-2020, 11:07 AM
Wow. It's slow today. Isn't it payday??? Where. Is. All. The. Money??? Ugh.
AriaSunset
09-04-2020, 12:27 PM
Bitrate issues resolved. Thanks ladies for the suggestions. I think it just took an hour for the channel on the router to finally stabilize the bitrate because ever since ISP changed the channel I'm in green all the time like I was before the issues.
In addition to the ISP call I updated drivers, cleared cache and cookies plus history, made sure my ethernet connection was good, and improved performance for Win 10.
Again, thanks as my anxiety is so much better.
Any tips on improving Windows 10 performance? I could sure use the help!
MissAdriana
09-04-2020, 01:29 PM
Great a contest on my best day of the week. Guess I'm not eating for a couple days this week either
bigbum
09-04-2020, 04:03 PM
i'm not sure, i haven't participated in many of the contests this year so i don't have much data.
though based on past experience i feel like you generally need to average at least $350-500 a day to be able to place top 200 in most contests. but maybe i'm way off. hopefully others can chime in.
it could be a decent couple of days traffic wise. it's labor day weekend so a lot of people don't have work on monday, and might be in party mode saturday and sunday. which could be full of abusive douchebags, or nice drunk guys who don't realize how much they're spending, haha.
oh gosh haha lets hope for the drunk guys
ive already almost passed 1000 blocked so far.. not looking to add to my growing collection of idiots lol
Miss_ShaSha
09-04-2020, 04:28 PM
Any tips on improving Windows 10 performance? I could sure use the help!
Sure. 11 & 12 here:
https://www.windowscentral.com/tips-tricks-increase-pc-performance-windows-10
AriaSunset
09-04-2020, 10:48 PM
Sure. 11 & 12 here:
https://www.windowscentral.com/tips-tricks-increase-pc-performance-windows-10
This entire page was extremely helpful.
anonamiss
09-05-2020, 12:39 AM
I hardly ever get the "show ur pussy bb" guys but damn they were really out tonight. Other than that my traffic was really slow. Managed to get a single gold show going, only because a few regs made it happen. Only made it to half my goal before I said fuck it, lol.
I hope this isn't indicative of the rest of the weekend for you girls working the contest, but after my shift tonight I'm kinda glad I don't plan to be back til Monday night. :/
Good luck this weekend!
gbjenna
09-05-2020, 05:16 AM
Good luck to everyone working the contest!
I’ve been off for a week with my period and I’m back on in an hour. Does anyone else get really anxious after taking a few days off? I get so scared to log back on after time off hahah. Hopefully it’s a good day ready for tomorrow.
CamChik
09-05-2020, 07:39 AM
Good luck to everyone working the contest!
I’ve been off for a week with my period and I’m back on in an hour. Does anyone else get really anxious after taking a few days off? I get so scared to log back on after time off hahah. Hopefully it’s a good day ready for tomorrow.
I've been doing this for 5 years and I STILL have issues with this. I've found the best way is to "warm up" with a toy if you know what I mean....
It puts my head in the right space to cam again, otherwise I'm too "normal" and vanilla and it takes me awhile to readjust.
Jodyjensen
09-05-2020, 10:31 AM
Really fed up last two days. Only managed an hour yesterday before I bailed, almost at that point today an hour in again. People complaining about my prices being too high (5.99/6.49 - too fucking low imo) or just parking themselves in my room chatting shit without spending. I’m trying to kick and give a couple of chances before outright blocking but I might just go back to blocking them straight away now. Annoying as this week has been pretty good up till yest. Here’s hoping it picks up before I give up for the night.
bigbum
09-05-2020, 10:50 AM
Really fed up last two days. Only managed an hour yesterday before I bailed, almost at that point today an hour in again. People complaining about my prices being too high (5.99/6.49 - too fucking low imo) or just parking themselves in my room chatting shit without spending. I’m trying to kick and give a couple of chances before outright blocking but I might just go back to blocking them straight away now. Annoying as this week has been pretty good up till yest. Here’s hoping it picks up before I give up for the night.
just block the zeros until you find heros.
you are not expensive at all :-)
i just reached my "1000 milestone"
you can read about it here to cheer you up.
https://www.stripperweb.com/forum/showthread.php?146917-STUPID-annoying-shit-I-ve-heard-on-cam/page716
hang in there girlie
Jodyjensen
09-05-2020, 11:04 AM
just block the zeros until you find heros.
you are not expensive at all :-)
i just reached my "1000 milestone"
you can read about it here to cheer you up.
hang in there girlie
Thank you! 1000 blocks is some going, I’m not gonna feel bad about blocking anymore. I don’t know why I did anyway, just worry I’m being too harsh sometimes I suppose. The losers aren’t worth my time or energy though :)
Nicci84
09-05-2020, 12:27 PM
Girls, I have a tech question, my stream ist pretty clear in front, but a bit fuzzy in the back! Does anyone know what the reason could be? Could it have to do something with the light? I really don't like how it looks, but don't know how to fix this. Anyy suggestion would be greatly appreaciated.
Cheers
kamiliam
09-05-2020, 02:00 PM
Good luck to everyone working the contest!
I’ve been off for a week with my period and I’m back on in an hour. Does anyone else get really anxious after taking a few days off? I get so scared to log back on after time off hahah. Hopefully it’s a good day ready for tomorrow.
When I come back after more then a couple days off I just try to immerse myself into work as quickly as possible. I usually have a pretty drawn out getting ready process. Lots of steps mixed into my daily needs, a set time to start. After a break I get my workout/food/personal duties done I get ready usually with less attention to detail and just get on straight away. It forces me into my work mode and allows me to get ready the next day at my normal pace without worry.
Panthera
09-06-2020, 02:06 AM
All contests are the same for me lately:
- losers that only want to chat in free and when I invite them in private they say "I wish I could afford" (where the heck do these come from, precisely when there is a contest, not knowing that this is a pay site???)
-then another layer of idiots (I assume they are other models' peeps or lame studio managers) that when they see a model with more than 6-7 people in her room, enter private for 20 seconds just to kill the room so she doesn't have a chance at making money from those people. Beyond lame. I started to not allow anyone that doesn't say at least Hello in free chat, to enter private. Saves me a lot of neurons from frying.
Sundays are my best days usually. Never in contests tho. bleah. Sick of this.
Wyntir
09-06-2020, 03:40 AM
I've been trying to find the payment options they have but apparently you have to register first! Anyone from the EU who works on SM? What kind of payments do they have?
arielbriel
09-06-2020, 04:24 AM
Really fed up last two days. Only managed an hour yesterday before I bailed, almost at that point today an hour in again. People complaining about my prices being too high (5.99/6.49 - too fucking low imo) or just parking themselves in my room chatting shit without spending. I’m trying to kick and give a couple of chances before outright blocking but I might just go back to blocking them straight away now. Annoying as this week has been pretty good up till yest. Here’s hoping it picks up before I give up for the night.
I don’t kick, I block lol.
arielbriel
09-06-2020, 04:26 AM
So if most models hate contests, why can’t we band together and demand SM stop this nonsense?
I've been trying to find the payment options they have but apparently you have to register first! Anyone from the EU who works on SM? What kind of payments do they have?
Hello. They have :
-Check via regular mail
Fee: None
Minimum Payout: $20
-Wire Transfer
Fee: Varies based on bank country - see below
Minimum Payout: $225
Not available in all countries.
-Skrill
Fee: Calculated by Skrill based on the transaction amount.
Minimum Payout: $100
Not available in all countries.
(for more information, visit Skrill's website)
-Paxum
Fee: See Paxum documentation for more info
Minimum Payout: $100
Not available for new accounts in the United States
(for more information, visit Paxum's FAQ's)
-COSMO Payment
Fee: See COSMO Payment Fees for more info
Minimum Payout: $100
Not available in all countries.
(for more information, visit COSMO Payment's website)
- EPayService
Fee: See EPayService Fees for more info
Minimum Payout: $100
(for more information, visit EPayService's website)
-Boleynmodels ( Your earnings are paid daily) they take a commission:
(Tier I – US/CA/UK/most of EU etc.) – 30% base, up to 35% with bonus. (86 to 100% payout)
(Tier II – RO/CO/PH etc.) – 26% base, up to 30% with bonus. (86 to 100% payout) If you work 6 days a week, they will double your lowest day. They pay you thru paxum, cosmopayment, veem and transfer wise. Here is my affiliate link https://admin.boleynmodels.com/ref?page=&affToken=MTA3ODM=
Ambercat
09-06-2020, 05:25 AM
Im with boleyn and in EU (British passport, resident in Cyprus most of the time). For streamate I get 30% standard plus the bonus if I do 6 days. Which country are you in to be getting 26? Is this to do with streamates country payment categories ?
Miss_ShaSha
09-06-2020, 05:49 AM
All contests are the same for me lately:
- losers that only want to chat in free and when I invite them in private they say "I wish I could afford" (where the heck do these come from, precisely when there is a contest, not knowing that this is a pay site???)
-then another layer of idiots (I assume they are other models' peeps or lame studio managers) that when they see a model with more than 6-7 people in her room, enter private for 20 seconds just to kill the room so she doesn't have a chance at making money from those people. Beyond lame. I started to not allow anyone that doesn't say at least Hello in free chat, to enter private. Saves me a lot of neurons from frying.
Sundays are my best days usually. Never in contests tho. bleah. Sick of this.
Sunday used to be my best day, but it hasn't been good for 4 weeks now. I don't know what's going on, but it's bad. I used to make anywhere from $350-400 in 6 hrs. Now? I'm lucky if I make $150. It's really upsetting.
I'm on now and I'm going to try 10 hrs. I hope it's ok this contest. Gonna try to stay positive tho. You never know what can happen. I hope my regs come by to save me. My regs have been absent lately.
Im with boleyn and in EU (British passport, resident in Cyprus most of the time). For streamate I get 30% standard plus the bonus if I do 6 days. Which country are you in to be getting 26? Is this to do with streamates country payment categories ?
I just saw, my mistake. Yes, it has to do with streamate. If I would not be paid thru boleyn, id would get 30 %
(Tier I – US/CA/UK/most of EU etc.) – 30% base, up to 35% with bonus. (86 to 100% payout)
(Tier II – RO/CO/PH etc.) – 26% base, up to 30% with bonus. (86 to 100% payout)
Ambercat
09-06-2020, 06:28 AM
Ah I see, sucks Streamate do this!
+ you get paid every week but with 3 weeks delay, that's why I am with boleyn now
princess_casual
09-06-2020, 07:52 AM
Sunday used to be my best day, but it hasn't been good for 4 weeks now. I don't know what's going on, but it's bad. I used to make anywhere from $350-400 in 6 hrs. Now? I'm lucky if I make $150. It's really upsetting.
I'm on now and I'm going to try 10 hrs. I hope it's ok this contest. Gonna try to stay positive tho. You never know what can happen. I hope my regs come by to save me. My regs have been absent lately.
I am in the same boat as you.... and not just sundays, but everyday... 0 traffic, poppers, regs have been absent or just pop in and out. I recently raised my rates and I was wondering if people just aren't willing to pay it (I'm at 5.99/7.99, so not even as high as some other models). I wanna give it another month before I consider lowering back to my old rates... (1$ less).
It's really rough lately... we just have to hope it gets better and put in some extra hours for now...
Miss_ShaSha
09-06-2020, 08:31 AM
I am in the same boat as you.... regs have been absent or just pop in and out. I recently raised my rates and I was wondering if people just aren't willing to pay it (I'm at 5.99/7.99, so not even as high as some other models). I wanna give it another month before I consider lowering back to my old rates... (1$ less).
It's really rough lately... we just have to hope it gets better and put in some extra hours for now...
Your rates are fine. I only had one reg neglect to do shows with the $8.99/$9.99 rate. They will come when we are patient enough to catch them.
Yeah, it's been real hard the last 3 weeks and that's my resolve to just stream more hours. I'm no stranger to 40 hr weeks lol.
Ambercat
09-06-2020, 09:15 AM
Princess, I agree with Sha, your rates are fine. I'm at 5.99/8.99, also been slow of late but today I logged in and had 15min block from a new guy so there are still people out there willing to pay for their luxuries. xx
Miss_ShaSha
09-06-2020, 09:53 AM
How is your Sunday going if you're on? I'm 3 hrs in and $15 an hr is very discouraging. I know if I do my hours it'll work out by the end of the week, but such a slow start is almost panic inducing.
Ambercat
09-06-2020, 10:03 AM
I did 45 mins, $36 then my lush died. It accounts for over half my SM earnings so have logged onto BSC for a bit.
princess_casual
09-06-2020, 01:51 PM
How is your Sunday going if you're on? I'm 3 hrs in and $15 an hr is very discouraging. I know if I do my hours it'll work out by the end of the week, but such a slow start is almost panic inducing.
I don't want to jinx it but today has been decent-ish... I did about 5 hours earlier (3pm-8pm Central European Time) and made 45$/hour average. I logged back in at 10pm and it's a bit of a lull, which is not surprising as it's afternoon/evening in US and it's labor day weekend. Will give it 2 hours as I have my period so I wanna try to get some good sleep. Planning on doing at least 6-8 hours tomorrow.
anonamiss
09-06-2020, 06:18 PM
So if most models hate contests, why can’t we band together and demand SM stop this nonsense?
...why would they listen to model "demands"? we're there by choice, our opinions mean jack shit to them. they ask us for feedback and so rarely give us what we ask for. instead they update the site with random new features that no one wanted or requested. many of us have "demanded" for years that SM needs to give us access to basic live tech support, instead of their garbage email support that takes days to respond to urgent issues. they won't even give us that, despite it being available to customers.
the models that hate the contests are likely the ones who don't make much money during them. maaaybe if a bunch of high earning models went to SM and said "hey these contests suck, i'm earning way less money than my usual average during contests" then maybe they'd listen. but the fact that SM can afford to pay out such an insane amount in prizes so frequently just shows how much the top models must be making on the site. SM has to be making a nice profit while being able to pay out all the prizes, otherwise i assume they'd stop doing the contests.
eta: personally i don't hate all the contests. i just hate the short ones that have such low prizes for the top 200. like i'm not busting my ass for two days to make $800 for a $50 bonus. i'd be happy with them doing one mega week-long contest where at least the top 500 get prizes, maybe once every six to eight weeks.
bigbum
09-06-2020, 08:17 PM
I just saw, my mistake. Yes, it has to do with streamate. If I would not be paid thru boleyn, id would get 30 %
(Tier I – US/CA/UK/most of EU etc.) – 30% base, up to 35% with bonus. (86 to 100% payout)
(Tier II – RO/CO/PH etc.) – 26% base, up to 30% with bonus. (86 to 100% payout)
what does the "up to 35 percent bonus mean? " i dont understand that part?
bigbum
09-06-2020, 08:18 PM
...why would they listen to model "demands"? we're there by choice, our opinions mean jack shit to them. they ask us for feedback and so rarely give us what we ask for. instead they update the site with random new features that no one wanted or requested. many of us have "demanded" for years that SM needs to give us access to basic live tech support, instead of their garbage email support that takes days to respond to urgent issues. they won't even give us that, despite it being available to customers.
the models that hate the contests are likely the ones who don't make much money during them. maaaybe if a bunch of high earning models went to SM and said "hey these contests suck, i'm earning way less money than my usual average during contests" then maybe they'd listen. but the fact that SM can afford to pay out such an insane amount in prizes so frequently just shows how much the top models must be making on the site. SM has to be making a nice profit while being able to pay out all the prizes, otherwise i assume they'd stop doing the contests.
eta: personally i don't hate all the contests. i just hate the short ones that have such low prizes for the top 200. like i'm not busting my ass for two days to make $800 for a $50 bonus. i'd be happy with them doing one mega week-long contest where at least the top 500 get prizes, maybe once every six to eight weeks.
yesss... ALL OF THIS
what does the "up to 35 percent bonus mean? " i dont understand that part?
If you work 6 days in a week, boleynmodels will double your lowest day.
For example you do in a week 200, 78,100,500,250,92 they will give you + 78$
That means that if you work 6 days a week you could reach the amount that you would get if you was at 35 %
English is not my first language. Hope you understand and hope that I am correct :P
arielbriel
09-07-2020, 12:01 AM
...why would they listen to model "demands"? we're there by choice, our opinions mean jack shit to them. they ask us for feedback and so rarely give us what we ask for. instead they update the site with random new features that no one wanted or requested. many of us have "demanded" for years that SM needs to give us access to basic live tech support, instead of their garbage email support that takes days to respond to urgent issues. they won't even give us that, despite it being available to customers.
the models that hate the contests are likely the ones who don't make much money during them. maaaybe if a bunch of high earning models went to SM and said "hey these contests suck, i'm earning way less money than my usual average during contests" then maybe they'd listen. but the fact that SM can afford to pay out such an insane amount in prizes so frequently just shows how much the top models must be making on the site. SM has to be making a nice profit while being able to pay out all the prizes, otherwise i assume they'd stop doing the contests.
eta: personally i don't hate all the contests. i just hate the short ones that have such low prizes for the top 200. like i'm not busting my ass for two days to make $800 for a $50 bonus. i'd be happy with them doing one mega week-long contest where at least the top 500 get prizes, maybe once every six to eight weeks.
Thanks, that is enlightening.
Jodyjensen
09-07-2020, 02:18 AM
What is it with guys who come in my room ‘just to say hello’? Spend money or GTFO.
gbjenna
09-07-2020, 06:41 AM
Is anyone else having bitrate problems today? I was in the green all yesterday and now I'm hovering over yellow the majority of the time, there's nothing changed my end and my upload speed is 96mb
Miss_ShaSha
09-07-2020, 11:52 AM
I've done 11 dead hours for this contest & I'm done. Exceedingly frustrating so I'm back to the drawing board. I've gotta manifest money this week on SM. My psyche can't take 3 bad weeks. On a mission.
pippapippa
09-07-2020, 12:06 PM
Is anyone else having bitrate problems today? I was in the green all yesterday and now I'm hovering over yellow the majority of the time, there's nothing changed my end and my upload speed is 96mb
Having horrible bitrate issues. My bitrate went down to .07 just now. It’s all over the place and it’s not my internet.
princess_casual
09-07-2020, 12:58 PM
I've lost several shows because c2c doesn't work properly (causes my stream to freeze, their screen is black, audio cuts out, they get kicked) as well as freezing, complaints that audio doesn't work...
CB & MFC have way more traffic than SM, so that isn't an excuse.
Bit rate also jumping around, despite all my specs being great (except my ping rate - if anyone has any tips on how to lower it, LMK).
bigbum
09-07-2020, 08:21 PM
If you work 6 days in a week, boleynmodels will double your lowest day.
For example you do in a week 200, 78,100,500,250,92 they will give you + 78$
That means that if you work 6 days a week you could reach the amount that you would get if you was at 35 %
English is not my first language. Hope you understand and hope that I am correct :P
ohhhh i see i thought that streamate did this
i get it now its for the online studio gottcha
MissAdriana
09-08-2020, 08:57 AM
What is it with guys who come in my room ‘just to say hello’? Spend money or GTFO.
I might be on the unpopular opinion side here but I like it. It lets me know they can see me, I'm showing up, my stream quality is probably good or they know when I'm going to be online etc
princess_casual
09-08-2020, 01:43 PM
I might be on the unpopular opinion side here but I like it. It lets me know they can see me, I'm showing up, my stream quality is probably good or they know when I'm going to be online etc
I agree, I don't have an issue so long as it doesn't become a habit. Not every dude wants/can enter a chat room and go pvt right then and there. Many serious spenders like to check out some rooms before settling on someone for a later time.
moneybags
09-09-2020, 10:07 PM
I've lost several shows because c2c doesn't work properly (causes my stream to freeze, their screen is black, audio cuts out, they get kicked) as well as freezing, complaints that audio doesn't work...
CB & MFC have way more traffic than SM, so that isn't an excuse.
Bit rate also jumping around, despite all my specs being great (except my ping rate - if anyone has any tips on how to lower it, LMK).
It’s been glitchy today too. I logged off and now I’ll get back on. I thought maybe my laptop is just slow. Most likely on the streamate side. I’m only running SM and have good internet. Very frustrating for everyone. Well I gave my laptop a rest. Let’s get this show on the road.
innocentindian
09-10-2020, 09:14 AM
Is anyone else having trouble logging into Streamate this morning? I'm able to log in but it says I need to complete my application in order to stream UGHHH
I'm going on vacation tomorrow and literally just $100 away from my goal that I wanted to get in real quick today >__>
SM_CamGirl
09-10-2020, 09:16 AM
Is anyone else having trouble logging into Streamate this morning? I'm able to log in but it says I need to complete my application in order to stream UGHHH
I'm going on vacation tomorrow and literally just $100 away from my goal that I wanted to get in real quick today >__>
Me!!!!
innocentindian
09-10-2020, 09:16 AM
Me!!!!
Ok, so the site is glitching out, it's not just me! Thank you!
MissAdriana
09-10-2020, 09:20 AM
Me!!!!
Me too nothing is working
SuperPookie
09-10-2020, 09:44 AM
Is anyone else having trouble logging into Streamate this morning? I'm able to log in but it says I need to complete my application in order to stream UGHHH
I'm going on vacation tomorrow and literally just $100 away from my goal that I wanted to get in real quick today >__>
Thank God someone else is having the same issue. I logged in and had a cow lol
JustMilfnAround
09-10-2020, 09:45 AM
Oh THANK GOODNESS it's not just me - I about had a conniption! Hopefully they get this resolved fast - I had a good day yesterday and only have a half day today because of NFL.