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Luci Fer
03-22-2021, 12:33 AM
I was just about to finish a successful gold show that went above and beyond my goal when my Internet crashed. I called and they said it was scheduled maintenance. Ugh bad timing!

oh, so SM does scheduled maintenance? And it results in disconnecting models? Damn, they should WARN about the maintenance, if its scheduled! Ironically, when I'm being kicked out of the site, its mostly from exclusives! :( Never from free chat, damn it.

Luci Fer
03-22-2021, 12:34 AM
ugh fuck this contest is all I'm sayin *eyeroll*

I was just about the same hahahah

fetishqueen
03-22-2021, 01:46 AM
I read that post as it was the internet company doing scheduled maintenance, I hope so anyway!

~Carmen~
03-22-2021, 02:08 AM
I read that post as it was the internet company doing scheduled maintenance, I hope so anyway!

Yes, that's what I meant. It was Comcast doing scheduled maintenance. I'm sorry, I should have specified that better.

gooday
03-22-2021, 02:25 AM
Hello, please tell me what is the average price on the site? can't figure it out

Angela888
03-22-2021, 03:17 AM
Do you mean for shows? There is not one I don’t think, ladies charge what they feel comfortable with. When I first started, think I charged 3.99 & 4.99 may have been less, can’t remember! A year on and I charge more. Try some prices out, see how you go. Hope this helps x

alexaben
03-22-2021, 03:39 AM
No offical word except for it hasnt halted alot of individuals doing it. SM have been for the most part very great to us recently.

gbjenna
03-22-2021, 05:47 AM
Can anyone else suddenly not connect their esca 2 to SM? It's working on the app but it won't connect on SM and I can't load the QR code up either to try and reconnect???

everythingiscake
03-22-2021, 05:49 AM
Yesterday I was kicked out of exclusives repeatedly. Never privates, never free chat, but would get an error and the stream would try to reconnect. Lost some good money because only half the guys would come back and try again. They all told me the website "crashed" for them.

gbjenna
03-22-2021, 05:51 AM
Yesterday I was kicked out of exclusives repeatedly. Never privates, never free chat, but would get an error and the stream would try to reconnect. Lost some good money because only half the guys would come back and try again. They all told me the website "crashed" for them.

I had one like that yesterday. He got kicked out and came back and said he had no idea what happened but he tried again and it worked thankfully. It could have happened a few times cause I had a lot of short shows. But not all guys are necessarily going to say something

Ladybuggie
03-22-2021, 06:23 AM
Can anyone else suddenly not connect their esca 2 to SM? It's working on the app but it won't connect on SM and I can't load the QR code up either to try and reconnect???

My Esca isn't connecting on SM either and I was wondering if it was broken or something. So weird.

princess_casual
03-22-2021, 09:34 AM
Bit rate is fuuuuuuuuucked today! Traffic is lame too... gonna be a long day...

DeliveryLadyx
03-22-2021, 10:17 AM
Bitrate was all over the place and traffic is lame too. Esca is fine , is Lush not connecting for weeks and now Esca is giving signs of retirement and I dont wanna buy another vibe toy.

Miss_ShaSha
03-22-2021, 11:11 AM
This contest sucks hahahaaa but they almost always do. 2+ hrs for shit and hardly any traffic. Getting tired of 1s and 2s popping in then leaving without even a "hi". Fuckers lololll

DeliveryLadyx
03-22-2021, 11:27 AM
wtf is with the bitrate?!!!! is goin in red 0.60 and fluctuating constantly and is not my tech! i am pixelating and traffic sucks

pippapippa
03-22-2021, 11:54 AM
This contest sucks hahahaaa but they almost always do. 2+ hrs for shit and hardly any traffic. Getting tired of 1s and 2s popping in then leaving without even a "hi". Fuckers lololll

I’m making less than half of my hourly last week. Completely agreed.

whirlerz
03-22-2021, 12:36 PM
How long ia craptest for, lol

Miss_ShaSha
03-22-2021, 01:49 PM
How long ia craptest for, lol

I think it's gonna suck all week lolollll

xxxGothBarbie
03-22-2021, 02:10 PM
Im gonna waste my last 2 GB of my hot spot data later tonoght on this shit show lol maybe I'll get lucky haha

DeliveryLadyx
03-22-2021, 02:45 PM
What a shit show is today, bitrate still all over the place, lot of in and out, they don't even say hi, enters and less than a second they leave, cannot convert shit like this. jesus....

bigbum
03-22-2021, 03:37 PM
hi everyone ! just to update everyone thanks to a user here who sent a pm with the user id of the aussie model who was exposed on PH..
i have sent her user id directly to liz at SM.
hopefully she will be able to contact the model directly .

thanks to everyone here, we can get this creep taken down once and for all.

good luck in the contest ladies. and be careful of those damn dick ratings.

omg .. really PH? the link is back up! it was down yesterday and now its back.
i give up .....

wealthmagnet
03-22-2021, 09:39 PM
holy shittle skittle, where's everyone at tonight?

moneybags
03-22-2021, 09:45 PM
What a shit show is today, bitrate still all over the place, lot of in and out, they don't even say hi, enters and less than a second they leave, cannot convert shit like this. jesus....

Oh my...keep on keeping on. The name of the game is staying on cam.

Luci Fer
03-22-2021, 09:46 PM
I think it's gonna suck all week lolollll

Do guys know about contests? (except the girls telling them I mean) Whenever it's contest week, there are always some random lurkers popping from nowhere and disappearing almost right away, as if it it was a gold show going on! I like 1-2 days contests but ''put your best face forward'' is just super lame idea. I can motivate myself without this pretty well.:bored:

gooday
03-22-2021, 10:20 PM
Do you mean for shows? There is not one I don’t think, ladies charge what they feel comfortable with. When I first started, think I charged 3.99 & 4.99 may have been less, can’t remember! A year on and I charge more. Try some prices out, see how you go. Hope this helps x
thank you! is it possible to take additional gold for some actions in private? it is not clear how to ask for extra for some actions..

Luci Fer
03-22-2021, 10:24 PM
omg .. really PH? the link is back up! it was down yesterday and now its back.
i give up .....

Just proves the only ones who will truly protect us are ourselves ;/

Luci Fer
03-22-2021, 10:56 PM
thank you! is it possible to take additional gold for some actions in private? it is not clear how to ask for extra for some actions..

yes, it is! You can put it in your topic room/show description, or warn them any way you re comfortable with.

Emanuelle
03-22-2021, 11:41 PM
I was browsing around the site and thought I'd look at the pages further down to learn from what people are doing wrong, and surprisingly I couldn't find anything. I never hear girls talk about their page ranking unless it's front page, and how to stay on the front page. It looked to me like the girls on pages 7, 10, and 13 were pretty, had good lighting, good stream quality. were interacting with customers, all the things we should be doing. So how does someone who seems to be doing everything right end up on page 10? And are people on page 10 making money too? I have no idea where I rank.

gooday
03-23-2021, 12:13 AM
I was browsing around the site and thought I'd look at the pages further down to learn from what people are doing wrong, and surprisingly I couldn't find anything. I never hear girls talk about their page ranking unless it's front page, and how to stay on the front page. It looked to me like the girls on pages 7, 10, and 13 were pretty, had good lighting, good stream quality. were interacting with customers, all the things we should be doing. So how does someone who seems to be doing everything right end up on page 10? And are people on page 10 making money too? I have no idea where I rank.
I work on streamate recently, before I was on another site, it is similar, but the rules are different. usually I'm on page 4-6 and it's almost always slow .. potential users are usually 2-6 sometimes there are 0, but if you do a gold show then there can be 20 or 30 of them. money is earned, but not at all the same as for models from 1 page :D

gooday
03-23-2021, 12:31 AM
how many hours a day do you work? how many days a week? or just how many hours per week do you usually get on?

DeliveryLadyx
03-23-2021, 02:25 AM
For the girls which were in the same situation as me regarding lush not connecting (mine didn't connect for weeks), the connectivity was fixed i believe, yesterday i tried again because Ohmibod Esca is dying and voila, worked! tried on 2 devices (pc and laptop) and connected on both!

Edit- today doesn't work anymore Lush and my esca is dead, damnit.

Luci Fer
03-23-2021, 07:08 AM
I was browsing around the site and thought I'd look at the pages further down to learn from what people are doing wrong, and surprisingly I couldn't find anything. I never hear girls talk about their page ranking unless it's front page, and how to stay on the front page. It looked to me like the girls on pages 7, 10, and 13 were pretty, had good lighting, good stream quality. were interacting with customers, all the things we should be doing. So how does someone who seems to be doing everything right end up on page 10? And are people on page 10 making money too? I have no idea where I rank.

I have no idea on what page I am, too. I don't know how to find it out. I think the placement depends on $/hour. I also think users use tags to search models, and IMO page placement is overrated.

Miss_ShaSha
03-23-2021, 09:01 AM
I was browsing around the site and thought I'd look at the pages further down to learn from what people are doing wrong, and surprisingly I couldn't find anything. I never hear girls talk about their page ranking unless it's front page, and how to stay on the front page. It looked to me like the girls on pages 7, 10, and 13 were pretty, had good lighting, good stream quality. were interacting with customers, all the things we should be doing. So how does someone who seems to be doing everything right end up on page 10? And are people on page 10 making money too? I have no idea where I rank.

I agree wholeheartedly as a lady who is relatively new I couldn't find in the first 6 pages yet she's gorgeous, friendly, great stream quality, good lighting, & doing it all right. She doesn't make a whole lot for her quality, which is great, so it's a mystery.

But I made it to page 1 by STFO. I made shitty wages on the back pages, but I didn't give up. Smart placement does help & I had some traffic despite being so far back.

I had geo on for 2+ months too. I didn't know I made it to page 1 til I took geo off & months of consistency with STFO.

Smart placement does help & members logged in can see a page 10 girl (logged out) on page 1 or 2.

DeliveryLadyx
03-23-2021, 09:34 AM
Anyone is being kicked and streaming error? Happened 3 times to me and lush doesn't connect again. Traffic wise, very tiny....

minibagel
03-23-2021, 10:22 AM
I was browsing around the site and thought I'd look at the pages further down to learn from what people are doing wrong, and surprisingly I couldn't find anything. I never hear girls talk about their page ranking unless it's front page, and how to stay on the front page. It looked to me like the girls on pages 7, 10, and 13 were pretty, had good lighting, good stream quality. were interacting with customers, all the things we should be doing. So how does someone who seems to be doing everything right end up on page 10? And are people on page 10 making money too? I have no idea where I rank.


This is true of all camsites, 100%. The truth is it's a combination of factors that gets you to the top. Biggest one, which is entirely out of our control, is how deep are your clients pockets? On tip based sites, the veteran top girls rely on just a handful of devoted whales with seemingly bottomless pockets. That's all it really takes. Girls outside the top 20, 100, 250, or even top 1000 can be just as cute, engaging, creative, work just as "hard", etc... and never reach those ranks. It's all about who their customers are.

On Streamate and other private based sites, idk what makes a "top girl" outsides of the short contests. On Sunday, I was observing the #1 girl (at the time) and judging from her 350G gold show, it seems she would have to do many of those shows for hours on end to achieve high earnings. I'm guessing logging a ton of hours probably gets you to page 1. My best nights on SM I averaged $250-300/hour and it doesn't seem to improve my traffic or placement at all, not even in the slightest (geoblock).. but maybe it's cuz I don't put in enough hours?

My theory is traditional vanilla models (fully nudity & masturbation) have a better chance of making it to the top in contests, which makes sense since that's what SM advertises. And those are the types who really excel in the contests and probably have better site placement overall. Please anyone correct me if I'm wrong if there are nonnude/non-masturbation types who get high ranks in contests. Besides that, oversaturation means not everyone can be on the front page

AuroraJade
03-23-2021, 10:53 AM
The pink badge that says you have a tip vibe doesn't show up for me. I dont see it anywhere and I looked at a lot of rooms of other models. Glitch?

naughtybabe1
03-23-2021, 11:00 AM
So another contest week...WELL SHIT! I hate them for me personally. Shit/dumb/slow or no traffic and wierd glitchy shit on the SM site all the time. The usual suspects...this week just reminded me how important it is to have a second good egg for $$ backup. I've made more on my second/splitcamming site this week than SM. I'm not really surprised but then again I am. It kind of scared me too. All it would take is for my #1 to go offline and then I would be really stuck. So now contest weeks on SM have made me rethink my strategedy. I know I won't score big on SM during a contest so I make my #2 egg my #1 egg with my attention and I don't work that hard on SM. IT HAS WORKED FOR 3 DAYS NOW! I'm growing my base on #2 which I need and getting what I can on SM. I'll switch back to normal after the contest but now I see these contest days in a different light. Good luck to all the models this week!

Miss_ShaSha
03-23-2021, 11:51 AM
So another contest week...WELL SHIT! I hate them for me personally. Shit/dumb/slow or no traffic and wierd glitchy shit on the SM site all the time. The usual suspects...this week just reminded me how important it is to have a second good egg for $$ backup. I've made more on my second/splitcamming site this week than SM. I'm not really surprised but then again I am. It kind of scared me too. All it would take is for my #1 to go offline and then I would be really stuck. So now contest weeks on SM have made me rethink my strategedy. I know I won't score big on SM during a contest so I make my #2 egg my #1 egg with my attention and I don't work that hard on SM. IT HAS WORKED FOR 3 DAYS NOW! I'm growing my base on #2 which I need and getting what I can on SM. I'll switch back to normal after the contest but now I see these contest days in a different light. Good luck to all the models this week!

Ditto except I don't have a #2. I tried CB & MFC. Not good. & SM contest always the same except for 2 in 2+ years exclusive with SM & competing in all contests.

I can make $1k+ in about 30 hrs on a decent non-contest week, but during a contest that usually never happens. It's usually dead AF in my room. I can be found STFO for 6-8 hrs for around $100 on a good contest day. That's horrible & brutal AF.

Having a savings is my saving grace... Really!

Miss_ShaSha
03-23-2021, 11:59 AM
The pink badge that says you have a tip vibe doesn't show up for me. I dont see it anywhere and I looked at a lot of rooms of other models. Glitch?

I haven't seen that sign for a while. I chk with my member account all the time. It just hasn't been showing up. Guys still ask if I have a tip vibe despite it being stated in my room topic.

MissAdriana
03-23-2021, 02:36 PM
Do guys know about contests? (except the girls telling them I mean) Whenever it's contest week, there are always some random lurkers popping from nowhere and disappearing almost right away, as if it it was a gold show going on! I like 1-2 days contests but ''put your best face forward'' is just super lame idea. I can motivate myself without this pretty well.:bored:

There is a contest tab on the front page. When you click it shows random models in random placements. I have no idea how they rotate and choose those models, but they can be at any # and in any order. I have no clue how often they rotate those models, it's probably less than every 5 minutes or seconds which explains the mass in and outs.

lula_xoxox
03-23-2021, 06:17 PM
godDAMN it is quiet tonight! on top of that, the few people who do come in are shitty and annoying - i've had one guy open 4 different accounts just to annoy me after i blocked him each time. i think he's a troll but keeps acting stupid like he'll just waste my time in free chat and after repeated kickings i end up blocking him, and then he signs back in on a new account to tell me that he 'keeps getting disconnected' and i'm like NO DUDE I BLOCKED YOU, FUCK OFF! i try not to let it get to me but when i've made literally zero dollars it really feels like my patience is being tested!!!

hope some of you are having a better night than me jfc

Sugarsteepdoll
03-23-2021, 06:44 PM
Sounds like my night too...I guess the good news is its only Tuesday? Lol

whirlerz
03-23-2021, 07:23 PM
Im tired :(

anonamiss
03-23-2021, 11:00 PM
seems i'm finally having the issue a lot of others were having where their lovense toys aren't connecting :( i haven't been on for over a week but it worked fine last time.

i have restarted streamate, my computer, and my phone. also made sure they're on the same wifi network. it buzzes from the phone app itself so the toy and app are connected, but it doesn't pick up on streamate. i even tried doing the QR again from streamate to the app, it showed up on the app but nothing happened on streamate. any one have tips?

i think i recall a while ago someone mentioned there was a specific order they should be turned on. like stream first then turn the toy on then the app, or whatever. if that's a thing, or you have other troubleshooting methods, please let me know.

Emanuelle
03-23-2021, 11:24 PM
seems i'm finally having the issue a lot of others were having where their lovense toys aren't connecting :( i haven't been on for over a week but it worked fine last time.

i have restarted streamate, my computer, and my phone. also made sure they're on the same wifi network. it buzzes from the phone app itself so the toy and app are connected, but it doesn't pick up on streamate. i even tried doing the QR again from streamate to the app, it showed up on the app but nothing happened on streamate. any one have tips?

i think i recall a while ago someone mentioned there was a specific order they should be turned on. like stream first then turn the toy on then the app, or whatever. if that's a thing, or you have other troubleshooting methods, please let me know.

I think you have to start your show and then scan the qr code. I tried setting mine up in advance tonight for the morning and it scanned but doesn't show up in my list. I wrote that in my phone though. Connect lush to phone app --> start show --> scan qr code --> wait about 30 seconds for it to show up on streamate list.
But I don't remember how to set up the menu. I guess it just buzzes for all tips? I'll have to do a search for that.

Ambercat
03-23-2021, 11:39 PM
Has anyone got the lovense 3 yet? I'm wondering if the connectivity issues are to do with either the current lovense naturally wearing out or a lack of ongoing updates on its software to keep it running well. For the last 2 weeks mine's been connecting but the connection strength is very week and it disconnects/reconnects on it's own dozens of times over the course of a shift. I've had it since May 2020 though.

random stripper
03-24-2021, 03:52 AM
I keep being disconnected like my camera seems to shut off? Is this a camera issue or a streamate issue? For the record it is a several year old Logitech C920 webcam that I haven't used in years.

DeliveryLadyx
03-24-2021, 07:42 AM
I think you have to start your show and then scan the qr code. I tried setting mine up in advance tonight for the morning and it scanned but doesn't show up in my list. I wrote that in my phone though. Connect lush to phone app --> start show --> scan qr code --> wait about 30 seconds for it to show up on streamate list.
But I don't remember how to set up the menu. I guess it just buzzes for all tips? I'll have to do a search for that.

I have asked the support and is because of internet protocol differences, our smartphones takes ipv6 and very often our laptop/pc's tskes ipv4. They have to be the same internet protocol for the lovense connect to be on streamate. The way you can check is https://api.lovense.com/ on mobile open and see how you connect and open the same link on browser on PC /laptop and see if matches the protocol. Still didnt figure out how to use only ipv4 on android. Work in progress.

Miss_ShaSha
03-24-2021, 09:05 AM
seems i'm finally having the issue a lot of others were having where their lovense toys aren't connecting :( i haven't been on for over a week but it worked fine last time.

i have restarted streamate, my computer, and my phone. also made sure they're on the same wifi network. it buzzes from the phone app itself so the toy and app are connected, but it doesn't pick up on streamate. i even tried doing the QR again from streamate to the app, it showed up on the app but nothing happened on streamate. any one have tips?

i think i recall a while ago someone mentioned there was a specific order they should be turned on. like stream first then turn the toy on then the app, or whatever. if that's a thing, or you have other troubleshooting methods, please let me know.

I have the Lush 2 it's working fine on my end. I turn on toy, find it in app, connect in app, start stream, then connect toy on SMConnect. It's already saved so I just have to connect and it turns on.

LeilaB
03-24-2021, 11:17 AM
seems i'm finally having the issue a lot of others were having where their lovense toys aren't connecting :( i haven't been on for over a week but it worked fine last time.

i have restarted streamate, my computer, and my phone. also made sure they're on the same wifi network. it buzzes from the phone app itself so the toy and app are connected, but it doesn't pick up on streamate. i even tried doing the QR again from streamate to the app, it showed up on the app but nothing happened on streamate. any one have tips?

i think i recall a while ago someone mentioned there was a specific order they should be turned on. like stream first then turn the toy on then the app, or whatever. if that's a thing, or you have other troubleshooting methods, please let me know.

Do you use VPN? I noticed that when I use VPN, the lush2 doesnt appear in the SMConnect. Right after I turn off VPN plugin and start streaming, it works fine.