View Full Version : STREAMATE - Venting, Complaining, Discussing site issues
Susperia
04-26-2016, 12:29 PM
I think SM is testing me. Today I am at 2 usd after TWO hours. I dropped my pvt price to 3.99 just to see what happens and NOTHING. I'm sorry but this is the first time I've actually felt I'm going to cry on cam. Where is everybody??????? What's wrong??????
Bad for me the past 2 days as well......there's all kinds of sports play off from Hockey to basketball going on and don't forget Baseball just started too.....Fuck Sports! I'm blaming that.
KaraKink
04-26-2016, 12:33 PM
I'm releaved to know I am not the only one with issues right now on SM! Yesterday I was sitting around in free chat bored out of my mind with everyone bouncing in and out of my room but never talking. I decided to check out my feed from my phone, once it loaded I couldn't see free chat at all, it just showed that I was in a live show. I know regs that were on a PC could see me so it looks like it was just a mobile issue.
I really wish SM would get it's shit together.
Super happy that I found a place to vent.
CatBBW
04-26-2016, 01:35 PM
editteds
Bootsie
04-26-2016, 04:58 PM
Sitting in an empty room. FUCKING EMPTY. FOR 20 MINUTES. Tested myself and got someone to check from another computer in another place. I look awesome. I think I might do 2 shifts on Friday and pick another site to do for 1 of the shifts.
xCamLovex
04-26-2016, 05:53 PM
the @realstreamate twitter is somewhat infuriating. i just took a peak at it and shut it off when they got to the "serious fucking business" coffee cups. the little PR gimmicks and models "taking over streamate snapchat" is so cheesy. especially if you've actually worked on the site lately. it's like scraping the bottom of a nutella jar. you're lucky if you get anything and you savor the little morsels that you do get. save face SM by fixing your website for the sake of your customers and models. no rep with a serious fucking business coffee cup is going to improve your image...just fixing your site will make the impact.
TrifilinCamHo
04-26-2016, 06:17 PM
the @realstreamate twitter is somewhat infuriating. i just took a peak at it and shut it off when they got to the "serious fucking business" coffee cups. the little PR gimmicks and models "taking over streamate snapchat" is so cheesy. especially if you've actually worked on the site lately. it's like scraping the bottom of a nutella jar. you're lucky if you get anything and you savor the little morsels that you do get. save face SM by fixing your website for the sake of your customers and models. no rep with a serious fucking business coffee cup is going to improve your image...just fixing your site will make the impact.
LOL LOL LOL I WAS JUST LOOKING AT THEIR FEED AND THINKING THE SAME THING. There were clearly tech issues last night and this morning/afternoon with Exclusive. Instead of acknowledging anything truly noteworthy happening, like, ever, @realstreamate is periscoping/snapchatting (seriously, who gives a fuck?), yucking it up with models, and true to form RE: their support model blowing off anyone who asks anything tech-related. Like are you fucking kidding me.
Sorry for being hysterical and pissy but I am so over this shit. I've given up on ever having a perfect site all the time. Like maybe that truly is not realistic given the platform. But at least give us real transparency then, not some bullshit PR account trying to be all cute with everyone. Holy shit it's so annoying.
xCamLovex
04-26-2016, 07:03 PM
it's absolute bullshit. i took a look at the first 20 tweets and felt embarrassed for them. honestly.
CocoaCaramelBBW
04-26-2016, 07:31 PM
is anyone else having problems starting their show?!
Edit: Nevermind I had to reset modem and everything else...again.
gorgeousbbw
04-27-2016, 05:15 AM
Tonight was the worst night in the history of camming for me. I was on from 11pm-5am and made $16 fucking dollars. My feed kept freezing, had to re calibrate my broadcaster, my mood was shit by the end of my shift. I have to work all morning now to make the money i did not make. it was like my chat room was invisible to everyone or something. Idk if it was like this for anyone but i had an awful night. Need to shake this bad mood.
Tigrillo
04-27-2016, 07:33 AM
I don't like to complain because I always try to remember my worst day is almost always better than what I ever made in any of my other jobs, plus the ability to smoke a joint every time I get too annoyed, but whenever it gets this bad I start wondering if it's really worth it to stay online. WE'RE NOT BEING SEEN.
I know it's a thing with randomly rotating servers, I've noticed I have three good weeks, then maybe one bad one, and so on, with some days only 3 min privates (so having to do 25-3 min pvts to reach goal ungghghhgh), other days they're hopping like crickets in the summer, next week, I get distracted reading and suddenly realize it's been 20 minutes since someone came into my room --not even the wankers in free chat.
I realize ratings and time online have a huge impact --I noticed that this week, on top of the quiet, I went down like a whole row in my category placement, because I lost average online hours in my ranking, plus an idiot rating me a 4 for no good reason a few days ago (I could just cry.... they guy even TIPPED well and had a long pvt, but why oh why he'd rate me a four... I'd rather he had kept his money :[). Some girls say ratings don't matter that much as long as you average a 5, but I went from 4.99 to 4.98 after this and I have definitely noticed a sensible difference in my placement.
I'm making up for the lost time and I'll keep just sitting there and trying not to look insane, but I hope it gets better for everyone soon.
Tigrillo
04-27-2016, 07:45 AM
anyway! I didn't make the point I wanted to make! Sometimes when it's dead silent I play a little with the pause button and sometimes it brings people into my room. It's like, either guys are trying to get in and they get 'stuck' to make it into our freechat the same way sometimes they get stuck when they take us PVT and EXC. (the famous break button trick).
Remember those times you just KNEW the guy was going to get you pvt, then the guy disappeared without saying anything? I have this theory some of this guys do hit the pvt button, only they get stuck and nothin happens. Furthermore that's probably why sometimes we're in a room with 2-3 people being active and suddenly everyone shuts up and then disappears.
acting on this hunch, sometimes I hit the pause button after a guy who seemed to want a pvt has disappeared, and at least two or three times, it has taken us both to the pvt. ;) I'm not going to say this is what happens EVERY time a guy disappears, but hey, it's worth trying.
in that same spirit, sometimes when I feel it's been quiet for too long, sometimes I hit the pause button, count five my pretty ponies, and go back.... and this more often than not brings on movement. again I'm not going to say it's always paying or even talking or intellingent traffic, but again, my logic is the more we're seen, the better our chances, right? Models who are coming back from a break are bumped up to the places of top models who have just been taken private, so even if due to glitches we're somehow buried in obscurity, the pause perk can get you up there for a few seconds so customers will see you.
anyway, just ideas I get when I contemplate tearing my hair out after two hours with no fishies.
PhatGirlDynomite!!!
04-27-2016, 08:40 AM
When you hit the pause button it takes you to bottom of each category you're placed in. Also at the bottom of each category are those who're in a private. So if guys are popping into your room while in break mode, those are more than likely the sneaky ones ;) who think you're in a show. In fact there are names that I've only seen pop in my room while I'm in break mode. I come back from break and they leave right away. I suspect they were hoping to see something for free.
The last few times I streamed on SM my room would take up to five mins before my first person came in. Thats when I first log in. And then through out the shifts I would go 15 mins before anyone came in. That has never happened to me before. However I'm getting an uptick of guys finding me for skype shows in the past week. Just make sure you are out there for them to find you. Social media gone are the days where these sites are going to campaign for you. Many of them are just not willing to make the appropriate changes or listen to our suggestions. I really think they only value the opinions of the people at the top and even then its limited. Chaturbate is kicking ass and sucking up a lot of traffic. And they don't even have to spend money to get a show there. That's why you have to campaign for yourself and stand out from the crowd because competing for this money is the fiercest I've ever seen in my entire career. Jeezus I didn't mean to type this much. I feel like a broken record. Promote, Tweet, Network, Campaign sleep eat Promote.... this shit has changed that's all Im sayin
@Tigrillo, This is good info, thank you!! I am going to try these things here myself cause pretty often i have people just leaving my room all of a sudden, all of them at once it looks like and also guys who seem very interested in me and want to come pvt but they dont come so maybe they cant?! Even this is just a theory it might have some truth in it and it's worth trying everything possible to make things move.
I made a comment in another thread about incentives offered to members on SM, what some people who have a very high placement & high volume of members in their rooms and work a specific hustle dont understand is, down the road things are not the same like on the 1st couple rows, we just dont get soo much traffic in our rooms and when i have a few people in my room it's not in my interest to grant them with content for cheap or free cause i dont want to sell content on SM & spoil these guys.
I want these guys to spend in pvt/ excl on me but if they spoiled by others with incentives and i offer nothing, of course they will not pick me always, men are like little boys, the more u offer them the more happy they are but u need many of them to make it work this way, is not working with just a few; everybody has the right to decide what they wanna offer or not, not offering incentives does not mean i dont work my room the right way but means i have my reasons for not offering them.
I choose not to give these guys wanking material so they can use it to wank over me and not return to pay for my live shows, i decide not to give them content they could put on the web or share with others, i decide to keep a low profile and focus on live show performance.
Also, i am never bitter on cam but always smiling, the bitchy me here has nothing to do with my cam persona, just to make things clear, i am a sweetheart on cam and pretty real in here :)
I just wish SM would return to what is was before, a pvt based site where members had no option but to come pvt/excl in order to see us performing, now SM is a mix of everything, Gold Shows, Gs's zero, content galore, etc, it was proven people dont tip as much as before and expect a lot more for their money, i got to read in here posts of people crying how members dont wanna tip anymore.
This is not good in general, it might be good for a number of people who work a certain hustle successfully but not everyone want or can do it like that.
Many of us really deal with a lot of issues on cam from traffic to tech issues and what not.
SM tries to make us work more now with these contests, obviously their income decreased otherwise they wont do the contests lately but of course they wont admit it.
These are the effects of poor business decisions in the past, in the last 5 years since they introduced the Gold Shows, now we see the effects and it was to be expected, i knew this will happen cause i have experience simply, seen a few "empires' going downhill already.
Anyway, just venting here, feeling sad cause i cant change things but work with what they give us, i wish i could have the power to make things right on this site lol; nothing to argue about in here by the way, we are all good, not picking on anyone just stating some facts as i see and experience them personally ;)
Cheers xx
Lintilla
04-27-2016, 09:49 AM
I haven't used SM much for ages until the last month and a bit. Videos for HT in gold show and flashes for gold weren't a thing before, but I don't necessarily mind those so much (though I'm thinking of not doing flashes anymore... don't like showing all the freeloaders, and it's not much cheaper than just going pvt/excl). The one incentive I don't like and will refuse to do is videos or other perks for ratings. I understand that for girls that mainly do gold shows or who are new or haven't used the site in a while it's a faster way to get your five stars, but I don't want to see guys start to refuse to rate without those extras. Especially when it's such a crucial part of placement.
Selenasecret
04-27-2016, 02:01 PM
Its been dead for the last hour. Literally cobwebs are between my legs.
Promised
04-27-2016, 02:16 PM
Its been dead for the last hour. Literally cobwebs are between my legs.
It's been dead for me for 3 weeks lol :) I made half my normal amount the last 2 weeks and this weeks check is at a whopping $4 lol. Seriously rethinking my camgirl career at the rate i'm going I could make more working at a strip club just showing my boobs...now if only I knew how to dance.....
Seriously though I don't put in many hours and used to make 500 a week then that went to 250 and now i'm glad when I make 100 wtf.
anonymous camgirl
04-27-2016, 02:24 PM
So I went out and bought a new c920 and it still LAGS and freezes up a bit.. OMG!.. what is wrong with my video! I even lowered the resolution to 480
sexkitten_666
04-27-2016, 02:38 PM
So I went out and bought a new c920 and it still LAGS and freezes up a bit.. OMG!.. what is wrong with my video! I even lowered the resolution to 480
Almost positive it's the encoder giving issues at this point.
Selenasecret
04-27-2016, 02:50 PM
Trying niteflirt as a back up so I can run both easy. Made $18 a day this week for 4hrs a day.
anonymous camgirl
04-27-2016, 02:52 PM
Well what can I do about that? ..lol
Almost positive it's the encoder giving issues at this point.
MistressX
04-27-2016, 04:32 PM
Nobody can stay connected today. And its finally not my internet. I am on row 2 and i have NO traffic because no one sticks around
MsJess
04-27-2016, 04:37 PM
Well what can I do about that? ..lol
Try re-installing the encoder? sometimes computer system or even your anti-virus will install new things that change the way it works. Try that maybe.
BadBitch
04-27-2016, 10:01 PM
the @realstreamate twitter is somewhat infuriating. i just took a peak at it and shut it off when they got to the "serious fucking business" coffee cups. the little PR gimmicks and models "taking over streamate snapchat" is so cheesy. especially if you've actually worked on the site lately. it's like scraping the bottom of a nutella jar. you're lucky if you get anything and you savor the little morsels that you do get. save face SM by fixing your website for the sake of your customers and models. no rep with a serious fucking business coffee cup is going to improve your image...just fixing your site will make the impact.
Girrrrrrrrl, YES!!!! I started getting pissy when I started seeing them all at the concert last month. They're all out having fun while we're all fucking struggling. I know it was for a convention, but still. They should be fucking GLUED to their desks fixing the site. Not out fucking having a blast then shoving it in our faces. Fuck that.
MistressX
04-27-2016, 10:10 PM
Welp I had 3 different incidents TONIGHT ALONE where guys saw my privates in free chat. What the ACTUAL FUCK????? Tons of lagging.. I knew shit was fucked up when there was tumbleweeds and no one stayed around. When those glitches are happening, people cant even type to you. I have regs send me messages saying they cant type in free chat..
BadBitch
04-27-2016, 10:19 PM
I've been knowing not all people get kicked out of Pvt and excs. I've been told this by regs. SM will never admit this. The glitch promotes people parking their lame asses in our room waiting for someone else to take us into shows and trying their luck.
One time I brought this up to Support and they Asked me questions like "what was the user's name who could see you? What browser was he using? " Like this would help anything...and like I would ask my reg what he's viewing me in. I'm trying to get a show SM not tech troubleshoot for you guys.
SM is in denial. These days it's been harder to hide the obvious shitstorm.
Woah. You think this is why guys just sit???
TrifilinCamHo
04-27-2016, 10:43 PM
If anyone wants a pick-me-up for the wasteland that is SM tonight @realstreamate is getting ripped to shreds by several models on Twitter right now :D
gingerstcyr
04-27-2016, 11:31 PM
I would love to hear from anybody that is doing well. Last week was the best week on SM I have had this year. No reason why. It has been slow but it is always up and down. Thank God for Skype too. The only glitches I have experienced is with guys on mobile phones that won't connect and sits there for 3 or 4 minutes before releasing me back to chat. Also my show setting has always been set to NO unless they have a credit card. I think with them working on the website it reset me to YES. I changed it back and I was no longer in free chat. Today....even with the setting at NO I am still visible for free chat. Emailed support. Hope they fix it.
xoprincessremy
04-28-2016, 03:13 AM
this is my 1st year camming during the month of april. is it usually this slow because of taxes?
JustCallMeBree
04-28-2016, 03:01 PM
Yeah and it doesn't really pick back up in the summer due to clients being on vacation, kids out of school, these guys actually leaving the house instead of calling all summer, etc. The best advice I ever got was Kourtney telling me to build my regulars up all winter, build my social media and to consistently get on cam around the same time so clients could find me on matter what. You can still make great money, you may just have to hustle a little hard and add a few more hours during these months.
Kitcatt
04-28-2016, 03:38 PM
Oh, setting the free members to no doesn't switch you to not being on the WON page, it just takes away the free members chat window. If you want to no longer be listed on the page to members not logged in, geo block a city or state and it will take you off the page.
MistressX
04-28-2016, 06:30 PM
Setting geo block does affect your placement. When I had mine on, and then took it off, I noticed a BIG jump, not only in placement but in amount of traffic. Also, my studio manager said that yes, geo block does affect your placement no matter what people tell you. It doesnt matter where your geo block is, it could be the smallest town. Just my experience
SM is ridiculously dead this week :(
xoprincessremy
04-28-2016, 11:04 PM
Setting geo block does affect your placement. When I had mine on, and then took it off, I noticed a BIG jump, not only in placement but in amount of traffic. Also, my studio manager said that yes, geo block does affect your placement no matter what people tell you. It doesnt matter where your geo block is, it could be the smallest town. Just my experience
I've made the same amount of money with or without geoblock. and kept the same hourly average... so... lol. my placement also stayed the same. I think they just tell you that because they want to freely advertise your profile...
Sunnylexie
04-29-2016, 12:27 AM
Is exclusive broken(as in not displayed) for anyone else, or it's everyone trying to BS me today to get their fetish shows for cheap?
Chellyinparadise
04-29-2016, 01:18 AM
Is exclusive broken(as in not displayed) for anyone else, or it's everyone trying to BS me today to get their fetish shows for cheap?
I had exclusives tonight mine was working fine, had one glitch that took a minute but it went through. Hope that they werent bullshitting you. Sorry you went through that.
KittieVenom
04-29-2016, 01:27 AM
Non-stop glitches tonight. One guy got kicked out of a show 4 times and after that he just gave up. I feel like these guys take it out on me personally when that happens and then they won't be repeat customers.
TheOutlier
04-29-2016, 03:43 AM
Is exclusive broken(as in not displayed) for anyone else, or it's everyone trying to BS me today to get their fetish shows for cheap?
No, but I had issues yesterday with people being kicked from it.
BambiCutie
04-29-2016, 04:29 AM
The Broadcaster randomly drops connection and stops streaming sometimes in session, does anyone else deal with this issue?
Sunnylexie
04-29-2016, 06:53 AM
The Broadcaster randomly drops connection and stops streaming sometimes in session, does anyone else deal with this issue?
Yes, had it happen like 4 or 5 times yesterday. Today it didn't drop connection but there were sudden fps dips.
xCamLovex
04-29-2016, 07:56 AM
Am I mistaken or they offer your videos when you opt in for advertisement as well? I had a about 3 GS on 3 different sites with a dating site watermark on it before I geoblock on. I wish they'd ask me to provide a video rather than pirate one and not tell me.
MistressX
04-29-2016, 12:23 PM
I've made the same amount of money with or without geoblock. and kept the same hourly average... so... lol. my placement also stayed the same. I think they just tell you that because they want to freely advertise your profile...
My personal experience has been different. I noticed a huge change once I took geo block off completely.
TrifilinCamHo
04-29-2016, 12:49 PM
http://www.sharegif.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/RHONJReal-HousewivesReal-.gif
Mobile literally isn't even working today.
MistressX
04-29-2016, 02:05 PM
wow its dead
SuperPookie
04-29-2016, 03:35 PM
I've been disconnected from two Exclusive's back to back, one from a guy who had just came into my room and tipped 10 gold for me to take off my shirt and another from a regular who usually has at least 20-30 minute shows. Eff Streamate in the ass dry.
Glamourmilf
04-29-2016, 05:33 PM
A guy who BEGGED me to unblock him (he was only buying short shows), came into prvt. today.
He tells me that he wants to buy some of my vids. When I quote him a price,($20 for 3), he says that he can't pay it because his spending limit is only $50 per day, and the prvt is already costing him money. Hmmm.
I really didn't think spending limits were that low. Color me naïve about that.:-\
Another guy has been camping out in my chat room for several days, and comes in as SOON as I log on everyday. I tell him he must tip, take me to prvt./excl, or be blocked. (I end up blocking him).
He sends me an angry email that says that "It's called FREE Chat for a reason!"
Well, that sums up the answers to both questions I have always had...i.e. Why do guys buy short shows? And Why do guys think they can just hang out in my chat room?:(
Also sums up my day on SM. Thanks a lot SM.... for nothing!
*Edit to add~ That guy who wanted the videos, only sent me $10 gold in a message after the show...Messaged me 4 times while I was still streaming..demanding his videos. and then sat in my chat room while I was in prvts., and Gold Shows.
There's a reason I block and never unblock! that goes for the other 1420 guys I have on my block list.
Zebras don't change their stripes.
anonymous camgirl
04-30-2016, 03:16 AM
I betcha that $50 per day he said he has to spend daily is probably what he set for himself.. you can set it as low as $25 as I recall.. so I am sure he could RAISE it himself but doesn't want to..
A guy who BEGGED me to unblock him (he was only buying short shows), came into prvt. today.
He tells me that he wants to buy some of my vids. When I quote him a price,($20 for 3), he says that he can't pay it because his spending limit is only $50 per day, and the prvt is already costing him money. Hmmm.
I really didn't think spending limits were that low. Color me naïve about that.:-\
Another guy has been camping out in my chat room for several days, and comes in as SOON as I log on everyday. I tell him he must tip, take me to prvt./excl, or be blocked. (I end up blocking him).
He sends me an angry email that says that "It's called FREE Chat for a reason!"
Well, that sums up the answers to both questions I have always had...i.e. Why do guys buy short shows? And Why do guys think they can just hang out in my chat room?:(
Also sums up my day on SM. Thanks a lot SM.... for nothing!
*Edit to add~ That guy who wanted the videos, only sent me $10 gold in a message after the show...Messaged me 4 times while I was still streaming..demanding his videos. and then sat in my chat room while I was in prvts., and Gold Shows.
There's a reason I block and never unblock! that goes for the other 1420 guys I have on my block list.
Zebras don't change their stripes.
Glamourmilf
04-30-2016, 09:45 AM
I betcha that $50 per day he said he has to spend daily is probably what he set for himself.. you can set it as low as $25 as I recall.. so I am sure he could RAISE it himself but doesn't want to..
Oh yeah, that's exactly what he told me he did.
But if all he wanted were some of my videos, he could have bought them in free chat.
Anyhoo, the $25, $50 spending limit was news to me.
xCamLovex
04-30-2016, 09:48 AM
$50 a day spending limit? That's not even a lap dance at the strip club. Fuck him
Glamourmilf
04-30-2016, 10:54 AM
$50 a day spending limit? That's not even a lap dance at the strip club. Fuck him
Ikr? Coming from the stripping world, these numbers don't compute. Lol!
xCamLovex
04-30-2016, 11:04 AM
Just these lames on the internet wanting the attention, the extra time (AS PRINCE WOULD SAY), the Videos, the shows...but they want it cheaper and cheaper. If you don't even got enough $ for one song then don't act sad you can't get the videos and the attention? These guys better stop acting like its the first time they ever paid for pussy just because you can buy it on the Internet. Whether I twerk my buns in your face at the club or on the computer..I'm clappin em in your face for a price and trust it won't be cheap.