Another SM is dead/slow/sucks thread? Can we just revive one of the other ones that has been posted in the last week?
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Another SM is dead/slow/sucks thread? Can we just revive one of the other ones that has been posted in the last week?
yep,sm HAS been so slow the past few days. I think when the girl/ girl shows are on,(not mentioning any names),and the girls are getting $800 for a 6 minute g/g/ show, twice every hour, then your personal traffic is going to go down. I've noticed it in the past.
There is ALWAYS an explanation.I say'If you want what they have, DO WHAT THEY DO!!!'
Yay, I finally got my tech problems sorted out and I can broadcast on SM again!
Boo, no one wants to do a show!
Lmfao. I hardly worked for a week due to tech issues and now my placement has dropped by two rows. BUT I'm still in the sixth row on the homepage, so guys Should be able to find me quite easily. Really hope I can bump myself back up to row 3-4.
On an unrelated note, I was watching porn a few days ago and decided to search for "gold shows" to see if I found myself. I didn't, luckily, but I did watch a gold show of a girl fucking her rather large bedpost and doing anal using a drill with a toy attached. Oh. My. God. I'm glad I've decided to transition away from SM because if this is what guys are expecting performers to do I am NOT going to be able to provide it for them. The culture on SM had really changed over these past few months, and yeah, I think it's only a matter of time before you'll be forced out if you're not willing to go to extremes. Just my opinion, not trying to offend anyone or say that's definitely what's going to happen, but this is my observation based upon how guys have been in my room and all the cray cray they have been asking for/demanding.
Well, the day i'm forced to fuck a bedpost or use 2 huge dildos on my ass at the same time for a few bucks of money...that day I will say bye bye to SM. If that what it takes to become a topmodel or gain $10,000 per week, I'm gona stay poor since I'm not into that and it's not because I think I'm a sweet princess...but everybody knows their own limits..there are plenty of webcam sites to choose from, if I'm forced to do something I know I wont do in one site, I just quit and focus on another one. I'm not too much into act or do what guys see on porn movies (extremely extreme stuff's) for a few dollars, how many? $15, $20, $30 dollars??? is that what it cost to open wide your ass for in the near future use pampers??? porn stars get payed thousand for it, but we are getting paid cents or $1 dollar menu compare to what a porn start earn per extreme movie. If SM becomes that...I will focus on another cam site where things are more real life style, the thing is to have fun, entertaint and enjoy, the thing is not to hurt yourself, damage yourself and torture yourself to entertain others while damaging your body for a few bucks.
Oh my God, i am in the same boat here, monday and tuesday i did nothing on SM, i am freaking out here, i need to make money for a pay check this week and i have only $10 from a show i had tonite, in rest my room is dead simply this week. I use the encoder, i am on the 1st page or 2nd page top rows and still no traffic. Last week i made decent money for the time i was online but this week is terrible. Monday i was online 4 hrs and tuesday 5 hrs and made a big fat ZERO! I must say i am very frustrated with this site, i was never a top model and i am doing leg shows mostly, fetishes, so on, never hardcore stuff, not even anal so i cant compete with these girls doing all hardcore stuff in their shows, no offence pls, just telling how things are for me. I must say since Gold shows came up my traffic went down cause gold shows deliver mostly hardcore stuff for terrible low ammount of money. Nowhere on these cam sites something like this happen, to give away a few good minutes of hardcore show for as less as $1. The gold shows simply killed business, the only models taking benefit from it are the native english speaking good looking models willing to do all kind of hardcore stuff in their shows, most will promote it in gold show topic. Again, no offence but how can i compete with them when i do softcore shows? Before Gold shows people will join my room to see my fetish shows and all i offer here and pay the rate in full, $3.99 or even $4.99/min and now they barely willing to join my pvt not to tell about the ones i lost and they go now to gold show rooms and pay nothing for a show. I've seen some of my old members in these rooms :(
Ok, i needed to vent here, YES, traffic sucks for me too and i just dont know where to work anymore, i am a 37 y.o curvy woman and competition is terrible now a days, i have accounts on these cam sites but so far SM was working ok for me till now. All the best for u all, xxx
I agree with sammii...unless other models are having issues with lag...it's probably your computer. Actually...99% sure it's your computer. Doing clean ups, deleting temp files, making sure you have the right updates, and checking into memory hogs that could be running in the background are ways this could be resolved. It's a good start.
what? Zero? in 4 hours ?and then 5 hours? still zero?
I have absolutely NO idea who u are on the sites.. but can I just say this without sounding as if Im judging you..
You gotta be doing something terribly wrong.
Please please please dont take this the wrong way...
Yeah, that robotic crap (the 'dog shaking off water from its body' type of motion) is annoying. That used to be a big problem for me back when I was using a certain version of Adobe Flash Player. I posted about it somewhere on this forum a while back. Then the moment I upgraded (or downgraded?) to a different version of Adobe Flash, it completely stopped.
I agree...especially if splitcamming is becoming more of a problem than beneficial. I imagine it would suck to lose out on money/customers all because your video feed was FUCKED for a couple of seconds. We know how fast guys like to go in and out of public chat rooms.
If you tend to do well on, say, ImLive (it's JUST an example...I know many of y'all hate ImLive...lol) during the mornings, you do well on AdultWork in the afternoons, and you do well on Streamate in the evenings, make those your camming schedules for those sites. And it's okay to take a break from a specific site. I don't cam on MFC 7 days a week (no way in Hell.....), but on my non-MFC nights I'll be on ImLive instead.
Well...it happened to me too on SM, I dont use the Encoder and I dont know my position on the site but I assumed I'm on the last rows, something wrong was the cause of ZERO balance on SM after a couple of hours online? I don't know, but I do the same thing I had always done and before doing the same thing I did make money there (ok, ok maybe I understand the phrase you need to change things if you see is not working anymore)...I think was my splitting stuff, cause I did put online without splitting only focused on SM for a few minutes not with the encoder but using the HD option of the website...and I did got a few private's , so maybe that was my cause? probably...I won't be splitting for a while, is not convenient for me with such a low upload speed my broadcast looks like blurry and not very clear.
When I did not use the encoder I made 63$ a day max, with 6 hour shifts. It was fucking terrible and I have no idea how people are without it. It is possible that my lighting was not good as well, and that was a contributing factor.
In regards to SM tonight, it was slower than usual, and so was Monday. However, today I still managed my goal of 200$ ( surpassed it by 20) and on Monday I made 160 something, but quit due to being so fucking sore and grumpy.
I would switch to the encoder. Everyone seems to have issues with it, but I only had issues with it when I first set it up. Everything seems to work fine for me. Perhaps it is your computer? I use the new Macbook Pro, myself.
Good luck everyone who is having problems. I know when I started, and made such little money I felt awful, but be assured it is not a problem with you, or how attractive you are. It is most likely lighting, encoder,computer. upload speed, or giving into beggars (which I was prone too at first) it will get better soon. Just try and re evaluate as much as you can. I thought I switched to good lighting, and made decent bucks, and when I upgraded I now make my goal in 5.5 hours or less. Not as much as the top earners, and some days it is more or faster. but I think it is a good average I am happy with, and it does go to show how camming can get better with subtle improvements.
Oh, also, for those having a hard time, do you have a variety of toys to offer?
I can use the encoder at 500 or 300 bits rate (since now I have only 700-800 kbps upload speed dunno why, I supposed to have 1MB) but what I dont like of the Encoder is that I cannot look at myself, I need or to have the chat window open or to have the Encoder open in front of my firefox...so is a little not very comfortable for me this way :-( I wish I have a bigger screen to move the encoder to one side and firefox to another, or to have 2 screens to move the encoder to one....but I dont have 2 screens for it. My laptop is not very good but with the Encoder is ok...only 40% CPU use of it...I would use the encoder if I have 2 screens here. Unfortunately I dont have a variety of toys to choose from hehehehehehe :-) maybe I do need to buy some more toys indeed.
Remember to buy the toy(s) that YOU want...not some ridiculously huge toy just to impress some of these picky guys. And they could always buy a toy for you off your wish list or send you an Amazon e-gift card if a wide toy selection is a big deal to them.
You don't need to buy out the whole sex shop to make good money camming, in my opinion. I'm sure that even a few toys will suffice. For now I only have one toy that I use on cam (stopped using that cheaply made rubbery one), but I would like to get a second one. I'd like for it to be a dildo that looks like a cock, but I don't want it to be one of those cheaply made dildos that will make me break out or make my mouth feel weird/hurt after sucking it. The one I have now is a Don Wand glass toy.
Last week was very bad for me at SM, but this week, I started with my new laptop (HP Pavilion g7-1390ed) and finally dared to use the encoder, and it works for me. I split with webcammax because superwebcam does not work on W7.
Doubbled my income compared to last week. AND got compliments from custies on both sites (not asked for) that the liked the sharpness of my videostream.
Have to admit that I have a 8-10 MB uploadspeed and adjusted some of the encoder settings.
someone please help! i have no idea what is going on I just got my labtop back from computer repair place (thank god they didnt charge me because they said there was nothing wrong with the labtop at all). My streaming has been EXTREMELY LAGGY and i have my cpu gadget on my desktop and it will soar past 90% (recommended is not past 80%) I usually use the encoder and have the older version of ADOBE ( the 3.0) one which ive read in threads is better and have always been fine. i use my logitech 9000 and its still fairly new . but this past week its been awful i cant cam at all! is this streamates fault then since some of you still seem to be doing ok this week or am i doing something wrong? i know some people dont like the encoder but ive been using it since december and have had no problems at all until now. even if i dont use the endoder and use the original streamate version it will still lag. its friday and i really want to get some more camming in before the cutoff pay date since i have not reached the $200 mark to get my paycheck next week. HELLLLLP!
When there (really) is nothing wrong with the laptop, you might test your internetspeed www.speedtest.net and check if your upload is fast enough.
Maybe your ISP is not delevering the right speed anymore ?
I second checking your upload speed. I got some random virus which lowered my upload speed from 5.44 mbps to approximately 0.14 mbps. Obviously not enough to broadcast. I removed the virus and I was able to cam fine for about a day, and now things are wonky again. This morning my upload speed was 5.34 mbps. After I took a shower, an hour later it was 0.2 mbps. I didn't do anything on my computer so I don't know why my upload speed just died like that. Clearly I wasn't able to cam today, and will be rescheduling a service tech to come out and fix my shiz.
Oh, and off topic, but why does it say that I started this thread? I didn't. It seems like the first few posts were deleted, or maybe moved to another thread? So mine is the first showing, which indicated that I started the thread? Or maybe my laptop is just a POS and I am seeing things?
Technology hates me :/
What. The. FUCK is going on with Streamate?!?!? I've tried using the encoder, people say my cam is frozen. I tried NOT using the encorder, and my cam was amazing BUT I got booted within 2 minutes for ''technical difficulties''. WTF. I emailed SM and they told me to plug an ethernet cord into my modem. Well I have a stupid BITCH room mate who has the modem in her room. So that won't happen.
I actually had to resort to MFC last night. I thought that I was actually doing OK, and then I realized that I spent a shitload of time on there and only made like 50 bucks. Also, people sat there in complete silence. COMPLETE silence. OR they would ask me about paypal and skype. The one person I did give my paypal *tried* to scam me into making me believe he had paid me, when he didn't. So his dumb ass never got a show. I miss Streamate, I make good money on there, they need to fix these technical issues because I don't feel like being on MyFREECunt anymore.
According to @streamate twitter, they are doing updates/upgrades and it may causes some errors.
https://twitter.com/#!/streamate/sta...80520752799745
thanks, sarah! last night was rough for me. i got kicked off 3 times. today i only got kicked off once!
I got kicked 4 times last night, plugged in my ethernet and worked 2 hours with no problems and actually did really well
Hard core cam shows have really taken over. there are a select performers that get really high traffic. I have noticed when they are on everyone's shows are dead.
I've actually had a pretty awesome weekend so far. Did have a bad slow patch though