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Re: STREAMATE - Venting, Complaining, Discussing site issues
It wasn't my imagination either. I've been in SM's good graces for months before I confronted them about giving me the run around on changing my payment type. Once I did, i experienced all the glitches mentioned in this thread that I never had before. I've been in this limbo since then, dropped over 4 spots in my category even though I stream regularly and have a high hourly.
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Re: STREAMATE - Venting, Complaining, Discussing site issues
About to log on and got an email for a custie saying his internet must have been fucked up last night. He could view my room when he wasn't signed in only... as soon as he signed in though he couldn't see me. Hello red flag..... Explains the bs past two days though. :D So thanks dude.
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is anyone else having problems with the broadcaster? mine keeps freezing up and i just bought my computer which is an i5 processor yesterday. i am trying to calibrate again and now it's taking forever. I deleted my cookies and restarted too. Anyone else?
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Maybe SM dont like the nr of hrs i am able to cam, that's why they dont show me their love always.
Some people work these hrs in a week & i do them in a month?!
When i was up to 70-80 hrs per month i was doing a lot better but hey, i do what i can, i also have other things to do here than cam, i am not a super woman but just a simple woman with limited powers & health issues, i also help my family, this week i took a few days off cause i had to help my mom going to doc for blood tests and check ups & all, she is in very bad health.
My health & family comes first then the work, luckily i work for myself and have the freedom to take time off as i need it, if i was working for others at a vanilla job or even for a studio camming there then i would not be able to afford such luxury.
I know i never did & will never kiss asses to be in somebody's graces lol, i am too strong of a character & personality to ever consider doing this; i also believe good characters dont need their asses kissed, only lame people need that ish lol.
I want to believe SM are the guys that dont need their asses kissed ;)
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Re: STREAMATE - Venting, Complaining, Discussing site issues
Don't feel bad Kat... Those were my hours per month the last two years.... sometimes it dropped as low as 20... :/
You could earn back sm love. :D just like I did. I earned it last month and then I lost it. lol. Now i'm earning it again haha! Old habits die hard I guess!! :D
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Ok I need help on what to do , to get my cam not laggy looking.. I have no other clue
My internet is great 330/18
my pc is great.. it's a gaming pc .. I am using 37-50% CPU
I bumped my bit rate on FMLE to 2500 to see if that helps.. I am doing the HD720 best settings.
What else? Do I need a webcam? would that effect it?
HELP!! TIA
Still need help if anyone has any idea? I just updated my camera and microphone driver, adobe flash player and shockwaver player and still lagging..
Maybe I will download the SM broadcast.. I dunno? It's been like this for like 3 days now.
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Anon, your equipment sounds wonderful. If you're camming with a c920, that's the "standard" for cammodels. You know more than I do though on this of course. :) I just think that SM Broadcaster is buggy right now and causes some models to have a lag or audio/video sync issues. No software is perfect so I am sure they are working on it. If you are currently on FMLE then you should be all set with the settings they send you. Maybe Streamate's hosting really isn't equipped to handle all this HD at once? (I know they got Google servers, but it's still a ton of data).
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is anyone having a null night on Sm ? I noticed they made changes again, and I've been online for more than an hour and have gotten NOTHING. nothin!! I also upped my rates and that's giving me paranoia. :/ should I jack them back down? :(
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Yes ^^^ me. I am sitting here making weird faces in the camera and nope, no one is home.... No don't lower rates. I did that... regretted it pretty quick. It brought demanding men.
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Re: STREAMATE - Venting, Complaining, Discussing site issues
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xCamLovex
I might be a conspiracy theorist but I think SM chooses which models will get paying traffic. There are some models in my category that have a ton of talkers and tippers while I have crickets. When I first started I was working 30 hrs a week and never complaining but as soon as SM dicked me around about my payment info and I had to get confrontational with Support I noticed I literally dropped 4 spots in my category and the paying customers by pass me like they don't even see me in the category when I'm online. I have 4 different people in my inbox asking me "where I've been" when I've been online every day this week.
Yep. I agree. I feel this way as well. Other girls in my category have 5-12 guys in their room while I have 0-1. My placement has also dropped a little.
And yes! Guys have been asking where I've been. I'm on every single day. At first, I thought the guys were fucking with me. But, so many have been saying it.
I've been convinced for about a year now that SM hates me.
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It's not you. I have had slow nights the last 4 nights on SM. And there has been a LOT of site glitches too. I heard nothing but complaints tonight and there were a lot of ins and outs, barely any traffic, hardly any talking at all and then people from way earlier coming in again asking me if I had a good long pvt when I had been in free chat the whole time. Here is one of the many I got, took him forever as he had to keep reconnecting because the site was freezing and getting error messages
http://i66.tinypic.com/jrtwfa.jpg
Sick of this bullshit.
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I had SO many ins and outs today. Thank you. I was thinking it was me. I noticed that you wrote something about body language in a previous post. I'm starting to question my sitting. I just don't know what to do anymore to keep guys in my room.
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It's a combination of all of it I guess. I just wasnt feeling it yesterday. I tried to be super positive and upbeat today and it made a difference but the glitches screwed things up I think. I find that sometimes switching up your room and even your cam angle can help. I have experimented with different outfits and you know what? Guys prefer the one thing I wear and I wear it every day now like a uniform lol.. wearing other things has hurt my earnings so fuck it..
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Before anyone chews my head off, let me say my 2 cents. My hubby is a computer programmer (C++. Java and Python). He's been doing programming for nearly 10 years now. He understands code. This man has been obsessed with code lately. I love hearing his theories and understanding a programmers brain. I do think that the site doesn't really "pick" on models, but they do favor some above others. This is obvious. I'm not one of their favorites. Nowhere near it.
But anyways, they control the website. They can manually do whatever they want with our accounts. While he doesn't code the website, he believes that the developers can place us wherever they want. It's too much effort to place us manually so the program does most of the hard work. I understand that adult websites are ran by men and men have stupid high standards for how models should look. It's inevitable. We can't control it. The best thing we can do is be ourselves and be confident.
There's models who log on once a month and land themselves up on top of page 1, while there's models like me who can't seem to climb anywhere near top of page 1. I don't think it's ever going to happen personally. I gained a bit of weight after my pregnancy and I'm not your typical "cammodel" like the men want me to be. I am however still awesome the way I am. }:D (Confidence plays a huge key factor in success no matter what body shape you are.)
My husband logged into his account and couldn't find me anywhere on his SM account. I even logged in, couldn't find myself. I don't have GEO block enabled so people in my state can find me. I have had regulars asking where the hell I've been. There was 5 to the top of my head this week that have all asked that. Even if it wasn't manually done, it certainly means there's bug in their code.
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Its more like they created a script with the Dev who set it all up and he moved on only they realised he left no documents. If Streamate has been running years then they will be afraid to change anything in the back ground as they wont know what the impact will be. Hubbie works with companies like this its fine to add to but not change a core component in the database.
Rather than work on the encoder they should have worked on all the background processes and rolled a new core out as it would have been easier than going through what must be a labyrinth of tables and components. Its why large companies move to new systems after so long
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Yeah thats true. My bf had a friend who wrote all the code for the computer systems at a hospital in NYC. He moved away across the country, and the hospital offered to fly him back there a couple times a month just so he could maintain the system because no one else knew what the hell they were doing. Finally after like 15 years the hospital moved on to a new system and he was fired!
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Re: STREAMATE - Venting, Complaining, Discussing site issues
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Selenasecret
Its more like they created a script with the Dev who set it all up and he moved on only they realised he left no documents. If Streamate has been running years then they will be afraid to change anything in the back ground as they wont know what the impact will be. Hubbie works with companies like this its fine to add to but not change a core component in the database.
Rather than work on the encoder they should have worked on all the background processes and rolled a new core out as it would have been easier than going through what must be a labyrinth of tables and components. Its why large companies move to new systems after so long
Yep.. Basically they wrote their own code with their own functions and the developers don't want to tweak or modify much to the core. It could break a lot.
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They need to create a new core and invest in developers not keep hiring new devs and hoping this one will solve the issues. However who ever wrote the pay the girls script knew what they were doing
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Always my opinion was that placement is based on keywords and in our case the keywords are the specific tags that girls have.
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I really wish to know how true ur statement could be bobo, why would the tags be the biggest factor to take into calculation regarding placement? Or even the keywords written into our profiles/ room intro/ room topic?
Tags are given by anyone or even ourselves (for the ones who have member accounts or exchange tags with other models).
Anyone can tag us no matter if they spend on us or not; i can see tags helping with search feature but placement?!
I think placement is based on popularity/ ranking which is again based on hrs online, income, percent in paid, conversions, time since camming on site, etc.
But then let me say even with good placement its possible not to have the best paying traffic and here the 'good/bad server theory' comes into discussion, i know i cammed with great placement and had little business some shifts and cammed with lower placement and was doing a lot better.
I 'landed' on a good server when signing in if i did good for the last shifts, if i worked enough hrs, if i worked consistently.
I did poor if i was working less hrs, chaotically regarding the times i got on cam etc.
I also believe they have favorite models who get more traffic than the others but this is kinda normal if u think some models really have what it takes to make the big money and i dont talk only about the looks but the talent to sell their shows (pvt/excl and gold shows).
My family/ personal things i had to take care of are all sorted now so i can start camming again, i really hope for the best & i know i'll do my best to get back on track with work. Good luck everyone xx
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I still need help with the video lagging.. Is there anyone on here who has any idea what it could be? tried SMbroadcast and that was way worse.. piexelated and the video looked like it was dripping I should say.. don't know how to describe it .. so that's out!
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anonymous camgirl
Ok I need help on what to do , to get my cam not laggy looking.. I have no other clue
My internet is great 330/18
my pc is great.. it's a gaming pc .. I am using 37-50% CPU
I bumped my bit rate on FMLE to 2500 to see if that helps.. I am doing the HD720 best settings.
What else? Do I need a webcam? would that effect it?
HELP!! TIA
Still need help if anyone has any idea? I just updated my camera and microphone driver, adobe flash player and shockwaver player and still lagging..
Maybe I will download the SM broadcast.. I dunno? It's been like this for like 3 days now.
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anonymous camgirl
I still need help with the video lagging.. Is there anyone on here who has any idea what it could be? tried SMbroadcast and that was way worse.. piexelated and the video looked like it was dripping I should say.. don't know how to describe it .. so that's out!
Maybe you need to lower you bitrate instead of increasing it? Possibly you may need to scale back on the number of sites you run at once? Have you tried just running Streamate solo and without splitcam software? I've noticed whenever the site does an update it may throw off my entire system. So i have rearrange the way I do things. Like start using two webcams with SM on the one and splitcam on the other webcam. I'm just throwing out some troubleshooting ideas. How long have you had your camera? Could be time to replace it. Reset your modem. How is your lighting? Maybe a camera placed in your background can help. And as for the SM Broadcaster people have said the same thing about the lagging pixelation. I think it works well for some and not others.
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I've been watching my dad create code for hospitals since the 80s. Just him and a group of pervy old guys in charge of god knows how many thousands of patients information. If they could tweak the behavior of a huge database before the modern 20teens it's very possible manual placement on SM can be done. i notice the same "type" of girls get the same type of placement no matter the time of day. For instance,
If I go to my second first page row there is always a certain formula of models but different girls. For instance
Farthest right: MILF next: PETITE TEEN next: BUSTY ASIAN next: BBW
BUt any day of the week if I check certain to rows (I don't count the top sometimes bc it's the usual top models that just interchange with each other)
I noticed these trends and started feeling like SM plays with a routine menu way of offering models. If you "fit" you get placed there. Perhaps based on trends Sales and analytics
Unless it's a coincidence that the same type of models day or night work the same hours have the same hourly and in the same exact spot . There's literally for me anyways always a similar type of body type ethnicity age model in the same spot no matter the time of day.
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The last three days I put in a lot of hours on SM. What I made in those three days is more than some make working every day all day on SM. I do this every week. Does my placement go up? Nope its going down. And I'm talking about girls that I know and talk to. I know two girls that only log in one weekend a month and each and every time they're placed very very high up on the site. They make a couple hundred and log off. Come back a month later. I too have noticed the grouping in the rankings on the site. Im not posting this because Im angry about it. I know how to make money and I don't rely on this site for that. I just wanted to share because it irks me when people can back up their theories with logic and reasoning only to be told that what they see isn't real. It's real and it's not gonna change I know this from an exchange I just recently had. However there are some things that may change but more people need to get involved. So again if you are on twitter follow @streamatepolls and answer the surveys. I like how Tatti_D is handling it. Its meant to be organized and drama free complaints that will be presented to SM for review. Outside of that I'm not sure what else can be done?
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Yes! I tried that yesterday ( only log on to SM).. I was just on SM and I have a dedicated cam for it, so I don't use splitcam software. anywho! it was still lagging! just being on there alone.. it's weird to me.. sometimes this happens and then it fixes itself one day..lol... but it's been like 4 days.. I read that not having enough lighting can cause lag.. I dunno? I think I have have this cam for 4 yrs now.. maybe less. could be 3 don't remember. Camera in the background? what do you mean?
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PhatGirlDynomite!!!
Maybe you need to lower you bitrate instead of increasing it? Possibly you may need to scale back on the number of sites you run at once? Have you tried just running Streamate solo and without splitcam software? I've noticed whenever the site does an update it may throw off my entire system. So i have rearrange the way I do things. Like start using two webcams with SM on the one and splitcam on the other webcam. I'm just throwing out some troubleshooting ideas. How long have you had your camera? Could be time to replace it. Reset your modem. How is your lighting? Maybe a camera placed in your background can help. And as for the SM Broadcaster people have said the same thing about the lagging pixelation. I think it works well for some and not others.