Sorry to hear, hope things get better for you and the rest of your week gets better.
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Just checking this myself and on Ranking page it shows 1331.75 Bitrate even i stream with 2000 plus the Round trip shows 441 WTF!!! Yes i am in Europe but 441? It was almost 300 before but never over 300!! NO WONDER!
Sorry i cant help u with any info on this matter Chelly, i really wish to know this myself.
Looks like using the higher settings is doing me bad, not good here. Oh well, i better lower them cause i need a stable stream, looks like the higher the settings, the more data is getting lost till my stream reaches SM servers in Seattle, USA.
ETA: do u babes believe my operating system has anything to do with these issues i have?
I run Vista Ultimate edition, might my OP be too old by now?
Its ok thanks though for replying to me, i appreciate it. Sorry to hear you are having issues with it as well and the rtt i had to go back and forth with my isp to see if it was on their end but there was never an issue on their end so weird. My rtt is back to normal but the bitrate seems stuck at those numbers so strange. Hope things get better for you and it gets corrected. Thanks again for replying i appreciate you taking time to do so.
Serioursly streamate Get your fucking shit together. Same glitches as before. Fuckit I'm signing up for MFC
I almost wonder if they're about to finalize the 720 settings as like, the standard or whatever, and are fine tuning things which is in turn making it glitchier than usual. The last week has been pretty reminiscent of Streamgate Summer 2015 in terms of types and frequency of glitches.
Ever since the SMbroadcaster, I have noticed I am getting less time online than I am actually spending. This morning it was 2 hours less!! How can our placement get better if SM can't get the time right?
I don't believe hours online REALLY help placement. It's how long you are in private and making $$. I think Scarlette mentioned this before, or someone did. And it makes sense because when I'm online there are some girls I notice, are not top models, only cam a couple days a week for a few hours who are top 2 or 3 rows front page. However, they ARE in private a lot. I think money made trumps time online. Kinda makes business sense if you look at it from that point of view. Just my thoughts from what I gather.
I wasn't sure. When they told me time online counts, I figured it was all time that counted toward consistency. I didn't look at it your way. Makes sense to me.
I think they throw these guidelines for us mainly to follow by them to "possibly" increase placement. My hours online kinda stink but I'll be on the first page now since I get privates a bit more frequently. I'm 38 weeks so I'm trying to hurry and grab some last minute preggo shows. When my hours went over 90, the minimum for the month, I really didn't notice a difference to be honest.
The X factor that is left out of your placement rankings is your conversion rate. How often do new visitors sign up when they visit your room? Getting a conversion, even though you may never have seen it and that customer never actually got a show with you, is tracked for your placement. Any website that wants to stay in business puts models on top that get new clients to sign. Affiliates only keep pushing traffic if the models can convert it. Not all shows you do are created equal...long time customers that would have found you anyways, even if they made you more money, aren't counted towards your placement near as much as the brand new guy that saw you and made an account just to get a show with you. Its one of the reasons why mysteriously middle or lower page models can make more money than top row models (and have higher paid %), but their rankings don't really budge.
@KatyBoleyn I suspected as much. With conversion rate in mind, I'm wondering if enabling free chat has any affect on this statistic. Do you know if enabling free chat statistically helps, hurts, or has no effect on our conversion rate?
We haven't collected any stats on that - chat settings aren't something we control or have a ready list to look at. This is from conversations we've had with SM staff when we looked into promoting our own models. When I wanted to know why I couldn't top-list our models to promote them on a white label, we got a very detailed explanation for why we wouldn't want to do that (starting with "We don't have the ability to do that because affiliates want different things"). Their ranking system is designed to get conversions (MOAR paying traffics!), all else is secondary. The other things they outline and show you are things that give you the best chance at getting those conversions. They even joked with us that for every model saying "Why isn't there paying traffic?" there's an affiliate staring at is computer saying "Why isn't that model converting the traffic I'm sending?!?"
Sitting there bored or angry for hours doesn't convert traffic in the background or keep the bounce rate low, so your ranking slips even if you do all those things they ask on the list - those things just give you a starting point. The same with models with a good supply of regulars - they make money hand over fist, but their ranking isn't particularly high (if you see them at all, as they're in private 30-50% of the time). Then you see top row models struggling for an hour with a $100 gold show target...they aren't there because they make money (necessarily), they're on top because they draw, keep, and convert a crowd.
I'm glad we have "inside" people to help explain things a bit more. I've always wanted to stumble upon a drunk SM personnel and seduce them into giving me all of the secrets *muahah* but I'll take what I can get. I does make me think though as someone who has decent placement constantly but sits there with a bitch face 99% of the time. I also might add that my bounce rate is ridiculous sometimes with maybe 0-6 guys averaging in and out of my room to maybe 9-15 if I'm lucky with free chat turned off. But then again (and this never fails) if I stand up for a tip and start twerking a slew of members come piling in O.o. I've even had guys say they've admitted to never entering my room, but watching from my link. This makes me wonder how many people are actually browsing the site, seeing a girl, and signing up like you mentioned. I wonder if my higher placement, but yet bitchy boring appeal is secretly getting guys to sign up to the site though I cannot see it.
I have noticed that some affiliates have will take a specific model and tweet and push her free chat because she's got them higher sign ups? I googled my name once on twitter and saw this previously. Basically I don't feel like I do anything special but yet my placement is always pretty high. My ranking scores are all excellent except my hours are always under poor. I often think the only reason I rank the way I do with little effort is because I charge higher rates. Could my own cammodel link promotion help aid in this? I do have quite a few guys spending weekly but not on me personally. Thanks for making this a bit more clear but it still boggles my mind, lol.
A couple of guys said they couldn't get in to private with me. One that did manage to get in suddenly left while talking to me (not sure if he got disconnected) and people coming in and out, multiple times in a row. Yehhhh, that site is acting up badly for me today. I'm seriously considering jumping ship. It's one thing to make hardly anything because guys aren't buying but it's different when I'm not making it because of the glitches.
Well, I think with other posts that have explained, glitches are part of the business. Its been getting better though focusing on the positives..not having to put on pants, driving to work in traffic, setting your own hours and not having to clamp your cheeks with a straight face when you fart to not disturb the work environment. Its great!
Thank you Katy, this is fucking brilliant! I think rankings now make so much more sense to me.
Thought I would give SM a chance for a few mins before MFC tonight, 3 regulars all with issues entering exclusive. Mfc feels like a breath of fresh air right now
Just had the same issue I worked earlier and had no problems this morning and came back online tonight and I had a few customers say the same thing, are unable to get into private shows. So now, Im logging off no sense to sit online just to sit in free chat if guys cant get into privates. This is a major glitch, I also emailed support. They said the last few hours this has happened its 7:30 pm EST, so I dont know. I logged off at 1:30 and was fine. Good luck ladies
I'm getting the exclusive chat glitch as well. The break button workaround is NOT solving it. Several customers making repeated attempts to connect. I click accept and they never show up in the room. They say on their end it's telling them it's timed out, and happening with me and other models for them. All guys have said they are on home computers as well.
A regular tried FOUR times to enter exclusive & could not connect, i tried the Pause button twice & did not work. The guy has a specific fetish & has cam so he is not comfy to come regular private, he only comes exclusive. Oh well, not good!
It's quite common, you can press the break button twice and it should put you in the exclusive session. If you don't have the break button you can write to support and ask them to enable it for you.
Yeah..... excl. chat is broken at the moment for me too. I logged in around the later afternoon and excl. chat was working just fine BUT the cam 2 cam feature wouldn't work at that time. I was suppose to be done working hours ago. lol I don't know if it's related since the site is a legit clusterfuck of fail tonight but my C920 also wouldn't work. Thank god I have a back up cam that's working for at least prems.
Muther fucker!!!!!
No, going in and out of break does NOT fix the issue like it usually does.
I am sitting here right now accepting an exclusive from this customer who keeps trying for the third time and im sitting stuck in limbo somewhere in sm cam world. I tried logging in and out hitting break button and im so frustrated! I want to scream so bad. Already lost out on a few exclusives and those pay most ahhhhhh..need to calm down