I second that... wow! It was awful tonight
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I second that... wow! It was awful tonight
what is the 3rd best settings to use on sm? the encoder is lagging and fps dropping randomly, and the smbroadcast keeps crashing when i open it? should i try High(hd), cable(hd) dsl? wide or high
Unpopular opinion here:
SM sucks (for me personally) so much I abandoned it completely.
Guys couldn't hear me, I bought a mic so that they could, it didn't work so I returned it, turns out it as just a streamate glitch and there was nothing wrong with the mic after all.
I would sit in front of cam for at least 4-8 hours, evenings, 5 days a week,and was lucky if I made £250 at the end of it.
Yep, they'd also say, I just can't see you! And I'd get disconnected all the time even though my internet was fine.
My longest private was 25 minutes. My average private time was about 7 minutes, and since that was only every hour or so it was a big drain...I had to push my prices up to beyond what I thought was reasonable because they take such a fucking huge cut! And now apparently they aren't even spending that money on bringing traffic to the site?
Now I'm on Adultwork doing the same hours and guys spend on average 30 minutes to an hour with me. I'm making the kind of living that sex workers deserve to make with lower rates, and spending a lot less energy doing it.
Maybe it's just because streamate guys pick the girls who do gold shows and anal with bubble butts and big boobs but I didn't fit in there. 4 hours of free chat with no privates and I'd be in such a bad mood from freeloaders and timewasters that I wouldn't get privates cuz guys would see me looking grumpy. I got more guys wanting to chat in free than paying customers. Annoying douchebags who considered themselves a regular who could boss me around for free because they bought 10 minute privates every fortnight. But hey, maybe my hustle was off.
If Adultwork goes down the pan I'll start on another website. But say for every 10 views I get on AW, that means 1 paying customer. For every 100 views I get on SM, if I'm lucky that's 1 paying customer.
I think my problem is I suck at free chat. Once they see my personality they love it but free chat turns me into a monotonous boring machine 'I'm from the Uk, no I won't tell you where, etc etc'
I just wanna say that SM customers are stingy as fuck(to me), and no wonder - the site appears easy to use but it's so riddled with glitches it's just not worth it for me.
I'm fully aware that most of you girls make bank on there, and I 100% respect you for that. But for me, it was a lot more effort than it was worth. $60 shouldn't be a reasonable daily goal if you are getting naked for money full time, but that's all I could manage on there on a bad day.
Sorry for the bitchyness - but remember this is a complaining thread, so I'm doing it here ;)
Hi guys. Was hoping maybe someone could offer some help? I as well as many others I see am having a hard time on sm. I figured I would try and now do the new hd720 settings on the encoder and am having an awful time and am not able to get them to work. Is there not a manual option to configure the settings? Or just the ones that you download? I have a fast pc and awesome internet so am not to sure what the issue is. All help appreciated!
If someone could screen shot their settings that would be even better. I notice that with the downloaded ones that auto adjust IS ticked and NO tick next to deinterlace which is different from the old settings. Is this accurate?
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Thats what I use..
whats your computer specs and your DL and UL from your ISP?
Xfinity internet 110 down 25 up with an i7
Thanks so much for helpin me. I had to take my son to work just now but I will check your settings with mine as soon as I get home. I really appreciate the help :)
Right on, should be all set then. :) And its no problem I don't mind at all!
Attacked by glitches today, heres a new one for me.
A really good reg custie of mine could get my cam to pull up on his PHONE but not on his laptop. Weird. He ended up coming pvt on mobile altho he likes to cam2cam but yeah thats definitely backwards, lol. SM I have a love/hate relationship with you, I love you when you're working but I hate you when you don't!!
This is horrible, that tech support isn't helping any of you in any real way to resolve these issues & then following up to make sure everything is in working order. Horrible that you have to come to a board & ask for help. So telling of how bad their tech support is in general, that we have to depend on the kindness of other cam girls to resolve any issue we have with a cam site.
Now, I try once to restart, when that doesn't work, can't lose time & money waiting on them to respond or send a generic response that it's on my end. Nope, I log off & go to another site. They don't stop earning money or keep trying if the problem is on my end. They don't go the extra distance for me then why should I for them?
Sam
Someone gave me a 1 star rating, fuck you fat ass skunk!
OK, so. I'm in the middle of the first page and have been on for 15 minutes and counting with like 5 users having visited my room thus far. There are like 1900 girls online right now and I don't usually work Thursdays so like, is this normal? I totally understand that my placement and the amount of models online could account for slow traffic but it is just like HALTINGLY slow right now. Hows it going traffic-wise for y'all currently?
I know a lot of my current problems are my own fault from slacking but I am having so many issues with my round trip time for the past 3 weeks, its been up and down and so I have been getting no traffic, and of course not working due to frustration over this. Four weeks ago I was one the 3rd row sometimes 2nd or 1st depending on how early in the morning I was on, and now im bouncing all over the place. - starting to get REALLLL tired of logging into streamate ready to work only to have a shit connection - I have the best internet possible, best equipment possible, I dont know what to do anymore with the round trip bullshit... I cant seem to log in and have a successful shift anymore with this constantly happening.
I've been camming 2-3 nights a week on Sm for the past month and ... Altogether, I've probably made $120 there total. IT IS SO DEAD. And while I am new back to camming, I know what I'm doing and the fact that all I can get in my room for an hour at a time are 7 free loaders and 25 in/outs... WTF? I'm so sad I left SM when I did, cuz this is SO disappointing. I'm going to have to go to another site and I'm just not sure what to do anymore. The encoder used to work okay for me, using a computer with equal if not more power but very similar, same internet, and for some reason, my stream is just so glitchy and messed up, guys won't stay in my room (though I can't tell if that's due to my glitchy stream/sound or just poor traffic) ... I miss the old SM. I'm about to say bye bye to SM for good. I've made more money on ImLame and that's sad.... Though still not much there either. I know camming when youre getting back into it does take time to build regulars and whatnot, but I can't even BUILD any regulars because the traffic is SO bad and screw the tech support -- I wont even bother asking them anything anymore. I'm very depressed, was hoping camming could help me get stuff set for Christmas and my bf coming home from prison, but I can't even make minimum wage an hour. I hate you SM, for what you're doing to us all. :'(
I'll just leave this here...
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/streamate.com
No matter my placement I have hardly any traffic. I sit in free chat for so long that when I finally do get someone that wants a priv/exc I log off . I miss the days I would log on excited and ready for whatever was in store for me. Now I log on and the life is immediately sucked out of me b/c I already know what's going to happen, no traffic, beggars, abuse, lurkers. Last Friday I had an awesome shift for the 1st time since MAY but did I log off with a smile!!? Hell no, because I know better. That awesome Friday that I had only made up for the horrible previous shifts that I had . working a mediocre job is becoming real appealing right about now. I'm almost completely over this rollercoaster ride of ups and downs. Nothing like greeting 100s who don't speak back it's like being a Walmart door greeter only you work for free, now that wouldn't be bad if I didn't have a something called bills.....
And gold shows... Ha! I silently laugh when someone asks for one. I stopped doing them because I decided it's just not worth begging like a pan handler, dancing around and teasing for absolutely no benefit to myself because the same 2 people tip while the others ignore my 'please be a gent and at least talk or tip'... It gets old. When i do get a gold show it's after attempt #3 and dare I try another I can't get 2% of my goal. Anyway, sorry to talk your ear off... It's late and I woke up...had to peep my fav forum :)
When one site is slow another maybe busy, it will be a different hustle & culture.
Never be afraid to try another site out & give it a real chance. Once upon a time IMLIVE used to be the best game in town & it was replaced, never put all your eggs in one basket.
Have a main site, but continue to build a second site & a different hustle to be a better performer & at converting those freeloaders into sales.
While we should take some of the blame & responsiblity in getting men to spend money, NONE of these companies train us, help us, advise us what to do when they see a performer struggling. There is no support or help, hell we all know better than to even reach out to them at all. We come here.
Why is that? Why are we left alone to figure it out all on our own?
Always be working on a back up site or income for when this kind of stuff hit you. I'm not loyal to a cam company, I'm loyal to my bottom line.
Sam
As always, you hit the nail on the head. That's one thing I learned is to never put all my eggs in 1 basket. And I wonder the same thing, I LOVE SW but why is it that we have to come here for help when these sites that take a huge chunk should be helping us?
We need a Sam38g thread because you have been my voice of reason for the longest of time. I value and cherish everything that you've ever had to say and so do many others.
I genuinely heart you Sam :) xox
Seriously love your advise. I need to just actually use it. I know I'm a better performer than what sm has been offering me lately. My biggest issue is running back to where I built my fan base over all these years though. The transition is so hard. I just need to get over that. Anyways your such an inspiration. Thanks sam.
I can't deal with sm anymore but I'm struggling to find a site to have as a backup... I don't do well on token sites and I'm primarily a Domme so cb and mfc are out of the question. I mean I wouldn't mind doing vanilla because bills, I'd do all of my shows in private though cause I can't deal with the thought that everyone can see me in free. but every time I've tried, NO ONE was in my room. I don't get it. I have a lot of guys on sm who pay me just to talk because they like my personality and I'm really good at just chatting away and being silly and every time I watch a girl on a token site it seems as if it'd be a better fit for me. but I can't for the life of me figure out why no one comes to my room :(
Adultwork adultwork adultwork. Can't reccommend it enough. Tricky to figure out how to use at first but it offers so much more information, business builders and genuine help and support that SM just doesn't offer.
And I've heard dommes do really well on there apparantely :)
Is Streamate down for anyone else?
Nevermind it finally loaded. LOL