



Did SM just... make new encoder settings again?
Before I even started my stream, I got a TV broadcast notice saying that in order to be eligible for TV shows I need the right encoder settings... ?!
But I updated to widescreen like when it first came out.
And guess what? I can't even find myself on SM now. I updated to their new settings and my placement is off the radar bad.
Cheers SM.





Hi Incantatious. I am coming out of lurker status because this also is happening to me and I am beyond irate in my thoughts of SM right now.
I have been with SM for two years. In those two years I have never appeared beyond the top row of page two. My placement has always depended on how much I am making during the week. I do not keep a regular schedule so when I don't log and earn much in my placement drops. When I am on and am doing well I am front and center - page 1 row 2 to 3.
Recently I changed my encoder settings and went from having a lively chat room with a steady stream of traffic down to a trickle of one or two silent guest chatters every few minutes. I thought maybe it was my connection so I rebooted and started over. Nothing changed. Then one of my regulars logged in and told me women he has never seen before are appearing on his list in front of me. He asked me if I knew anything about it and of course I know nothing because SM does not communicate with us. I told him about my declined traffic so he unfavorited me and searched the site to see what my placement was and he said he went back 14 pages and was unable to locate me.
I contacted SM to find out why I was moved. First they contacted me with the standard copy and paste message {HD encoder/audio/blah blah blah}. I e-mailed them back with the standard {yes I am using/yes I have blah blah blah} and they said they couldn't find a reason why I would be moved. Then about 1 day later I get another e-mail response saying they have reviewed my account and see I have unwarranted 1 star ratings {from someone who is on my banned list or another performer - they were not clear about it} and removed them. I always suspected they were unwarranted because all three of them appeared within the same week and then suddenly when I had enough 5 star ratings to flush them out, the person came back and hit me again. Anyway, I was told by SM that once I get a fresh rating the system will update and this should fix my placement issues.
Well, four 5 star ratings later, I am still no where to be found on the site!! I e-mailed SM again to let them know it didn't work and in return I got another copy and paste message {HD encoder/audio/blah blah blah} as if they never spoke to me before!
What I think happened to you and I and probably a few others is somehow the new encoder settings dislodged us from our designated page range. By page range I mean that either the webmasters at SM or the program at SM sets certain ranges we are to appear based on our previous 90 days, 30 days and 7 days. Somehow the new settings bumped us out of the system and the site doesn't know where to put us because we are unassigned behind everyone who has an assigned place to be.
I showed SM sever screen captures on my encoder settings and they claim based on those settings {864X480} I "should have no problems" but it's just the opposite! I have worked a full 40+ hours this week and made less than I normally make on 1 single shift prior to making the changes to the encoder. What's even more fucked up is I have even reverted back to the old encoder settings but it seems no matter what I do {I have even flipped up my bitrate to 14000 to see if that helps} i'm flat out stuck floating around, sometimes on page 5 and all the way back to page 14 next to the girls who are in private shows. The guys coming to my chat room right now are guys who are surfing shows already in progress!
temptingmodel, I was typing a wall as you posted LOL. I did e-mail the "team" and have got nothing but shit on. They act like I have never been in contact with them before!! Meanwhile my weekly take on 40+ hours in this whole mess is $290 which is less than I average in a normal 2 to 6 hour single day shift!
When I messaged support asking why I'm located on page 3, they asked me the usual questions (speed test, processor, type of webcam, etc. etc.). I responded to all of them and got a 1-line reply: "Try taking your frame rate down to 15" (which I already did days ago). I replied back, asking for further suggestions/explanations - but nothing. I wrote yet another mail, and again, nothing. And this was not even "regular" support.
I just really don't understand why they seem to like acting in the shadows. You'd think they have an interest in helping us make as much money as possible, but it seems like they don't care.
What really pisses me off is now that we have lost our hard earned spots other girls who did not gain their current position on the site are gaining headway based on an unfair advantage. After this week me and my piddly $290 will probably be forever floating around page 5 to 14! It's just flat out wrong that we are being treated this way! How the hell do I feed a 5 year old on $290? We're already struggling because of a deadbeat dad.
Also I meant to ask if anyone thinks perhaps this has something to do with a new relationship between Streamate and the Friendfinder Network? I don't know if anyone else caught it but there was a day they were SM was testing Friendfinder advertisements on our cam pages. I don't know if manwin bought Streamray or Friendfinder or if it was the other way around but something happened and I saw Friendfinder popups under our streaming video.





did you email liz's team? not regular support. (Support never knows what we are talking about.) The team will submit a ticket and keep it open until all is resolved (for the time being) They will ask all the usual questions Processer, speed, screenshot of encoder settings.



Sometimes seeing the new 5-star ratings from the night before is almost depressing since my placement continues to tank. I guess it should be a comfort that at least the guys are having a good time but it feels like Streamate hates me. I literally cammed all night last night, until 8 am EST, just so I could (briefly) climb to page 2 again.
Incantatious, I am getting that error about the TV shows, too, and I am using the new settings with the 920 webcam. Honestly I feel like it doesn't even matter for me because I doubt the TV producers would ever even find me again for a Gold Show.
(Sorry to be a downer, just having a little pity party for mah-self.)













No. I was looking at my page from Streamate's site when I was logged out of my cam. I was checking my tags because I have been getting some really mean ones out of the blue lately. {bitch, ugly, bad attitude, chubby but sexy, stupid fuck} I logged in on one browser directly through Streamate and clicked to block the mean tags. I refreshed the other browser that showed my offline cam page and at the bottom of the page were friendfinder pop ups.
Also thank you for telling me about Liz. I don't think I have ever e-mailed with her but just sent one off thanks to your suggestion. I just hope to God she doesn't blow me off because I am almost a full month behind since this started happening. The first week it happened I thought maybe it was just one of those slow weeks. Then midway into the 2nd week is when I realized something was wrong and started contacting "support" to no avail. This has been going on for almost 4 weeks. The only thing I got out of it was the confirmation that my sudden rash of 1 star ratings came from 1 very nasty person.



I havnt changed my encoder settings at all just cuz I feel lazy and even took a week off camming and guess what.... I log in to streamate today and I am mid first page as always. This is why I am too lazy to follow the trend : \
I dont do tv shows either.
Edit: My earnings and traffic havnt changed either and I average $30 an hour and Im happy with this.
Last edited by seller317; 06-22-2013 at 07:11 PM.



Yeah. So fuck the new encoder!I thought it would help me with my traffic using it last night. I made a third of what I normally make on a Friday night in 4 hours... I wanted to cry. Today I did a Gold Show countdown and has 15-25 people in my room. I said fuck it went back to the old profile. Started a Gold Show countdown after redoing my encoder. 90+ people in my room! Also, people were complaining that my feed was freezing & speeding up today while using the HD profile. Good riddance HD profile... please crawl under a rock and die!
Last edited by Prussia; 06-22-2013 at 07:18 PM.



I have been following along reading all the complaints, tech issues and aggravation of being choppy, glitchy, and "wide" etc lol. I wanted to see if it was worth the trouble and to me it is not. I didnt have issues before and still dont : ) For those who have done better with the new settings kudos and get that money!! Do what works!





I changed my settings when I was first prompted to do so. I have had no issues with the settings and my placement doesn't seem to be affected by it at all. I place where I normally do. This week I've been a bit lower but that's probably because there's been less customers which means less money to go around and the top models, especially those who do gold shows and make a lot of money doing them were probably taking most of the traffic, so it was shuffling a lot of people down a bit. Just think, if you stay logged on and you have no traffic and making no money your placement will drop. This week I logged on about 3 times my normal amount just to make the goal I set for myself each week. This will affect placement if you place high when you spend 30 percent of your time in paid chat VS when you spend only 15 percent in paid chat.





What are they jealous about? Are you sure it's not inadequacy? I don't know how she does a 45 minutes show. This may sound funny but I get uncomfortable looking at punani, lol! I'm sure she puts on an awesome show but I just can't watch it.
EDIT: I'm sure once she's in the show, she'll make over $1000 gold!





Some of you have to remember that you are on a site with thousands of performers. Just because you feel like you should be on page one or two doesn't mean you earned that spot. There are lots of performers with fives stars that are on there and have worked on there for years. I want to be on the top row of page one but I'm not and I am cool with that. I took some time off the site, got dropped down to page two and worked my ass off to get back on page one. I have been on there for five and a half years and that doesn't mean I get a top slot. Tonight I was in the fourth row on page one and I am fine with that. I have to earn that top row spot just like everyone else does.
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