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    Default LJ makes me "want to cry, throw shit, and kill myself."

    I have tried uploading 15 different photos on LiveJasmin. First it's no webcam photos, but please upload a digital camera photo and we'll be all good. So, I do them one better - I upload professionally-shot photos. Then they're "not bright enough". I'm at the point where I have literally no photos whatsoever left as an option. I wouldn't even consider enduring this ridiculous treatment on behalf of their ludicrous staff if I didn't desperately need the $, and SM's traffic has slowed to a halt, whereas LJ's, for one reason or another, was always incredible for me. Plus, they've made it possible to raise your rates to $4.99 ($6.99 with two-way audio), and they are now associated with Daily Pay. I've genuinely been brought to tears over the ridiculousness of their impossible "standards." I will now have no profile photo, which means nothing for anyone to see me by when they browse in my category. I've asked for numerous third-party opinions on whether there is in fact ANY issue whatsoever with my photos, and the consensus is that it seems like they're just fucking with me. To add insult to injury, the photos of the other models in my category are actually inferior in quality to some of those that I have tried to upload. I swear, LiveJasmin, though in my case infinitely lucrative and great for traffic (although, undoubtedly that will not be the case now with no profile image), could drive someone legitimately insane. End of rant.

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    Default Re: LJ makes me "want to cry, throw shit, and kill myself."

    I reckon there'd be a market for throwing shit
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kirakonstantin View Post
    More fear-mongering? Really? Yes, this is not the 1990's anymore. Yes, things are changing. Either dance or don't. Freaking out and sowing fear isn't going to help anyone.




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    Default Re: LJ makes me "want to cry, throw shit, and kill myself."

    I've heard girls complaining about this since I stumbled onto this forum.
    Do not let LJ ruin your day. They just have stupid standards.
    I'd say fuck'em. Plenty of other cam sites out their.
    Camming can drive anyone to the point of insanity, you just gotta find a balance.
    I'ma HUGE orange is the new black fan, so thank you for that!
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    Sometimes I swear I'm going to quit camming and do something else.... then I look up jobs I would qualify for and quickly say FUCK THAT! Ain't nobody got time for that!




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    Default Re: LJ makes me "want to cry, throw shit, and kill myself."

    Quote Originally Posted by VictoriaChaos View Post
    I've heard girls complaining about this since I stumbled onto this forum.
    It sucks but plenty of other fish in the sea as they say.
    Do not let LJ ruin your day. They just have stupid standards.
    I'd say fuck'em. Plenty of other cam sites out their.
    Camming can drive anyone to the point of insanity, you just gotta find a balance.
    I'ma HUGE orange is the new black fan, so thank you for that!
    Thank you, hun. It just sucks, because whereas most girls do terribly on LJ but do great everywhere else, I do terribly or at least inconsistently everywhere else but really great on LJ. LJ was where I could ALWAYS depend on to have the traffic necessary to never waste time in free chat, have a ton of respectful regulars, and make whatever goal I set, no matter how high, on a night-after-night basis. It also had so much traffic for me that I didn't have to worry about going there at a specific time to make $. It has really been the "perfect" cam site for me if not for the unbearable staff. They honestly make me feel like I ought to be committed, a power I know they wouldn't have over me if the site didn't for one reason or another "click" with me, earnings-wise.

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    Default Re: LJ makes me "want to cry, throw shit, and kill myself."

    I signed up to LJ a long time ago but couldn't figure out how to stream, and support responded to me SM-style, so I never worked a day on that site. I have heard a lot of people complaining about the profile pics tho. Sounds like you've done everything you can.

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    Default Re: LJ makes me "want to cry, throw shit, and kill myself."

    Update: I can't believe I'm saying this after the 3 hours of incessant difficulty I have endured with the LJ staff, but holy shit, a photo FINALLY got approved. ....And it was one that was rejected until I took it over to Photobucket, digitally brightened it and sharpened it a bit.

    ...Lost more than a few battles, but won the war.

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    Default Re: LJ makes me "want to cry, throw shit, and kill myself."

    Quote Originally Posted by adarksideoftown View Post
    Update: I can't believe I'm saying this after the 3 hours of incessant difficulty I have endured with the LJ staff, but holy shit, a photo FINALLY got approved. ....And it was one that was rejected until I took it over to Photobucket, digitally brightened it and sharpened it a bit.

    ...Lost more than a few battles, but won the war.
    At least their support team is not useless as the one working for Stramate. I didn't know they are on Daily Pay ? Do you mean the daily Pay that also works with Adultwork, MyfreeCams, Streamate and Clips4Sale ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by ConnyLove View Post
    At least their support team is not useless as the one working for Stramate. I didn't know they are on Daily Pay ? Do you mean the daily Pay that also works with Adultwork, MyfreeCams, Streamate and Clips4Sale ?
    Yep! That one. I don't know if they have it fully-integrated yet, I just got mine set up with them because they sent out an email saying that LJ would be available with them soon, and I responded. It should be in the next week or so I assume that there is a public link on the DP page to create a DP LJ account.

    What I didn't like about support on SM was having to wait for an email. They may be semi-useless at LJ, but at least there's an option for live chat at any time of the day.

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    Thank you for letting me know adarksideoftwon. I would love to come back to LJ. I was there 2 years ago and I made good money and always was 1st - 3rd in my category but I was working for a studio and they paid me weekly, when I left the studio I rejoined LJ but I didn't like the fact to wait many weeks to get paid . I an on SM but right now but I am not making good money and also I am so fed up with all the issues that they have.

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    Default Re: LJ makes me "want to cry, throw shit, and kill myself."

    camming sounds massively complicated to me (Stripper).
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kirakonstantin View Post
    More fear-mongering? Really? Yes, this is not the 1990's anymore. Yes, things are changing. Either dance or don't. Freaking out and sowing fear isn't going to help anyone.




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    Default Re: LJ makes me "want to cry, throw shit, and kill myself."

    Oy vey. FINALLY joined new sites (based on what I've learned from lurking these boards) today. I've been able to make some money on LJ and had a few totally great clients, but overall there are too many cons. I agree that the profile pic specifications are absurdly complex. The guys are worse than anywhere else from what I hear, and the traffic is just NO GOOD. Not enough guys, and TONS of lurkers.

    I have had good experiences with support, though, at least regarding payment issues. They do pay on time and are legit in every way. It's just very complex and seems like a waste unless you have another site open, too.

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    I agree. I want to try another site because Lj is driving me crazy with their standars, they change rules every day...It seems its everything to they could deduce always more and give priority to studio girls. I was about giving up last night. I will hang there a few days more and try also Streamate. BTW I had to go to take professional pictures today

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    Default Re: LJ makes me "want to cry, throw shit, and kill myself."

    I had big problems with my photos being accepted on there too. They are WAY too picky about photos. I finally had to upload a 7 year old professional photo of myself just so I could have SOMETHING as a profile pic.

    It's so annoying. And with the potential for them to take 10% MORE of our income if we get "bad" ratings (5% for image stream, 5% for audio)... it's really becoming more and more not worth it to work there.
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    Default Re: LJ makes me "want to cry, throw shit, and kill myself."

    I tried for over a week to get a profile photo there as well and it never worked. I hate that site! I worked there for one day and said "hell NO!" Oh well..their loss I think I'm pretty cool. I'm happy you finally got a photo approved though

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    Default Re: LJ makes me "want to cry, throw shit, and kill myself."

    This is how STUPID LJ is....

    They just rated me "BAD" for "disadvantageous camera angle" because someone on LJ tipped me to see my panties up close, he does this every night, and so I had the cam on the desk only showing the front of my panties zoomed in! And they rated me "BAD" on that one split second!!!

    It did not deduct 5% yet... it says "-5% soon" and is glowing red.

    I'm going to have to find a different site to split with. I don't have time for this -5% bs.
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    Default Re: LJ makes me "want to cry, throw shit, and kill myself."

    Yes I remember reading that on the wiki page, only do zooms in private, zooming makes it less pixelated and could lower you stream quality, Funny, they wrote it more like it was a helpful tip not something you can get a bad rating for.

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    Holly shit! Outrageous!!!!!!!!!!!!

    This is what i was afraid of and was talking about the past two days. Who made up this rules, and why???????? Is the site doing that bad that they need money somehow? greediness? paying for better servers? paying for a buttload of obviously passive aggressive, mean admins?

    You have the best camera image on streamate as i'm concerned and if they rated you bad, i just don't know what to say. Harassing us, like this will not make the site better. Any self respecting american model will be off that site, and all those members will go after them.
    Quote Originally Posted by SarahTime View Post
    This is how STUPID LJ is....

    They just rated me "BAD" for "disadvantageous camera angle" because someone on LJ tipped me to see my panties up close, he does this every night, and so I had the cam on the desk only showing the front of my panties zoomed in! And they rated me "BAD" on that one split second!!!

    It did not deduct 5% yet... it says "-5% soon" and is glowing red.

    I'm going to have to find a different site to split with. I don't have time for this -5% bs.

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    IMO, one shouldn't touch LJ with a 10-feet stick. Picking on your pictures is just one of their tools to ruining your mood. First of all, there will be chargebacks. Secondly, the admins will come to your room and demand that you jump through hoops for freeloaders as they are "potential paying customers". God forbid you call anyone out on being rude or having no intention to pay. They literally are letting trolls and cheapos spit in models' faces and demanding that they take it with a smile. Sometimes I would even think the supervisors were messing with models just for lulz, because there's no other explanation to all the bullshit. Thirdly, there are tons of minor rules regarding outfits, backgrounds etc. SM traffic might be not as good but I have never had SM supervisors come in my chat to help asshats kill my mood. LJ might have a good earning potential, but it will burn you out in no time.
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    I'M DONE. No more LJ. I was planning to keep up a few hours on there in addition to MFC, and also am waiting for SM to approve me, BUT THEN... I am indeed being docked 5% of my share because of these new rules. I've made money on LJ but enough is enough.

    And, yeah, LJ's expectations for level of attention to dudes who will OBVIOUSLY never pay for anything are absurd.

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    Default Re: LJ makes me "want to cry, throw shit, and kill myself."

    we had a small amount of money in there for a long time, like a year or two. Streaming, getting privates, and dealin with that site was just awful so we stopped. Then checked again and our earnings disappeared... they weren't paid out and not transferred either. IMHO that website sucks, sucks, sucks.

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