I hate streammate now. Its a soul-sucking site that offers great rewards when you're new and excited, but that only lasts until you get beaten down by all the free loaders who lead you on with a sense of entitlement to your attention and time.
Each day eats away at you a little more, making you bitter, angry, sad, and with a strong distain for men. That's just the traffic, not to mention the sites technical issues that they don't even acknowledge.
/rant
The lovely transition of Christmas, I am totally not prepared! there is hope so I am just going to pull a "stay the fuck on" week. Thanksgiving is coming up, so having to deal with family I am sure there's a reason.


I'm contemplating blocking a regular. I hate blocking unless I really need to but I find it so rude when regulars camp in your room thinking its okay I can suck our time out. I know they probably spend on other girls so it's like it's okay to waste my time but your willing to spend on someone else??? If you've moved on, fine, but don't dangle potential future shows at me like I'm a subhuman dog desperate for shows. Block/ban time! I'll give someone 3-4 weeks to spend on me again. If not, I think it's time to ban.





BAN them and then unban them like minutes later. Sometimes right away they come back and spend. Its like you gotta spank them like little boys. If they still dont spend and play games then permaban them. It lets them know you about the business but willing to be tolerant.



You my dear are NOT alone. Back in may is when I started noticing the 'funk' and that's before all these issues hit others and some of us appeared 'crazy' but now it's almost site wide and more & more are feeling the burn. I've been on SM for 2 1/2 years and I've never had to wait 2 hours between each private or tip . for our messily 35% I'd except better traffic or communication as to what's going on. We all know every day isn't going to be a huge giant earning day but I think the time is coming where we start migrating to other sites. I'm holding on to what little hope I have for SM but there's no denying something is definitely up. I've never been a top model but I've definitely never been a page 8 model either. I won't say I hate SM because I have learned a ton over the last 2 years and have grown a lot as a woman including higher self esteem. Fingers crossed it's just a rough patch.....but......who knows...only time will tell.... Since may .... It's now Nov, almost Dec... I'm not a cam vet so I can't say if this is as bad as it's ever been on SM.... I just know for me it's been hell for months.... Anyway pardon my rant.
And 1 more thing.... The weird cerial # user names rarely come around anymore..and what happened to 9/10 custies with the #s next to their name (highest spenders) ? And why can't I hardly reply to my inbox messages? These are guys I've had shows with and kept in touch with for 2 years... All the sudden poof! Are they cleaning house and accidentally getting rid of traffic and models as well?! My brain hurts.
Last edited by christylive; 11-23-2015 at 12:53 PM.
What is up with the cheap minute men assholes today. I haven't had a private over 4 minutes today. WTF! Everyone is being so cheap. I lowered my price but that didn't help. So I just put them back. Seems like a lot of guys who just wanna dirty chat for free. I said I'm here to fuck not to chat. God this is so FUCKING ANNOYING. I don't know how I'm gonna make my goal this week if Monday is starting out like this. Grrrr.





This site sucks





I have a theory, tubesite traffic is way down. They cant feed the beast that needs hot new scenes for free, now they really don't have anyone left to steal from. Most of SM traffic seemed to come from Tube sites.
Now, we have to step our game & do more marketing our end. Affiliate model has been dying off, there really isn't any new sources of traffic other than the models bringing it in ourselves.
This is why I think traffic is down.
Sam





I somewhat agree but I like having a major site to use as my "storefront" while I've worked on my web presence. Since about May going into the Summer I've noticed that the smaller sites are working out for me better than SM is. Yes the traffic is less but at least the guys can stay connected while I convince them to spend. Today I'm frustrated more than usual. Started out having a great day but damn






So far I'm loving the SM broadcast ... If only we had some TRAFFIC ...
Thanks Staples needed to hear this.
it has been so slow that right now I am constantly overthinking my prices which are high, but than again I never had any problems selling untill last week
Today I tried to lower them but no diff in paying traffic. I guess ill just have to sit through it and keep smiling... with my price still up I can at least hope for 1 long pvt/excl which will still make my day bright
Its hard tough
Thinking about adding another camsite since sm is my only income right now and I cant rely on it as I used too
Last edited by IvyRose; 11-23-2015 at 10:07 PM.
You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help enough other people get what they want - Zig Ziglar
"Be thankful for the troubles of your job. They provide about half your income Robert R. Updegraff
saviour: talking to myself in free chat . Cant let the silence beat you down. Just had a excl out of it!!! Yes!! Way to go after 1,5 houres. I am throwing away my sourpuss face bec that wont help for sure
You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help enough other people get what they want - Zig Ziglar
"Be thankful for the troubles of your job. They provide about half your income Robert R. Updegraff
This is an email I have just sent to Liz, I am posting here in the hope that maybe SM will bring that much needed transparency to their appalling model relations.
Hi Liz,
I am writing to you again and this time I am seriously unhappy, I will also be posting this on the SW forums as I am a believer in transparency.
Once again as has happened to me before, I was shown in free chat performing a private show. I had fifteen user in my room watching my private show for free, whilst the user who was paying and left had not seen the show. I believe some people call this "lag" in this case the feed was over a minute behind. When the user left my show the show was broadcast for free in free chat. I am unsure how long the show was being shown in free for, but my partner, who was checking my feed for me as the user in paid had been telling me that there were issues, went on and found me performing in free chat. They managed to screen record the event and you will hear I come into the room for them to show me, which proves that I was not only not performing in free chat but I wasn't even in the room at the time it was being shown. I don't even flash in free chat but now I am being shown fully naked and masturbating to a room full of guys who have never paid me and are simply looking for a free show.
I cannot keep working like this, every time there is an issue it is brushed off with "it's not us it is you", "check your internet" or "get a better computer".
THAT IS NOT HOW IT WORKS, IT IS YOU NOT US.
It is like being with an abusive partner who constantly tells you things are your fault, the sad thing is that a lot of users and models believe it just like those in abusive relationships.
In the immortal words of Richard Curtis from the mouth of Hugh Grant:
I have written publicly about how Streamate shoots itself in the foot with the lack of transparency and refusal to treat its models as partners not stupid whores. This is not the first time this has happened, this is not the only glitch you have. However you always ask for evidence so I am providing it. To top it off prior to this issue I had logged off as my room had been completely dead, no talking and in/out traffic yet I was still in the top 5 models at the time. Upon logging back on traffic returned and a user told me they had been trying to take me private. The very user who then missed my show as it was simply broadcasted in free chat several minutes later.I love that word "relationship." Covers all manner of sins, doesn't it? I fear that this has become a bad relationship; a relationship based on Streamate taking exactly what they want and casually ignoring all those things that really matter to, erm... Those that make them money A.K.A. Your Models.
How can we fix this? And yes I say we because I want to work on Streamate and I want to make the site better and make more money but if there is no "we" then maybe I need to look elsewhere. I guess I need to use my ability as an self employed person and move to somewhere who will provide a reliable working environment.
Forget the bullshit contests and use the money to fix the site!
Thanks in advance, let's hope I am not dissapointed.
P.s. Sorry if it this was a little long and a little rambly as it was written through a sea of red mist but I do stand by everything I wrote...




I get a message last week saying the ID they have for me on file has expired and they need me to submit new pics within the next couple weeks. I took pics right away...submitted them and it is still showing as pending. WTF?!! If they don't approve it by the cut off day, then I can't stream.
I sent a message but they haven't responded. Big shock there!!! O_o
Same here holly but SM is my side gig so I'm not stressing it. Still annoying that it's pending.



Logged on tonight to work, mind you ive been a long time model on sm and i am in pending approval to stream, says my application is in review queue? I was approved a LONG time ago. May take 5 days to approve, got ready to work and now i cant work!
Was just streaming last night. Just had to vent.. so upset.
Last edited by Chellyinparadise; 11-24-2015 at 07:28 PM.





Same thing happened to me. I messaged Liz at [email protected] and got approved the next day. I would message her.





I'm sorry that SUCKS. Please message Liz at [email protected] and explain your situation. I'm sure she'll get it working for you in no time
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