Very interesting topic for me as it has been something brewing in my mind for a while as I had planned to make this a topic as an article in my Deeper than the Tip column for a while (though the colomn is on hold for a bit)
I see the tendence of premium sites acting and letting their "premium standards" go to freemium. They are supposed to send a different level of service, for both models and members, for a different type of experience, and that trend to all do as freemium while supposed to be premium not is affecting a lot of models AND Members that want the premium experience.
Funny to me, because I been mostly on LiveJasmin, and A LOT of my members were totally shocked as how "free for all" and explicit Streamate is, and in my mind im thinking... god, if these members even knew what is going on freemium sites.
I did try to bring up this situation and lack of supervision on the implementation for their rules (to Streamate) and I had general answers that all or most follow the rules ( I see that im not the only one witnessing that its not the facts) and to me, is what is the point to be a premium site if you can't stand for your standards and work ethic and make sure it is respected and implemented? Why do you let your values goes to the point your site now looks like a freemium site, when you pridely say and wish to be a premium site? It is a turn off for both models and members that do wish an actual premium site, and god knows that now of days, there is not much of these around anymore.
I do not wish crazy monitoring that makes us feel under Big Brother radar, or in a 1984 Orsen Welles movie, but still, can try to moderately make sure your site still represent what you meant it to be and provide?
It is indeed counter productive. For these reasons, some members never moved to Streamate from LiveJasmin. Not because it was more "girls at home cozy look" (which I think is great!), but because it was too "raunchy" for them, and girls desperate to do anything for pennies and no self-respect. (Please note, these are not my words, its members words that shared with me).
These comments only proves there is a demand and desires for something different than the freemium approach, and I do wish that the cam sites to claims to be premium should be proud of it and stand by it and make sure it still exists for its diffrerence.
