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This is a cup of coffee ... real coffee. I got reported for the incorrect keyword "coffee". Pretty funny

Maybe they thought it was a cup of tea?

I got one of those today too.

http://www.dreamstime.com/slice-of-pumpkin-pie-image1579686

(sorry not too good at embedding images)

It got flagged for using the words pumpkin pie. When I checked the data for the person reporting, it appears to be a buyer. No portfolio, nothing. A name and city. I replied and asked why pumpkin pie should be flagged. I also sent a message to support, asking why pumpkin pie was flagged, and also asking what happens to the file while it's being investigated, what happens to the person if they wrongly flag, and is the file available for download while all this is going on.

I am all for getting rid of keyword spamming, but this is ridiculous. I hope they reprimand people who do this nonsense. It's always something, isn't it?

There seems to be a food theme here.  Hmmm....

I was going to help Cathy by posting her image, but I can't seem to get it to work either.   So much for me being Ms. Know-it-All

OK so how did you do that?

right click on the image on the page. that gives you the properties of the image with its url, which is different to the page. copy, hit the insert image button up there (pretend there is an arrow pointing) and then paste the image url in, then post.

DT instituted this new keyword spam reporting thing in August of 2009 (Here's the original thread - http://www.dreamstime.com/thread_18084)...

"Each time one of your images is flagged for irrelevant keywords, you will receive a comment. As you probably know, flags are reviewed and will continue to be reviewed. If the flag is valid, we approve it and your image had editing rights blocked. Should the flag be invalid, it will be refused. However, it may take some time to have flags reviewed therefore, while the report is still pending, you have the possibility of removing irrelevant keywords. In case the the report is correct, you can edit the images and delete the keyword/s in question."

So, when you report a bad keyword it automatically generates a comment to the contributor who can then reply to the comment and justify why they think the reported keyword is ok. Someone in Support reads both the bad keyword report and your reply and then decides whether or not to remove the keyword.

Problem is, they are just now only getting around to addressing all these comments. I think they've had a lot of other, more important things to deal with, or this system got sent to a server that didn't sync with the images. So these comments are just now showing up. I'm all for cleaning things up but I don't know if this is a good way to handle bad keyword reports.

That's supposedly the good thing about this new reporting scheme. You get a comment and can then reply with a good reason or just delete the bad keyword before any action is taken. They are also pretty good with making a change if you just contact them and explain your situation, if it is a simple mistake. I've always found them to be very understanding.

If DT is getting scammed by someone using fake accounts, and software that 'works' the site to rake in 2 cent payments by the hundreds or thousands - they're going to have a hellacious mess to clean up.

I'm not sure that I'm understanding correctly... Are you saying that the flag does not tell you which keyword your image was flagged for?

TIA for clarification.

ahhhh ... so that's how it works. Thanks for clearing it up Hoi

Didn't they stop paying the 2c recently?  There is a lot of talk about people flagging for the 2c but I doubt there are many if anybody that does it for the money.  I have flagged quite a few images because it really annoys me when totally irrelevant images come up before mine that are keyworded properly and also I would be very annoyed if I was a buyer and had to sort through all the rubbish to get to images that fitted my search.