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Tom - if you leaving Dtime is because of the flagging i think you should re-consider - if you are leaving for other reasons then so be it and best of luck - but the flags are completely meaningless unless an admin agrees after a review of the flag. It has no impact on you at all and nobody can see the flag(s) except the admins and you. If a flagger abuses the system in any way, they lose the ability to flag again - and there are warnings posted about this when someone flags an image. Finally, the terms that may appear as flag terms might not be the terms the flagger was referring to - when an image is flagged you need simply to look at your search terms, and if you think they are correct, ignore it and that's the end of it. if you think there are terms others may not understand, then explain it in a comment ot the admins. But, assuming your search terms are by and large correct and not spam, then you have nothing to be concerned about. just ignore the flags. Competing photgraphers cannot gain anything by flaggin other photogrpahers images and stand to be penalised if it is found that  what they are doing is not correct.

As a buyer I can tell you honestly that D-time - and IS - now have the best search functions in the business because they have worked on getting rid of the spam - all and all this is good for everyone.

I might be wrong but i think the flags arent inspected anymore.
I never flagged an image but 2 months ago i bumped into a picture of a "white rabbit sitting in the grass" with among the keywords: horse, cat, dog, deer, black, sky, clouds, blue (theres no sky in the picture), .... i flagged it. A month later it was stil there so i flagged it again.
Nothing has happened to the image so i asked in the DT forums if there still was a big backlog. Never got a reply from staff, only from a contributor who said he stopped flagging as well because nothing ever happens with them.
I wouldnt worry too much when i get a flag

You didn't catch this one above which gave me a good laugh at the combination of two common phrases to make one with no meaning?

It doesn't seem like it would take a rocket surgeon...

Still the thread that someone started about going exclusive with DT had to be the most blatant troll of all time. I mean, people drop DT for poor sales and the reviews and arbitrary policies have become a joke, add the farce with the flagging keywords which seems almost random. I had my whole collection locked at one point. Someone has the "testicle fortitude of a rocket surgeon" to say they want to go exclusive on DT. Now there's a real side splitting laugher. 

What someone may start is a pool for next agency to close, which would include Yay (wow, now with 1 million images), Deposit Photos (will pay 25c to own your image for the closet of free credit sales) or DT which seems to be self destructing or committing suicide before our eyes?