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I must guess that you're not actually an LLB (Batchelor of Laws) or you'd be threatening to sue us for defamation of character

like I said previous on this topic, this is totally unfair, that´s the main reason for sure..

I am uploading every week for exactly 2 years, have a little more of 700 files online.. Approval ratio increasing now at close 65%.. I am not saying I would be rich or that my pictures would sell more or less with more pictures online, but the truth is that I don´t deserve less than other in the same situation, some uploaded 600 on a month when I could managed that after 2 years.. it that reasonable?

exactly. and frankly I don't really want to see any staff designated to counting uploads with everything else that needs fixing right now. saying that Luis, I understand why you're upset. wondering why you didn't take advantage of it? you clearly knew about it, you posted about it while it was available to you. and for the record, I did not take advantage of it. I actually don't even meet my limits right now. I uploaded a lot more last year. too many other projects happening right now too.

hmm. I was fairly certain it WAS there for everyone. anyone know for sure? like I said, I don't remember the details of the problem when they announced it. if it wasn't there for everyone, I guess I see why peoples' feathers are ruffled. though I wonder how many people upset about the extra spots even upload their weekly limits already?

Was it only availabel via DeepMeta? Using iStock's own upload, I can see my limit and my used uploads, but I guess I never tried to exceed them, even when I actually reached my limit for the first time in ages a few weeks ago (because I had a lot of caption rejections when editorial started, so was resubmitting within the week).

happy for me? as always I have my files on deepmeta I upload them but never went to the 21th slot :p

I don't know. I wasn't aware of extra spaces. if it wasn't everyone, I see why contributors expect to be compensated for the disadvantage of their competitors getting unlimited upload spaces. I still think the most fair resolution would be to simply limit the uploads now for anyone who ended up with more than their share. perhaps not framed as 'punishment' but simply what's fair.

It wasn't for everyone.  I was maxing out my uploads while the bug was being reported and DeepMeta always stopped me at 60 until new slots opened up.

It was not. it was only for some NON exclusives. exclusives where not affected.

Hasn't there already been at least one official statement from iStock that this is fixed?

If they still haven't been able to fix it, can't they just resort to manual procedures until it is actually fixed?  If they have no working way to figure out who is uploading more than their quota, they could use iStockCharts to identify them, just like anybody else can.  Then send them a sitemail or email, warning the contributors to stick to the published quota, or face deactivations of any beyond-quota images uploads.  Then go through with the deactivations if the messages are ignored.  Often the images will still be in the pending queue, so any wasting of inspector time could be avoided.

On iStock's upload it was showing one or two uploads, then if I uploaded a couple more it might go to three and then drop back to one. The limit and number uploaded was there but the numbers were wrong and it was meaningless. It's working properly again now (and I don't have a clue if I exceeded my limit or not - I rarely use up all my slots, anyway).