MicrostockGroup

Got tagged today by a  negative vote spammer. Hit me with a "1" on an image that sells just fine. Went and looked at his portfolio, very similar stuff, so I negged him. I don't care, kick me off if you guys want, but the voting thing will wind up destroying your site. And will certainly irritate enough photogs in the process. But seriously, any voting a-holes tag me like that, I'll bang them right back...punish me as you will, but you better take care of them as well.

Take some time and read in the site forum in some threads where the admins explains a little how their system works and you will be less worried about the voting system. They claim to have built a very smart and advanced system that deals with these issues. Abusers will be automatically punished by the system. Their votes will not count for much and their own picture's rating will also suffer from it. The voting doesn't really count for much  in the end either. Relevant keywords, view and sales have a much greater impact acording to admins.  So there is really no use in retaliation. None of my sold images have had very high votes. I don't really care if someone doesn't like a picture of mine. Different people have different taste, and so does the buyers. What some hate, others love....

CCK: I agree what you said about necessary knowledge.

I just try to ignore votes given by other users since there is lot of people who just give your images random numbers (from 1 to 10 depends on case).

I only try to give good points to images what I like and have enough knowledge to do so. I have very limited knowledge what is called ART or what image has commercial value so it is very hard to give realistic points to images. I know little bit on certain areas and try to find images which have these qualities and give points to these images.. Bashing others work and also doing it without leaving a good critique is just bad behaviour and does not help anyone.

br, MJP

As I said before, ratings cause a lot of negativity in SP, and they could only do the same in MS.  And giving rewards to ratings only makes things worse...

Regards,
Adelaide

It was strange at first but now I like the fact that MP doesn't have reviewers.  It makes it different to all the other sites.  There are a lot of sites with the same images and it is good to see one with images that might be rejected but could be good for the buyer. 

It has been stated in the past that a lot of images are used on websites, so I sometimes wonder why a good photo is rejected for slight grain or artifacts at 100% when there could still be a use for it at smaller sizes.  With MP, the buyers can look at the image at full size and decide if it is useful.

2mp is fine for most uses but a lot of sites require double this size as a minimum now.

I like the self inspecting aspect of MP. I find myself being more selective, with some other sites it's a bit of a game to see if a photo will get through. I don't like the voting system though.

There is a zoom they can use to see the quality at a larger size.

I totally agree with that.

All,

I've posted a review of the MP site here:
http://www.microstockgroup.com/index.php/topic,3547.msg33390.html#msg33390

Mark

For what it's worth to you, I'd be glad to rate your images  (honestly and fairly.. and I am not a 'blaster'..more of a 'high-rater'. In fact, I rarely waste time rating anything unless the thumbnail grabs my attention) to help even it out. It's no trouble, I like casting random votes most days I am logged in, and am always looking for interesting ports to send some votes to. I myself have yet to be slammed by a low-voter, but it would tick me off too.. I am sorry to hear you've had such poor experiences there.

So far, I am really having fun over at MP, myself. I have only been there less than a week, and with a measly 30 images up so far, no sales yet, but I am willing to keep uploading my (rather small) portfolio in hopes of eventually getting a few 25 euro sales.

I'd like to see you stick around, and not be put off by a few idiots who have nothing better to do than to slam galleries...

So what's your MP name? I'll make sure to go through your port with honest, fair votes... I swear! ( and no, I don't work for them!) Or PM me with your MP name. That will work just as well..

Monica ( username 'monilu' on MP and most other stocks, if you want to check my record to be sure )

How can you see who rated you? I'm still having difficulties to navigate around MP as it's so slow, heavily programmed and loaded with scripts. The navigation map looks to me like the Gordian Maze ;-)

PS - and I wish they would get rid of their spell errors. Looks so unprofessional. Your pictures are beeing uploaded... I can always hear the bees humming then 

I made an enemy myself, so I can expect a stalker re-registering too and flame me with 1's. Whatever...

Good idea ParisEye, being able to opt in or out of the ratings. It would stop any conflict.

Flemish,

When you click on an image thumbnail, right where you see rating, click on the number of votes. An example would be: Rating 7 (54 votes) ... click on the "54 votes" part. There you can see a list of who's voted on your image and what ratings. From there the names are linke to their profile.

I hope this helps.

Mark