I can not grasp what is the new poll actually supposed to show us? The old one was not perfect but at least it gave as a little picture of how we individually as microstock contributors perform in comparison to others. In other words I could imagine: 'my income for example on fotolia was in the range of 3 and statistical fotolia contributor got lets say 4'. Now the idea is gone. Now we simply know nothing - at least I know nothing. Because what I see is some strange lines that compare rather how stocks are performing in relation to each other but in fact I don't even know what the numbers are about and where are they from. On the right side of the home page we see Shutterstock perform 94,2 but the number on the respective blue line on the graph shows us 71,7 (for August 2012). Why?
The same is with all other agencies... I am quite disappointed with this new invention. But maybe its still not ready and soon its going to display some statistics that are more informative.

The question is of course what we all would like to see or what kind of statistic is useful for each of us.
I definitely would like to see the numbers showing in dollars the statistical performance of others so I can clearly see what kind of contributor I am

You're asking quite a few questions monti.. Hopefully I'll catch them all.

The reason the microstock poll history graph shows a different number than what is shown on the right is because the sidebar results is a 3 month average and the graph shows the exact value from each months voting.

If you want the numbers on the side to 'mean' something, you can know that the rating is a % of $500 ... so the average contributer is saying he is making $471 on Shutterstock.  The ratio's also still work, so people on average are reporting they make about 50% as much on iStock as they do on Shutterstock.  The reason I'm not showing dollar amounts is because they wouldn't mean anything anyhow and people would think and assume that they do mean something.  It's just a general average to give us a picture of how sites relate to eachother and show their general ups and downs over time.  On that note, depositphotos was in #3 spot last month according to the graph... it'll be interesting to see if they continue their climb and knock fotolia and Dreamstime down the ladder.