No big loss. If they want to join the motley crew of drones who personally group together like spitting hyenas to attack others who disagree with them, they can always come here. 

Boy, talk about your sudden draconian changeover:

http://www.alamy.com/forums/Default.aspx?g=posts&t=5038&p=3

You mean this part showing up in multiple threads? 

Hi everyone - we've let this topic run as the changes have only just been made and we understand it will take some getting used to. However, this thread will now be locked and shortly deleted.

This forum section is for asking questions and getting advice from your fellow photographers.

People who feel they are missing the abuse and complaining can always go join the Yahoo Alamy Pro forum.

Gee, I can't understand why they locked it down. I thought all of the "Alamy sucks" and "Alamy is stupid" and "your momma sucks" threads were really helpful and interesting.

Sure and you FIBs get a good QB and we don't. 

I know we agree on many things. (not on average price per photo per year) This is one more where we see eye to eye. The forum was becoming a home for "up the revolution", opt out, resist change, and Alamy was hosting it. Then people write things like "the majority of the users were against the new policies" when it was a minority of people who have nothing better to do than lobby against the site that pays them, writing endless complaints on the blog and filling the forum with negative threads, one after another.

You left out the, Microstock people are dumb and get paid 10 cents per download. We need to raise the minimum camera requirements to keep out the microstock people. There needs to be an upload limit or these new people with large portfolios will fill up Alamy. Odd thing, (maybe not) it's the same group who rallied against Alamy as well.

All the other sites moderate and censor their forums. This isn't anything but Alamy catching on.