Dreamstime people dislike to receive complains about their agency by means of their forum. It's better to communicate them via e-mail (contact form) VERY politely. In this way, the problems will be resolved much faster.

About rude response: they are Romanians. Romania is not so nice and advanced as the rest of Europe. This country was supressed dy a violent dictator for a long time. Keep it in mind.

Dreamstime people dislike to receive complains about their agency by means of their forum. It's better to communicate them via e-mail (contact form) VERY politely. In this way, the problems will be resolved much faster.

Its probably a good idea to remember that the forums of any site are effectively a public space - it doesn't really reflect very well on contributors or the site for grievances to be aired there. Its in everyone's interests to present a professional product. DT seem pretty fair with allowing complaints to remain - sometimes with any written communication its possible for misunderstandings to arise and for responses to sound rude. I know even talking to friends via email remarks that were intended to sound innocuous can cause offense. From the site's perspective, I'm sure they're sick of the continuous threads about ETRs etc. They're actually the only ones that provide this feature - and probably regretted it numerous times.

In general I'd recommend not worrying too much about review times - it can be frustrating, but they'll get done eventually. Sometimes they're shorter, sometimes they're longer. Just be thankful you're not a reviewer and appreciate the work they do... I think its a pretty thankless job a lot of the time, but important for all of us.

About rude response: they are Romanians. Romania is not so nice and advanced as the rest of Europe. This country was supressed dy a violent dictator for a long time. Keep it in mind.

I'm not sure about the conclusions you make about Romania not being nice and advanced as the rest of Europe, unfortunately I still haven't had a chance to go, but it does pay to keep in mind that people communicate from a different cultural background - what is seen as direct but perfectly normal by some cultures is perceived as rude or offensive in others.

I'm not sure about the conclusions you make about Romania not being nice and advanced as the rest of Europe, unfortunately I still haven't had a chance to go, but it does pay to keep in mind that people communicate from a different cultural background - what is seen as direct but perfectly normal by some cultures is perceived as rude or offensive in others.

This is so very true. I'm italian, living in UK. What for me is just a joke or simply a direct and honest opinion is seen by the average english as a kind of insult. For them being shady and closed is normal, for me is simply dishonesty.
I love different cultures, just have to get used to it

Italians…I don’t know, just interested in sex and fast cars 

That would make me an Italian... 

Hey�this is all turning a bit racist! So Romanians are rude and we are dishonest?? Italians�I don�t know, just interested in sex and fast cars 

Wow, that explains it all. I'm half Italian and half Transylvanian. (which is now Romania)

I should be a rude driver, in a fast stolen car, with a hot babe in the passenger seat? 

Hey, what do you know? As expected, the reviewers failed few of my photos on the reason of copyright issues 

And I mean, these photos are on all the other site, including Fotolia, which nowadays have the toughest inspectors.
And I also mean, this is while my acceptance rate on DT is over 90% 

For example this photo:

here http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-17686465-cool-kid-standing-in-front-of-a-graffiti-wall.html
or here http://www.fotolia.com/id/9545476
or here http://www.stockxpert.com/browse.phtml?f=view&id=21176351

Yea copyright issues my arse... graffiti is a public work since you draw it on a wall on a public building, and the kid had NOTHING like a logo or whatever text on his clothing.

As I said, I won't be surprised if my photos drop really down in DT searches.

Oh well.

Well well well...

Achilles, let me make a few points here:
- to my knowledge, the date when the file was uploaded counts. Because it is assigned a place in queue, it happened so many times when I uploaded something, didn't have the time to finish uploading and did it just after 3-4 days and the file was almost instantly reviewed, faster than some other files that were finished uploading with a day earlier. So I think that if you didn't changed your system, then the date which counts is 22, not 24.
- posting "administrative" comments on my photos appears to me as rude. This feature, of writing comments has to be directly related to the photo in question. Maybe you should think about implementing something like site-mail or some similar method of contacting submitters, isn't it?
- about the refusals: Sorry if it offended you what I said few posts above. You do realise, being in the same country with me for a long time I guess (I'm 37) that this IS something that's happening. I'm glad if it's not the case here. And of course, it's not business wise.

Without turning this into a political topic, I must say that the freedom of speach is well misunderstood in our country. As it is the habit of "having the last word", which is truly exacerbated.

One after another, I salute your initiative to come and post here and appreciate it. You seem like a nice guy after all 

Oh one more thing - "We are not tolerant with inaccurate data." - it seems you tolerate pretty well the ETR funny values. Just kidding 

Errare humanum est.

Thanks for popping in here Achillies.

Since I feel that both sides have expressed their opinion and I am not sure we are going to get any further with more discussion - the thread will be locked.