Author Topic: New submissions, jumping through the hoop and stuff (Read 3611 times)

litifeta · « **on:** June 14, 2008, 17:36 »

For the life of me, I cannot understand why some sites still require a person who is an active contributor of stock, to go through this ridiculous application thing to get accepted.

For the time they must spend going through your application, and then reviewing each image, it would have to save time and money just to give them a link to your current portfolios.

Surely they can look at them and say, send me that one, this one, that one, but not that one etc..

Load them all onto a CD with keywords added and load the * portfolio.

Is it just me? Seems like an ego trip.

rjmiz · « **Reply #1 on:** June 14, 2008, 20:34 »

Yes I'm afraid from where I stand (no one but U and I) it is just you.

If I'm eating out, and I know what I want to eat, I want the waiter to bring it to my table.
I'd rather not go through the self serve line picking out this and that, not that.

Well reviewers I suspect are feeling the same way. They want to be served.
Providing them a link disturbs their work flow, takes them to another competitive site;
which perhaps might not be exactly whats on their agenda.

Personally I'm in the middle of negotiations with several sites with my plan to upload
all my images to my personal server in one central area. Then ask them that they visit and download
my images from there, rather than have me waste any unnecessary time uploading to all those sites everyday.

It would kill many birds with one stone.

Cranky MIZ
The voice of reason

snurder · « **Reply #2 on:** June 14, 2008, 21:35 »

Quote from: rjmiz on June 14, 2008, 20:34

If I'm eating out, and I know what I want to eat, I want the waiter to bring it to my table.
I'd rather not go through the self serve line picking out this and that, not that.

And if my steak is not to my specifications when it arrives, I simply reject it

Granted some of the sites are a little tough, but if you as a site owner are paying for bandwidth, do you want crap on your server? And can you be called experienced because everything you ever sent to FeaturePics and Albumo got accepted? That's a pretty good joke right there.

It's their train set, they just let us play with it. If you don't like things with a particular site you can always move on.

litifeta · « **Reply #3 on:** June 14, 2008, 21:55 »

Really puzzled with the answers. Miz is suggesting exactly the same as I suggested, except it is HIS site.

And Snurder seems to contradict himself. I am suggesting THEY pick what they want. AND they could choose the portfolio site they preferred, IS, SS, DT etc etc..

I also had the weird idea that reviewers WORKED for an employer, so they are doing what they are told by that employer. I don't think any of them would have the freedom to pick and choose as they like, there would be a criteria to fill for the owner, not their own likes and dislikes.

I am suggesting it would be a benefit for the site owner as well. They could cut through the crap of reviewing by doing a bulk approval in one hit.

rjmiz · « **Reply #4 on:** June 14, 2008, 22:52 »

Does the word "naive" mean anything to you litifeta?

Cranky MIZ
The voice of reason

snurder · « **Reply #5 on:** June 14, 2008, 23:51 »

Quote from: litifeta on June 14, 2008, 21:55

AND they could choose the portfolio site they preferred, IS, SS, DT etc etc..

Dear Fotolia,

I would like to join your site. Please see my portfolio at Dreamstime...

Sincerely,
blah blah blah

Sorry but I just can't stop laughing at this

Dreamstime accepts some real crap, and I suspect the submitters with the trash are friends with some of the reviewers. The garbage is not prolific, but it's in there, and some of it very new. And a portfolio review of images slightly larger than thumbnails, at any of these sites, is no indicator of the technical quality of the work.

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