If you are an iStock Contributor, please cast your vote in this poll.

I would like to keep my port intact until I see how it is affected by the changes. If at that time I am dissatisfied I will close my account. I don't see that option in the poll.

Quote from: Reckless on July 21, 2016, 03:53
I would like to keep my port intact until I see how it is affected by the changes. If at that time I am dissatisfied I will close my account. I don't see that option in the poll.

Thank you. Just added.

3 new voting options in total just added to the end of the poll.

UPDATE: As of this moment, 40 forum member votes have been placed in the poll already. But poll results will only be visible now after you have voted. Please place your vote and poll results will appear immediately. If you are not an iStock contributor at present, please don't vote. Thank you.

You may get iStock admins who lurk in this forum voting dubiously so they can sway and/or see the poll results. You may also get trolls placing fake votes to try and sway the results as well. Or other members placing votes who are not iStock contributors, just because they are curios to see the poll results.

Quote from: iStop on July 21, 2016, 16:24
You may get iStock admins who lurk in this forum voting dubiously so they can sway and/or see the poll results. You may also get trolls placing fake votes to try and sway the results as well. Or other members placing votes who are not iStock contributors, just because they are curios to see the poll results.

Thank you and agreed. Like anything else, there will always be bad apples in a bushel. We can only hope though that people will act in good faith. And I would say we probably have more good apples on this forum than bad ones.

60 votes have been cast in the poll so far. Thank you to everyone who has voted so far.

Quote from: X9D7CE84A2B5Y on July 21, 2016, 04:10

Quote from: Reckless on July 21, 2016, 03:53
I would like to keep my port intact until I see how it is affected by the changes. If at that time I am dissatisfied I will close my account. I don't see that option in the poll.

Thank you. Just added.

Thanks for adding that option.   I already stopped uploading a couple of years ago.  They are now a much smaller fraction of my earnings.   I can afford to wait to see what happens.  If they finally put indie content on the Getty site, I might see an earnings increase.  Not hopeful, but curious to see what happens.   If it's all bad, I'll pull the plug entirely.

Quote from: PixelBytes on July 21, 2016, 21:12

Quote from: X9D7CE84A2B5Y on July 21, 2016, 04:10

Quote from: Reckless on July 21, 2016, 03:53
I would like to keep my port intact until I see how it is affected by the changes. If at that time I am dissatisfied I will close my account. I don't see that option in the poll.

Thank you. Just added.

Thanks for adding that option.   I already stopped uploading a couple of years ago.  They are now a much smaller fraction of my earnings.   I can afford to wait to see what happens.  If they finally put indie content on the Getty site, I might see an earnings increase.  Not hopeful, but curious to see what happens.   If it's all bad, I'll pull the plug entirely.

Your welcome. According to the 75 poll results so far it seems the majority of people are not planning to change anything on their contributor accounts. I am kind of surprised seeing that so many people in the other thread stated they had either already deactivated all their files and/or closed their contributor accounts based upon the July 14th announcement. Perhaps many of those people have not cast their vote in this poll yet.

Personally I think it only makes sense to see what actually happens. I think those who are most concerned about these changes are more likely than the average to post.