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4Ever Young

« Reply #25 on: February 08, 2013, 19:54 »
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Congratulations!  I probably would have gotten banned years ago...if I cared enough about them to waste my time posting on their Rah-Rah forum. 


« Reply #26 on: February 08, 2013, 20:13 »
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I would never have thought I'd see the day where Peebert seemed like a rational and reasonable alternative to forum moderation. Guess times really have changed!

« Reply #27 on: February 09, 2013, 04:06 »
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Definitely something is going on, probably something big is coming, like having a search without exclusives, they are cleaning the house before they are implementing their new search levels just in case. The reason I was banned was very stupid, lobo was probably waiting for me to write anything just to get rid of me, My comments are probably not welcome no matter what I say, just in case.

This is ridiculous, even if lobo takes the ban on me away I am not going to participate in their farse anymore.

« Reply #28 on: February 09, 2013, 04:07 »
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Hi i have just been banned from IS forum, and it is interesting, I was banned just because I wrote that the API yahoo deal was too complex for me to understand. Lobo came back to me and banned me because, according to him I should read his initial post. Which I did, but was too complex for me to understand. I think there is a more powerful reason than our light last posts to ban us. In the past I posted much stronger comments and I was not even called by lobo. There are a proccess of cleaning the forum just to have easy to handle people there and look better in front of getty big boys

Anyway, IS forums lately are not as interesting as they used to be. I wont miss posting there.

Whoa, that's an overreaction surely?

aspp

« Reply #29 on: February 09, 2013, 04:21 »
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I would never have thought I'd see the day where Peebert seemed like a rational and reasonable alternative to forum moderation. Guess times really have changed!

I wonder whether Peebert he will be part of Stocksy. Until recently he was an admin at Bruce's Saatchi Online site.

ShadySue

  • There is a crack in everything
« Reply #30 on: February 09, 2013, 06:50 »
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Seriously? Banned from sitemails?  I though you could only be banned from the forums
Nope, you can be banned from SM - I have 19 sitting there rudely unreplied-to, though I'm sure at least 10 of these are replies from DS to some keywording issues I'd raised before I was banned (and don't know the outcome of).

« Reply #31 on: February 09, 2013, 14:16 »
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Yes, they are definitely making an attempt to clean house.  Very touchy.

Seems this is part 2 of "Changes in the way we communicate to the iStock community".

Part 1 was cancelled due to lack of interest (though not from contributors).

« Reply #32 on: February 09, 2013, 14:57 »
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One post removed for swearing and name calling.

ShadySue

  • There is a crack in everything
« Reply #33 on: February 09, 2013, 15:12 »
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Yes, they are definitely making an attempt to clean house.  Very touchy.
Seems this is part 2 of "Changes in the way we communicate to the iStock community".
Does anyone have the link to the quote KKT made in some interview when he said something like 'the complaints about the RC system 'just went away' (which was because at some random point, continuing dissenters were banned or at least threatened).

« Reply #34 on: February 09, 2013, 15:28 »
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Perhaps this was it?

Quote
"It didn't really affect most people," Thompson said. "Everyone sort of settled down."


From here

http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20059972-264.html

ShadySue

  • There is a crack in everything
« Reply #35 on: February 09, 2013, 15:32 »
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Perhaps this was it?
Quote
"It didn't really affect most people," Thompson said. "Everyone sort of settled down."


From here
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20059972-264.html


Gosh, JoAnn - you're good AND fast!

"It didn't really affect most people,"
Hahahahaha
If it wasn't going to affect most people, why on earth would they have spent the IT time, money and website overhead on the system in the first place.

Even now, it's clear they'd have been better spending the money on better search, keeping the site stable, and marketing.

« Reply #36 on: February 09, 2013, 16:08 »
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lobo emailed me the other day writing " don't make me humiliate you in public " if i went off topic again ?? for what - don't know.  i find the forums so toxic i hardly ever go there -  did make a remark can't remember was o/t it was so tame yada yada. wrote back said for him "not to fret he couldn't humiliate me." i've had enough of istock.   those angry people in the forums can't be all wrong.  when an artist/contributor can't even get an accurate count of how many views an image is getting - it's time to go.  taking back my exclusive.

« Reply #37 on: February 09, 2013, 16:16 »
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lobo emailed me the other day writing " don't make me humiliate you in public " if i went off topic again ?? for what - don't know. ...


What on earth do you think he had in mind? Leaving aside the idiocy of that sort of bullying approach for a forum moderator, in practice, how do you carry out that sort of threat - expose someone's rejected images and heap scorn on how bad they are? Judge Ross on Crestock used to do that :)

You'll find lots of guidance and suggestions here about making the transition to independence if that's the way you decide to go. Lots of turmoil at the moment though - not just a istock.

ShadySue

  • There is a crack in everything
« Reply #38 on: February 09, 2013, 16:18 »
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That's probably part of the Evil Plan.
Set Lobo on loads of people so they'll give up exclusivity and they can pay them much less.
 :( >:(

« Reply #39 on: February 09, 2013, 16:46 »
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joined istock to see where it would take me and it's been great learning how to make a technically good photograph but most of my work is nature and raw produce & that stuff doesn't
sell much.  keeps me in art supplies but the last month or so those sales have dwindled to almost nada so giving up the exclusive means nothing.   rather be doing more vector abstracts, designs, drawings etc.  Not interested in being exclusive anywhere.  will keep what i have at istock (with out the exclusive) except for a few and then see what happens elsewhere.  advice is surely appreciated.  was thinking trying shutterstock or fotolia, pond5? what do you think?

« Reply #40 on: February 09, 2013, 19:26 »
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iS forums are not being moderated anymore. iS forum are now been censored, and there is a big difference between being moderated and being censored. In the free world, freedom of speech is moderated, in Red China and Russia, freedom of speech is censored.
Therefore because I live in a free country I am not going to tolerate anyone to censor me consequently I see no reason to came back to IS forums even if they reinstate my "privilege" to participate in their forums.
I encourage others to participate in forums like microstock forums or Sean Locke forums.

« Reply #41 on: February 09, 2013, 19:35 »
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... was thinking trying shutterstock or fotolia, pond5? what do you think?

In terms of money - at least for the moment - you should hit to the top 4. So SS, FT and DT (see the poll results on the right). I'm just starting with pond5 uploading directly (versus via partner sites having my work there) and I have no idea how it will go.  You'll see if you read here that there are issues with all of the top sites :(

In terms of people who deal fairly, try GL Stock. Of the middle tier sites, 123rf and for some people (I'm not there) DepositPhotos do reasonably well. Ignore Stockfresh; it's some sort of poll aberration that it's there in the middle tier.

« Reply #42 on: February 09, 2013, 20:29 »
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So sad read all this sort of bad things coming from Istock. I remember when i was accepted as part of community, year 2006. Istock was a great place, people really friendly and colaborative. Everything was destroyed since Getty put his hands over our beloved place.

Sorry my english, but I think i gave my message.

« Reply #43 on: February 10, 2013, 00:48 »
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I banned myself from the iStock forums. Does that count? I decided not to wait for Lobo's hammer. I wrote a long and detailed response to lowering independent royalty rates and when I reread it before posting I knew I was about to get banned so I used my DELETE key instead. At least I've kept my privileges even if I've chosen not to use them for the time being.

Poncke

« Reply #44 on: February 10, 2013, 01:04 »
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I think Lobo has people keeping him informed on what is being said in secret FB groups

Well, to be honest- and I should have probably quoted Inkkstudios- the only time I'm made aware of anything is when it's something that hasn't been brought up in the forums. No one has sent me screenshots or anything like that. Oh, and there are the occasional reminder of the love people have for me. Hey, have we decided what the international symbol for sarcasm is yet?

http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=351117&page=11

Microbius

« Reply #45 on: February 10, 2013, 05:17 »
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Perhaps this was it?

Quote
"It didn't really affect most people," Thompson said. "Everyone sort of settled down."


From here

http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20059972-264.html


So....angry....right...now

Everyone sort of just got banned from the forum or had their posts deleted I think is what he meant. I always thought he was kind of a tragic bumbling dope, but that quote is so incredibly callous I have to reevaluate my opinion of him.

« Reply #46 on: February 10, 2013, 05:31 »
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I'll just leave this here...

Microbius

« Reply #47 on: February 10, 2013, 05:35 »
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Wow great work!

ShadySue

  • There is a crack in everything
« Reply #48 on: February 10, 2013, 05:35 »
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^^ Yup.  >:( :'( >:(

« Reply #49 on: February 10, 2013, 05:52 »
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^^^^^hahaha love it and unfortunatly so true.


 

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