Quote from: gostwyck on February 06, 2009, 11:01

Quote from: caspixel on February 06, 2009, 10:44

Is there a new look? It's taking an eternity for pages to load, if at all.

Out of interest, why do you continue to visit the site that you keep saying charges too much and also 'makes you puke'?

That's a great question. Stacey, don't bother coming to Caspixels defense here. I'd like to see why she chooses to as well.

That was 11 days ago, can't we all just get along?

This thread came OFF TOPIC

big time

even though I disagree with the timing of the UI changes, I think they are more than cosmetic and actually seem to have improved speed and clarity on the pages.

the changes seem to be far deeper than just a facelift. page loading and usability have improved as far as I am seeing in my own usage. though I still hate the little fonts and the weird fuzzy grey buttons and dumping the CSS reboot right in the middle of best match angst and audio launch is bizarre.

I'm sorry to join in the additional off-topic discussion but the allegations against Chris (a.k.a. "Lobo") really bother me, as my experiences working with him have been completely professional. In fact, he has gone out of his way on more than one occasion to help me clear something up, or merely just listen to me vent.

I want to know if there is any "evidence" other than the fact that the person who "attacked" you has the username "pieman" and it is a well-established fact on the istock forums that Lobo likes pie.

Please tell me that your informants are basing their accusations on something more reasonable, something substantiating the kind of conclusion that a logical person might draw. One person making that huge mental leap and then passing it along as "helpful" information is, in my opinion, worse than anything that has been said to anyone in this thread.

^ if you read the posts that the user pieman has made over the past couple of years, he is referred to and responds to Lobo. I did not accuse him of anything, but pieman made a defamatory statement about me, which I feel is unacceptable. If pieman is not Lobo, then someone is pretending to be Lobo. frankly that would be a welcome realization because I did not think the Lobo I have known would make those types of comments, comments with the sole purpose of shutting someone down. and I said that in my post.

if it is him, he obviously can't stand me, which is too bad. for the record, one of the so called informants is a pseudo admin and was just being helpful. especially since the comment pieman made was unprovoked.

I have no personal grudges against anyone.

^ if you read the posts that the user pieman has made over the past couple of years, he is referred to and responds to Lobo. I did not accuse him of anything, but pieman made a defamatory statement about me, which I feel is unacceptable. If pieman is not Lobo, then someone is pretending to be Lobo. frankly that would be a welcome realization because I did not think the Lobo I have known would make those types of comments, comments with the sole purpose of shutting someone down. and I said that in my post.

if it is him, he obviously can't stand me, which is too bad. for the record, one of the so called informants is a pseudo admin and was just being helpful. especially since the comment pieman made was unprovoked.

I have no personal grudges against anyone.

I hardly think what was said was defamatory, in the whole spectrum of opinion about the emotional posts you have been making there are bound to be those who think you have lost credibility, just as there are those who will be contacting you agreeing with you, and just as there will be those who will have formed differing opinions over the way you've handled yourself here.

thesentinel: I don't really want to keep rehashing this, I have responded as well as I can to questions. and as I said in other posts, the comment really upset me.

if anyone else wishes to talk about this. I think sitemail or email would be more appropriate. at this point, I just want to concentrate on my images and my latest novel.

abzee - pls don't try to pull me into discussions. when I said I would not participate in the iStock forums, it was not a black and white statement. children make black and white statements. I'm certainly not going to post anything that will get me in hot water anymore, and I'm certainly not participating in the typical istock browning nose threads where everyone gushes over one of the admins, or engages in blatant ego massage. in fact I am throughly embarrassed that when I first started on iStock I did engage in these threads in an effort to 'join' the community.

if you really know me on iStock, you would know that before about three weeks ago, I particpated heavily in all areas of the IS forum. so relatively speaking, I am absent enough now that people are emailing me to find out where I went. credibility is subjective. I would be more concerned if I lost credibility over some issue that I am deeply committed to....but if I have lost credibility because I posted in defense of a colleague after saying I wouldn't post again...I don't really care. it is anyone's prerogative to think what they want about me or anyone else.

as for shutting down the discussion. this thread is not about me, it is about the new UI. if you want to start another thread where we talk about this stuff, by all means. I will certainly participate.

and I would like to add -- I'm sorry if you want fun Stacey back. I'm still here, but the forum experience lately for me has been horrible. I think you are being very biased, frankly. if you knew how many people have had similar experiences to mine in dealing with istock 'officials' and feeling almost harrassed, perhaps you would feel differently. besides, I'm Irish....harnessed emotion is not one of my genetic fortes. I have been emotional, but I have not written any so called outbursts.

Sean, I can react to your bullying or I can respond with an explanation. I'm going to try the latter because I've heard that despite how much you seem to go out of your way to intimidate people in the forums, you are a really nice guy in real life. if that is true, can you for a moment understand how it feels to have someone like you breathing down the neck of someone like me in a thread? if your question is meant to discredit me, or to point out that I have discredited myself somehow, then there is really nothing I can say. you can think what you want of course.

in answer to your sarcasm: I made a point of saying I won't be participating in iStock forums because I was getting a lot of sitemails asking me where I had gone. people wondered if I had been banned. so I posted that note to explain that I was CHOOSING not to participate anymore because of the flack I have been receiving. I didn't make that statement as a tantrum or an ultimatum. I'm not fooling myself into thinking that anyone at IS cares if I participate in the forums or not.

I made that statement only to let people know my relative silence was a decision. I am not sitting here thinking of ways to look witty or give ultimatums to istock. I'm not threatening to remove exclusivity, I'm not threatening to stay out of forums, because frankly they probably already wish I would. I AM staying out of the forums. I did respond in two threads in the last week, one of which included a friend of mine and was total fluff....the other of which included a colleague who was being spoken to rudely after he expressed concern about his dwindling income. I then also included a note about my sales. why did I do that? I don't know, because I felt like it. is it okay if I still read the forums? I would like to know when 2.0 is going to come out like everyone else.

Sean, why do you care about anything that I do anyways? I'm nothing to you, so why don't you just leave me be? I don't believe I have ever done anything to you, in fact I have always admired your work and your presence on iStock and I have always mentioned my admiration of your work very publicly. but, I don't care for the way you treat people in the forums. that's it and that's all.

I think disregarding someone's concerns as "taking things personally" is a really overused and predictable tactic on iStock. obviously you take things personally, or you wouldn't chime in as frequently as you do. taking things personally shows that you care, that you are a principled person and that you are committed to your work. I'd say you are all those things. so am I.

I have been on the site for just over two years. never before in all the threads I have participated in, have I received any pressure or warnings or what I would call bullying. and I have disagreed with LOTS of people on lots of subjects, fairly, I hope kindly, at times sarcastically but to my knowledge never offensively.

only once I got into the best match stuff and started asking for information from above did this start happening. the reason for my frustration is not a personality instability as you are implying....the reason for my frustration is genuine concern regarding my income level and the future possibility of sudden drops.

income is personal, but regardless, I have not taken things to a personal level. I try to keep every post focused on the issues I am most concerned with; the nature of best match changes and the nature of communication from above at iStock. despite the rude, sarcastic and personal cracks that have been made at me, including your I Hate Stacey Slider comment, which coming from you was a real knock for me. cracks like that are meant to do one thing only, make someone look like an ass. you're a legend around there, you should have more respect for the influence and effect you have on people with your comments.

as for Rob's exclusivity comment: to suggest that someone who is worried about their sudden fall in income is not able to handle exclusivity, is insulting. I have earned my exclusivity, proudly. Rob's suggestion removes all responsibility from iStock for keeping their hard working contributors in the dark. I believe the truth is somewhere in the middle. I am OVERLY concerned at this point, absolutely!.....and they are underestimating how poorly they are communicating changes and how much unnecessary tension their business attitude is causing.

my reaction wasn't personal, I really disliked the timing of Rob's comment and I still do. I am precisely the type of contributor they should want to be exclusive. I have worked really hard, I'll be hitting gold after two years and hopefully I will be a good earner at IS at some point. why discourage my exclusivity, publicly no less? especially when they have put forth such an effort to lure new exclusives? what does that say to people?

Since when does being emotional/passionate about something = lacking credibility?

I really like the new Istock look too.