Quote from: molka on October 09, 2010, 15:16

Quote from: jbarber873 on October 09, 2010, 10:18

The only thing I'v got to do with macrostock is buying it for layouts. 

Well, if that's true, then I wonder why you're even here. And if macrostock is so superior, I'm sure your clients are happy to pay up for it, given your great creative sensibilities. If i had to guess, however, i would say that you're more like a deer in the headlights- not sure what is happening. But you've got to be angry at someone, so here you are. So let's see- "The only thing I'v got to do with macrostock is buying it for layouts"- brings up the question- what have you got to do with microstock? Except trolling, of course.

" you're more like a deer in the headlights- not sure what is happening."

that's a decent description of this thread about istock isn't it? Actually I'v been saying a long time ago to people involved with istock and the like: 'just wait untill they tank up on images and market position, they'll start really skinning you'. Nobody beleived me. Now that I took a look inside I realized that's far from the truth - actually they have been treating cintributors like second class citizens way before the current mess, It's just that the poeple I talked to involved in it played fanboys, but I'm not bad at reading people, it was very apparent reading between the lines things weren't that nice at all.

"what have you got to do with microstock?"

I bought rather large amounts of that too, one of the agencies I worked for, was buying thousands of credits there, so that's where I had to go for images when working for them, unless marketing poeple at the clients started searching for images (they like to do that nowadays) they liked, for some reason their preference seemed to be shutterstock. Oh man I'v browsed pages and pages and pages, getting thru thuosands and thousands and thousands of images to find something that might at least to some extent worked with the concept at hand, and of course always in rush. It was so bad, I had to actually train myself to only spend a certain amount of time looking at each thumb. That's something most of you might not comprehend, but I got so tired with all that, I said to myself that I never-ever want to go around browsing that, unless someone is paying for it, because I'm gonna have nightmares of falling into an endless void with floating thumbnails : ) and I'm truly sorry but still find it hard to get myself to look at people's ports that argue around here too, tho I know this and that nick is a succesful contributor, etc.

But more and more of my time went to photography as hobby, which got me talking to people doing micro, so I wanted to have peek inside this. It's like a little subculture, and people involved in it seemed to be so secretive, only giving vague hints of information, that it was almost fishy. And of yourse the kind of stuff that floats around, like for examle "istock's standards are os darconian, they reject most of the stuff", etc, didn't tell me much, becouse people saying things like that were usually total amateurs at visual 'arts' and even more at PS. I realized the obviuos : ) that getting involved is the only way to see what this whole thing really is.. So I started contributing to several places to have a peek inside. It's not nice. You poeple are really badly treated, even besides the financial things, just terribly disrespectfully, and many of you cheer for it (). This is beyond me. If I would ever have been handled like that at the places I worked, I would have thorn heads off and put them up on a spike raised really high for everyone to see. Thats it basically. Satisfied? : )

Yeah. And really tired of reading these rants.

I can't even tell any more if there's any new news on iStock - because I have to keep skimming posts to get past all the agro.

"bogging"? Ow well keep trying. Why don't you try to sell something? No talent troll. This is about microSTOCK not microBRAINS

the only rant here is 47 pages of microshooter's : )

^Ignored by 20 people already, is that a record?  Including me, so no need to respond.