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« Reply #75 on: November 27, 2010, 18:26 »
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scroll down, under images left side --->display settings.

thanks tempura. glad they are still there.


ShadySue

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« Reply #76 on: November 27, 2010, 18:50 »
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So when I do a search on the new and improved istock site, the contributors name, no. of downloads per image, etc. are gone. All it shows is the image no., an exclusive crown or E+ symbol and the lightbox symbol. How do I get the other info back, or have they removed it so it will never show? I looked around the control panel, but I'm just not finding that list that you used to be able to check the items you wanted to show.
It seems to randomly turn that information off. Or maybe not randomly, maybe it's in relation to something you've done (i.e. an unintended consequence of you innocently doing something totally unconnected). I haven't worked out what causes it, but it's happened to me a few times over the past few weeks. (I haven't chosen to browse Agency files, so something else must cause it too.)

« Reply #77 on: November 27, 2010, 19:05 »
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So when I do a search on the new and improved istock site, the contributors name, no. of downloads per image, etc. are gone. All it shows is the image no., an exclusive crown or E+ symbol and the lightbox symbol. How do I get the other info back, or have they removed it so it will never show? I looked around the control panel, but I'm just not finding that list that you used to be able to check the items you wanted to show.
It seems to randomly turn that information off. Or maybe not randomly, maybe it's in relation to something you've done (i.e. an unintended consequence of you innocently doing something totally unconnected). I haven't worked out what causes it, but it's happened to me a few times over the past few weeks. (I haven't chosen to browse Agency files, so something else must cause it too.)

I hadn't changed any settings at all. A while ago I went to the site, entered a search term in the box, and the results showed up differently. I don't think it's anything I did and I sure didn't change those settings because I couldn't even find where to change them back until tempura told me. Maybe it's like the checkbox for opting out of PP and it arbitrarily changes itself back? I remember the old site used to periodically change the images that were going through the queue at the bottom right from the non-exclusives tab where I had it set, to the exclusives tab, where I didn't want it.

Who knows.

« Reply #78 on: December 02, 2010, 16:21 »
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Funny and ironic.

Mr Thompson complaining about Microsoft bugs on twitter.

Why #Microsoft will never get it: http://yfrog.com/5rsjf0p The no anti-aliasing for text under 8 pt still isn't fixed in Mac Office 2011

« Reply #79 on: December 06, 2010, 23:40 »
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Yep. They did it again.

Vetta sale prices for December included. Double RC credits and nothing for Illustrators dudes again.

- F5 fiasco
- Logo program fiasco
- Agency collection start fiasco
- Business card eternal fiasco
- EL percentage reduction fiasco
- Agency search fiasco
- Magical mystery changing vector prices fiasco
- A old and good live stats fiasco
- Partner Program fiasco. Once you're in you will never get out.
- Support tickets long times to response fiasco.
- Search engine Agency pics fiasco.
- Vector dudes are second rate contributors now fiasco.
- XXXL size removals fiasco.
- Fixes Released Nov 24 fiasco
- Stockys fiasco
- Vetta sale prices for of December with RC bonus. Again, nothing for illustrators.

ShadySue

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« Reply #80 on: December 07, 2010, 05:34 »
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Funny and ironic.

Mr Thompson complaining about Microsoft bugs on twitter.

Why #Microsoft will never get it: http://yfrog.com/5rsjf0p The no anti-aliasing for text under 8 pt still isn't fixed in Mac Office 2011


Please, please tell me that that's not him, or someone has hacked into this account or something.
I just can't believe that he would have the brass neck to post that.
If it really was him, I'm very, very afraid.  :o :( :'(

« Reply #81 on: December 07, 2010, 07:29 »
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Yep. They did it again.

Vetta sale prices for December included. Double RC credits and nothing for Illustrators dudes again.

- F5 fiasco
- Logo program fiasco
- Agency collection start fiasco
- Business card eternal fiasco
- EL percentage reduction fiasco
- Agency search fiasco
- Magical mystery changing vector prices fiasco
- A old and good live stats fiasco
- Partner Program fiasco. Once you're in you will never get out.
- Support tickets long times to response fiasco.
- Search engine Agency pics fiasco.
- Vector dudes are second rate contributors now fiasco.
- XXXL size removals fiasco.
- Fixes Released Nov 24 fiasco
- Stockys fiasco
- Vetta sale prices for of December with RC bonus. Again, nothing for illustrators.

The hits just keep on coming!

ShadySue

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« Reply #82 on: December 07, 2010, 18:07 »
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Lobo on Sunday, while locking the 'Contributers underpaid twice' thread:
"How about we get another thread going early next week on ETAs regarding the things talked about in this thread. "

Lobo today while locking a thread asking for an update:
"We will start a thread this week, like I said."

Whoops, what happened to 'early'?
Time is a long-term (whatever that means) moving goalpost in iStockland.

« Reply #83 on: December 13, 2010, 17:54 »
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Time for update... New search start rocks.

- F5 fiasco
- Logo program fiasco
- Agency collection start fiasco
- Business card eternal fiasco
- EL percentage reduction fiasco
- Agency search fiasco
- Magical mystery changing vector prices fiasco
- A old and good live stats fiasco
- Partner Program fiasco. Once you're in you will never get out.
- Support tickets long times to response fiasco.
- Search engine Agency pics fiasco.
- Vector dudes are second rate contributors now fiasco.
- XXXL size removals fiasco.
- Fixes Released Nov 24 fiasco
- Stockys fiasco
- Vetta sale prices for of December with RC bonus. Again, nothing for illustrators.
- New faceted search start fiasco.

« Reply #84 on: December 13, 2010, 17:57 »
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Can't wait for the editorial fiasco!

« Reply #85 on: December 13, 2010, 18:39 »
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I bet they get the commission cuts in January right :)

« Reply #86 on: December 13, 2010, 18:50 »
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I bet they get the commission cuts in January right :)

no kidding.  they seem to have the "money for istock" working fine, the money for contributors, not so much.  I keep thinking about a post I read in one of the threads about getting stuck in 'agency only' search results.  Someone had posted something like "I bet if the buyers had been stuck in 'dollar bin only' or 'main collection only' search it would have been fixed overnite."  

I hate being so cynical-- but these past few months istock has given me basically nothing to be happy about.  
« Last Edit: December 13, 2010, 18:52 by jamirae »

ShadySue

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« Reply #87 on: December 13, 2010, 18:54 »
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I bet they get the commission cuts in January right :)
Of course they will.
Look how the 'get rid of the 10% EL for exclusives' was rolled out early and worked so perfectly they're having a very difficult job fixing it.

« Reply #88 on: December 13, 2010, 19:33 »
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they might accidentally drop all non-exclusives to 15% or some other glitch like that. I bet that would be really hard to fix. It might take a few months.

lisafx

« Reply #89 on: December 13, 2010, 19:41 »
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they might accidentally drop all non-exclusives to 15% or some other glitch like that. I bet that would be really hard to fix. It might take a few months.

Don't give them any ideas ;)

« Reply #90 on: December 13, 2010, 19:43 »
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So it looks like they've changed the DL numbers under my images. Anything with 100 to 499 DLs says >100. It doesn't change until you get to 500 DLs then it says >500. My image with 1300+ DLs now says >1000. Talk about rounding down...

« Reply #91 on: December 13, 2010, 20:51 »
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I bet they get the commission cuts in January right :)

And no delays.

« Reply #92 on: December 13, 2010, 21:13 »
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So it looks like they've changed the DL numbers under my images. Anything with 100 to 499 DLs says >100. It doesn't change until you get to 500 DLs then it says >500. My image with 1300+ DLs now says >1000. Talk about rounding down...

I'm not sure if this is a bug or feature, but I already put in a comment in the bugs thread that says it is a very bad idea if this was intentional.

A tremendous number of files are between 10 and 100 downloads. It used to be you could see >60 >40 - now it's >10 until it's in flames. Forget the contributor end for the moment, if buyers care at all about downloads as a way to gauge what's popular (my notion is that this gives them a sense of comfort when they aren't sure if they should buy something or not) there's a whole range of images that now look essentially the same and which used to show a little more precisely where the image stands.

« Reply #93 on: December 13, 2010, 21:42 »
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So it looks like they've changed the DL numbers under my images. Anything with 100 to 499 DLs says >100. It doesn't change until you get to 500 DLs then it says >500. My image with 1300+ DLs now says >1000. Talk about rounding down...

I'm not sure if this is a bug or feature, but I already put in a comment in the bugs thread that says it is a very bad idea if this was intentional.

A tremendous number of files are between 10 and 100 downloads. It used to be you could see >60 >40 - now it's >10 until it's in flames. Forget the contributor end for the moment, if buyers care at all about downloads as a way to gauge what's popular (my notion is that this gives them a sense of comfort when they aren't sure if they should buy something or not) there's a whole range of images that now look essentially the same and which used to show a little more precisely where the image stands.

I'm thinking it's an F5! new and improved feature.  ::)

ShadySue

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« Reply #94 on: December 14, 2010, 04:53 »
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So it looks like they've changed the DL numbers under my images. Anything with 100 to 499 DLs says >100. It doesn't change until you get to 500 DLs then it says >500. My image with 1300+ DLs now says >1000. Talk about rounding down...

I'm not sure if this is a bug or feature, but I already put in a comment in the bugs thread that says it is a very bad idea if this was intentional.

A tremendous number of files are between 10 and 100 downloads. It used to be you could see >60 >40 - now it's >10 until it's in flames. Forget the contributor end for the moment, if buyers care at all about downloads as a way to gauge what's popular (my notion is that this gives them a sense of comfort when they aren't sure if they should buy something or not) there's a whole range of images that now look essentially the same and which used to show a little more precisely where the image stands.
i suspect it might be deliberate. Some contributers have stated that they don't like/want them. I do, as it gives me an idea of what it's not worth sending iStockwards, i.e. if there re 5 good images of X and they've sold three times between them, there's no point in sending my pic here as there's no market for X photos.

« Reply #95 on: December 14, 2010, 08:23 »
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So it looks like they've changed the DL numbers under my images. Anything with 100 to 499 DLs says >100. It doesn't change until you get to 500 DLs then it says >500. My image with 1300+ DLs now says >1000. Talk about rounding down...

I'm not sure if this is a bug or feature, but I already put in a comment in the bugs thread that says it is a very bad idea if this was intentional.

A tremendous number of files are between 10 and 100 downloads. It used to be you could see >60 >40 - now it's >10 until it's in flames. Forget the contributor end for the moment, if buyers care at all about downloads as a way to gauge what's popular (my notion is that this gives them a sense of comfort when they aren't sure if they should buy something or not) there's a whole range of images that now look essentially the same and which used to show a little more precisely where the image stands.
i suspect it might be deliberate. Some contributers have stated that they don't like/want them. I do, as it gives me an idea of what it's not worth sending iStockwards, i.e. if there re 5 good images of X and they've sold three times between them, there's no point in sending my pic here as there's no market for X photos.

I think it's helpful from a buyers standpoint, too. But then again, why keep something that's helpful to buyers...if contributors don't want it, by all means, get rid of it.  ::) I'm wondering if the top contributors don't want it because buyers can see how many thousands of times an image has been purchased and not want to use it because of too much exposure.

ShadySue

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« Reply #96 on: December 14, 2010, 08:29 »
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So it looks like they've changed the DL numbers under my images. Anything with 100 to 499 DLs says >100. It doesn't change until you get to 500 DLs then it says >500. My image with 1300+ DLs now says >1000. Talk about rounding down...

I'm not sure if this is a bug or feature, but I already put in a comment in the bugs thread that says it is a very bad idea if this was intentional.

A tremendous number of files are between 10 and 100 downloads. It used to be you could see >60 >40 - now it's >10 until it's in flames. Forget the contributor end for the moment, if buyers care at all about downloads as a way to gauge what's popular (my notion is that this gives them a sense of comfort when they aren't sure if they should buy something or not) there's a whole range of images that now look essentially the same and which used to show a little more precisely where the image stands.
i suspect it might be deliberate. Some contributers have stated that they don't like/want them. I do, as it gives me an idea of what it's not worth sending iStockwards, i.e. if there re 5 good images of X and they've sold three times between them, there's no point in sending my pic here as there's no market for X photos.

I think it's helpful from a buyers standpoint, too. But then again, why keep something that's helpful to buyers...if contributors don't want it, by all means, get rid of it.  ::) I'm wondering if the top contributors don't want it because buyers can see how many thousands of times an image has been purchased and not want to use it because of too much exposure.
That's what I'd think if I were a buyer, but apparently lots of buyers buy what's popular because they think it must be good. I've read posts from buyers more or less saying that.

« Reply #97 on: December 14, 2010, 08:45 »
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That's what I'd think if I were a buyer, but apparently lots of buyers buy what's popular because they think it must be good. I've read posts from buyers more or less saying that.

So why do you think contributors don't want it showing? What's the harm?

ShadySue

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« Reply #98 on: December 14, 2010, 09:00 »
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That's what I'd think if I were a buyer, but apparently lots of buyers buy what's popular because they think it must be good. I've read posts from buyers more or less saying that.

So why do you think contributors don't want it showing? What's the harm?
It's been posted on the iStock forums often. It's thought to lead to copying, and I'm sure to some extent, it does. I don't necessarily mean direct copying, but copying an idea. Better for the buyers (more choice) not so good for the contributers, sharing sales.

« Reply #99 on: December 14, 2010, 09:45 »
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That's what I'd think if I were a buyer, but apparently lots of buyers buy what's popular because they think it must be good. I've read posts from buyers more or less saying that.

So why do you think contributors don't want it showing? What's the harm?
It's been posted on the iStock forums often. It's thought to lead to copying, and I'm sure to some extent, it does. I don't necessarily mean direct copying, but copying an idea. Better for the buyers (more choice) not so good for the contributers, sharing sales.

Good point.

It's been posted on the iStock forums often.  Sorry, don't go there often. Been there more in the last 2 weeks than I have in the last 2 years.


 

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