is it customary that some images wait for inspection much much longer than other images with similar numbers? should I contact support? have they forgotten about them??

for instance, I have now some images pending that start with 771 and 773 and the queue for non-excl has long time ago progressed beyond that (two days ago), it is now 776 and 775?

I seem to be getting them reviewed out of sequence at the moment .  I had some reviewed yesterday while others that have been up nearly 3 days earlier are still waiting.

is it customary that some images wait for inspection much much longer than other images with similar numbers? should I contact support? have they forgotten about them??

for instance, I have now some images pending that start with 771 and 773 and the queue for non-excl has long time ago progressed beyond that (two days ago), it is now 776 and 775?

I have to agree this time  (100% crop)

http://www.stockxpert.com/browse_image/view/26847441
Rejected for artifact and purple fringing

It have some... at 400%

They have taken too much of   [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRuNxHqwazs[/youtube]

it's not realistic, it's not fair.
i can understand if you inspect the image at 100% and find fringe and noise.
or even a bit of clip highlight at one tiny area (tiny, i mean tiny. ).
but to check the image from just a graph instead of eyeballing , and then rejecting it
because the graph says you're out of neutral grey, or your lighting is not balance,
this is ridiculous.

i get some too, esp. when i submit high key images. my rejection is due to LENS FLARE, softens your image detail.
what lens flare? the image is soften before i like high key images for its ambience.
another instance would be, steam on the glass. again, LENS FLARE, degradation of image.
out of focus.  it's not out of focus, it's steam on the glass.

we have to live with all this. as the last word, is still with the reviewer.
as vonkara 's fantastic vid shows. they hold the hulk power 

my files are still waiting. first of them uploaded on 06-Nov-08 (Id numbers starting with 7710). I see non exclusive queue has progressed to 778* and upload date of 15-Nov-08. Is something wrong? It's 9 days overdue. I could have improved them and reuploaded them had they been rejected. What did I do to deserve to be in a doghouse? what to do to let me out? 

There is a thread in the istock help forum about some files that got stuck. You might want to check it out.

Quote from: whatalife on November 20, 2008, 09:56

Quote from: Aetherial on November 20, 2008, 08:22

my files are still waiting. first of them uploaded on 06-Nov-08 (Id numbers starting with 7710). I see non exclusive queue has progressed to 778* and upload date of 15-Nov-08. Is something wrong? It's 9 days overdue. I could have improved them and reuploaded them had they been rejected. What did I do to deserve to be in a doghouse? what to do to let me out? 

There is a thread in the istock help forum about some files that got stuck. You might want to check it out.

I read it but is it not the case that not a  single week goes bye on istock that something stops working or brakes down.The biggest and best in the world,but unfortunately they cannot attract the finest programmers.The opening on the new Berlin office will hopely improve the quality of staff and in the futute lets hope  istockphoto is run from Europe and Calgery can return to it's limited ' cowshed' existance.

I wasn't defending them, or their programming, just offering a possible reason for why the files might not have yet been inspected. That was the question, was it not?

Glad to hear you got it resolved. Hopefully they put you on the fast track.