Nah, just kidding 

.....ok, I admit it, the situation is going beyond ridiculous. I'm curious about the cause tho. Does this go back to when Bruce once mentioned he could not afford to invest the money required to update the site and hence sold out?

Yeah but Getty could afford to and they've had it quite a while.

I don`t think that I have ever seen a site with more bugs... Not an isolated event either, constant issues... day after day, week after week, year after year, endless stream of fups.

Still not working. I'm shocked. I'd have thought once those clever Istock programmers came back from their long weekend, then finished reading their magazine, had a coffee and then nipped out for lunch __ they'd have fixed the site in a jiffy! Just like they usually do. Not.

And how much of our commissions are we paying these people for their incompetence?      

this is just too much, it is not acceptable

Quote from: Karimala on November 29, 2011, 15:43

And how much of our commissions are we paying these people for their incompetence?      

That's backwards, Karin.  They're the sales people.  What they get is a commission for making the sale; we get (or are supposed to get) royalties.

Oops.   

I don't think that I have ever seen a site with more bugs...

istock likes to think that they're still #1 in microstock. I think they're right, although not for the same reason they like to think.

Maybe there's a new company slogan in this somewhere. "istockphoto - still #1 in site bugginess."

Well, it is working perfectly...for them. What a benefit that it is not crediting contributors for sales. 100% of the sale in their pockets!

Do the forums get translated into the iStock 'community languages'?

People whose English is shaky post their concerns about the current issues and get nippy replies (from mods, admins or fellow plebs) that they should have read the bugs thread.
I've got a Higher French,FWIW (means I did it for five years at high school and passed the exam) and I wouldn't have a clue where to begin with the bug thread OP if it was written in French, so how reasonable is it to expect others to read it in English?

Lobo needs to know how difficult it is for people whose native language isn't English to pick up sarcasm, e.g. his pointless ' empty sorry' post, followed by 'see - that didn't help', or his 'please be civil' when he himself doesn't seem to know the meaning of the word. He should also know the true meaning of sorry, rooted in metanoia, a total turnaround, a striving not to be in that situation in future. Not just an empty word.

When serious problems like this arise, all contributers should be sent an email, in the appropriate community language they have selected. Yes it costs money. Better in future to spend the money proactively on a better IT team/software/superviser (delete as appropriate).

... but they need to stop acting as if they live in a bubble... or maybe they are living in a bubble   

Yes they live in bubble
They soul is in fart bubble in bath 

Quote from: Suljo on December 01, 2011, 20:46

Quote from: epixx on December 01, 2011, 19:14

... but they need to stop acting as if they live in a bubble... or maybe they are living in a bubble   

Yes they live in bubble
They soul is in fart bubble in bath 

   Have I ever mentioned how much I like Suljo's posts? True poetry!

You are the rare one who have this ability to read my posts ( because of my ignore ratio  )