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Agency Based Discussion => iStockPhoto.com => Topic started by: knorre on October 09, 2012, 00:24
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Hi,
A year ago I deactivated few images on istock in protest to new User Agrrement. But recently I realized that istock is still much better than 123f, DP or CS in royalty structure and reconsider the decision.
I used "Reactivate this file" option in administration menu (week ago) but nothing happened. Does anybody have any experience in reactivating images there? How does it work?
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You can ask CR to reactivate them for you and they might.
Or you can submit 'as new', which I think I've read is required anyway after a certain time.
AFAIK, there's no way you can simply reactivate deactivations.
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Seems to be a different policy these days - see http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=343765&page=1 (http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=343765&page=1) - apparently if it was deactivated less than 14 months ago you can use the "Reactivate" link, otherwise you have to re-upload.
I didn't even know there WAS a "Reactivate" link!
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Seems to be a different policy these days - see [url]http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=343765&page=1[/url] ([url]http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=343765&page=1[/url]) - apparently if it was deactivated less than 14 months ago you can use the "Reactivate" link, otherwise you have to re-upload.
I didn't even know there WAS a "Reactivate" link!
Thanks, that must have been what I read and misremembered. As it happened I had a file accepted last week whereupon the thum revealed a problem that hadn't shown at 100%, so I deactivated it. I just checked. If you click on the tiny thumb of a deactivated file in 'My Uploads', 'reactivate this file' is visible under Administration. That appears to exist on all my deactivated files (as the rules about people got stricter, I deactivated the files which no longer met the new standards), I'm sure at least some must be older than 14 months. NB, I haven't tried to reactivate them,so I'm not certain it would work on all the files.
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I'm also wondering what happens if you try to reactivate a file which was deactivated by iStock administration for, say, property issues (e.g. castles)... but I'm not going to try it!
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I'm also wondering what happens if you try to reactivate a file which was deactivated by iStock administration for, say, property issues (e.g. castles)... but I'm not going to try it!
Yes, I noticed the reactivate link was live on my deactivated never-was-a-castle, but I've already resubmitted as editorial and I didn't try.
Another you might like to try is the apparently-live link to become a logo contributor. ::)