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Agency Based Discussion => iStockPhoto.com => Topic started by: heywoody on September 10, 2013, 17:17

Title: Views
Post by: heywoody on September 10, 2013, 17:17
I have 6 files sitting there pending model release while I wait (and wait and wait) for a response from scout - how . are they getting views?  ???
Title: Re: Views
Post by: tickstock on September 10, 2013, 17:20
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Title: Re: Views
Post by: heywoody on September 10, 2013, 17:51
I thought only buyer views were counted?
Title: Re: Views
Post by: tickstock on September 10, 2013, 18:03
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Title: Re: Views
Post by: ShadySue on September 10, 2013, 18:17
I'm not sure about that but some of the inspectors could be buyers as well.
Isn't the case that only buyers who aren't contributors have their views count?
I did a forum search on 'Views', since I'm sure I've seen this clarified there, but the search is so useless and the site so slow, I haven't tried beyond the old or irrelevant posts on the first page of the search results.
Title: Re: Views
Post by: KarenH on September 10, 2013, 20:10
I thought only buyer views were counted?
Contributors views are counting -- I don't think they're supposed to, but they do. 
Title: Re: Views
Post by: Uncle Pete on September 10, 2013, 20:26
I have 6 files sitting there pending model release while I wait (and wait and wait) for a response from scout - how . are they getting views?  ???

Post a link, we'll have 50 people go look and see what happens.  :)
Title: Re: Views
Post by: gillian vann on September 10, 2013, 22:37
^ perfect. much faster than asking iStock (and then analysing the response for truth Vs spin)
Title: Re: Views
Post by: mikevideos on September 11, 2013, 14:25
It's someone from your creative network
Creative Network Recent Uploads - Greasemonkey Script
http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=342093&page=1 (http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=342093&page=1)
Title: Re: Views
Post by: ShadySue on September 11, 2013, 14:58
It's someone from your creative network
Creative Network Recent Uploads - Greasemonkey Script
[url]http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=342093&page=1[/url] ([url]http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=342093&page=1[/url])

These posts are from early 2012. How do you know that still applies since the View system change of September 2013?
Title: Re: Views
Post by: mikevideos on September 11, 2013, 15:23
because I have a friend who sometimes comments on istock me my latest photos before they are published, which is possible because of this script, and its views are recorded
Title: Re: Views
Post by: heywoody on September 11, 2013, 16:51
Not sure I like that explanation - prefer to think it's just a bug in their view counter.  These are not 'not published' images as they are languishing in a review queue so (should) not viewable except by IS or someone with my login credentials - the implication is that someone just needs a greasemonkey script to browse anything including financial info for anyone - also my creative network is on the small side  ;)
Title: Re: Views
Post by: ShadySue on September 16, 2013, 05:11
because I have a friend who sometimes comments on istock me my latest photos before they are published, which is possible because of this script, and its views are recorded
Apologies. A little experiment with one of my CN would seem to confirm this. He looked at one of my files which had only just come into my port, and I looked at one of his older files with no views. Both then recorded a view, which is unlikely to be coincidental.