DATE LINE March 29, 2007

It has been reported Mostphotos members are forming alliances with one another and instituting gang warfare!

Nightly raids by one gang on another, delivering  the rival gang members with
copious amounts of low ratings of all "1's" and sneaking then back to their respective portfolios, and hiding among their images have been observed.

Digital warfare has broken out out -  People are getting emotionally assassinated and sales are beginning to suffer as a result.

An insider has reported that one side is developing a "nuclear comment bomb". This device if unleashed will not only devastate the opposing side with a total oblivion of "1's" but will
also leave nasty comments about the authors images as well. " I hope my sales don't suffer" reported one witness. and another stated it has cost him thousands in therapy sessions with his therapist. "This site is costing me more money than I make here" he reported.

There are no signs of any scheduled peace talks in the future. It is hoped that the owners
of the site will be able to initiate some sort of settlement soon.

For Microstockgroup News, this is your reporter - The MIZ

Funny;  it's nearly that bad.

hahah!  You're an idiot, Bob.  I love you man.

If you dish out 1's, you will get them on your images.  There are probably gangs going round dishing out 10's hoping people will reciprocate.

 
Y'all are funny!

I agree with Sharpshot, whatever you dish out, it'll come back to you, just like in real life.

And its NOT that bad, its great! Its fun and we are all enjoying doing it... if nothing else its a way to have fun with the tight-knit community we are. Its harmless, y'all!  Why do people get all bent out of shape about it? Not going to join until its straightened out?  That seems like a silly reason not to join if its a great site (it is) and its making money (it is).

And its NOT that bad, its great! Its fun and we are all enjoying doing it... if nothing else its a way to have fun with the tight-knit community we are. Its harmless, y'all!  Why do people get all bent out of shape about it? Not going to join until its straightened out?  That seems like a silly reason not to join if its a great site (it is) and its making money (it is).

Call me old fashioned but I always believed the main idea behind stock photography was to make money from your photos not to "have fun and be part of a tight-knit community" , if I wanted to be part of a tight-knit community I'd join my local photo club.

OK it time for a revolution. I say we storm all the stock sites....all of us at once. Then we take down all their servers.

Then we proceed to their corporate  offices, to rip open the safes and steal all the money.
No more pushing us little guys around as long as we all stick together.

lets go!

Quote from: suwanneeredhead on March 30, 2008, 18:55

And its NOT that bad, its great! Its fun and we are all enjoying doing it... if nothing else its a way to have fun with the tight-knit community we are. Its harmless, y'all!  Why do people get all bent out of shape about it? Not going to join until its straightened out?  That seems like a silly reason not to join if its a great site (it is) and its making money (it is).

Call me old fashioned but I always believed the main idea behind stock photography was to make money from your photos not to "have fun and be part of a tight-knit community" , if I wanted to be part of a tight-knit community I'd join my local photo club.

I have had 5 sales so far at around $19 each.  Not bad for a new site.  It is nice to get paid in euros that are going up against sterling.

3) It is not true that sales has been suffering because of the ratings. Those figures are not public, where did you get that from. Second of all buyers don't see any comments, ratings or index. How can they then be affected.

They may not see them but they affect how high up your images appear in a search.

Quote from: Arian on March 31, 2008, 03:54

3) It is not true that sales has been suffering because of the ratings. Those figures are not public, where did you get that from. Second of all buyers don't see any comments, ratings or index. How can they then be affected.

They may not see them but they affect how high up your images appear in a search.

arian is the owner / rep for most photos.  he just said that the voting has very little affect on the rankings of your images.

Then I reffer you to my point nr 2 and specially the last row.

Mostphotos has a more complex and intelligent backbone that is not showing on the outside. I will not go in to the technical details, but for example if you behave bad on the site, like in this case, voting low on pictures that does not deserve it, it will affect your trustworthiness. So what I want to say is that if you in someway behave badly, the site will automatically notice that and your reliability will go down, and next time your word will be less worth.

So in other words by behaving badly you just destroy for your self.

me to 


That is the big nut to crack.

Quote from: PecoFoto on March 31, 2008, 04:43

Quote from: Arian on March 31, 2008, 03:54

3) It is not true that sales has been suffering because of the ratings. Those figures are not public, where did you get that from. Second of all buyers don't see any comments, ratings or index. How can they then be affected.

They may not see them but they affect how high up your images appear in a search.

arian is the owner / rep for most photos.  he just said that the voting has very little affect on the rankings of your images.

Strange then that when you do a search the highest ranked images appear before the lower ranked ones, which off course is what most people would expect.

Weird though because as he clearly stated they designed the whole ranking system for no apparent or logical reason other than to be a bit of fun.

Now why don't other sites think of this, have a ranking system but don't actually use it to rank the search results - brilliant!!!!!