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so now your source is a right-wing tabloid with low reliability ratings?  thought you didnt trust the media?

For anyone who has had files removed and can't work out why, please can you check to see if they were duplicates? Do you still have the same files in your portfolio, with file numbers that are different to the ones that have been moved to the Not Accepted tab?

i've had about 300 removed - it's not worth my time to track them down - a much bigger proble is AS doing bulk rejections of batch es accepted elsewhere

I found one that was a lake removed for "incompatible with terms" - not sure what terms it might be incompatible with. I might have a typo for "Sierra" that is "Seirra" - maybe that is a bad word in some language? But a search for "seirra" reveals 17 results for seirra in images but over 3000 in premium. It is still visible if I search for it on Adobe but not under seirra. ...

not that it's an excuse, but it's possible it was rejected since 'sierra' is also trademark for a car - for awhile human reviewers at SS rejected images taken in Newport, OR (a US cigarette)

--- as idiotic as thump's cohort removing pix of the 'enola GAY' ( dropped a-bomb on hiroshima)

and recently i keep getting some (designated) AI images rejected for "needs a model release"  -  it may be due to a bug in submittal that doesn't always show a secondary clickbox when 'ai gen' is selected.  it says "images are of fictional people"

i have thousands of images, many years old, waiting to be meta'd

i've been using visaulmind.ai which does a great job for about 2-3 cents / image. (you can try it for free on 30(?) images) you can append keywords or add to descriptions before submitting (eg adding a byline for editorial, or location when it isn't obvious.  but VM has identified the rhine river by a castle in the background or accurately named the interiors of Istanbul mosques. and Even translates from some greek or latin inscriptions on mosaics. it correctly identifies plants & animals.  for simitars they actually write different descriptionsi.  in a recent example of a poster from last week's protest "only you can prevent fascist liars ", it understood it as a reference to smokey bear!

i can set up 200-300 images in a few minutes & it runs in background - i then select for various post-processing (several thousand) & resizing.  i've added >2500 images to SS, >1000 to  AS over last 3 months  and i can also update my excel captions sheets by appending the resulting csv (these sheets allow me to locate any of 50K archived images by keyword in at most a few minutes)
 

for free services like chatgpt, you need to consider the time it takes to prompt or upload & you'd still have to add the result to your image meta.i'm not aware of any free services that process in bulk & update the image meta & provide a csv

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Later, when the large customer base becomes dependent on it, the quality and service/support are reduced and prices are increased. Until eventually a collapse occurs (creative destruction) and the game starts all over again. Currently, we are in the cycle of crap and are drifting towards the big collapse.

no, that's just destruction & decay & may not see a replacement

creative destruction is a positive  process in which new innovations replace and make obsolete older innovations. -- word processing, transimstors, digital cameras, ...

Olympic, olympics are trademarked by the IOC so you should remove them.

Apart from that, maybe you could add in amphitheatre seeing as you have both UK and American spellings of theatre/theater.

I've had pix taken in Olympic national Park (a public domain name) rejected for this reason (& our state capital is Olympia!)

a trademark only covers use that infringes that particular use (eg 2 different  uses of trademarked 'Apple' are accepted), but IOC managed to trademark a word that was millennia old and bludgeons anyone trying to use the word in another sense.

otoh SS has  300K+ olympic images! so likely a big difference in reviewers

dead thread alert!!!!!!!!!!!!

Quote from: danielvisuals on March 24, 2025, 06:33

I get the idea of cleaning up a portfolio, but I honestly think it's a waste of time. From what I've read, buyers rarely browse an entire portfolio—they just search for specific clips. Instead of spending time deleting content, why not focus on producing more high-quality clips? That will likely have a much bigger impact on your sales than trying to ‘prune’ the old ones.

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however my percentage of content sold at least once is only 13.9% i still want to increase this percentage,maybe it doesn't make any difference,but as i said,i think it's worth a try.

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and I almost forgot,in the week between February 24th and March 2nd only 3 sales!

not everything is worth a try when you're also eliminating the chance of sales

what's the difference between an image that sold once a year ago, & one that's never sold?  how likely is either type to get a new sale?

it's self-defeating to rely on an unproved theories of what a site's algorithm is.

and your timeline is unrealistic -- watching day by day is just going to magnify your distress

Quote from: synthetick on March 21, 2025, 16:59

I agree with this theory. Mine that have got stuck in review have location keywords that the bot probably didn't understand and may have flagged for IP concerns. When I re-uploaded them without the location names they were accepted overnight.

The only thing that is for certain is that dumb AI is pre-processing everything.

its stupid, but there are several (unrelated) santiago trademarks

for a long time SS wouldnt accept my Newport OR pix because of the same-named cigarette

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I will keep documenting what I do, at least until I reach a reliable 1200-1500 a month. After that I will update in more private circles.
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i really hope not - i've really enjoyed & learned from your posts

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Quote from: cobalt on February 28, 2025, 12:31

There is no way in Germany to own any kind of property or land and not pay local taxes. It is not much though, around 30 euros a month or 300-400 a year. Municipality costs for garbage etc.. are a lot higher and a bigger problem.  Plus occasional repairs that we share as owners but can be quite high.

I have around 50sqm, the place is fully paid, no debts.

It is funny what you say about the "dark brown masses" of whatever part of the world you personally don't like.

Here in Europe we think that way about the white hillibilly americans that are part of a cult and happily do their masters bidding and long to live under a king or emperor. Unfortunately they also want gigantic wars with millions dead to fullfill their rapture religious fantasies...they are unbelievably uneducated, can barely read and write but always have an opinion...

The ai youtube spammers are the same people that bring you all the crypto scams and there are also lots of very clueless white people who think ai images is some magic money.n

There is also one very simple reason that ai attracts many people from ultrapoor countries...50 dollars a month can be like 500 in the us midwest or 2000 here in Germany.

So the high volume but low income ports, make a lot of financial sense to that group of producers.

They are just as clueless as the mobile phone crowd that started doing stock 10 years ago.

Microstock are open platforms for total amateurs. But the talent can learn and rise, including the ai talent.

I am not worried about ai producers, like I am not worried about the mobile phone talent. Most will give up in 2 years and only a few that remain will actually be regular producers.

I hate having bestsellers copied, so I hope the new strategy of a long tail plus editorial will lower that problem.

But I am glad you liked my analysis, I am posting here because I know many people who have neglected their ports and are wondering if it is still worth getting in.

However everyones situation is different and what sold well 20 years ago will not sell in the same way today.



Adapt or die like in every business.

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Please don't spam here. There are other threads on this forum, where all the ignored people talk to each other. They'll be happy to talk to you.


 

i agree - super constanty posts h is racist-conspiratorial idiocy across many threads - and needs to be called out on it

Quote from: synthetick on February 20, 2025, 05:37

I tried to use the new one but after I entered my description, keywords, category and Illustration file type and tried to submit, most of what I had entered disappeared! I tried doing it in different orders, and saving multiple times during the process but no matter what I did I lost my inputs and couldn't submit. I ended up using the suggestion above about getting to the legacy version via the keywording tool and was able to submit that way. Can anyone advise how to use the new version successfully?

True.   The Save button doesn't save. You better enter all the cells at the same time or keywords, categories and location get erased.

not sure why that would happen - do you enter meta on the SS site? My images have meta already, so i'll select a bunch of different images in the same category.  all i need to do is click on a category & maybe editorial & submit - all are submtted with their individual meta unchanged


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