another oddity undoubtedly,Pacesetter,like this strangeness of mine that continues...even this Monday so far no sales! 

Quote from: cobalt on June 14, 2025, 02:35

Quote from: Sean Locke Photography on June 13, 2025, 17:21

How long was it down?  A day or two?

it was down since last friday, so around one week

Cobalt, glad you were able to count the days. My recollection of time and days is getting increasingly vague for me these days.

so true! It's already Saturday again, it seemed like Saturday yesterday!

time is really going by so fast!

Anyway yes it was more or less a week,and a much slower than usual start to June.

the way SS pays changed about 6 months ago if I remember correctly,however it was communicated via email.

in short,now once you reach the minimum monthly payment of $25 the balance is reset on the 3rd of the month,no longer on the 1st.

"your earnings calculated" email now arrives a few hours before receiving the payment,before it arrived a few days before,at least 24/48 hours before,now instead the email arrives a couple of hours before more or less.

the times have been a bit longer,in any case the payment always arrives before the 15th of the month.

then for me nothing has changed,total monthly earnings always appears at the top right near the "upload" button.

I read people are uploading 200-300 a day, so I am not sure what�s the point of this limit - so they won�t upload 600 a day. Does it make a difference at all�

from what I see several contributors have estimated their limit between 500 and 1000 contents per week.

imo a good generous limit would be 50 contents per day,50 per day is really a lot and it's a fair limit imo.

18,000 contents per year more or less,I think it's enough,if instead the limit is 100 per day it is clearly 36,000 in a year,which seems a bit excessive to me.

but counting the rejections maybe even 100 a day can be acceptable.

here are my sales so far this week,as I said,I hope they change the system by which sales work soon,the old system is outdated and too vulnerable to fraud.

I will continue to work in June too,after the free collection I will try the extreme solution of mass deleting a couple of thousand old and outdated contents,I've already deleted about 300 in May.

I will keep all the videos,all the content that I have already sold at least once,and a small selection of the unsold ones,in an attempt to improve the overall quality of my portfolio,and increase the percentage of content sold.

after this operation,which should happen immediately after the payment for the free collection,things must start to change,If there is no improvement by the end of June I will stop until I see a change,if that ever happens.

objectively,it's also becoming boring.

@SimonSays

I think you misunderstood,I am still angry and disappointed with my sales.

then the discussion about rejections and limits is another story.

see,this is the difference between me and some of you here,you tar everything with the same brush I don't.

there is a distinction between things.

I am happy with most of the things Adobe does,and I understand many of the decisions,but I am not happy at all with my sales,and this fact remains for the moment,and if this fact does not change,as much as I can understand Adobe and its choices,I certainly will not continue this work for long.

as I already said I am following my last path in microstock,with AI videos,if I don't have a positive feedback as soon as possible with the work I'm doing,as far as I'm concerned it's over,also because it's not acceptable to make 6 sales in a week with my current port.

In June things have to start changing for me at least a little bit,and go even better in the next months,otherwise it's over,I certainly can't tolerate 6 sales in a week anymore,with my current portfolio.

with my last message I froze everyone!

@Cobalt,I agree with you.

first of all FINALLY is definitely the right word,the limits should have been set since 2023,since we proposed it.

then the rejections,roulette or not roulette,the rejections can be a palliative but not the cure.

reject,to temporarily plug a problem that needs to be solved,ok,but here we need a definitive,long-term solution.

It's obvious that something isn't working as it should,so if they want to patch things up for now,that's fine,but they have to find a definitive solution,and they know it too.

rejections cannot be a definitive and long-term solution.

Quote from: Injustice for all on May 24, 2025, 21:15

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(In)Justice for all:   Too much Metallica.  Try ACDC:   "Back in Black" (a.k.a Adobe Reviews) or "Highway to Hell" (Direction of microstock industry)

Metallica,Faith No More,Rage Against the Machine,Green Day,Smashing Pumpkins,Alan Parsons.....and of course,always Pink Floyd! 

Quote from: Injustice for all on May 24, 2025, 05:29

...if they reject a lot,even for the "similar" ones,they do it because it's necessary.

Of course since you consider it's necessary to flood AI, and that a photographer is a human staying all days in front of a screen, by despising hard working traditional has-been and skilled photographers.

In my opinion you underestimate the work of those who produce AI content.

Even with AI as in real photography and videography there are different ways of working.

There are those who,for example,take and produce real snapshots,in order to obtain a certain quantity without worries,and there are those who try to take real unique,well-curated and noteworthy shots.

with AI things don't change,what changes is the means by which the product is obtained.

as far as I'm concerned my port is still mostly real,but soon it probably won't be anymore,let's say that I've become more serious with AIs for a year,but I still intend to continue with the illustrative editorials as soon as I've "finished" the current project,and then resume it later.

but all of this clearly also depends on how it goes.

I hope that the work I'm doing now will change something soon,so in the future I can afford better photography equipment and get back to taking real photos and videos too,pay my travel expenses and everything else,things that are science fiction for me at the moment!

yeah,the "similar" thing is a bit heavy and annoying,hard times for images!

maybe in this case,the end justifies the means! 

My rejection rate is about 50%,I suppose the tendency is to approve the best content and also try to reject content that is less marketable in itself,or that is already present in the library.

I'm sure that Adobe is doing it mainly for us,I don't think they're there drinking vodka and laughing at our rejections.

It's obvious to me that if they've applied limits,and if they reject a lot,even for the "similar" ones,they do it because it's necessary.

I don't believe in the theory of "roulette rejection".

It's not by accident that SS has a "high fraud risk" list of countries where new contributors from those IPs must wait at last 90 days until they can receive a payout as well as further checks.

Is this a racist practice? No.

Where there is smoke there is fire.

In my opinion,yes,it is racism,and as long as some cultures are treated as such,we will not move forward.

Imo,there are other factors at play here,such as the population size for example.

let's take the case of India,how many are there? I yes...only 1.5 billion!

and of course that the concentration of spammers is higher there,just as the concentration of cooks and plumbers is higher! 

there are simply so many!


In my opinion,these limits could have been put in place immediately with AI,It hasn't been done before perhaps for certain reasons.

However,imo,the limits must be low,only in this way does it matter what you produce and not how much you produce,in this way we aim for quality and not quantity.

and I agree on this.

of course if it was possible to know what limits you have it would be better,who knows maybe this will be done too,but I don't know if it's possible,since limits depend on different factors,such as account,approval rate and general performance.

anyway yes,these limits are necessary and welcome.

I produce AI content practically every day,and so I know that AI content needs to be worked on a lot with generative fill,color adjusted,blurs...are full of imperfections and needs to be improved carefully.

that's why I don't understand how someone can upload 100 AI contents per day,from my point of view it's practically impossible.

From what I see,there is not a single AI content that is perfect as it is generated.

when the AI ​​content is generated,at the moment I download it,it looks good,but then when I open Photoshop and look at it carefully I never stop finding imperfections and things that can be improved.

and with these new limits,in my opinion,we can all work better,and give ourselves the time we need.

dear Adobe...yesterday you were a bit mean,because you reject 8 people images,but then I looked at the pictures again and noticed that the people in the pictures looked a little sad and disappointed,because they were slightly underexposed,and they also had a slightly red and unnatural tone,especially the girl's cheeks...

...so i opened Photoshop again,and used the new tool to adjust the colors(cool tool by the way)and all the people in the pictures found a new tone and brightness and they were all happier,especially the girl who had red cheeks and who you have now accepted and she is very happy now....

...but his friends are still sad,because they were rejected again,maybe because the description indicates the subject that should not be the subject and I have to specify better what instead at first sight,so I'll try one last time by modifying the description so it can't be said that the subject is not in focus and of quality....

...and since you're around there,could you take a look at my videos?Even just with one eye,but only if you've already had lunch,because if you haven't had lunch you're a little disappointed and nervous,and then you reject all my videos...

....and if you reject all my videos i can't have my lunch,and then I will have to start eating my shoes,and if I eat my shoes,then I feel a little heavy,and I can't walk to facilitate digestion,because I don't have shoes anymore...

...and then I feel a little heavy,and I can't walk,so then I feel sick,and if I feel sick then I end up in hospital,and if I end up in hospital then they'll give me anesthesia,and if they give me anesthesia,then I can't produce videos anymore...

...and if I don't produce videos anymore,then the whole world will be sad about it,and we don't want all of this,right Adobe?