well... the best way of course is to submit images that is going to be accepted at the first place ( inspect images on 200%, choose up to 10 really focused keywords etc..

well i believe this is really hard to "measure". but you surely need less time when you work with just one site.

did you ever consider possibility that money is not the only thing in somebody's life?
i myself did not go to exclusive on i.s. because this inconsistency on meny ways. but actually this is the main and only reason.  - i can not "give my body and soul" to someone who is not o.k. with every one with his associates in a business.
if you are not o.k. with someone today (on example somewhere in summer is announced that exclusive uploads with even kwd spamming are going to be corrected, and that non-exclusives are going to be more offensively rejected (as the image of the dog above) - how do you call this? - is it o.k.? -and from the business point of view - this is not wise - you are waisting reviewers time twice - once for reviewing, and once more for re-reviewing. wise? - well, i'm not sure..).. so - if  you are not o.k. today with someone - this is likely that you are going to be not-o.k. with someone else tomorrow.

having exclusives on the first pages of best match, is o.k. having files that are "on the line" accepted, more money/dl's - that is all o.k.  but....

magnum, these keywords are here, but this is actually :
closeup, mixed (or purebreed) dog, headshot, mouth open, outdoors,
if you had + only animal thongue, i believe this would be accepted (if only kwds are rejection reason).

the main non-o.k. thing on istock is a huge inconsistency about every rejection reason.(exclusives vs non-exclusives). on example, i have some 65% acceptance ratio on "regular" uploads, and 105% on files reinspected by scout...
as an owner of printing company for 15years, i can say (from the long time real-life experience) that i believe that "artifacts" on example is more than 50% wrong rejection reason.
 from the other side, as a potential buyer of images, i would like all agencies to have some maximum of 10 or 15 keywords per image (o.k. i personaly think that 5-7 would be quite enough).
on example, i would still reject this diego's image.
on example, this is not recreation(al pursuit), if i need "smiling, young woman, sitting, armchair, home interrior" - i would not need this smile, even, i would not need this image if i search with "book" (although the books are actually here), i don't need "white" also. etc..
and of course, as a photographer also, sometimes i realy ask myself do the people who inspect my images have any basic photographic experience. (or if the answer is "yes", i ask myself - did these people ever moved a "mode" ring on their cameras on something else than green letters "auto" (my cameras, do not this "auto" option - so, i have problem   )

if i can remember one by one cent was used for financing some really bad bad projects, but i can't remember the movie, was it superman, or batman

no, people are NOT recognizable, at least not all of them, but, warren is right - that's dt's policy which is "said" at the very start - so, there is no space for being angry. - if you can achieve mr's, - o.k., and if  you can't - well - give up with this image on dt, and that's it.

wow. this was really fast. yesterday i did a payment requiest on dt, -and just checked - money is on my mb account. cool.
i'm going to buy some food'n'beer

unfortunately my country is not in pay pall paying system, that's whi i put ? sign in my previous post. - i just wandeedr how high is a paypall fee.

?
transver via mb: ~2.8$/transaction + my bank takes some 4.5-5$ (which is still much less than if i make payment vie checks)

peep, i wander why did not you open a pay pall account at the first place?

nice way to borrow some money with no fee

of course that acts would never ever be necessary . - when you have an atomic bomb - you actually do not have to use one. -that's pretty enough for the other side to know that you have one, and that you won't hesitate to use one, -if you have to.
that's how every business works. fair deal? hm... not sure... pretty fair? - sometimes..
and there is only one atomic bomb on this market - our images. only one side has one -we - the contributors. problem is that is broken apart on small selfish portfolios of each of us.
just imagine that strength which starts with "we - the Contributors ..." 
well' 11 15'. my fishing-start time is 11 30'. so..

yes, but, helping other people is also in the human nature.  and thirst for justice either.
well... let's put this that way... i am also a sport-shooter, and sportfisherman. - angler. (means, that i catch fishes on some wooden/metal/plastic baits - one by one).
(i'm just to go on the river today ) - when i see a group of fishes active, i am mostly able to catch 'em all. o.k. - i'm a C&R, but, if i would not be the one - there would not be any fish in the river behind me. - whole school of fishes - with "one by one" method would be grounded.
  -when i catch one - this is not other fishes problem, and whole group actually is not really affected. - and, again, one-by-one - thay are all gone.. (hm... i just become a poet, on English language  ) -and if i would drop a fishing net - that would be noticed by whole school as a "general" problem, and they would all try to escape, and most of them would - i would catch only a few.
interesting? one-by-one - and all fishes gone,
catch'em all - and almost all are free.
and you got my point - if fishes were organized, and have a good communication - when i drop my lure in the first cast - if whole bunch were alarmed, and act as one body - to swim away - i would catch none.
have a good day my friends, until tomorrow.
"gone fishin' "

yes, i agree with the posts above completely too.
but again... if there is enough of faith - the hills can be moved.

 here where i live, we say something like: " if there is a willing - there is (must be) a way" .

- in every business people that do some job are individual competitors - but, there is also something called "loyalty to the profession"
every good change in the history was done when there was a critical mass of individuals who were willing to make these changes. - and  yes - "everyone told them it's impossible" .
from the other hand - monopole is a good thing in business  - for one that have this monopole. - and we-contributors are in the position to have monopole on the industry. microstock images are ours - not our ma's, or aliens, or whoever.. - WE have images. customers buy images. not sites, not customer supports, not ftp uploads, not... - the main reason why we are all here are our images.

of course this would be hard, but impossible? - not.
i just wondered. (remember StockXpert recently ) - if we want something (or do not want) - there has to be (and there always is) a way.

... take a part in some microstockers organization - some kind of syndicate, or something like that? with some strict rules.
on example - one of basic rules would be - if agency blackmails some of members, or all the contributors for various reasons - whole organization to give-back -either with "no, we do not agree with this - we'll delete all of our images" ? -and to be ready to act that way?

cool.

haha - i just noticed i'm completely banned from dt forum. "cool"

yes, i am banned from the forum out there - i wrote the truth, but dt is keeping their "interesting" forum moderation policy (silly, if i can say). - unfortunately pay pall is not an option in my country. when i try to cash checks - i have to wait a minimum of 30 days - when check arrives to my adress. and bank fees are not acceptable. -so i wrote that i'll have to delete my images, and i already stopped to upload images - because of 6 months rule there.
but i have to admit, that i believe that dt is having really big problems using mb service (already posted by achiles on the dt forum). some my friends rally had a problems with mb - and support is really a "snail speed".
the main thing that is really making me nervous is that dt is acting like they have images, - and forget one - the main important thing - that they sell our images - we (agency, and contributors) are all making money on  our images, not on agency's services. - similar thing that happened recently on StockXpert.
anyhow - that atittude ( "no we would not have mb option, if you did not need one" ....   really? -shows what that agency think about us - contributors - that we are a bunch of idiots - which is not o.k.
but, an the other hand - as i already said - i can understand all this , and of course, i hope that things are going to be solved on a good way for all of us (that we in non-pay-pall countries are going to have mb option avialable soon.

i did withdrawn of two small amounts of money on my moneybookers account, (first one on 16th april) and still nothing happened.
how about you others?

some 1300  i believe..
a few minutes after...: 1503

 important: reviewers (in my opinion) are mot than 50% right. - i cryed few times to scout - that s some 5:1 for me so far now (or 5:2). - but that's a pain in the ass... i rather give up (and take my money on some of competitor sites).
time/nerves saving advices:
-don't look on "exclusive uploads" (a lot of crap accepted)(that's understandable - we all love all kids, but our own kids are precious to us )
-dont' even think to look on "exclusive uploads"
-if you still have dilemma - should i look on "exclusive uploads" (on the main page) - advice is: NO!.
of course - i'm not talking about "exclusive flags" these people are really good - i'm talking about exclusives with some (or less) 1-2k images, and less than 20k dl's..
reviewers on is sometimes look on exif, and not (even) on photo => reviewer with lack of photographic experience (and yes - there are ones too) - can reject image with some fool reason based on exif, and not on a real photo.

*illustration: one of is photographer-colleagues  told me via e-mail that he had his files rejected due "overfiltering/artifacts" with (crop) camera he havs. -images, of course are excellent, with excellent both, models, make up, and postproduction. ...and he is international known . when he deleted exif data - he had less rejections. and when images were done over a 5d image - as a new layer in photoshop- all are accepted (where all this noise/overfiltering/artifacts has gone? )
interesting?

if person can identify themselves - photo requires a release, and that's o.k.
but one of the best stupidities on dt is that i had a nude body parts rejected with asking me to upload release, and a copy of some kind of ID (passport on example - that's nice too- flat scans of us currency are not allowed (which is o.k.), and flat scans of some person's passport are asked to send over internet .
i think that i asked support "whose release, and passport do i need? - i do not remember which was the answer.

another one nice stupidity - recently i had image rejected with "this image do not need release" - but i have to say that i could easily identify person on the photo. - for this i am sure i had no reply from support. (i pointed on that issue with "i can't believe that you rejected ...(that) image with that rejection reason.
but.. life goes on..

StockXpert is fair on that issue, because everyone can choose opt-int/opt-out subs. - so if someone is happy with 0.3$ for 12mp image - that's o.k. if someone is not - that's o.k. too.
i would call this "fair deal"