I think you've misrepresented your role in having been wrist slapped. posting youtube videos, referencing competitor royalty percentages and websites, accusing TPTB of underhanded mismanagement and threatening them with your buying power...I'm not sure why you are shocked. angry maybe, but shocked...really? I don't know what was exchanged between you and Lobo, and it probably doesn't matter. I have seen you deride iStock on multiple occasions in their forums and I think today the negativity and speculation just wasn't allowed to continue, for you or anyone else. I don't blame them. I'm surprised how far they've let it go actually.

Eirrean: your opinion in this case should require that you have some experience with a person, since you are actively defaming that person's job and character.

as for your question David, my iStock info was provided when I created my account here, so that you can evaluate my salesometer when I post.

Your comfort with exploitative business practices tells me all I need to know about you and your opinions.

since exploitative is being used subjectively....in any case, I do sincerely wish you the best. I'm sorry you feel the need to lash out, but if you knew me better, you would know that I'm neither comfortable nor supportive of exploitative practices in any context...unless you count once in a while shopping at Walmart--I buy my favourite curry powder there since it isn't available anywhere else within 50 km of my home.

dude, Jebus was supposedly a really nice guy. seriously? I'd sooner read Dawkins than the bible....and I still think anything other than the obvious--it was an error--is actually your own denial at work.

I don't think it was that post. I'm not sure why you spent as much time in there as you did. you're moving on, you wielded it as an ultimatum and they let you hang around for over a week anyways. it was simply time IMO. I was scratching my head at your constant presence in there too. I have to say, I see the importance of contributors voicing their concerns. I've been intolerant of that in the past, but I see many positives about it. despite that, there is a small contingent of really loud and offensively negative people in there that I'm personally tired of listening to.

so enjoy it here where you can post that stuff to your heart's content. we're all freaked out but some of you take it so beyond the pale, and I'm not sure what you realistically expect to accomplish with constant negativity.

sure, but we're talking about apples and oranges anyways, since the point of highlighting this example is the incorrect assumption that this contributor is an admin/inspector/employee. she is none of those things. she is a contributor only, which negates the whole theory behind this thread.

Quote from: sjlocke on September 17, 2010, 07:12

Um, again, DNY59 is a regular contributor.  Sorry to burst your conspiracy bubble.

A user with 790000+ downloads can hardly be called regular contributor

it's called working hard, some of you around here should try it sometime...

you don't know what you are talking about. that contributor is not an admin/inspector. and sometimes exclusives files are approved same day. rarely, but it happens. lately it takes a long time for inspections, who knows why. probably because the agency collection garbage is getting priority. that's a more plausible conspiracy theory. inspectors are generally speaking an awesome group of people. I've never had one issue with an iStock inspector, and many have helped me above and beyond, without even being asked.

Hi All,

I'd like to make a few quick comments, and clear up a few misconceptions:

1. I think the quality of microstock has vastly improved over the last few years (since I made the comments I made in the "About the Image" article).  Please don't assume that I would make the same argument today (ah, the Internet!).

2. fStop currently represents 70+ photographers from around the world, and the images aren't mine, nor do I own the company.

and,

3. Somebody wrote, "fStop's site has a pile of really run of the mill, unexciting, easy to produce images for $49 to $435. Old, tired-looking, over priced - and those are the good ones (i.e. not the toilet door)."

Which, if you actually take a good, hard look at our collection, I don't think you'll agreed is accurate.

Here are links to a few recent fStop favorites.  I think they are anything but "run of the mill," "unexciting," or "easy to produce," from my perspective. Of course you are welcome to disagree:

http://www.fstopimages.com/highlights/pages/000114002.htm
http://www.fstopimages.com/highlights/pages/000001.htm
http://www.fstopimages.com/highlights/pages/7319002.htm

I can't think of a single RF collection that is flawless, and it's important to keep in mind that sometimes people need very different kinds of images for very different projects.  Some styles work really well in some cases, but not at all in others.

good to know that the Agency Collection will not consist of factory produced images....

Quote from: malcam on September 16, 2010, 11:14

Quote from: Zeus on September 16, 2010, 11:02

Quote from: hawk_eye on September 16, 2010, 10:49

^ um, okay........those images are crap dude. don't even try to see a silver lining, there isn't one

The stock industry has gone through dozens of artistic phases over the years,

There was the everything silhouetted phase, the everything lit with soft box phase, the light painting phase, the motion phase, the everyone tilted phase, the Agfa 1000 with soft filter phase, the cross processing phase, on and on. Now we are in everything done to a super high ultra boring technical phase and everyone thinks it's the last one. The one phase that will endure. But it won't. It will pass, thankfully, and we can move on to being creative again.

You're just talking nonsense. This is just about getty dumping their crap on Istock.

Nothing to do with new phases, creativity or anything else.

You will have to forgive hawk_eye, it is clear he drank the coolaide and is waiting for the space ship now.

um, that is not my post....look up, way up. my post is the one at the top. get off my back now please. if you're going to quote me, quote ME...please

^ um, okay........those images are crap dude. don't even try to see a silver lining, there isn't one

hmmmm - JJ post. error. bad error. bad bad bad.

then muster is an idiot