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Messages - Pilens
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« on: July 01, 2013, 16:58 »
Hmm. Something is wrong. I get the green exclusive banner on my image pages, but no labels under the thumbnails. I have five exclusive images. I labeled them yesterday. Today, when I went to Royalty Free Images>All Images and looked at the uploads, exclusive had been deselected on three of them.  I am on 2.4.8. Is there another upgrade?
I thought this was just a great feature of symbiostock.info. I wouldn't mind, however, if Leo would integrate this into the theme 
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« on: July 01, 2013, 14:55 »
The internet spiraled out of control and there is no education or other means to explain not everything on the internet is free. Its too little too late.
So the internet has been under control before? - I totally missed that The internet is the best thing since sliced bread. That you can now (also) see stuff made by people that don't care about visual design doesn't make it wrong. And I disagree with "there is no education or other means to explain not everything on the internet is free". While piracy is a problem for many, it is not the end of the world. When I read the news I get the impression there some risk involved for pirates getting caught. Some always learn the hard way 
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« on: July 01, 2013, 00:13 »
We're referring to how the description doubles up? Like
This is my description
This is my description
This happens on my local machine and some people have seen it. I have yet to find the cause  Still working on it.
I stumbled upon this as well a few times. It always seemed to be connected with some special characters used in the description.
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« on: July 01, 2013, 00:10 »
With a night of coding almost complete - here's what we got:
A quality system that orders your images by priority 1, 2, 3. Maybe its a good idea not to call it quality. Call it priority?
"Priority" sounds definitely less offending  . - Why not more than 3 priorities? - I am going to use this for sure! 
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« on: June 30, 2013, 23:43 »
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7. Think what is other way to bring customers to fair deal for you and our community...
Symbiostock! - 100% royalty
I really don't know how to make this solution easy and profitable...
Just wait. It's the future...
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« on: June 30, 2013, 23:39 »
I'd have given it a try. But I see lots of screen-filling images on 500px with no watermark, easy to grab for everyone. No. I fear it'll hurt my sales on the micros.
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« on: June 30, 2013, 23:33 »
I like the idea of having some control where my images show up in a search. I wouldn't call it "quality rating", though.
I am not sure a PG rating/filter system is a good idea at this point. Is there enough offending images among the app 50,000 on the network now that it would make a difference? Would we really go through the hassle of PG-rating every single images? And even if everyone of us would, what advantages would exactly justify the additional effort? I mean if kids find Leo's cute robots, are able enough to dig deeper and find other "cute" images, chances are they would do anyway somewhere else on the internet.
I don't see crediting Leo for making the theme on my SY site breaking my branding at all. It would actually feel bad asking buyers to credit my images to me wherever possible and not mentioning Leo for making this great WP theme.
I agree that uploading/processing images is still a PITA if you want to do it right. There's much streamlining to do that would a big time saver for everyone. And if doing it right really helps SEO it'll be an advantage for everyone.
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« on: June 30, 2013, 14:05 »
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7. Think what is other way to bring customers to fair deal for you and our community...
Symbiostock! - 100% royalty
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« on: June 30, 2013, 04:29 »
I am adding images as we speak. I kept postponing it as I had to do SEO on all 280 images I had already published and couldnt get myself to sit down for it. But now I have, and I am not adding the other 500. Ugh, cant wait for it to be complete. I can see hits on my images via google by the way.
Same here. I have only 250 images online now. (still 3000 to go). I put some careful painful effort into SEO and I see results. Several google searches bring up my images on page one. Traffic from outside MSG is picking up accordingly. First sale seems to be just a matter of time. Can't wait, though
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« on: June 29, 2013, 04:36 »
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« on: June 28, 2013, 01:44 »
Thanks. Will try these.
For 3) check under settings->permalinks. we need to make some changes here. Not sure why but I read it at few places
You need to tick "Post name" under settings->permalinks. I don't claim to understand why, but I think that is just how the SY theme works...
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« on: June 28, 2013, 01:13 »
What do you think, tickstock?
I think most people will probably continue to upload like before.
I am glad I caught your first reply in time. I think it was much better than this edited version.
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« on: June 28, 2013, 01:05 »
I think the royalty rate is bad for most of the main sites and not too different, I think we are professionals so putting a little work into the uploading, keywording, etc.. of our images shouldn't be too much to ask. I think the Google Deal was blown out of proportion. Personally I wouldn't contribute to most of the sites if I wasn't exclusive including Istock, but that's just me.
I can see your different viewpoint as an exclusive contributor to istock. For me as a non-exclusive contributor their royalty rate is much worse than everywhere else. As a non-exclusive contributor I put in some work into keywording. Then I upload to a dozen+ sites. Submitting my uploads at iStock (with DeepMeta!) takes more time than all other sites I submit to combined (!). As a non-exclusive contributor I consider that a waste of my valuable time that is indeed too much to ask, especially when RPD and RPI are falling like rocks. I won't open the Google Deal can of worms, but I think we as professionals deserve better treatment than that.
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« on: June 28, 2013, 00:33 »
You weren't talking about royalties, you said the cheapest license. But if now you want to talk about the lowest paying royalties per license then look at the sub sites, some pay as low as 21 cents to license a full sized image.
But, iStock has/is a sub site. If you are going to average out your RPD at iStock, you have to include Thinkstock. Just like you include Single sales and On Demand in the RPD for Shutterstock and other sites that sell subs and individual image sales.
Fair enough. For independents the RPD is probably about the same across many of the sites, what it looks like to me is that Istock has been lowering prices to compete with Shutterstock for a while first as you say with Thinkstock and now on the main site. There probably isn't much difference anymore but if people will accept it at Shutterstock (even praise it) then why wouldn't they accept it at Istock?
BTW whatever happened with Fotolia talking about lowering royalties for contributors that were on cheaper sites?
Why?  Maybe it's their insulting royalty rate? Or their abysmal upload system, maybe?  If they fixed that I just might start uploading again... - Ooooh wait, wasn't there some shady deal where images were given away without any real compensation for contributors?  If it wasn't that then it must have been some dark conspiracy to bring down the noble philanthropist getty/istock management orchestrated mainly by MSG What do you think, tickstock?
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« on: June 27, 2013, 23:03 »
I know that you can choose non-exclusive/exclusive during the upload process but unless I'm missing something the customer has no idea if an image is exclusive or not? I can't find any mention on the image detail page.
I don't think choosing the non-exclusive/exclusive option is doing anything right now. May be it will if Leo finds time for getting down to it. So I just make it clear in the description and have created a category called "Premium Collection" for exclusive images. See for instance http://www.imagoborealis.com/image/winter-mountain-range-landscape-of-yukon-territory-canada/It takes extra time, of course, but I am willing to put it in just to see if it works eventually.
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« on: June 27, 2013, 12:14 »
I think it is worth a serious try. I have 86 exclusive images of a total of 246 images online so far.
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« on: June 26, 2013, 18:41 »
I'm sure this is not a spam issue - there is no blocking at all on the emails I use. The intermittent nature means that some process on our websites is not being kicked off when it should
Steve
Maybe you are right and this is a BUG actually. In any case this needs to be either solved or changed to no user registration at all.
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« on: June 23, 2013, 12:27 »
Hmmm, ...permission of my WP/SY folders is 0755, files have 0644. Everything works fine here AFAIK.
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« on: June 21, 2013, 19:27 »
WooYay +3! Which image? exclusive to your SY site? Available everywhere else?
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« on: June 21, 2013, 19:24 »
Surprising how you can throw quite a few search queries at it and get some decent results back from a relatively small network.
Just goes to show what's possible, nice work :-)
Yes, I noticed the same thing with a bunch of test searches. Amazing! - Awesome job ajt!!!
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« on: June 20, 2013, 21:58 »
RF Budget, RF Premium, RM, Editorial, Extended License, mass-purchases, discounted collections, whole packs of images,
saved presets of the entire contents of Author Options, user friendly image management, ....
I'd use it all... - and buy a paid plugin for that, of course!
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« on: June 17, 2013, 14:14 »
imagoborealis.com... ...at bluehost. Zero issues. In fact, extremely happy with their whole package, including cpanel. My site could be speedier at times, but at the small price tag it comes, I can't reasonably complain. I hope, of course, that sales will justify upgrading to a dedicated server, soon
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« on: June 16, 2013, 23:50 »
It might be better if we are all NOT on bluehost.
If we have links, trackbacks etc all coming from a small number of IP addresses Google might not like it....
And what do you think about the performance issues re: connectivity between the individual Symbiostock sites (as I outlined in my previous post)? Would there be a difference in connection times if all sites are on one physical server vs spread-out over multiple providers?
I am not an expert. But my guess would be things get slowed down mostly by the response time of the shared server (that we get with cheap hosting offers) and not by the actual data transfer time. Only the latter might be much shorter if we'd be all on the same host.
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« on: June 16, 2013, 23:32 »
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The only major issue left that will cause image buyers to look somewhere else is the individual registration/cart/checkout for every single SY site.
And we know this how?
I agree that this MAY be an issue but until we start getting buyers we won't know for sure.
Are our buyers going to be people who want 1's or 2's of images or 10's and 20's
I suspect the former, since the big purchasers will want the discounts offered by the big stores, but I don't know.
We have built it, but we still don't know who, if or when they will come.
If we have a common check out then we need common pricing and common agreements and then people in charge and ....
You're right. We can't know. I was guessing. If I was an image buyer wanting to buy more than just 1 image this would put me off for sure. I don't see any reason why a common check out would require common pricing and/or common agreements (although this could be a plus for some buyers as well). Not sure if a common check out couldn't be implemented without anyone in charge. So, don't get me wrong here, I am all for the decentralized nature of SY and want to keep it. There might be still ways of ironing out some of the disadvantages this concept has for image buyers. Just like the Symbiostock search engine symbiostock.info (which we actually should discuss here) tries to offer a different/better way of searching the network for images. Sorry for being so off-topic. We should start a separate threat to discuss common check out...
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« on: June 16, 2013, 23:06 »
Update on the Cablevision/Optimum SpamScrubber blocking registration e-mails:
I spoke with a representative at Cablevision/Optimum today and they are escalating the issue to a senior team, trying to determine what is causing the e-mails to be blocked by their SpamScrubber. I've requested that they try to come up with a universal fix that would allow all Symbiostock e-mails through. My concern is that it's not only blocking the registration e-mail but once someone does get the password it might block the download response and other e-mails too.
They said that it may take 24 to 72 hours for a response so I'll update during the week when I hear more.
That's nice of them! I hope they come back with a clear answer to the question what is causing the e-mails to be blocked so Leo can change the e-mail accordingly. - We can't possibly ask every ISP and every anti-spam/firewall software company to do what Cablevision/Optimum is doing here.
I was very happy with how seriously they are addressing the problem. They see it as an issue that potentially affects all of their customers so they need to fix it. The IT guy at my day job said that they have one of the more aggressive and sophisticated spam filter systems so hopefully it's not something that will occur with other systems frequently.
When they get this figured out I will count this as my most satisfying Symbiostock moment to date - fixing a bug for Leo so he doesn't have to do it!
I really understand that. I feel the same way and often wish I could do more to help Leo/the Symbiostock community. Let's just hope they follow through and come up with a conclusive answer.
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