Quote from: Tuilay on December 31, 2008, 15:52
and the improvement of the "search" function for some sites would help too.
lately, i checked on one of my associates work, her new image accepted last week.
guess what? can't find it... using the most obvious keywords.
instead, all i see are pages of single contributors clogging up the first 10 pages
with images that do not even feature the relevant keywords.
then on page 15, or so, aha! her images at last.

it's a mean unjust situation that a site would allow such an abuse of flooding one contributor's images in preference to others who do not have perharps tons of irrelevant images.


would a buyer notice that and get tired of looking?
sure, wouldn't you?  and the one who does no spamming suffers.
where's the justification in all this?

Not a very nice observation. I feel it should be all down to the image and not the artist.
Obviously some reason for it!

Yes! you haven't uploaded at a really good time.
That said, you have your images there and when they settle in your sales will come along as things pick up in the new year.
When I started at StockXpert I had a very slow start also - and that was when rejections were very high there.
Now I am quite happy with my returns there.

It's amazing when you think about it - the amount of new contributors that come on to agencies each day.
I feel it just can't continue like this, and no doubt about it, it does have an effect on each of us that are already there.

I suppose agencies look at it as a way of getting fresh material, from new contributors that will perhaps have a new take on a specific subject.
But as mentioned above, on a few threads, there is plenty of sub standard work getting through which is clogging up the search pages.

If Micro is trimmed down ( number of contributors) and acceptance rates get higher it will be better for us all in the end.
That is not to say that I discourage new contributors or resent them. If their work is good enough, they will deserve to be there and good luck to them!

It's really up to the agencies - they can make it good for themselves and for us!

By consistency,  for me that would have to be SS.

Quote from: Fran on December 27, 2008, 18:47
Ok guys, let's stop this argument, shall we?

Yes Fran. They should really cop on now.
And - this thread has been partly hijacked by this stupid silly childlike bickering.
I have been a member here 2 yrs now and I have never seen such sad behaviour in that time.

From my experience, these things only serve to drive people away - and lower the fine reputation of this forum.

Well - another year almost over and how do you feel about it?
Did you get enough return for all your work and were you happy with sales generated during the year.?

For me, I was happy enough - put in a lot of work, building folios and now seeing quite regular sales.
Here's to 2009!

Quote from: stormchaser on December 24, 2008, 07:01
As they showcase a "camera clubs" tie in on the home page, I can't see the appeal here to serious buyers. It seems like stock "and a whole bunch of other crap". Also the photosharing thing just amateurish from a business perspective.

BTW have nothing against camera clubs, but if a buyer is searching for a new buying portal, it could be easily assumed that the stock area is full of hobbyist stuff. Very poor marketing here if they are serious about selling stock.

http://www.keyimagery.com/

Good point - well pointed out!

Quote from: shank_ali on December 24, 2008, 07:19
The older i get the more cynical i get about xmas.
Hard up families expected to buy presents they can ill afford.
That baby in Bethleham has alot to answer for in my opinion

You know it's the hypocritical event of the year - as over here 70% don't even go to church or regard religion.
So what are they celebrating? Time to cop on!

Quote from: madelaide on December 23, 2008, 20:06
Only one sale this month, but I hope things will pick up again next year.

Regards,
Adelaide

Personally Adelaide, I don't think 1 sale per month is enough and I'm sure you are thinking the same.

Now lads - it's that time again, do we refrain or succumb to the temptation?

Quote from: dirkr on December 21, 2008, 19:34
You're not alone, doesn't work for me either.
Now they say they're down for an site upgrade.

Cheers, thanks for that!

Short of first payout - have stopped uploading a long time ago.
Dont know if I will ever get it.

Mild and misty here in Ireland.

Anyone have this problem?
Cant get in there at the moment.

I'll be taking it easy - I haven't got much to upolad anyway.
Instead I will be downloading some Guinness instead!

Merry Christmas everyone from Ireland.
Time to get merry, giddy and giggly.
Enjoy!

Quote from: Peter on December 11, 2008, 18:44
check your spam filter. 80% of fotolia mail goes to spam filter for me.

That's right Peter - same for me.

Yes! a welcomed addition.
Only thing is, they look like playing cards!

I dont have a niche but try to shoot as varied as possible - and even that I can improve on!

Quote from: gunnar3000 on October 28, 2008, 10:10
hi 

as far as I know there is a connection between the acceptance rate and the search position of your images at dreamstime.
did you notice a similar mechanism at shutterstock?
usualy I have an acceptance rate of about 95 percent at SS. but a few days ago they rejected  nearly 50 % of my last batch. in the following days (until today) I had an heavy drop in sales.... sales went down by about 40 percent for me.  since I got this rejections.
could be just a coincidence... but what do you think? do you know something about an link between acceptance rate and search position at SS? 

thanks a lot

gunnar

I feel too that this would be a coincidence.
But wouldn't it be nice to know the answers to these questions.
If it was so that acceptance ratio affected search position, I think in this case it would be no harm if contributors knew so. It would make us more careful in our submissions, thus improving the quality of  our output, which ultimately would benefit both ourselves and SS.

Quote from: CofkoCof on December 01, 2008, 23:01

Quote from: madelaide on December 01, 2008, 22:54
And I'm stuck to the USA site.  

Yeah, me too.

Me as well I don't see why contributors can't be in their own zones or why we can't change.

Quote from: louoates on December 02, 2008, 19:12
Snapvillage? I almost forgot about the 200+ of my best images rotting there. Are they still in business? I deleted them from my bookmarks some time ago after 6 months of zero activity.

Hibernation? I think death is a more accurate description.

Have closed my account - better to concentrate elsewhere.

Quote from: leaf on November 28, 2008, 17:24
has the problem been fixed for anyone?  I managed to recreate the problem and yeah.. that sure was annoying!

Yes Leaf, it seems to be fixed for me.
Thanks.

The problem I was reporting is that when I was writing a post and maybe mistyped/ mispelt, that I could'nt get back in on the line to correct the error.
All seems fine now.

Quote from: whitechild on November 28, 2008, 20:21
I use Imagenomic Noiseware. It's not free but it's excellent and it's very flexible.

I also use Noiseware and find it does the job well.

Still having a problem editing posts as I write them.
Anyone elese with this?