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« on: August 18, 2020, 18:18 »
Has anyone even made a plug nickel from this site? Funny how they state right up front that this is to give more sales opportunity to the contributor. Come on. We know the real reason.
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« on: August 12, 2020, 20:55 »
So right now we haven't come to a decision about the commission rate. I am sending out these surveys because I genuinely want to know what works for all of you guys, so I can implement that onto our service. So I'm hoping to get more responses because at the moment we don't have enough data to make an educated decision.
As for the competition bit, you can rest assured that we are working on something, but I can't say too much about it until the official website is launched!
Prob bit coin.
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« on: August 11, 2020, 18:20 »
Pond5 offers 40% for non-exclusives, which used to be 50%. 60% is only for exclusives. And they randomly changes your pricing to suit their algorithms. People seem to forget the crappy royalty cut Pond5 gave us last year, yet now they're seen as 'one the last of the good agencies'. Well, they're every bit as evil as SS.
"The enemy of my enemy is my friend"
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« on: August 11, 2020, 08:18 »
"I particularly love the folks who love calling those of us who have been in microstock for 15+ years clueless old timers.
I am clueless but not too old yet 
In violation of MSG bylaws......+100
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« on: August 11, 2020, 08:16 »
If this miserable excuse for a company didn't deserve the name SHITTERSTOCK before, it certainly does now.
I am sooo happy to be outta there.
Me too! As I read through everything, it almost looks like Oringer is going to sink the company and made this move to squeeze the last out of the company. The stock WILL NOT hold in the mid $50's, yet he is trying to sell a lot of shares after he artificially pumped up the stock price. Something just doesn't smell right. Whoever buys at $55 will be making a horrible investment. It is almost like they are doing a last hoorah to get Oringer and his dog, Pavlov, enriched while the company slowly erodes and is put up for sale. This was not a move for long term business health, it was a move to enrich a very few people with little long term outlook. So something else is really brewing IMO.
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« on: August 02, 2020, 08:42 »
It is clearly worth the time to do the super words. I just made a $200 sell Friday. I wish I could make that everyday, but I do get 2-5 sells a month on Alamy. Very fair stock site...
So you are basing this one single data point....a $200 sale... on the value of discoverability keywords? I sell stuff there all the time with 20-30 keywords. Has nothing to do with volume of keywords, it has everything to do with good keywords. Now if Alamy gives you search preference based on having a bazillion keywords vs. 20-30 then there is incentive to scrape for more keywords. Other than that, relevant keywords win all day.
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« on: August 01, 2020, 14:02 »
Yea, no. If you have followed her in previous threads you'd clearly see what a troll she/he/it is.
perhaps, but i haven't seen that here - the original statement was a legitimate one and she got slammed based on hypothetical subtext and judgment
Then you need to read more threads.
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« on: August 01, 2020, 14:01 »
I have 1,366 images that are poor discoverability. I am not about to go spam my own images. This is a stupid idea and encourages keyword spamming.
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« on: July 31, 2020, 15:33 »
Selling illustrations is perfect for people who depend on a wheelchair, who have no voice, who cannot hear, who have mental problems and so on, its a big big chance for them and part of their daily therapy to be accepted by the society.
By the way, the term "underdeveloped country" is politically not correct.
I agree. Please explain why you're upset with people who are fighting for a higher wage that YOU will also benefit from? I really don't get it. If nobody fights, the agencies will just keep dropping royalty rates, and eventually they'll be unsustainable for YOU, too. 10 is OK right now. How about a year from now, when they drop it to 1? Still OK? 0.1? OK then? When you're starving with 0.1 on each sale and Oringer and Pavlovsky are scooping up your money to pay for their extravagant lifestyles, still OK?
At what point does it become not OK for millionaires and billionaires to take your money to buy their pool tables, caviar, champagne and mansions? When does it become not OK for rich white men in The United States to take money from disabled women (I'm assuming you're a woman) in Africa?
Maybe other people telling her whats good for her and being called a Troll for having a different opinion?
Yea, no. If you have followed her in previous threads you'd clearly see what a troll she/he/it is.
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« on: July 31, 2020, 08:14 »
We all knew that.
Since when?
Does this explain all the stolen images and similars (spamfolio's with almost exact copies) that got in while some of us get tight reviews with rejection for similar even if it's a totally different angle or concept? Not to mention all the other ridiculous rejections?
So that would mean some get a free pass (no reviews) while others get the bots?
I think if it was AI they would scan the library for exact copies (or flipped horizontally/vertically) and reject, all in a matter of seconds, no?
Again this only makes sense to me if some would get a free pass while others get AI reviews and after complaining human reviews.
It's been known because they buried that language into their (I believe) SEC filing. I myself have found it multiple times and it is probably buried in the MSG threads somewhere. Calling them out back then, they denied it. Now it turns out to be true after all. So they did, in fact, lie to us all along. Since when? I think it was around 2012 or 2013 or thereabouts. When images that were perfectly sharp, professional prepared and rejected for being out of focus, that started raising red flags. And that is about the time we dug into their reporting to find the phrase automated inspection, or something like that.
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« on: July 26, 2020, 16:06 »
Notice that whoever this idiot is never really comes back to have a conversation. They pose a question and then never respond back. My definition of a troll.
Notice also how those questions are really positioned as statements. It's not really someone wanting to get an answer.
Well stated.
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« on: July 26, 2020, 10:42 »
Notice that whoever this idiot is never really comes back to have a conversation. They pose a question and then never respond back. My definition of a troll.
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« on: July 24, 2020, 07:43 »
It looks as though SS has removed the forum. If it were a bug even SS would have probably managed to have let us know by now.
Although I'm not surprised considering how badly they have treated contributors over the new rates it does show utter disregard for us. I wonder how they expect people to keep uploading or reactivate their portfolios with this kind of treatment.
A complete absence of communication about it. The least they could have done is to let us know what's going on to save people the trouble of trying to post.
There are a lot of contributors still joining - they must wonder what's going on.
If true, that's okay. We have this forum. And there isn't a funking thing they can do about it.
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« on: July 23, 2020, 21:04 »
What is the final goal of the protest?
How realistic are all these energy and time consuming actions?
My final goal has been met, and that is to get the fk out of SS. Im sure you are making better money today than ever before, though. So why do you care?
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« on: July 23, 2020, 20:59 »
Hope youre going somewhere fun.
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« on: July 20, 2020, 18:25 »
Hi,
I am deleting my images on Shutterstock one by one. You probably know why ....
When checking it the next day, I still find many of those images that obviously have not been deleted. They are offered by shutterstock as "Get these images for FREE. Download this image now with a free trial."
How is this possible? Does anyone know how I can get these images deleted permanently?
Your help would be greatly apprechiated.
Might take 90 days to delete, in the contract you agreed to.
I manually deleted 6,800 assets with no limits from SS. Used the script for the stills and manually killed 2300 videos within two weeks. I bet they fk with us more by formally limiting how many assets one can delete in a given period.
Hi Mantis, can you tell me the procedure to delete video assets? I only see the way asking SS to delete my account but I would like just to delete my asset by myself as you did.
Thank you
Click on the "portfolio" icon and select "Catalog Manager". In there you click on the video tab. Once your videos come up, click on the pencil edit icon on top of the thumbnail. Your video will open. In the upper tight is a trashcan icon. Click it, then click yes to confirm deletion. Go back to Catalog Manager and start the next one. I can get through 100 videos in about 15 minutes.
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« on: July 20, 2020, 15:13 »
Hi,
I am deleting my images on Shutterstock one by one. You probably know why ....
When checking it the next day, I still find many of those images that obviously have not been deleted. They are offered by shutterstock as "Get these images for FREE. Download this image now with a free trial."
How is this possible? Does anyone know how I can get these images deleted permanently?
Your help would be greatly apprechiated.
Might take 90 days to delete, in the contract you agreed to.
I manually deleted 6,800 assets with no limits from SS. Used the script for the stills and manually killed 2300 videos within two weeks. I bet they fk with us more by formally limiting how many assets one can delete in a given period.
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« on: July 19, 2020, 14:00 »
Using the shutter speed with double value of the frame rate is necessary for stock videography always? If i shoot a video outdoors without a Nd filter everything is so overexposed and i need to increase shutter speed. Can i use these type of videos and sell in Pond5?
Just carry around some ND filters. For bright days I can toss on a 8x ND and am good to go. If you want longer shutter speeds for something like lightning during the day, use a 64X ND. Can keep ISO low. The theory is: The reason for the 180-degree rule is because it helps us to record video that contains natural movement. If the shutter speed is too slow, youll get blurred movement, if you shoot at a shutter speed thats too high, everyone in your scene will look like robots or as if they were recorded in stop motion. Sticking to the 180-rule will give you the most natural movement.
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« on: July 19, 2020, 13:57 »
Im also banned, I guess because I pointed out that he gets barely any sales. Easy enough to see his Twitter account, though, where he spends a lot of time retweeting Jo Ann, so I thank him for that, though he only has 14 followers so hes not helping us spread the message all that much. I feel sorry for the guy.
I've been banned for 12 years.
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« on: July 15, 2020, 18:41 »
I don't understand how anybody can still rationalize image and video uploading to SS.
Let's say you made a reasonably good image and hope to sell it 100 times over the life of the image. Very optimistically, you can assume an average price of 15c per download. Under these assumptions, you'll make in total measly $15 from that one image. Of course, there will be other images which will sell only once or never.
Hey Les, Agree totally. The pure fact that SS has not lowered prices to customers but drastically cut our royalties makes it very clear that this is a massive, greedy money grab from our hard work. That fact alone is enough for me to delete my work there. I also closed my Bigstock account today. I just don't trust SS to not somehow use the images in there as a workaround to the same images deleted on SS. Scumbags.
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« on: July 13, 2020, 13:55 »
A brief translation:
1. Install Tampermonkey, Greasemonkey or whatever monkey is native on your browser.
2. Get this script https://openuserjs.org/scripts/fokas.pokas/ssRemover - there's a simple Install button in my case.
3. Go to Catalog Manager
4. See the grey button "Delete Images" near the Add to Set, Create Set, on top of the page
5. Select images, press the button
6. There will probably be a counter at the bottom of the page. You should wait for the countdown end and report of success. Or just wait long enough.
You can also see the pics in the post. It may be helpful.
THIS IS AWESOME. 300 images gone in 5 minutes.....only 5500 more. I just do not trust SS with my content and using "disabled" numbers as part of their portfolio count. I do not care if I lost positioning/ranking of my images. I have images that have made me $2k. I'll just re-upload later if anything positive changes enough to warrant resubmitting. But for now, at the end of today I will have removed 6,890 assets from SS, both video and stills. I will keep my account open, but with no content.
Sweet!
Positive changes ... yeah, I guess its possible, but not very probable. They have shareholder mouths to feed and toys to pay for. I did the same as you, deleted but kept my account open. Though I did leave one image in my account, but they deleted it.  😯 I want to be able to see if any rejects mysteriously appear.
I, too, will leave one image and one video. One thing I noticed was a lot of images reappeared after deleting them. Perhaps just system issues because I don't think they keep rejected files longer than a few weeks, then they get wiped off the servers. Sad time as I have 13 pretty productive years with SS. The income was over a grand a month and helped pay for a lot of stuff without me having to pilfer my savings. But I have accepted that those days are long gone and do have a plan to get that money back through other channels. We'll see but glad I have a day job.
It looks like the script does not work for video. But done with my images.
It works on Chrome, use the tampermonkey extension, load up your catalogue page and you can do the videos. might need to refresh your chrome browser after installing the tamper monkey and script mentioned above. My delete box didn't appear until I did that.
Interesting. My catalog still shows 2100 videos online. That number is not going down as the servers update over night. Some I can play and some are X'd out. Really strange.
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« on: July 13, 2020, 13:17 »
I am getting this message when deleting videos. Is this another threat? I could not find anything in the terms about never being allowed to upload again.
I had a quick re-read of the Contributor Terms of Service and the Submitter Guidelines and I don't see anything on that topic either (I did a search for delete and remove as well). If you click on the terms link, which document does it take you to (I can't check as my account is disabled)?
I think they're discouraging deletion of content, but that's a pretty sleazy move if the terms really don't disallow uploading again
Here are their terms I snagged today.
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« on: July 11, 2020, 08:52 »
I am getting this message when deleting videos. Is this another threat? I could not find anything in the terms about never being allowed to upload again.
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