I only have nature / wildlife / travel pics, no models at all.

Yes but your wildlife etc... is far above average.

and your most likely misdirected, biased, angry posts

Huh? I didn't intervene in the IS bashing threads at all.

Still see no numbers.  Just words...

What part of "15%" has words?

anybody out there?? (talking to "contributors")

Yes, they're fine. I just bought my second Ferrari from my commissions there.  

Seriously, they are very picky on nature and city shots, more picky than IS on technical quality. Models are always fine with them. They are a bit carnivorous, like Fotolia.
The acceptance policy is certainly different from the one of StockXpert before, even if they have the same reviewers.
It's clearly a choice. They want the best, as jbarber873 said.

If you applied with only city/nature shots, that was perhaps a mistake. I only applied with recent models. I sneaked in my nature later. 
 

we've lowered the requirement to 6 MP for the foreseeable future

Bingo for my crystal ball. 
Thanks Alex.

most of it looks like a junkyard. crap lighting, that laughable stuff with inapt models posing as fashionsupermodels, flat gray skin snapshot portraits of semi ugly ppl looking like they didn't want to be photograped at all.

Can we see your images?

"Weekendsnappers" ... is that like "Regulars?" 

No worse! The regulars snap all the time but they don't sell and that's a conspiracy! 

Oh alright then, make it 20 MP, just as long as we get rid of the weekendsnappers.

I use my 5DII only on weekends. Just make it 22MP to be sure. 

but I think everyone need to lay of the conspiracy theories

Huh? Nobody mentioned any conspiration theories here. Not with DT. If it was IS, well... I don't know.  
And @Artemis: of course it's a great gesture.

I just had one lousy sub sale on the magic day while I had a few large credit sales the days before. Even on Sunday I had more downloads. Oh well... there still is SS where I had a magic Tuesday to make up.

Canstock, technically best??  surely you cant mean that.

Actually I meant the contributor side of the site, years back, not the buyers side as I wasn't a buyer then.

Look! dont matter if its Trad-agency or Micro, an Agency is as good as its Search-engine, thats the heart of any photolibrary business. period.
The CS and DT, searches lay importance on showing series of almost identical images on premiere search-pages, showing incredible lack of variety. This is regarded as one of the most derrogative aspects in any search-engine.

Well that's correct, and I discovered that too. As it isn't mathematically possible to do a relevant search on databases with millions of images, buyers apparently limit themselves partly to the first pages and to visual search (the majority of my DT sales is found by N/A). If there is an image "good enough" on the first pages, a jewel hidden on page xyz will not be sold. To escape that math dilemma, many sites added biasing features like N sales, karma of contributor, N views.
That's what we all experience: the idiosyncrasies of a SE can make or break you.

I guess that sites that have the most "honest" SE like DT and CanStockPhoto will produce the most similars on a relevancy search by necessity.
Sites with a very biased SE (like the best match of IS) won't.

The reason for this is that all the keywords have equal weight. SLocke made that remark here yesterday. I wrote about that 4 years ago when DT still had 300,000 images. I won't spill the beans any more by telling some sites allow their reviewers to add a rating to an image so it will popup at a more advanced position. But still, the closer you stick to relevancy, the more you risk rows of similars.

On DT, the dilemma is solved elegantly by switching from relevancy to downloads in the SE. You get a sort of Darwinian sorting then of the "best", as proven by sales. You won't have rows of similars either then.

Tried to upload via Java at DT but no luck. thumbs doesnt show, anybody with same experience?

The current script has no thumbs any more. You just need to drag and drop your files from the Explorer. The reason is probably that all those JS file interfaces are very old-fashioned compared to the newer Windows Explorers. The script also doesn't block your browser session any more.

Can anyone give an opinion on the extra functionality gained by PS Elements over Gimp 2. Gimp + UF Raw (which are free) seems to have all the functionality I need but I am still learning how to enhance my pictures.

You could do a search here on the boards with "GIMP" as search term. The issue has been covered (I think). If not, Google for it. I'm quite confident you can do all you need with PE and certainly with GIMP. I remember PE doesn't have adjustment layers, but I just used those once. In general and for microstock, try to get the shot right (well lit, well composed) in cam. When not sure, just take many shots of the same subject with minor variations and only keep the best. The days of a 36 shots limit on a film roll are long over. 

I take on board the "dark" comments. To my eye they seem ok, wonder if its my monitor ?

It certainly does but there is a trick for it one of the gurus of this forum mentioned once. Your images will be bought by the thumb, so download some thumbs of similars from DT (since you're there), make a thumb from your image and view it next to those. The comparison will learn you if yours are too dark or the whether color is off.