The first couple reasons mentioned in the thread were about wanting to hide from employers or not wanting people to know they were in microstock. There are a million great reasons to want to be anonymous, but those made me chuckle a bit. That said, I can see the other side too of buyers having good reasons to want to know about contributors. I guess it's probably just easier to make it optional.

Could you please name just one of them?

I have (just deleted) my website link on my personal info page in case anyone needs more insight about me, so it's not a secret but I don't like to be bullied by anyone.
It is not as much about revealing this info but about elementary human rights like privacy.

Quote from: Dodie on September 25, 2016, 09:35

I think you are confusing Mp with Mb. Accepted size is 6 Mp  but not less than 17 Mb uncompressed:

Not confused, just a typo; but the end result of my post is the same. Typo corrected. Tx.

Sorry, it was for both of you and I know it was just the "slip of the pen".
What Microstockman wanted to say (but couldn't) is that a 6 MP image can be smaller than 17MB, that is why the app is good for him. I am using your method.

So, to recap for the original poster,  let the uploader throw it away if it is smaller than 17MB, it is faster.

Don't trust these polls....

I don't, still it's nice to see how fast things change.

Hi, I got in Thursday with my adobe passwords etc and I uploaded about 40images. I sold one yesterday. What I don't understand is the price structure. I see that images are for sale for 9.99 or 59.99 and I earned 0.60 with my sale. Can  anyone explain what happened?
Thanks

As I know, sales come from both sites and are mirrored on both sites. There is no way for us to know what price structure they were sold with and on which site.

I agree. It's just one part of the puzzle how contributors are treated by agencies.

The point IMHO is not the brought question disclosure of personal data or not but the attempt of an agency to take away the inherent right to every single person to decide him-/herself where to publish personal data. It's a No-Go that an agency publishes full names and home location to people (buyers) we even have not the slightest clue about. That's absolutely not acceptable.

BTW in Germany we have the Bundesdatenschutzgesetz (Law to protect personal data). It might be one of the most severe laws in this field. It's simply unlawful to disclose any information without the written permission of the person.

Anyway if an agency seems to be dying it seems to me counterproductive to chase away contributors. Obviously ports had already been deleted.

I totally agree with you.
Besides, my country, Romania is well know for having the most efficient and unscrupulous hackers (and thieves) in the world (shame or not). We are constantly warned on TV and news not to disclose our personal data, except to governamental entities. Now an agency from the same region tells me to do the oposite, that's ridiculous.

Many simple-minded people have disclosed their data to retailers on those application forms for loyalty cards, points cards, which also entail agreements by the store concerning customer privacy. The end result is that more and more bank accounts are emptyed day by day, not to mention phone calls and emails.

Everyone who wants to build a buisiness around his/her name, is free to do it but let me decide what I want for myself.

Now how difficult can be for a hacker to find out all information about anyone, phone number..... when your name, country and city is publicly displayed? How can it be helpful for buyers if they know my exact location? Is this some kind of discrimination?
They should remove the text itself (confidential info) and let people choose what they want.
This comes after Facebook blocked millions of users and they ask a copy of a governmental ID to unblock them.
Unbelievable, and some of you still believe that this is done in good faith.

Please keep us informed if anything happens. I have nothing to hide but I can't stand to be pressed, especially not form people who make their money from my work. I will close my account on DT the moment they force me, they are not worth it anyway.

I've just re-read the Alamy restrictions blog post and can't see any reference to "new contributor tools are coming somewhere in september".
Mind you, my wife tells me I can never find anything.

Not so long ago (a week or so), there was a comment from Alamy regarding the changes, not very informative though: http://www.microstockgroup.com/27342/27342/msg463805/#msg463805

Congratulations guys to your good month, enjoy it while you can. We all know how it works.
That still doesn't mean that other people's images are not needed (as stated above), that was my point.
Now it's your turn and tomorrow you may sing:

Wheels are turning
I remember when you were mine
Now just to reach you
Baby, I'd stand in line

But there's another world
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.

                                                                                                                                 ~  The Killers

September is normal for me. It's not a lack of customers, its that you do or don't have what they want. Simple as that.

Really? So, in August and July I had what they wanted and their preferences have changed all the sudden in September. It could be true though.

Quote from: roede-orm on September 21, 2016, 02:59

Quote from: hellou on September 20, 2016, 23:16

deleted files. too stupid prices

You can't delete your files on DP! 

What are you talking? click "Deactivate". Done.

deactivate ≠ delete

I had 70 images in several batches reviewed this morning. The oldest files were uploaded on 29 July, so, it took a while.
I uploaded some footage via ftp and they simply vanished, I couldn't find them anywhere, so I gave up.

double post.