Nobody seemed to like my theory - but I'm saying, these were never reviewed.  SS is having this stuff done internally, or commissioning someone, and loading it directly.  No one is spending time uploading 10s of thousands of things like this, and SS wouldn't pay reviewers to look at it.  Maybe they just want to pad their numbers and reach some new milestone of collection size. Or, maybe they want to show some subset of customers what a vast collection of icons and similar stuff they have.

Of course, I could be wrong.  One way to prove me wrong would be to find the same material on another microstock.

I can't buy this theory - they could do what Istock do and accept nearly everything cheapest way to boost numbers.

I've set them at 100 on the basis that I suspect the cost of the image will be a low percentage of their budget. I so rarely get any I haven't bothered to update my old pics. I've had the odd EL but none for 100.

I like to see my bullets as those of the truth puncturing the balloons of errors of those who are incapable of checking their facts on google before  filling up discussion threads with false assertions.

Think its partly numbers and partly cos the more random shootings seem more scary - sad really. In the UK there does seem something of a "trend" for people to wipe out their close family.

Trouble is if you were actually any good would you really want to be a reviewer must be a horrible job

Until recently weekly rating hovered 4-5000. Last few weeks down to 6500. Oh dear.......

As long as my weekly rank is higher than my all time rank I'm happy as it seems like progress. But its sales that really matter 

Ridiculous isn't it hardly going to stop a master counterfeiter they have the same on Paintshop - sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't.

Quote from: Pauws99 on October 03, 2015, 12:26

Oh dear there is nothing metaphorical about what you said. It is totally irrelevant whether I am 18 or 80.

In the UK there is a huge amount of concern about knife crime but I guess you haven't noticed it in your bubble (metaphor)

yes, yes, now move on.

I guess you don't need to look up condescending on google.

Now had this lunatic walked around with a giant Bowie-knife slashing people we wouldn't have heard two words about it. The gun is the issue here, not 10 corpses, not their families but the gun. Sad!

Do you really believe that? You seem to have very selective vision of what is reported on the news......and when was the last time someone managed to kill TEN people with a knife in a single incident.

Fewer but BETTER the competition has made things too easy for S Stock

This business must be the biggest crackpot business in the world as far as managements and owners. They simply never learn from other agencies mistakes.
The truth is probably very simple, they are slowly losing it. Remember IS some years back. This is how the decline started, one cockup after another, nobody cared,  thought they were invincible. Then the hammer fell.

One would have thought they had some sort of an answer some response to the Adobe/FT move but they don't. Suits are just suits not thinkers and strategists.

I fear you may be right. I used to think SS had it easy cos they were the only really well managed Mstock outfit - I think abode may be hunting them down......but too early to tell.

"This is not just an American thing but considering the US population is ten times bigger there are ten times more guns."

Factually incorrect of course......in 2007 according to the small arms survey there were 88 guns PER Hundred people in US vs 6.6 in the UK. So I reckon thats about 60-70  times as many guns.

You are of course entitled to your opinion but it would be more credible if there were some objective evidence to support it.

I input total sales - don't go anymore detailed than that.