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Messages - Mantis
4826
« on: May 26, 2012, 08:17 »
Photoshop helps remove watermark. Thieves!!! Ps must be banned immediately!! Oh wait there are other software, multiple new ones will coming out!!! These thieves are lined up against poor microstockers!! They must be banned!! Ban sofware!! This software is based on math thievery to alter watermark pixels. Ban math!!! Mathematicians are crooks!!! They should pay taxes to microstockers for learning a watermark altering science!!! ...and all this software can downloaded from teh internets! By people!!! An army of thieves hunting for my $0.3 picures!! Let's ban teh internets and the people!!! : ))
I'm sorry but most of you people are a sad joke. Head in the sand & pi%*ing against the wind at the same time, a real circus act. While talking about law and rights, you also managed to call just about everybody using the net -except you of course- a thief. Just wait till they take notice of that and get a lawyer to shove it down your throat.... rightly so.
So lets recap: 1. Most of us are a sad joke - but not you 2. Most of us have our heads in the sand - but not you 3. Most of us are pissing against the wind at the same time - but not you 4. Most of us are a real circus act - but not you 5. You can't wait until we have a legal remedy shoved down our throats - but you are pure as the driven snow. Since water seeks its own level, why are you even here? This seems to be your modus operandi in nearly every post you make. You are not constructive, everyone is always wrong and you are always right and you like to belittle members instead of constructively disagreeing with them and sharing a well crafted response. Immature is all I can say.
4827
« on: May 26, 2012, 08:05 »
Welcome aboard. Enjoy the ride!
4828
« on: May 26, 2012, 07:55 »
I actually thought they were closing shop. after 5/6 steller years. Horrible.
Very interesting in that after uploading about 2500 images, my sales were always flat for 5 years. Over the last three months my income has trippled from about $100 a month to roughly $300 a month. I don't know it it's temporary due to algorithm tweaks, purging of non selling images, acceptance rate (high 80's, mostly due to that automated keyword checker that rejects your images as too similar) or any combination of the three. Certainly HOPE it lasts but I don't EXPECT it too.
4829
« on: May 26, 2012, 07:46 »
Actually its very good! shows you that when they are putting their heads together, they can deliver.
Yes, I failed to mention that it is a cool vid for sure. I ponder some of the past threads where it has been stated that it isn't the Istock folks per se hammering nails into their own coffins. They are the creative team that does cool things like this video. I will admit too, it "hooked" me and I had to watch the whole thing....I wanted to see how it ended..honest engine I did.
4830
« on: May 25, 2012, 20:58 »
I find a site I like, I stick with it. When/if climate changes I will change. When they want $40 bucks, I poop.
4831
« on: May 25, 2012, 20:17 »
No, but I am suffering from the no sales error. I think they made an error when I told them I want to make $1500 a month from them, not be ranked 1500.
4832
« on: May 25, 2012, 20:00 »
I had none and very few OD's until this last week...finally got 2 EL's and a fair amount of OD's. I will be off this month on SS by $75 and May will not be a great month nor a disaster.
4833
« on: May 25, 2012, 19:56 »
I sometimes don't upload anything to a low earning site for a year or more. Then one day, I'll upload lots in one batch. It doesn't take much time when I'm working on other stuff on my computer. I just FTP in the background. Had some nice sales recently with Snapixel and had a payout, so I'll upload some more there now.
just registered at Snapixel, activated my account and as I got in I saw that... not that I have seen anything like that before but.. 
That is a fnk niche alright...ROFLMFAO
4834
« on: May 25, 2012, 19:48 »
And this isn't related to copyright or property release issues where they've tightened the standards since 2008? You said you talked with them on the phone - what did they say (I know you said you got no answers)?
I think the thing that bugs me the most is not that agencies have rules that many of us don't like, but that we frequently can't get a straight answer to questions in a timely (or polite, or both) manner. I think a contributor whose content is removed 4 years after it's approved deserves a detailed explanation of what's going on.
I just had 30+ removed. Some sold some not. Seemed random. Perhaps they are looking back and re-inspecting. If images are low or no sellers yank them...make the collection look more appealing overall (by their definition, of course). I just have learned to move on, like the SS LCV rejections. BTW, I have been getting DT rejections lately of, we don't like this image, don't send it in again.
4835
« on: May 25, 2012, 19:36 »
Hi All -
We behind the scenes at Veer strive for clear and proactive communication with our contributor community. And that has not been the case here. At all.
Our apologies. We understand your frustrations at not only the situation, but the poor communication. We are working towards resolution - we are still in the process of considering and implementing options. We plan to provide more solid details on the solution to this next week.
Those that are sticking it out thanks for bearing with us: we greatly appreciate your patience.
- Brian
I didn't have good luck with Veer a few years ago and I had a hell of a time closing my account. I had to threaten legal action.....after months went by with my images still active. So I am not affected by this. But I love the "we are still in the process of considering and implementing options". What are you considering? How much you will lose by closing this gap or what is the best way to protect the interests of our contributors? Based on my personal experience it is all WIIFM.
4836
« on: May 25, 2012, 06:54 »
Well, they gotta do something to attract new owners 
4837
« on: May 24, 2012, 07:01 »
Welcome home!! 
4838
« on: May 23, 2012, 07:28 »
Yup. When you go to your files there is only a deactivate option, not a delete option. If they want to gain some credibility they will address this and engineer a way to actually delete files. Having them "float" around somewhere scares me.
4839
« on: May 22, 2012, 16:29 »
If that's true why wouldn't he follow that with all other micros? Maybe he has. Any further shoots will be an exclusive collection of his own. 
4840
« on: May 21, 2012, 17:41 »
Seriously, forget it unless you have very advanced skills and can, perhaps, sell directly into a specialist RM library. If you look at the stuff tagged "macro" in the microstock agencies you'll find that there is scarcely anything selling well that is a true macro.
This statement is accurate based on my experience. I consider myself an expert in macro photography and it doesn't sell too well. You really have to be a specialist and market that kind of work through RM cuz you'll make more doe (more than a few bucks a download like MS).
4841
« on: May 20, 2012, 17:55 »
These hype IPOs are a farse. They serve only one purpose: to line the pocket of financial executives and a few insiders managing the IPO. It's not about investment, it's about fees.... they have almost nothing to do with the company's or the investors interest. If there was rational price discovery mechanism at work here, the shares simply wouldn't sell at such an unreal price compared to working profits... and it wouldn't generate so much fee.
The Facebook IPO is the daddy of all farces. As I mentioned in another thread Apple, with all it's fantastic products and $100B of cash reserves, is currently trading at a price/earnings ratio of about 13. Google has a PE of 20. Facebook's earnings ratio is a staggering ... wait for it ... are you sitting down ... 125!!!!!! In other words, it's only going to take about 125 years for Facebook to eventually earn what it was priced at.
Boy you7 sure know it L
So there was a dotcom bubble, it popped, disaster - they went from that to an enormous real estate bubble, popped, disaster - now they want another dotcom bubble? 0.o Talk about quick, forced loss of memories.... or learning from mistakes.. omg 
Boy, you sure know it all................
4842
« on: May 20, 2012, 07:37 »
that was half year ago. Today keyword order at FT is not important anymore. Tested.
Is this a FT confirmed thing? I try to do my keywording in Word and put the words in order of importance there so when I upload to Alamy and FT I don't have to do a lot of extra work, but I always end up dicking around (wasting time, perhaps?).
4843
« on: May 19, 2012, 17:51 »
I don't like it all that much. Its a data dump.
4844
« on: May 19, 2012, 07:59 »
Depending on volume and image quality, drum scans cannot be beat but they are expensive. I have tried several "pro image companies" to scan my older images with something other than a drum scanner and they suck. I mean not salvageable for stock use. I have thousands of images I could use for stock that are in slide format but it would cost way too much to have them done right. The smart thing to do is test some scans first before you buy so you know what you're getting. Farm it out, isolate the system that fits your needs and then make your decision. Drum scans for 35mm positive film ranges from $20 to $50 EACH. Also, I know that Istock somewhere on their site recommends a company that meets their requirements to do the scans for you (with no guarantee that they will be accepted, of course). Maybe do a little homework there to see what type of scanner that company uses.
4845
« on: May 19, 2012, 06:50 »
Come back helix7! It's boring when everyone agrees. Your OP was well written and kicked off an interesting discussion. I'm not even convinced I'm right.
I second that! COME BACK HELIX!!! Don`t be a pu***y 
He never said he was leaving. He only inferred that he was done with this thread.
His account is disabled.
Wow, too bad. I enjoy most of his posts. He has a pretty sensible demeanor.
4846
« on: May 18, 2012, 20:02 »
Is there a brown, wrinkled, circular bung that I have to offer up a finger diddle at FT to move favorably up in the ranks?
4847
« on: May 18, 2012, 19:38 »
Come back helix7! It's boring when everyone agrees. Your OP was well written and kicked off an interesting discussion. I'm not even convinced I'm right.
I second that! COME BACK HELIX!!! Don`t be a pu***y
He never said he was leaving. He only inferred that he was done with this thread.
4848
« on: May 18, 2012, 17:10 »
Well deserved.
4849
« on: May 18, 2012, 14:11 »
Was it a Nigerian princess
ROFLMAO...good one.
4850
« on: May 18, 2012, 14:08 »
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