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« on: July 18, 2016, 14:06 »
Im just trying it - and yep, it doesnt work. When I get to the screen where you need to put the deactivation reason and click on Deactivate file button - nothing happens! Is this a joke? 
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« on: July 14, 2016, 14:59 »
They do actually pay you when they sell a deactivated image, so you get an email about it.
I'm not sure what would happen if the contributor has actually closed the account, though.
I see. It never happened to me but good to know. I regularly deactivate my older illustrations to re-work them and submit an improved version. I dont think iStock will accept this as a justifiable reason for deactivation after 20 August, so I guess I will have to remove the weaker part of my portfolio all at once before that day. I would have done it anyway but not so hastily..
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« on: July 14, 2016, 13:06 »
I started with IS exactly 2 years ago - can I still delete all the crap I uploaded there in the beginning or is it too late? I always meant to do it..
And do I get it right that it is already not possible to edit keywords? 
We should be able to delete images until 20th August. I deleted a couple of images today without problems. I also tried editing keywords and I was still able to (I dont know if 20th August is also the date for editing keywords though...).
I think you're actually "deactivating" them, not deleting them. Keep in mind that iStock can and has sold deactivated files.
Yes, well, that is the term they use. I have deactivated a lot of images in last couple of years and they always disappeared from my iStock port and Thinkstock port within next day... there is no way for me to find out if they sold them after deactivation since we dont have further control over it :-/
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« on: July 14, 2016, 12:49 »
I started with IS exactly 2 years ago - can I still delete all the crap I uploaded there in the beginning or is it too late? I always meant to do it..
And do I get it right that it is already not possible to edit keywords?
We should be able to delete images until 20th August. I deleted a couple of images today without problems. I also tried editing keywords and I was still able to (I dont know if 20th August is also the date for editing keywords though...).
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« on: July 01, 2016, 06:20 »
So - they ran some automated process which I suppose gave them some results - I suppose they should be able to see the difference between a contributor with 5000 images, out of which all 5000 have description where the same words repeats 10 times.
And then you have a contributor with 5000 images, out of which for example 100 accidentally repeat the same word twice!
Cant they check their results better and distinguish between these two examples before sending the offending email to almost everyone? Suggesting that almost everyone is a spammer? Unbelievable and so unprofessional. Who came up with that?
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« on: July 01, 2016, 05:40 »
I still didnt receive the email but I went through my portfolio anyway. I have a bit less then 1000 images, it took me about 3 hours. I found around 5 old images where I had the same word repeated twice in description - not spamming of course :-/, just coincidence. At one point I found myself deleting also twice repeated "a", "the", "and"... and I felt like the biggest idiot in the galaxy :-/ I dont understand what they are actually forcing us to do??
I have such a bad feeling from all this, the way they chose to deal with spamming is so amateur it hurts :-/ We all know who the real sinners are - the huge ports with "icons, icons, icons, icons, background, background, background, background...... blah, blah, blah..... so sick of it!!
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« on: June 30, 2016, 15:09 »
I didnt receive any email. It seems they sent the message to all contributors whose descriptions of images containt some words at least twice... They wanted to address spammers but they took a whole lot of innocent contributors with them. Not the best way to deal with the problem since the real spammers repeat the same words at least five times or more.
Just wait, Im sure they will explain it soon and apologize. I dont think the support team will be answering individually every angry email they are getting now and will be getting in next few hours or days, there will be millions probably...
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« on: May 01, 2016, 03:18 »
Same here  The Credit Total increased today but there is a difference between Monthly Earnings for April and the total of Daily Earnings. The money earned between 27th and 30th is not added.
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« on: January 29, 2016, 15:14 »
The russian microstock forum microstock.ru has begun keep track of the new EL downloads based on sales price point and country of sale origin.
You can see the translated discussion text, spreadsheets and graphs here.
http://tinyurl.com/hen75yz
As per Shutterstock Paul Brennan:"To help simplify the earnings schedule, your enhanced license payout will now be determined by your earnings tier." Yeah, these tables and graphs look really SIMPLIFIED compared to the original 28 dollars per EL 
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« on: January 08, 2016, 08:23 »
Today, I got a set of images approved, submitted on 9 December. I didnt contact them in this matter, I was just waiting, so they must have got to it themselves.
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« on: October 22, 2015, 09:08 »
They don't accept small jpgs any more.
Really? So it is 2000x2000 pix minimum?
They had a thread about it...I don't remember the exact dimensions. But if you're getting 2000x2000 accepted, that must be it.
Thanks. For a while now I have been submitting 2800x2800 or so, to fit also iStock requirements. But now I tried submitting an EPS with small JPG (500x500) through web upload and it went through, both to Content Editor and then to review queue. I had to delete it then because it was not a new image I would like to submit, just one of the old I already had there and I wanted to try it. I wonder if a reviewer would reject it for having a thumbnail too small.. well.. anyway, Im surprised they consider most vectors to be "a small subset of images". I wonder how they would like if this small subset of images was removed from their site.
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« on: October 22, 2015, 06:15 »
They don't accept small jpgs any more.
Really? So it is 2000x2000 pix minimum?
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« on: October 22, 2015, 06:05 »
For vector people - I found out that my older vectors dont have this huge preview option because in the past I uploaded only very small JPG thumbnail together with the EPS file. So they cannot enlarge this small thumbnail and the little eye icon is not there...
If this is the only way how to protect my files from being stolen or copied and traced, then I will be sending them only small thumbnails in future again even if it means that I will be losing potential sales from bigger JPGs. The way they chose might work for some photos but for vectors it is a complete disaster. Only Dreamstime handles this well and I doubt SS will follow their way.
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« on: October 21, 2015, 13:33 »
This is definitely one thing which iStock handled much better than SS. And that is a strange thing to say... I hope they will do something about it ASAP.
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« on: October 21, 2015, 13:19 »
I didnt sign up to give my images away for free. They need to fix this. Any new thing or change is for the worse, they really cant do anything positive for contributors anymore.
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« on: October 18, 2015, 13:51 »
 Im the last one who would ever say to be the best in anything... you are the one who made claims about 2500 quality images. Why dont you just read again the previous threads you started, here and at Shutterstock forum, why are you asking the same question again? Plenty of kind people already answered you and everyone can see how you reacted and what lesson you have learned.
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« on: October 18, 2015, 13:34 »
You asked about other people's earnings repeatedly on Shutterstock forum, then again here a few times, so I remember that. Many people gave you answers and valuable advice already and you didnt even thank them for it. I dont think you are serious with microstock and if 200 new images a year make you feel overdrawn, then it is not for you.
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« on: October 18, 2015, 13:12 »
assume i'v a port of 1000 'high quality' images
About one year ago you claimed that you can create 2500 cool and quality images by the end of this year. You asked exactly the same question back then, about the sales. So what happened to that plan and how many images do you have now?
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« on: October 03, 2015, 06:45 »
Easy solution - only those new contributors who had their ID card or passport approved can post on the forum. I dont think spammers would bother to submit some made-up ID card and then wait for a week or more to have it approved. They wouldnt go that far.
The decent new contributors who have problems with submitting their ID will be still able to at least read the forum and find email contact to SS support if necessary.
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« on: September 25, 2015, 02:02 »
"i know that sometimes there are attacks by hackers that steal information of people in the internet , maybe you just forgot those things?"
That's irrelevant. To do business, the companies you do business with need your information.
Well, good luck.
you are not wrong, but the danger is still exist.
So you think agencies should send money to people who didnt identify themselves? How safe is that for the companies? Get real!
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« on: September 19, 2015, 05:42 »
Because they are going for 100 million images in their library. And they dont care how they get there.
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« on: September 04, 2015, 11:38 »
I had the same issue this morning, eight sales showing zero earnings and licence but it got fixed now so maybe it was just some delay in reporting. They are all subs though, as I could have expected  
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« on: September 03, 2015, 01:45 »
Think it was here? someone metioned they had accepted something like 60000 new images in one week.
Currently it is almost 500 000 new images every week. That is 2 million new images every month
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« on: July 28, 2015, 08:00 »
I dont know if this may help you with comparison. Im not a newbie in microstock, Ive been doing this for four years now but I avoided 123 for some time, then I decided to give it a try last month and created an account there. It took a few weeks to get my images submitted, reviewed and appear in searches.
Now I have 300 vectors online and they generated 80 sales so far in July, grand majority of them are subs. So this is my "newbie" experience so far at 123rf, the first month... Im curious how this will go on but I dont have high expectations.
That's pretty awesome, 80 sales in a couple of weeks. I've been here for months and have a port of about 500 images. Nowhere near that many sales yet
Thank you, it might have been some initial good luck as I sumbitted my images in large batches so many of them came online at the same time. Perhaps they caught some buyers eyes. Next month will be different because I dont have much more to add now and Im slow at creating new stuff so I dont know what to expect. I take it as an interesting experiment
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« on: July 28, 2015, 03:02 »
I dont know if this may help you with comparison. Im not a newbie in microstock, Ive been doing this for four years now but I avoided 123 for some time, then I decided to give it a try last month and created an account there. It took a few weeks to get my images submitted, reviewed and appear in searches.
Now I have 300 vectors online and they generated 80 sales so far in July, grand majority of them are subs. So this is my "newbie" experience so far at 123rf, the first month... Im curious how this will go on but I dont have high expectations.
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