That's a tough one to answer. I think on average my IS portfolio generates around 40 cents per image per month.  Maybe more, maybe less, depending on the month.  Of course, most of that income is generated by just a handful of images.  So again, it really depends.  However, using just that number would dictate an exclusive portfolio of 750 images - but then, you won't be at the same royalty rate as me, so you'll likely need more images.  How about a 1,000 images, no maybe 1,200,...

Quote from: BaldricksTrousers on January 24, 2011, 11:02

I wonder how busy the inspectors are now.

52,397 in the queue just now: considerably up from the 44,XXX of a couple of weeks back.

Is there a way for a "normal" contributor to access such information, or is that only available to moderators and reviewers?

Quote from: tundraphoto on January 21, 2011, 13:17

Well, as a result of my 3 paragraph rant about a LACK OF COMMUNICATION and the resulting deletion of that and all the +1's that followed, I'm now registered here.  I hope the communication channel over here is much more open and I don't get slammed all the time!

So what part of your post was rude, incoherent or baiting? Or was any of it? Was it merely critical? I ask because certain people seem to think only rude, incoherent and baiting people get banned, which is flat out not true. The people who get banned are the people that self-proclaimed "traffic cop" decides need to be punished at that particular moment in time.

That's a good question.  I wish I had kept a copy.  The point I was trying to make, in a respectful manner, was that there seems to be a complete LACK OF COMMUNICATION between IS and it's contributors/customers.  The Twitter feed mentioned that the site was almost back up - posted twelve hours earlier when the site was still down.  A pretty big hole there with no info.  I had also just figured out, by happenstance, that my payment was going to be late by stumbling on a thread in the forum (where I was posting my rant).  In my opinion, an e-mail should have gone out directly to customers.  I was certainly respectful and not rude in trying to make that point. I am firm believer that complaining doesn't help get things fixed any faster.  The point of the "hammer" was that they wanted the thread to only pertain to the specifics of the issue, which was the delay in the payment.  Apparently, my lengthy three paragraph rant was preventing folks from finding the information they wanted.  They weren't getting paid yet, so what additional information was there?  Most of the posts by the moderator were "we are almost there" or something like that- somewhat of a RANT, if you ask me.  Certainly not very much help until the issue was finally resolved.  And exactly what sort of feedback did folks need to provide that I was preventing from being visible?  Not sure?  Anyway, it doesn't matter.  IS seems to be creating enough problems of their own without me pointing it out.  Now part of the portfolio pages is not showing up and you must use a roundabout link to get to the uploads page.  If it's not one thing, it's something else - which perhaps means they don't have enough time to communicate with the little people.