2000 is nothing by nowadays standards

this voting system is ridiculous.

for example, someone recently asked "what do you see in 3 years from now"

well, i personally see 10x multiplied revenue in 3 years. but i didn't even bother to post it, coz i know in advance this positively-realistic expectation will gather negative votes.

and then i will not be able to fool myself with "i gave my answer because most of people here ARE NOT #%$#s".

of course, i still remember the way people treated Yuri here when he said he went exclusive, if i would need any reminder THEY REALLY ARE. but voting system works as a constant reminder anyway.

very, very unpleasant community.

most likely it's my last posting here.

because anger/professionalism ratio on this forum is fubar.

who would want to communicate here?

it's all about "stocks generally suck (well, SS probably maybe has some tiny little chance, but it's so dangerous), marketplace owners are greedy capitalists, flying helicopters abound empire state building while firing cigars with our hardly earned 100 usd bills, etc, etc, etc".

everyone who has different opinion on anything than "majority" has, gets witchhunted. this place sadly became very communist. i grew up in communist country, so i know what i say.

take a look at recent communications EmberMike got from this forum members. wow.

sad to say it, but i hardly believe any major market player is interested in communication here now. what's the point to speak with people who do not even care about TRYING to understand what they are reading.

Quote from: Mantis on May 12, 2014, 13:52I think you would get a PILE of hearts on here if you chose not to participate in DPC, but that's your call.  DPC is a very destructive strategy to micro stock as a whole.

i'm not in this business for hearts, but for money.

with 8 years of positive experience, we do trust major marketplaces we work with, regarding their marketing efforts.

it's up to you or anyone else to be opted-in or opted-out. none of my business.

i do not ask anyone to opt-in or opt-out. i'm asking you to get some understanding about people who leads the boycott.

if someone is blindfolded by witch hunt now and sees no reason to check "alliance" background - it's ok. like i already said, don't pretend you were unwarned later.

i have nothing more to say.

"He who has ears to hear, let him hear!"

i know the activists of "alliance" will try to create a lot of "white noise" now, as they did on russian forums before they were kicked off for the very same "obvious warez connection" reason,
but i really hope initial message of Robert with prooflink will not get lost.

1. Svetlana (i have no idea who you are), can you please show people here the pictures you used as boycott advertisement? then everyone will see why i called it circus.

2. what i'm still trying to convince people is please check the background of "leaders" of this "boycott". don't be manipulated by WAREZ people. make your own business decisions. don't be a "herd" for those who wants to be sheppards now.

i have zero trust to people who pop-up from nowhere with already made boycott site and redirecting contributors to their "alliance" later.
people who say they are not stock contributors, but just have a big heart.
people who, on very easy inspection appear to be connected to WAREZ.

if anyone wants such a people to lead him/her or affect his/hers business - don't say you were not warned.

that's it.

what WAREZ site did you convince people to upload their works to? was it leitibit or something else?

from what i know it was the one of three from Robert's Google cache screenshot.

Quote from: fotoramka on May 12, 2014, 12:14

Quote from: BaldricksTrousers on May 12, 2014, 12:06
Is there some reasone warez people would want photos removed from DPC? I don't understand why anyone would support warez and be bothered about DPC. Perhaps someone can explain what all this means.

I can explain many things about Dolgachev and his targets, i think i can write detailed desription of his behavior and behavior of some russian-community admin later. Also i'm NOT a warez people. Please, read previous posts carefully.

go for it, sure. people know me and people know who i am.  the only thing you can "explain" is your theory i'm afraid to lose audience from my forum. which is ridiculous as my forum is not nearly "alive" for years now.

can you please go back to subject and tell us a bit about YOU instead? what is the "fileshare" you're working for and convinced people to upload their works to?

Quote from: luissantos84 on May 12, 2014, 12:05
I am definitely not a professional and you are definitely away from being a community support person so don't come here like we own you anything or need your advice

have a wonderful day!

so, luissantos84, you're basically trying to shut my mouth now when i came here to share info i have about "stock alliance", coz you're so "community" with your "hahaha"s and decided no one needs this information?

no way.

if you, luissantos84, do not need this information, it's natural.

just don't try to distract people from "stock alliance" subject by your personal attacks.

i will not respond to anything you'll write in future. my apology to the rest of community for giving you attention for this very last time now.

luissantos84, maybe if you will start to care more about your own portfolio and stop caring about ours, it will really help you with seeing stuff you do not yet.

also a little bit less "hahaha"s on forums is always helpful for both sales and understanding.

i have zero respect to you after all aggression i've seen from you before. in my opinion, nothing about you is any "professional", sorry. you're obviously not the one who can judge "professional attutude".

i'm not your mate. can you please stop any communication attempts with me? thank you!

what kind of help are you asking from me? from what i remember, luissantos84, you were always very aggressively attacking me here on this forum, for some mysterious reason. i really have no intentions to help you any possible way,  sorry.

Quote from: luissantos84 on May 12, 2014, 11:20
Lev, I am more surprised to see your 75k files at DPC

why surprised, Luis?

do you know something i don't about DPC?

so, you're a worker of fileshare? which one, if i may ask? i seriously suspect that what you call fileshare is essentially a WAREZ site.

accompanied with the stories about you convinced some stock contributors to upload their works on WAREZ sites to fight piracy (still can't believe anyone bought this theory, you must be a genius of persuasion. it's like convincing people to commit a suicide in the name of death-fighting), i believe we have a sort of Charlie Manson'ish story in here.

fotoramka,

as far as i've read on russian forum, you are an employee of WAREZ site and do not even deny it.

i found it very surreal now to see WAREZ people who steal and re-distribute our works for free, pretending to fight for content providers rights.

from what i see now, pirates are trying to make some sort of "stock alliance".

sounds like breaking news for community.

Quote from: fotoramka on May 12, 2014, 10:33We've had idea to share stocker's works which have bad/no sales on some warez sites to prevent piracy...

am i the only one who sees a nonsense here?

if anyone, by the chance, has an e-mail of someone from Alamy contributor-related management (not common contributor support e-mail they have on site), please PM it to me.

thank you in advance!

is there any way to download 1042-S for 2103 on Fotolia?

or should i rely on "withholding amount" yearly total in stats?

Quote from: picture5469 on March 09, 2014, 18:39
I have like 1100 images on SS. Again today they have downloaded another like 25 images.

enjoy your sales. it won't last longer than 44 days anyway

2005 is a bit before it started for us, but in 2007 we had RPI = USD 5 per month, with several thousand of very poor, by modern standards, images.

here and now, if we would start again with very same images, i think we would have less than 50 cents RPI.

so my estimation is - if your current portfolio could be magically transfered to year 2007, you would get approx. 10 times more money than you get now. maybe more or less, it depends on portfolio, but in average i believe it's approx. 10 times.

seems like everyone i know is affected. should be 9000 only.

is there anyone on this forum, who is selling via PP on iStock and who is NOT affected by this "backfire" action?

used to earn several thousand a month before they effectively switched off the program. now it's something irrelevant. maybe 200-300 a month. referral years were fun. nice memories.

they are very nice and friendly.

we gave them 65000+ images in December.

at the beginning of January they said us our images will be onlined in several months.

wow.

Bang-images, you stopped too early this year, should have been uploading for one more week.

the second part looks precise.

2014 will be amazing.

we are planning to triple our income comparing to 2013.

1. i believe Lisa is stating WE are having an issue, being paid much later then she does. i have no problem with this. seems like you do.

2. i see you are angry at me for some reason. that's what i would call an "issue". if you need me to care about it - here goes a piece of advice for you:

don't spend too much time being angry. you can miss a life.

cheers,