Jan 2022 income up 8% compared to January 2021. 

(USD comparison, not including exchange rate)

Similar here: SS earnings for Jan were 10.7% better than last year, and the total MS income for Jan was 12.3% better (and second-best January ever).

I am over the payout threshold and I just deleted everything.
Deleting hundreds of images one by one required perseverance, but it's done.

AS AN ASIDE, I am a great believer in capitalism and a free market economy, BUT and here is the BUT, like all systems, it needs reforms and updates as time ticks by

Nah, you are not.
You are simply a late believer in Marxism and its outdated class struggle ideology.

I had to laugh at Martha's school experience. 

Dope was a stupid person. Later it was Heroin. But in the hippie era, it was marijuana. They dope horses to alter their performance. When I was a kid, Dope was paint for cloth sealing on model kits. And I don't know how long, but the straight dope was inside information. Now Dope is something good... I guess if someone was looking for a word with many confusing and different meaning, that might be one?

But of course we can just blame the Dutch. (In any case where we can't blame Canada, an ethnic group or minority group, how do the Dutch get attributed with these odd definitions so often?)

Dope comes from the Dutch doop, meaning �thick sauce� and used for various types of gravy in English in the early 1800s.

Well if that isn't the best gravy, it's really dope! 

"Disgusting". It actually begins to mean "very good".

"This player is so good, it's disgusting!" 

Quote from: thijsdegraaf on January 21, 2022, 15:23

As long as it's not our Dutch Heineken, I don't care.   

Thijs, do you know that we in Germany call Heineken "Grachtenpisse" (dutch canal pee) 

Seriously, you guys have excellent specialty brews. However, you think in smaller dimensions. While we drink away half liters here, you sip on your 0.2 liter glasses (klein biertje flutje) 

4 brewery CEOs in a bar, after a conference:
The CEO of Heineken: "A Heineken, please!"
The CEO of Amstel: "An Amstel, please!"
The CEO of Grolsch: "A Grolsch, please!"

"And you, Sir?" says the waitress asking the Leffe CEO.
"Same for me, a glass of water, please".

Not half, but definitely down.  Last year about 230/mo slowly declining to now about 160/mo.  SS is now my worst performer.

These are gross earnings, I presume, right?

Quote from: Zero Talent on January 18, 2022, 15:42

Get Microstockr and you will have lifetime earnings for each photo (total, per agency, per year, etc)

Thank you.  I am aware of microstockr, but was wondering if it was possible with AS native interface.  Their UI is quite minimalistic, which is inline with general UI company philosophy

Actually, I am expecting more from a software giant. A small mom & pop shop like Microstockr is outperforming them.
Even more, there is no AdobeStock app to check all this without waiting forever for the browser to load.

Thanks Zero Talent (a misnomer if ever I heard one ...

Not really a misnomer. Here are 10 things that require me. 

My highest photo sale on SS this year was $100 when I was level 3.

Quote from: zeljkok on January 09, 2022, 00:01

In January so far first 8 days my Adobe port, 30% smaller than SS port, earned 7x more.  For calendar 2021 Adobe earned 2.5 times more compared to SS.  This is not coincidence.  The difference between Adobe and others is that Adobe has intellectual approach in how they structured this side of company business.  They also respect contributors;  ....

correlation is not causation - no evidence AS approach leads to greater sales - eg, my AS sales are consistently about 50% of SS, with same images uploaded, at same time, to both sites

ignoring fact that an 8 day window is hardly significant when sales are spotty at best

Agree.
For the whole 2021, SS accounted for 38% of my revenue, while AS was the second best with 29%. This makes AS revenue about 76% of SS.
It's also fair to add the free Adobe apps, but it's only a small percentage of the total sales, and will not change the above ratio significantly.

Quote from: cascoly on January 13, 2022, 13:24

Quote from: Uncle Pete on January 13, 2022, 12:22

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I couldn't care less, or is it I could care less?  (for those who care more about which way someone says it) Merriam-Webster treats the phrases couldn't care less and could care less as synonymous Like when I make toast that has sugar and synonymous sprinkled on it.

flammable vs inflammable
regardless vs Irregardless

As aggravating as it can be, the dictionary doesn't act as  authority to define words, and correct spellings, it only reflects the usage and accepted spellings that are common.

Since some people are extremely limited (I'm trying to be nice?) so definitions change and words acquire lateral, limited or new meanings. Take for example the word NICE?

"From the Anglo-Norman language to classical Latin to English, the word �nice� used to refer to someone �ignorant� from the Latin word �nescius.� Starting from the 1300s up to the 1600s the meaning was the same � ignorant, foolish or silly. But during the same period, nice took on different meanings, from being dissolute, wanton, cowardly, effeminate, lazy, intricate, sluggish, refined to elegant.

In the 16th century the meanings changed to sharp, attentive, meticulous. When the 18th century arrived, the meanings lost much of its prestige; it gained the meaning we use today, such as pleasant or agreeable."

Which nice and I trying to be?

Don't be "silly", Pete. 

"Silly" meant "holly" or "blessed", in old germanic.

Then silly became synonym with happy (meaning preserved by its equivalent in today's German and Dutch)
Then silly became a synonym for innocent or harmless.
Then silly became an adjective for something or someone worthy of sympathy.
But something we feel sympathy for is something that�s weak.
From weak it became naive.

Then finally, from naive it went on to become ignorant and lacking sense.

So "silly" had a different meaning, when "nice" had a different meaning. 

The woke mob, they see racism everywhere.

That's because your previous "moderated" remark was textbook racism and the admins saw it exactly like it was.

Too bad you don't realize it.

So, what are you doing in a forum moderated by "woke" admins, when there are plenty of white supremacist boards out there?