So mine was on page 12 and it's gone now, too. Either they have shifted things around, which will mean going through more pages, or they are down. But yesterday when I checked there were 790 pages, today 793. I hope the stock sites are keeping tabs, too.

With all the new sites macrosaur posted today, we sure have our work cut out for us.

Another reason sub sites are garbage is they allow scum to stockpile like this.  I'm sure most of the work found in these places is taken from subscription sites.

When I browsed through the first 25 pages yesterday, there were packs with Getty, Comstock, and other watermarks showing. I don't think the thieves are particularly discriminatory.

Edit: yeah, the site is loading really slow today. Maybe all the contributors checking for their work are overloading the servers.

Quote from: sjlocke on March 26, 2010, 21:29

I'm never posting again.

How about some emotion?

Like "I'm never * posting again"?

I put him on ignore again.

Just for you, Paulie. No, no one has ever actually complained about me not putting the quoter in before. I thought most people read the whole thread. You could put me on ignore! 

Too bad this thread has been derailed by the bulls*it. It's pretty important.

 

well then you deserve a  * OFF.
and don't bother, you'll never ever hear me again on this board, *.
I'M OFF.

Yeah, that's pretty much why you were ignored. You don't have to leave the board, just realize not all of us want to hear the whining and repetitive rhetoric and negativity and swearing. Just cut the "what you think is shocking language" and you won't get ignored. Simple. And you have exactly the same right as the rest of us...if you don't want to hear what I have to say, by all means, ignore me! Sometimes I don't want to hear what I have to say.

Edit: I do appreciate your pointing out these bad sites though. That takes money from ALL of our pockets. We have that in common.

Static for me both in terms of revenue and RPD whilst everywhere else is booming.

But this makes total sense to me that some are showing ups and some are showing downs. We all know that our ports do well in some markets at certain times of the year and don't do well on other sites. That's the whole point of remaining independent and spreading ports across different markets. It's kind of like watching your 401k on a daily basis or getting on the scales every day to weigh yourself. Don't do it, you'll make yourself crazy. You have to look at the overall, quarterly or yearly view, not a weekly view. IMHO.

But with all the changes, I am sure some folks will see declines where previously they did well and vice versa. I am seeing declines on IS, when really, I was expecting jumps since the cost of exclusive files went up.

Some people like roller coasters, others get sick and hurl.

remember these three words: ebb and flow

macrosaur, did you send an email to Getty, alerting them to that page that you found?

I sent an email to Shutterstock, as I found some watermarked images. I am asking if this might be a partner site. If it is, then we can call off the dogs. I really wish these sites were more transparent with their partners.

I recognize the yellow house model because I've used it for a mortgage newsletter I used to do. Don't remember which agency though...could be a comstock disc, we had a collection of those.

i don't think this is a bad thing. they are a featured contributor on alamy's front page. so, they're not only legit but it's a backdoor entry for those who want to be on alamy without passing the test or uploading.

You had me excited there for a minute. After browsing through the MediaBakery images, spot checking about 80 pages, the images are all RM. So just because we have RF images on BigStock, doesn't mean we will automatically show up on Alamy.

One of these days I need to jump into the RM fray.

I am still seeing steady downloads. Not that it's anything to write home about, but better than the previous few months.

Does anyone know where the opt-out checkbox on BigStock is now? I've looked around all my profile pages, etc. and I don't see it. I wanted to be sure I am opted out from partner programs with BigStock, since they are participating in this MediaBakery thing.

This partner site stuff is starting to pi$$ me off.

My images are listed with a copyright notice from "Colossus RF" - god knows what collection that is and where it came from.

I think it's a partner site, too. But I don't know why your copyright notice would change, click. Maybe send a message to the sites you think they came from and let them know your copyright has been changed?

The partner sites were p*ssing me off too so I opted out of them all. Unless the site specifically tells me where my photos are going and separates out the monies coming in, I'm not going to participate. Maybe cutting off my nose to spite my face, but there's too much room for not-so-accurate accounting in there.

What is annoying is that they don't just halt uploading until it's fixed-there are hundreds of files piling on with the great likelihood they'll  never be seen again.

I think they may have done that. I was uploading six this morning. Went to do other things. Just noticed DeepMeta was still open on my computer. Looked, and two were pushed back into my need to upload space. If I try to send them to IS, it says I don't have any upload slots. And this morning I had 21 left.