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« on: March 07, 2009, 20:10 »
He seem to be what the worst troll on diverse forums are, in a blogger humanoide body. I can't understand why people give him credibility actually  He doesn't care. He probably lives of the ads on the site. I know a guy with a much lower pagerank and he told me that all ad schemes together made him 8,000 euro in 2008. The moment you click on any link to his site from wherever, he gets cents. The only thing he has to do is post controversial things so people get curious about it.
677
« on: March 07, 2009, 19:40 »
who DOES Atilla REALLY work for , FD? Atilla is the ghost in the machine, a trick from Shatan himself. He loves to reject for the most stupid reasons. I'm sure it was Him since since my last message here, I had 2 other batches at SS that were accepted 90 and 100%. I told you, his home base is iStock but he got a bit bored there since He is not allowed to touch the exclusives. 
678
« on: March 07, 2009, 19:30 »
One way of avoiding this situation might be to show a generic mention like Copyright by Various Artists or something like this (I'm not a lawyer...). What if somebody registers with the name Lynx? Well Zymm could have it called user "Panthermedia". Using "Lynx" as a nick seems like a deception and we always find out sooner or later  Two years ago, BigStock pulled a similar trick with affiliates, where the shots were sold 20x the price. It started like a "theft" thread but then they had to become clear on the affiliate.
679
« on: March 07, 2009, 14:26 »
I decided to upload to the big 6 and was expecting DT to be a very good earner, but I'm earning very little there compared to other sites that are lower in the poll (FT, StockXpert, ISP) the only one earning less is 123RF.
So I'm starting to think maybe I'm doing something wrong. Not at all. Your portfolio has great stock value. It takes however weeks in DT before you get settled well in the search results. Your images have just 0-4 views now. It takes a long time to build up those. This is unlike ShutterStock where you get downloads 2 days after upload but they gradually wane off after a few weeks. You're doing nothing wrong on DT. Just be patient and keep uploading, IMHO.
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« on: March 07, 2009, 14:16 »
p.s. I don't deny some of the other issues you mentioned, we will see if they stick around when the index settles down. There is always room for improvement.
The flagging at DT works great. I don't think it would take up a lot of ressources. Just a text box and a button. The reviewers only have to check the reported images then. About the Lynx photos with bad keywords, it's probably an API error, since the keywords mentioned on the page are correct. Maybe just the thumbs got mixed up? About APIs and stuff, is it possible to link to a Zymm photo just by the ID and not by the category collated to the link? To relax, I'm writing a Coppermine mod with links to Zymm, and it would be handy just to have the ID in the link.
681
« on: March 07, 2009, 14:04 »
Or those old WWII posters, like the "When you ride alone, you ride with Hitler." 
682
« on: March 07, 2009, 12:26 »
Here is a way to check the honesty of sites - take a few hundred dollars and buy photos from an assortment of sites. Then contact the photographers to see if the sales registered on their accounts. Another job for the microstock union! I know somebody that did just do that, under another account on one of the smaller (not the top 6) sites. He bought his own photo. The sale didn't come up. He wrote an email. First they denied, then he gave the evidence. Then he got a very complicated explanation about glitches and server hickups and he got the credit. No comment. In his speech in ReykjaviK in 1986, Reagan speeched to Gorby after the arms control agreement ("Star Wars") : Trust but Verify - "doveryai, no proveryai" (Russian: Доверяй, но проверяй).
683
« on: March 07, 2009, 12:19 »
Always ask for price BEFORE you buy drinks in eastern Europe:) That's true for the entire world east of Berlin, up to the shores of Pismo Beach, Ca. If I might add another hint, stay behind the corner and let a local ask it.
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« on: March 07, 2009, 12:14 »
Those examples are quite clearly the wrong keywords for the image, specific to a fraction of the Lynx ones only - as mentioned the whole index is being rebuilt, should be back to normal shortly, ranking could be affected until it's settled. Perhaps it was a coincidence and of course it's only one sample but I saw more. Let's wait then till the engine is fixed. And for the record, I don't see the problem of a stethoscope with a keyword 'doctor' - it is in the the theme. If i'm making a brochure design for a doctor I would certainly consider a stethoscope as a relevant result for 'doctor'. I beg to differ, and it's not the established procedure any more in the mainstream microstock sites. Even SS starts to reject for slightly off-subject keywords. If I have to make a brochure and I want a doctor, I look for "doctor", not for "stethoscope". Of course, many doctors will have stethoscopes since it's one of the props of their trade. If I want a stethoscope, I'll look for "stethoscope". If there is no person at all in the shot, one shouldn't add "doctor" to the keywords. Ellen Boughns wrote a few great tutorials about this, ie adding "possible use" that is not visible in the shot. It's good to know that Zymm is very relaxed on keywords. I'll add "romance, beachwalk, global warming" to sunset photos too then
685
« on: March 07, 2009, 12:00 »
I got overrunned by greed the other day, and runned around taking shots of everything. Everything? I think they have too much of the category Everything already.
686
« on: March 07, 2009, 11:17 »
@Racephoto - We are adding a couple new languages and rebuilding the search indexes over the weekend, you may have experienced the strange results on account of that. A - No search engine will help if there is a keyword-spammer in the house. Some are very notorious at it. Will there be an option soon to flag an image for bad keywords? B - I found this and this and this and this (position #11!) under " medical, doctor", and that was only the first page. Also a lot of isolated stethoscopes with no persons. The first real doctors only show up later in the page. Sorry, but " doctor" is a person. This one is on position #2 for "doctor,medical", an underexposed snapshot of a disposable syringe. Pardon me, but if I were a customer looking for "doctors" (person) I would be turned off by the abundance of irrelevant images on the first page. As a comparison, I did a quick check on DT for the same search terms and the first 7 pages came up with real doctors. Istock was (as usual) slightly worse with just 3 irrelevant images in the top 60, and SS had 4 in the first 60. C - By coincidence, I just checked a few on top but they are all from Lynx. Also the "spam" examples are from Lynx. So Zymm seems to privilege Panther's contributors, rather than its own. Don't forget the secret to sales is position as result of the search engine, not image quality. The obvious conclusion would be not to upload to Zymm but to Panther, since you'll get (a) a better position in the search engine and (b) you can sell at both sites with the same upload effort.  (Incidentally, the same argument for uploading to Fotolia only and not to Pixmac).
687
« on: March 06, 2009, 13:10 »
I have more than 500$ that I need in their account and they are apparently paying small amounts to be able to pay to more people. 500$ is probably more than they have in their pockets. They're beaten twice. First by the general economy contraction, then by Hungary being bankrupt and run by the IMF. What I would do in your place is make a lot of bad publicity about them, posting it on any relevant forum or blog comment that you can. Google will pick it up. Post at their forum and email them about your intentions. The only "readon" they listen to is shouts ands threats. The only thing they will succeed in is a honorable mention for the Darwin Awards.
688
« on: March 06, 2009, 05:20 »
It's a good question about directly uploading, if you are already opted in to Panther distribution- of course we'd love anyone to work with us directly too, and you'd like to upload some to us, just send our support a note and we will confirm your identity and get you a list of any existing photos so there's no duplication. Does it work the other way round too? That is, Panther distributes Zym's images? I heard here that Panther's upload process is very tedious so I never bothered. Panther might distribute Zym's images of those contributors that aren't on Panther...
689
« on: March 05, 2009, 21:04 »
The reason for leaving the site for many was the feeling that the subscriptions that were being offered were undercutting other sites by moving prices downwards at a time when others were going the opposite direction. Well that was a valid reason, but it was the very first site I was accepted on late 2005, so there were some emotional reasons to stay. I'm glad they found some untapped business potential finally.
690
« on: March 05, 2009, 20:59 »
he has been really sick the last few days Wish him the best.
691
« on: March 05, 2009, 20:57 »
No one can stop you from joining a group. And if agencies started banning people from joining a Microstock Alliance group, then they probably shouldn't have us as contributors, anyway. It would probably be illegal too.
692
« on: March 05, 2009, 19:01 »
What else can i do, can somebody help me, please?
Since he has 125,000 images in his port, I guess it's a glitch in the database. It happened before: I had shots of somebody else in my port. It was solved. You will get a reply and an explanation soon. Zym is very responsive.
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« on: March 05, 2009, 18:15 »
Whatever their decisions, the SAA has a hard road ahead. After years of working to preserve high-cost, rights-managed licensing, the SAA must face a realty where royalty-free microstock is popular with customers and growing fast. So the captain was fired, and the ship ran into the cliffs. " A hard road ahead" : I always love corporate newspeak...
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« on: March 05, 2009, 17:20 »
@ FlemishDreams
Often there is a name of the buyer him self. I have many images with full names of buyers. So, maybe that's the case here too.
Where? What site? I never noticed it. Actually I'm quite ignorant about all those sites. Like, I discovered yesterday that Fotolia had a forum
695
« on: March 05, 2009, 17:17 »
Great analogy! I'll have to remember that. It has been around for a while, but I guess that with Obama, you finally discovered socialism in the US.
696
« on: March 05, 2009, 17:10 »
BUT reducing commissions: Is a very bad sign for what the future holds there for us. I got some inside info from one of the non-top5 sites and believe me, they are bleeding badly by the crisis. Some business decisions probably have to be made to survive. Keeping the infrastructure up, one fulltime programmer, one staff, the boss, and then the largest cost = reviewer fees. "83,539 new stock photos added this week" (SS) = 300,000 per month, say 40% rejections = 420,000 x 20ct (average) per review = a monthly cost of abt 80,000$ without the marketing. Maybe Fotolia was forced to do it but they didn't communicate why since competitors are reading forums too.
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« on: March 05, 2009, 16:54 »
Are we able to make some kind of legal, and powerful enough organization to stand up for us when we need it? It could be tough in the beginning, but it would bring us many goods...
One of the very realistic requests made to sites should be to be clearer and more specified about rejection reasons, and in general, use the same list over sites. No individual contributor can ask that, but a group could. You don't have to start the world revolution (yet) to make a difference.
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« on: March 05, 2009, 16:43 »
OMG! I have just sold 2 images to the same buyer. Funny thing is that those 2 were exactly the same image, but first he bought larger, than smaller size! LOL! How do you know it was the same buyer? Buyers info is private. Maybe it was a large design company and one of the buyer's colleagues saw the shot and download it smaller size for another project. These big companies really play the game fair. What happens mostly is you get a full size normal download, then an hour later somebody buys an extended license. They want to make sure the shot is OK at 100%.
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« on: March 05, 2009, 13:25 »
Flemish dreams. Let's put our ideas together. That really is what we should do. I will do my best for a contributors movement. I have had enough. Well, I didn't have enough. Actually, I like most sites very much. But there are still issues that can be taken up with more impact by a structured group than by individuals. Look how fast Leaf got a meaningful reply from the SAA, since the MSG is starting to score very high on Pageranks. Yuri Arcurs mentioned the idea before. I figure Arcurs and Leaf could do it if they feel support for the idea.
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« on: March 05, 2009, 13:17 »
I have send them different emails with questions that HAS NEVER been answered, so I am not expecting an answer from them. Yes, that's Crestock. You can't even delete accepted pictures. They didn't reply to my 3 emails to cancel my account since I don't want to sell shots there at 25c that sell at the same time at 12.5 euro at MostPhotos. The only thing that did the job was insult their infamous judge Whatever on their forum and yell here at the MSG. Good riddance.
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