Did they change something with the credit levels?  My total has just gone up by 600 taking me well into level 5.  I am having a BME there but it seems to have gone up by more than I expected it to.

It's down for me too.

Quote from: Dan on December 26, 2012, 11:21

Sorry  if  i  misunderstood  and  was  out  of   line.

We are all luckily allowed 1 mistake per year on the forum. Only 4 days to hold out now. 

LOL that made me spit my coffee our from laughing.

I can absolutely see why you'd want to hide your portfolio if you were saying horrid things about the diff agencies.

People get barred not for saying horrid things but just telling the truth.

Today has really fallen off a cliff.  No sales at all at SS yet!!

Has anybody else had weird sales the last few days at BS?  I had no sales at all on Friday and Saturday and then had one of my best days for sales on Sunday.  I'm assuming that the sales just registered late for Fri and Sat but maybe all just coincidence.

I never bother uploading or even looking at zooonar anymore as I get so few dls but just went in and had a look to find that I had a sale this month for over 40$.  It doubled my last 6 months earnings.

I usually do not comment much on forums but.. you people are crazy. Have you any idea how much quality content there's is on iStock? If those exclusives decide to transfer their portfolio to SS your earnings will suffer. Big time. It's just that the content on iStock is of higher quality as a whole. I know how you'll respond to that but it is the truth. You just have to hope that iStock will reclaim its previous position. It would be better for everybody.

Another thing - I did not expect all those negative words here -- those people are your colleagues and are too counting on microstock income to feed their families. I thought that photographers, as artists, will be better people, but no -- it is the usual gloating.

I totally agree with you.  I'm scared to death of the thought of having to compete with all the IS exclusives at all the other sites and really feel for you all if you were in the postition where you would  have to get your ports up everywhere else.  I think it's really uncharitable to wish for the demise of IS when so many contributors would have a really hard time until they got established at all the other sites.

Yesterday was surprisingly good on most sites particularly in Europe but I'm sure from today it will totally tank everywhere.

Quote from: cidepix on December 21, 2012, 14:01

Quote from: lisafx on December 21, 2012, 13:40

Secondly, I was hesitant to post in this thread because of the title.

You are right Lisa, I changed the title as the previous one wasn't that great

New title definitely makes more sense

Am I the only independent who has mixed feelings about Istock's demise? 

I can definitely understand the sense of schadenfreude at seeing a site that has behaved with such hubris suffer as a result of their actions. 

But at the same time, I would much prefer for them to roll back the bad changes, begin rewarding contributors with more respect (and more MONEY), and pull out of this nosedive. 

It may be naive, but I see the recent improvements in site functionality, communication, and freezing the RC rates for next year as steps in the right direction.  It gives me some hope that the new owners are more far sighted than the prior ones. 

Of course it may be way too little way too late.  I don't know.

Totally agree for more than one reason.  It would be very hard for exclusives to have to upload large ports to multiple sites especially if they haven't already got the  keywords etc in the metadata.  Also as I said above I don't want to have to compete with all the exclusives at all the other sites. I would much rather IS start to treat contributors properly but unfortunately that seems unlikely to last.

I'd consider any image that I uploaded this year to be a new image.

Happy christmas to all of you that celebrate it and a happy healthy new year to everybody.