The thread there is actually quite long and yet it makes little difference. Almost certainly no response will be forthcoming over the Christmas/New Year period as anybody who is anyone will be 'away for the holidays'. Or, the ultimate sanction, the thread will just disappear. Just as a thread disappeared last week. That thread was about a plagiarist who had copied one or more of the better selling images at FT.
Looking at the copied image, it was obvious from the 'banding' (looked like posterization in PS) that something funny was going on. As soon as the question was posted, "How did this get past review?", the thread vanished.

Although we may have been led to believe that we (as contributors) take part in some sort of democratic process, we don't. FT decides. We either comply or vote with our feet. And very few can afford to vote.

Argh! I'm stuck too to the US site

I'm stuck on the UK site which is worse since the dollar went up dramatically against the GBpound.
Worse still, I live in the Euro currency area and I have to convert my (hard-earned) pennies into Euros.
The way it works is that buyers always pay in their local currency units and the contributor gets paid in the units of currency according to the site on which they are registered. So, if I were on FTeu and a UK buyer buys my image, they pay in GBP (60 pence X no. of credits) but FT would have to pay me in Euro. If my image is exclusive, I get 50 euro cents X no. of credits which is around 43 pence. That doesn't leave much profit for FT. If it's the other way around and the buyer is in Euroland, FT gets 1 euro X no. of credits and I get 30 pence or 35 euro cents X no.of credits. FT makes 65 euro cents which is a lot better for them but worse for me.

Keep all contributors on FTuk or FTcom and sell as much as you can in Euroland, is the way to maximise profits. Contributors who signed up on Fr or De and get paid in Euro's are lucky!