Ultimately, if the OP was able to answer or willing to reveal the answer to sjlocke's question, there wouldn't have been the knee jerk reaction from him and this thread would not have become as antagonistic as it has become. Abracadabra, has rattled a lot of people's cages here, by insinuating that people are unprofessional or trolls. Oh look, I haven't answered ur original question at all, I have strayed off the topic, it happens when people are in discussion. Get over it!! If you want absolute control over what is said or asked in a public forum, create ur own forum, so can delete what others are saying.

Sure has...   .I'm now enjoying my 6th holiday from the forum.

Forget about a holiday, you might as well retire mate. 

I think more than half my port on dt is editorial. They are more lenient, as with the other agencies on quality for editorial images. The important thing is if there is some kind of story to the image. For the "Editorial info" section, I go to Google, put the filter on 1 year or less and search for something on the subject, then put the facts I find in this section and a link. I use the same info. for ss also. It's kind of a long process, but it helps to convince the reviewer that the image is relevant or topical.

Matt, obviously there are just so many sales on the site, your email was in the queue for a full 3 weeks. 

I live in Indonesia. If I mention that I sell my photos online, often I get the reply, "Ah Fotolia". The people here seem to love the photos on Fotolia and the vast majority of Indonesians have never made an online transaction in their lives. 

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If that is the case, then I guess Ladas win hands down.

Of course, we all know we'd choose a Lada over an Audi anytime. No contest.

It's not a question of what we choose, it's a question of what buyers are choosing. Istock is no Audi, as it sells so much of the same as what ss and the others have. The same only they price it like luxury cars. You can't find Audis in one showroom and then go to another showroom and find it at half the price.

If you read down to the comments, you'd find this which does give some additional perspective......

\ istockphoto and shutterstock.com (which i use both for buying and selling) are like comparing apples to bananas. shutterstock.com has some of the WORST quality files along with search functionality. We get way more downloads on shutterstock BUT way more income from less downloads/files on iStock. Shutterstock accepts all our files (bar a few) and iStock only accepts a small selection. Quality vs quantity are the obvious synergies between these 2 companies(shutterstock the later). I really don�t see any value in comparing them, other than they are selling a product in a similar category. In the same way Audi and Lada sell cars ( i�d drive an Audi if i could afford it � customers will do the same). If you are a quality / pro producer of content and want a good volume of sales � iStock is your market place. If you are an amateur producer of content chances are you will get most of your files accepted to shutterstock. Hope this helps � JasV

If that is the case, then I guess Ladas win hands down.

On a side note, leaf, what's going on with your filter?  I wrote "that's bullsh1t" and it converted to "that's crap".  Now I don't know about you but I don't see how bullsh1t is more offensive than crap.  Is a turd specifically from a bull worse than turds in general?  What if I wrote "that's elephantturd!" or "that's monkeypoo!" or "that's horsemanure!" or "that's catfeces!", will these be filted too?  

Sorry I just don't see how the word "bullsh1t" could offend anyone.

I would like either an explanation or the filter changed to "monkeypoo" for shits and giggles


EDIT:  Ok this is very interesting.  "shits" is allowed?  I've had "crap" replaced with "crap" before.  Don't mind me I'm just going to save this to test the filter some more.

EDIT SOME MORE:  I'm baffled now.  One would think that "shits" in plural, would be worse than a single one.  I would cringe a tad more over a pile of turds than just one.  It might be just me though 

Ok folks, carry on.

I'm just testing the filter to see what comes out. Ok here we go. Politicians tend to speak through their backsides. They will say any kind of fecal matter, in order to get votes. But once they get into power, they forget about what they promised and defecate on the people who voted them in.

Ok, I'm posting this now, I used the some really bad swear words. Lets see how it turns out.

haha, this thread just reminded me of a B-52's song. "Chrome if you want to, Chrome around the world" Lol!!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWEfmCvu8R8[/youtube]

Quote from: luissantos84 on June 14, 2011, 11:39

how about approving corrupted files? please check that out and after I will give CC a chance by uploading my port until "yesterday", I am sure instead of 2 sales from 2 years, I will have 4 on the next 2

We went through a full site change over. Obviously, some corrupted files came through.  We have deleted them, and informed our programming staff. 

As far as the slow sales goes, with a generalist portfolio, such as yours sales, can be a bit slower. I have a generalist portfolio myself and tend to sell slower, so I speak from experience. 

As I said before, we are still working and building.  In the future, if you see something odd in your portfolio, please contact us by email so we can address your concerns right away. 

Thanks.

I've heard that motorcross racing images do very well.

Quote from: Microstock Posts on June 13, 2011, 12:06

Quote from: jsnover on June 13, 2011, 11:41

..I last submitted there in 2008

Why did u take ur port off in the past? No need to answer of course, if u don't want mention the issue.

If I may presume to answer for JoAnne - she went exclusive at Istockphoto. 

Yay! Eggs baskets many. Me like.

I've always found uploading, navigation, attaching MRs (although I don't have many MRs) on 123rf a piece of cake. And yes they had an ftp problem at the weekend, but they seldom have problems with ftp. I love not having categories to choose from too, even though there are categories for buyers.