The site has consistent bugs. 

Wish Joh would spend a little more on his code, etc. and  I hope he is still not doing most of the programming himself.

Opted out.... Little ants can do amazing things.

Yuri Arcurs
Freezingpictures
GeoPappas
Smithore
rene
sharpshot
ldambies
epixx
latex
FlemishDreams.
RTimages
Vonkara
helix7
Travelling-light
Mjp
northflyboy
ason
Alex

Yes on another forum the person who finally had the courage to stand up to Editorials constant abuse was banned... glad to see that Editorial is not in control here and that he was not allowed to continue to bully the contributors on this forum.   Now if we could just do something about the carpet baggers always trying to sell us something!

Quote from: sharpshot on December 30, 2007, 18:31

Quote from: leaf on December 30, 2007, 01:26
Allright - 2 points of interest

- that thread that Editorial linked to (which didn´t really have much a purpose or use to anyone) has been quaranteened - he did have a good point there, that thread wasn´t too useful.

- The user editorial has been banned for actions typical of someone ´wanting´be be banned

and now back to our regular programming.

He picked on the wrong person   A good decision.  I wish other forums would do the same.

Take a look at the accounts that they suspended on Dreamtime. They are still up on some sites; the accounts they suspended contain a large proportion of images that closely resemble the photos and keywords of many of microstocks most successful photographers.

I guess it does not pay to plagiarized the hard work and artistic content of others.

Dale Hogan did a good job of outlining the situation in detail.  I am sure he and many others are tired of blatant copycats.

http://dalehogan.ca/blog/2007/12/20/the-dale-hogan-worm/

Quote from: HughStoneIan on December 20, 2007, 11:06
SS seems to be downplaying this, but it appears DT thought it was serious enough to disable all its files that have both Dale and Hogan in them.  Several bamboo texture files are affected (attention, Scrappinstacy!!).  This is really weird!

PS- here's the thread at SS, http://submit.shutterstock.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=30113

they've locked it!

Late addition:  Wow!  DT didn't just disable those files, they suspended those contributors' accounts !!!

This news is pretty shocking and says volumes.  This must be very bad news for those who produced volumes of work and invested in high quality equipment to produce superior clips for SS's promised premium market.

In effect SS lured those photographers in with the promise of fair prices and they in effect now have libraries of work that the other agencies do not have; because the photographers did not want to undercut their own prices by submitting to other low paying sites.

It is very interesting that SS did not advertise the videos all along essentially, making it very difficult for buyers to find the clips.  A small banner on the front page and very limited advertising.

It is even more interesting that SS is only now ramping up for a much needed advertising campaign while simultaneously cutting prices, now that they have the clips they they needed to support SS's advertising $$$.

Again this post speaks volumes and the timing is convenient indeed.

SS:  "This move is necessary to realign our product to our customer base. We've done the research. We're hiring the marketing and sales positions. We've increased budgeting for footage in all areas. "

Most reviewers do a fine job.  It is really unfair to put the work that they preform down.  However there are a few in the barrel or maybe one just having a bad day that create occasion problems.  I think that if they paid them more there would be less issues.

Most of them are fellow photographers and review for various reasons, such as improving their own work etc.

I think she/he must be on vacation, 100% so far this week.

LOL

Sitting on crossed fingers

Elena,  I have been a member on SS for around 3 years.  My acceptance rate has been around 98% / 99% up until very recently.

I started getting irrational rejections a few months ago.  I am experiencing problems and feelings similar to your own. 

Funny thing is, this week my acceptance rate is back up to 100%.  Why?

My feelings regarding all of this are further confused because I know your work is very high quality and if this continues for you that leaves the vast majority of SS submitters in a very poor position.

I personally take most of what Rinder states with more than a few grains of salt, however I do agree that the sites should pay reviewers more money and I think that their work should be reviewed on a regular basis. 

I am sure some just make snap judgments so that they will not have to take the time to open and review each image.