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iStockPhoto.com / Re: iStock changing royalty structure
« on: October 26, 2010, 06:23 »...and all along he deleted posts, diverted public discourse with snide remarks, banned members he couldn't intimidate with sitemails and at the end locked the threads with a little stab of a statement to finish it off (see "we are undersigned" thread lock).
From where I am standing - he is a total Dick...
+1, I tried to ask him a question through sitemail about the changes (since I am not really involved in stock photography) and he was an complete tool and an ass to me. Then, he baited me (and I bit) resulting in my ban.
In another locked thread, he claims it wasn't locked for any other reason that it was turning into a circus.
http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=268031&page=1#post5071751
Interestingly, in defending the decision to close the thread (because HQ thought it was a circus) he makes the comment that, '...many people didn't see it as a discussion...' Well of course they didn't, because istock leadership refused to answer questions or engage in any dialogue. Quite the straw man argument. And apparently it wasn't critiques of istock that they didn't like, they just felt people were being too emotional.
I suspect they closed it to minimize the negative contributor feedback for the loopholes that agency collection is exploiting.
I have learned an incredible amount from here (and istock forum) in the last few months. Back to lurker status now...
And judging by the response traveler got, I won't get reinstated. I wasn't necessarily 'new' to istock but i only had a couple of files there and according to Lobo I was very disparaging to someone else's port, which I absolutely feel I was not. I was called 'too helpful.' 
