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Site Related / Re: Microstock Earnings poll update
« on: March 03, 2010, 11:01 »
I also think it's a big improvement but it could use finer ratings. But for a general idea it's good. However, people shouldn't put the $$ earned from uploads on DepositPhotos as monthly income, it's just a bonus. I doubt DepositPhotos earns more than 123RF and BigStock like it is now shown on the results.

DP is high because a lot of people for some reason include non-sale income in votes. Do not worry, it will sink drastically next month :)

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For those who do not use PS - you can try size calculator @ http://statsmicro.com/resize

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Site Related / Re: Microstock Earnings poll update
« on: March 02, 2010, 14:56 »
I think that we just need two different systems that would cover different aspects
First - current variant of earnings voting, though probably it needs to be a little more fine-grained
Second  - RPI (perhaps for I[mages submitted], not I[mages accepted]). It may have similar exponential scale

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AFAIK: Incremental enlargement made sense for ancient algorithms. Bicubic directly to target size does it much better.

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Site Related / Re: Microstock Earnings poll update
« on: March 02, 2010, 11:42 »
At first I was on the same page with borg, but changed my mind. This poll makes real practical sense - it shows average income for particular stock.

BTW, results show what we discussed several times - there is no big 6 (or big 4), there are 2 + 2 + 5 + 3 + N (or, more realistically, 2 (>5) + 2(> 4) + N)

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Off Topic / Re: 123RF is having an Ipad Giveaway!
« on: March 01, 2010, 22:44 »
Nice way to sneak in referral link? :)

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Site Related / Re: Microstock Earnings poll update
« on: March 01, 2010, 10:48 »
Suggestion: ratings now have a price tag. It would be nice if we can see this tag (average earnings) on the results (may be a little tricky to calculate, but possible)

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New Sites - General / Re: flattr
« on: February 26, 2010, 23:42 »
Ouch. Do they want to win 'worst ever design' prize? I thought something happened to my screen...

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iStockPhoto.com / Re: showing diversity to istock
« on: February 26, 2010, 22:35 »
I think first one is really good _stock_ image. Do not drop it from candidates!

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General - Top Sites / Re: Oh no, please! Not Canstock!
« on: February 26, 2010, 22:27 »
Last time we discussed this, I lobbied for poll to have percentages, not abstract ranks. Ranks are arbitrary, 5 agencies covering 99% of income will still include in big 6 one that is 0.0005 %,  if others are even less

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I'd see as paradox that FT accepted anything at all. If they decided to accept 1 - it is almost 17% probability to hit one rejected by SS, so nothing extraordinary :)

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StockXpert.com / Re: just wondering about the big "6"
« on: February 26, 2010, 10:50 »
Everything which is bigger than 10% of all you earnings to count on Big xx (4 in my case). Under 2% in New sites. Between 2 and 10% guess? Up and coming...

What's magic in 10%?  Look how your own percentage grouped, and see where split belongs (I believe it is different for everybody).
Big 6 always were really on different scales, and recently 'lighter' scale, at least for me, dropped out of big range, really making big 2,  "deciding where to go" 1, and all others - "down and going", 

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StockXpert.com / Re: just wondering about the big "6"
« on: February 25, 2010, 22:28 »

Or Big 2?  ;)


Agree!
Plus section for 'going down'!

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iStockPhoto.com / Re: Rejection: accurate shoot description
« on: February 24, 2010, 10:21 »
The main problem with shoot description is that it makes generic release unusable - e.g. DT effectively requires 'catchall' release, so one with description cannot be used there
that becomes a non-problem if you submit a new release for every new session
Sorry, looks like some misunderstanding. How can I do it with DT? "Important: Ensure that you don't use different MR documents for the same model."

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iStockPhoto.com / Re: Rejection: accurate shoot description
« on: February 23, 2010, 11:19 »
The main problem with shoot description is that it makes generic release unusable - e.g. DT effectively requires 'catchall' release, so one with description cannot be used there

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Sorry for example of whitespace spam:
















































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Without regulation it is hard to rely on somebody's reasonableness. Just compare mantonio and Stu49 signatures on this thread.

My screen is real estate. I like to use it to read, not to 'filter' unrelated stuff. The main problem is that several abusers show to new users behavior that may seem ok to copy. Wait a little, and 90% of posts here will have half-page signatures and posts overloaded with pimping links.   

BTW, for unrelated things - leaf, is it possible to strip trailing whitespaces from posts?

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iStockPhoto.com / Re: Privacy on istock?
« on: February 22, 2010, 10:34 »
I do not think that it is on the page source - just look at any image page. Most probably Google crawled some of your images _before_ you toggled showing of username

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iStockPhoto.com / Re: Istockphoto rejection because MR date
« on: February 20, 2010, 11:57 »
Oops. For some reason I never noticed second page in IS article.

All the discussions were around the requirement to have separate releases with appropriate _dates_, description got 'lost in translation'  :)

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iStockPhoto.com / Re: Istockphoto rejection because MR date
« on: February 19, 2010, 20:31 »
I received a new one:

++Releases for photos shot September 1st and later require both a shoot date and a shoot description.

Is this yet something new?
(my releases have signature date that is exactly the shoot date. Even this is not enough now?)

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DepositPhotos / Re: DepositPhotos affiliate program
« on: February 19, 2010, 18:40 »
Successfully received my $100 + $10

C'mon, people, give me some referral earnings!!!!!!!!!

http://submit.depositphotos.com?ref=1006094

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Well... You can't really count that Canstockphoto has so low rate because it shows it's content on Fotosearch also. You must find right curve for that too... So, it is the fact that Canstockphoto has more traffic and exposure than depositphotos for now despite curve you see in that stats!
Yes, and nobody argues that these graphs can represent exposure of your work that you submit to particular site. What they show is popularity in _US_ of the site itself, this just a piece of information, but pretty important one (especially if you look at trends).

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Can't tell anything about safety, but by traffic DP is already ahead of CanStockPhoto. BS is next :). #8!

http://statsmicro.com/graphs

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Image Sleuth / Re: Orangesoft?
« on: February 15, 2010, 11:02 »
http://www.bigstockphoto.com/account/uploads/ (be logged in). Right at the bottom, checkbox "Reseller Sales".


Thanks a lot!

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