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This is great info - with another 102 sales at current stats, I'd jump 1600 spots!  That's a good area to be in - when you're moving up quickly.  It must be hard once you get to 90th to get past 89th, 88th, etc. lol

Maybe he's bitter because he couldn't pass the 7/10 Shutterstock application.

  LOL

At the risk of exposing an area of gross ignorance... what's the benefit of RSS... and do you have any tips to using it??

I use RSS to read all the blogs i want to read in one place, once or twice a day.  I happen to use Bloglines but Google Reader does the same thing.  Basically I have a section for stock blogs, photography blogs, business blogs, my friends etc.  Whenever they update, I can see that in my reader - so instead of visiting 20 pages to read 20 blogs, I visit one and read it like a newspaper.

http://www.bloglines.com

I know there are some blogs listed in the knowledge base (WIKI!!) but I want to get the rest of the microstock blogs added to my RSS reader before the earnings reports on May 1st.  Can anyone link me to the blogs they know about?

Thanks!

3/50...Not sure where to take it from here...

The same place a lot of us are (off Crestock)

no reason those should be LCV. 

But if your concern is that you can download 3 pics that aren't suitable to have at work ... THEN WHAT . ARE YOU DOING SEARCHING AND DOWNLOADING IMAGES UNSUITABLE AT WORK IN THE FIRST PLACE!!?  fool.

Maybe this will put it in context for you although I think you are too far gone to get it:

I work for myself, I'm a full time photographer.  My only interest in MostPhotos is that they can sell my pictures.  If they can't, I have no interest in them whatsoever.  I am evaluating the site as a commercial entity and what made me go searching was that I found a similar photo like this ON the "most recent photos" next to mine.

I don't have a boss.  I'm not going to get fired or in trouble for looking at these.  That's the part you don't get and the reason you are misunderstanding me.  This has *nothing* to do with me and these images.  Nothing at all. 

Now, I think MP does have some sort of content filter yes?  Here's a simple answer: turn it ON by default.  And don't let those images cross the "new" section if it's on.  Make those who need it, like "anonymous" here, just turn the filter off to go find it.  Much simpler, keeps buyers around, that's all we should care about as photographers, right?

(For the record, photo #1 is hot.  I like the photo.  photo #2 is actually poorly done only because it's so unattractive - her skin looks dead, it doesn't look real, and honestly, would you take #1 or #2 as a guy?  And #3 is a great GREAT stock concept.  It shouldn't appear next to kids & puppies on the most recent though.)

Someone here was dogging FotoMind for their nudity on the site.  Does MostPhotos have any clauses about uploading parts full on?  Because honestly, what buyer in their right mind is going to search for _____ and find a full on shot of a woman spread out and say "oh, ok, this site works for me at the WORK COMPUTER where I buy images"?

I mean ... just ... WOW.

I saw some stuff I don't need to be seeing.  lol  And I'm not by any stretch "prudish" lol

Congrats Mel & nice to see you here!  haha

Sounds like what CushyStock and about 3 other aps already do.  How is it different from what Cushy does?

M

I have many short comings, and a lot of character defects, that I prefer you not know about.

(And some you don't care that we do know about)

There is nothing to be gained by it. I mean it's not part of a learning process.

That depends on how you post & why.  You're def right about the "submitted 100 images & they accepted 2!"  That means "you stunk up the joint" But if you post specific images as "this got rejected for XYZ and I don't know why" you can learn from it for sure.

All in all, I think the reason for communities to exist like this are to learn AND to "rank yourself" among them.  IOFoto & Andres & Yuri are on this board all 3 so it's not like anyone else needs to go getting a big head.  They win, we lose, STFU.  lol  Otherwise, we all basically suck in comparison.

always some drama
quite the cast of characters
blame the miz, I do.