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« on: March 22, 2011, 11:46 »
Thanks,
Tyler, could you please delete this thread?
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« on: March 21, 2011, 09:16 »
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« on: March 18, 2011, 09:09 »
I didn't upload a single image since last August, and my sales didn't drop. I guess it's because I don't shoot business people, and other typically stock stuff.
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« on: February 15, 2011, 17:13 »
I just wanted to start a new thread about it. Last few months I sold more than last 2 years.
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« on: January 30, 2011, 18:15 »
Content exclusivity is OK, but contributor exclusivity is a pure slavery , just wrapped in nice paper.
I agree it's pure slavery, but where is the nice paper? 
lol
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« on: January 30, 2011, 17:38 »
Content exclusivity is OK, but contributor exclusivity is a pure slavery , just wrapped in nice paper.
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« on: December 26, 2010, 02:53 »
Happy holidays to all!  Hugs and kisses too!
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« on: November 30, 2010, 17:48 »
I'm sure life is just a very common thing in the universe, and it probably exists in many forms everywhere. Even on our planet there are places where no one expected to find life, like active volcanoes in the oceans where temperature exceeds 80 C (176 F). Huge colonies of mollusks and crustaceans are found there, and they live there without knowing that there is a something like "sunlight". They live exclusively on sulfur bacteria as the only source of organic matter, and those bacteria synthesize organic matter from volcanoes. How they don't boil there? No one really knows. They didn't expect to find any kind of complex life forms there, but life is thriving around those volcanoes. Anyway, I wouldn't like us to meet some very advanced civilization because I'm afraid that one of the main characteristics of life is that it wants to expand. And that's what we see all around us. From viruses and bacterias to us, people, everyone wants to take someone else's place in this world. Everyone eats someone else, and there are wars everywhere for females, for food, for water, for oil, for whatever... So, I'm afraid that any advanced civilization would probably want to destroy us if they find this place suitable for them. It would be better if extraterrestrials are on the similar level as we are because maybe that would finally unite some egocentric smart asses, and we could finally see some progress in global protection and cooperation between nations who don't like each other right now. I watched on TV that there is a tribe in Northern Africa that celebrates Sirius, one of the stars that is pretty close to us. Actually, they celebrate the smaller star near Sirius which is invisible to the naked eye, and they do that for thousands of years. They say that people came from that star, ad teach them many things they didn't know before. They describe those extraterrestrials ad "fish people". These natives knew that Saturn has it's own moons, and Jupiter has rings much before this was discovered. No one know how it's possible, because there things can't be seen from Earth with a naked eye. So, let's hope Extraterrestrials can be good guys too.
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« on: November 18, 2010, 04:05 »
Yeah, there was a new update after reporting to avast Everything is back to normal
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« on: November 17, 2010, 19:57 »
When I go to http://translate.google.com/ avast warns me about the trojan horse on the page. I tried on different machines, and it gives me the same warning. All machines have avast antivirus. Maybe it's just a false alarm from avast...
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« on: November 16, 2010, 18:11 »
Great Idea Tyler. I just did it.
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« on: November 12, 2010, 04:40 »
123RF rock this month! October was 4 times better than any other month for me. But November starts even better. If it continues this way it will be at least 2 times better than October, which means 8 times better than average month.
Does anyone else have the same experience?
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« on: November 11, 2010, 17:47 »
I just saw it today. Looks nice...
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« on: November 11, 2010, 02:48 »
It's just one of those messages that people use to flood internet.
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« on: November 11, 2010, 02:32 »
It seems that some people actually enjoy degrading their work. Those guys could upload those cards to printbusinesscards.com and really earn some nice money. Minimum sale for 1 card there is $5, and with only 40-something cards I had several sales. One of the sales was for $25.
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« on: November 10, 2010, 03:51 »
Thanks Ryan.
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« on: November 09, 2010, 01:17 »
Is it so complicated to implement simple and visible link to the past payments? I would just like to know when I was paid, and how much.
If someone could show me where I can see this? Maybe I just can't find it?
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« on: November 03, 2010, 16:24 »
I think Mr. Nielsen is just a jealous ex unsuccessful stock photographer who wants to assure buyers not to buy stock images, 
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« on: November 01, 2010, 12:17 »
It is very easy to know if they hide or "steal" downloads or subscriptions. I'm not going to tell you how. You should know it just thinking a little. Maybe it would help if you didn't have a conclusion you want/need to expose before you begin your thinking process.
I'm sorry, but it's impossible to discover if they steel downloads if they want to hide them, and it's very easy to do on their end. It would be fair tho, if you could explain your theory about impossibility to hide downloads from contributors, because the only thing you can check is the number of downloads that you can see in your port, and you can never be sure if they hide 1-2% of downloads from you.
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« on: October 31, 2010, 20:50 »
Just have a look at the last two or three pages of the "Where we go from here"-thread. It is obvious "where we go from here": Someone at Getty/Istock management made the decision that it would be more profitable to screw their contributors every which way, than to have a happy community.
I just can't beleive all you people talking about istock as comunity... that's beyond naivity, that's ridiculous. You guys are a community, but that has nothing to do with IS. It migth have been a community at the very start when people were exhancing files, but they have been conning you eversince. You can hiss at getty as much as you want, and they deserve it being overtly agressive business people, but the microstock bunch are a lot-lot worse, they are just frudulant bandits. I read back in in IS forums, Lobo and other admins -with some rare exceptions-, have been dictatorial hostile little pricks as long as I could read back, and they have been messing with file sizes, credits way before getty took action. They so much didn't give a crap about contributors that the best you got was single file upload buttons straight from the eighties, and upload and inspection system that creates enormous amount of eytra work without that having any pint at all (reauploading stuff because of bad keywording?? what?) and that has nothing to do with getty. I ran into some rare occasions when Yuri got involved in forums, and the admins trash talked him too, locked his threads.. doing that to the guy who single handidly made them millions! You call that a happy community site??? You are out your mind.
And then the worst part: subscritions (it's not just about istock of course) That's a huge paycut to start with, and everybody just blatantly accepts it because it was presented as s "new structure". I guess dumbos only new to be fed a buzzword, and they'll go with any crap : ((( The whole subscription thing is doorway to conning the s**t out of you. Imho it wouldn't be a huge surprsie if it turned out that you don't even get noted - and of course payed - for all the downloads you get in that system, they just hide it, and there you go. How . would you now? On SS f.e. there isn't even a download number, only a listing for 'popularity' which seems to be a combination of age and downloads, but it's obscure to say the least. Any of your files might have been downloaded more than you know, and you'll never know, bacause once a subscription has expired, they just can just erase all data of it except for it being payed for, and than reaching expiration by downloads or date. It's pretty much clear that almost none of the subscriions reach all the downloads possible, so the only way you could find out how things actually went is to cross reference clients downloads with your track record, which is practically impossible. I suspect you are F-ed BiG TimE all over the place with these sites... : (
The best comment I have read in a long time.
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« on: October 25, 2010, 17:31 »
I could be some sudden, very short voltage drop. It was happening pretty often to me before my power supply died. At least, the replacement is not so expensive...
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« on: October 05, 2010, 19:23 »
lol
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« on: October 04, 2010, 03:06 »
Istock sent me an email to take the survey about their uploading and submitting system. So, I clicked to fill-out the survey, and then they started asking questions like, do I have a studio or not, do I have professional lighting equipment, do I hire professional models....  What kind of questions are that? What does this have with uploading process? My conclusion is that Istock just wants to learn more, to make some future changes, that will make the business better for "all of us". What do you think?
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