Quote from: ouchie on February 22, 2013, 18:09

"Bulgaria"

see ya!

raw files.....pffsttt

Whats wrong with Bulgaria? Where are you from? Don`t you guys notice that 90% of the stuff you use (cloth, phones, computers,cars,...)  comes from some "lousy third world countries with low english" like this? 

For the trolls, we've told you you've got all your facts wrong.  Go and spend a week reading all the threads about the istock/Getty Google deal and D-Day, come back and apologise to all of us and Sean.  Then you might get some respect.

Quote from: Stocktard on February 13, 2013, 12:52

Dont complain if "trolls" like us come back here for a good laugh from time to time, you guys at least are entertaining, sort of like watching a reality show or a soap opera.

Are you sure your name is not misspelled, Stockturd?

Quote from: ouchie on February 13, 2013, 12:29

most of them--im just not a fanboy of anyone of them.
well not getty or istock anymore. i deleted may accts cause u cant recover once you image is given for free!!!!!

Well, you sound as a very bitter person ready to bark or bite at anything that passes by you.

This thread has really brought some mean nasty trolls out from under their rocks. 

Have to admit I am shocked at the amount of hostility directed at Sean from people who don't even know him.

Quote from: ouchie on February 13, 2013, 10:32

I guess my problem is having an opinion that does not follow the brainless masses.
im blessed with that problem and hope it never goes away.
is that the definition of troll--someone who does not agree with you? silly.
the vast majority of ppl are so very ignorant--no wonder all these co. take advatage of you.
think for yourselves, dont go with the flow

I'd say telling everyone who doesn't share your opinion to be part of the "brainless masses" is what qualifies you as a troll.

Quote from: BaldricksTrousers on February 13, 2013, 01:31

...PS: I actually agree with your line about "there is no enemy, it's just business".

I think that if two businesses cease to be partners when one takes something from the other you can quibble about whether you call the taker an enemy or the competition or something else, but Getty images sure as heck isn't a partner or on the side of its contributors. I picked the word enemy to describe what they became after the reneged on a number of terms in iStock the ASA - using the 30 day notice and ability to change the contract in any way they felt like - stopped being an agent and became a distributor, and so on.

"It's just business" seems to suggest that there is no place for ethics, honesty or long term partnerships in business. I don't buy that argument even if there's a huge pool of businesses that operate on the moral code of "if it's not illegal it's OK". Perhaps if you start out on the footing that "I'm bigger than you and will try to take the most from you and pay you the smallest amount I can get away with" you'd know what you were dealing with. Getty said one thing and later did something entirely different. They are certainly an obstacle to my success and a force that has done harm to many of their acquisitions and contributors. I think enemy fits reasonably well even if there's nothing personal about it at all.

My point was that Sean Locke was not the appropriate target of the posters' ire - that they should direct it at Getty Images where it properly belonged.

Ouchie, what you and bokehgal are saying is purely based on your interpretation of what is going on in his mind. You interpret his actions as being those of a narrow-minded, greedy self-serving person. In order to think that, you have to ignore his long history of helping people, regardless of the fact that they were his competition.

Sean's behavour is entirely consistent with that of someone who believes that the truth matters more than self-interest and who genuinely wants to help others and is willing to go out of his way to do so. I've known a handful of journalists like that. It's a somewhat self-destructive character trait but it's the one that people who break the important stories have, while the self-serving lot are busy rewriting press releases or accepting "hospitality" from corporations they then praise to the heavens.

I'm afraid your assumptions probably say more about your own personality than about Sean's.

PS: I actually agree with your line about "there is no enemy, it's just business".

I think the problem is you are making claims you aren't really backing up with anything.  Personal attacks actually, that you have no real evidence for, just a conspiracy theory. 

You have every right to have an opinion and I'm not trying to pick on you, but when you accuse someone of something like that you should probably take into account the level of respect other people here have for the one you are attacking, based on years of Sean participating in this community and being nothing but helpful and honest whether we like it or not.

Quote from: ouchie on February 13, 2013, 00:48

this is what im saying, he she said it better then me:

--------

Quote from: bokehgal on Yesterday at 14:48

It appears Sean wrote a script to help a lot of his competition remove themselves from his game.

Sadly for him that act of trying to be clever backfired and blew up in his face and then ended up earning him a microstock Darwin Award instead.

I guess he is a bit shocked by it all because he was just trying to help, right?

There is something to be said for keeping your head down, not stoking the fire, nor pissing off your boss if you still want to keep your job.

Sean wrote a script because that's what he does.  He's written many scripts, many in iStock's favour.  He wrote that script because there was a demand for deleting files in a hurry rather than one by one.  How do you know somebody didn't ask him to write that script?  Or maybe he got frustrated watching people struggle to delete their files so he helped them out.  Deleting files one at a time is a joke, particularly in this instance where leaving files at iStock is a huge risk.

'Pissing off his boss'?  lol Sean is Sean's boss.  iStock was never Sean's boss and I don't believe Sean has sacked himself from his own company.  What's this ridiculous notion that Sean is out of a job?  His contract with his AGENT who sold HIS files that he produced is terminated.  He's not going to fall apart.  His files will be sold elsewhere and he'll probably make more money than before. 

Seriously, go have a lie down and come back when you've thought about what you've just written.  If you really believe that this script had that much of an impact on people's decisions to delete files or to leave iStock, then you might need to lie down and think some more.

People's reaction had nothing to do with a stupid script... it had everything to do with the Google/Getty deal that has the potential to ends people's careers.