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Messages - Shelma1
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« on: December 20, 2013, 06:47 »
Ths is the first time I've seen a call for reels in the NY Times: If you are a motion animator or illustrator and would like to create a video for the Modern Love animated monthly series, please e-mail your sample reel and contact information to [email protected].
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« on: December 19, 2013, 20:09 »
Is it just me or is anyone else having a back-to-back Worst Month in two years as well?
How do you know until PP sales are in? November could turn out to be great. I'm hoping my November turns out like my October. 
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« on: December 18, 2013, 20:18 »
It would be nice if everyone got involved in the symbiosis one way or another, but I don't think you can (or should) require people to do things. Encourage, sure.
Leo has made such an enormous effort/contribution that none of us can come close to that, though some others also make very large contributions, some help when they can, and some go off on their own. C'est la vie.
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« on: December 18, 2013, 18:45 »
I'm with Bluehost too, no extras purchased. So far no problems, and they're very helpful...with the live chat I get someone who fixes things within a couple of minutes, even when it's an issue with WordPress and not with Bluehost.
2731
« on: December 15, 2013, 19:11 »
..!
+1
2732
« on: December 14, 2013, 18:04 »
You may have to wait a bit as Leo has disabled new registrations for the moment.
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« on: December 14, 2013, 18:03 »
There have been several spam posts recently so Leo turned off new registrations until he's back from his break. That's why you can't register right now.
2734
« on: December 11, 2013, 19:13 »
iStocklawyer:
"3. Why do we remove royalties for fraudulent downloads?
It stops contributors (real or faked) from self downloading with credits bought with stolen credit cards and absconding with the royalties."
http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=349717&messageid=6798577
What are fake contributors?
My legal team doesn't allow refunds because it prevents penguins from growing mustaches. It's a huge problem that needs to be contained.
I just read those weasel words 4 or 5 times without receiving any enlightenment.
Surely, if a person has a stolen credit card, there are much more efficient ways to use it than this convoluted scheme... buying stock images and collecting the tiny royalities... seriously?
Not only that, but spending time creating acceptable content before stealing someone's credit cards and buying the content from yourself.
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« on: December 11, 2013, 14:10 »
BME on Shutterstock, not sure about iStock yet. Amazingly I got a payment from Veer, which was a big surprise, because I stopped uploading there more than a year ago. I sometimes forget I have a few files there.
2736
« on: December 09, 2013, 14:20 »
Hello?
Did anyone noticed that lately lots of users register with emails @webmail.co.za, @outlook.com, @hotmail.com?
All those emails are ticked as spam emails (by google search)
How to prevent this spam registrations?
Install an anti-spam plugin. Try anti-captcha.
2737
« on: December 09, 2013, 13:42 »
Sales for me took off on Shutterstock last month and stayed fairly steady at iStock. They dropped at both agencies after Thanksgiving (which I expected, based on what I was selling), but so far I think Shutterstock sales are a little higher than they were in October.
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« on: December 01, 2013, 09:53 »
2739
« on: November 27, 2013, 11:02 »
Same here...working fine for me. Are you logged in?
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« on: November 27, 2013, 10:21 »
This is very sad news, especially at this time of year. What an amazingly talented man. My heart goes out to his loved ones.
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« on: November 27, 2013, 10:17 »
I'm getting the white page of death. Perfect discouragement during the busy holiday season to keep contributors from uploading fresh content. Boy, will Shutterstock get a big benefit from this.
Have you been getting enough sales from recent work (2013) to encourage you to submit there before you've uploaded to all of your other outlets?
Should be working on Valentine's/Easter now, if we're doing seasonal work. A bit late now for the main Christmas/New Year buying season.
You'd think so, but one of my newest seasonal files is my best seller of all time there, by a very wide margin. Just uploaded a couple of weeks ago. Same with a different file (but similar subject matter) I uploaded a few weeks ago at Shutterstock.
Congratulations on your recent file at iS catching fire!
Thanks! I'm kind of amazed by it.
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« on: November 27, 2013, 10:08 »
I'm getting the white page of death. Perfect discouragement during the busy holiday season to keep contributors from uploading fresh content. Boy, will Shutterstock get a big benefit from this.
Have you been getting enough sales from recent work (2013) to encourage you to submit there before you've uploaded to all of your other outlets?
Should be working on Valentine's/Easter now, if we're doing seasonal work. A bit late now for the main Christmas/New Year buying season.
You'd think so, but one of my newest seasonal files is my best seller of all time there, by a very wide margin. Just uploaded a couple of weeks ago. Same with a different file (but similar subject matter) I uploaded a few weeks ago at Shutterstock.
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« on: November 27, 2013, 08:02 »
I'm getting the white page of death. Perfect discouragement during the busy holiday season to keep contributors from uploading fresh content. Boy, will Shutterstock get a big benefit from this.
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« on: November 25, 2013, 11:33 »
@shelma 
I did not say you must know css. I said if you dont like it right out of the box, you need to know those things. But then there are two or three of you here who dont really even read what i say. You are just going to argue for the sake of arguing.  Go for it!
My comments are addressed to people who want to make an informed decision.
"When the only way to get your site working and looking decent IS to mess around with programming, its not fair to people wanting to set up a site to minimize that fact, either." You spelled "it's" incorrectly, btw.
2745
« on: November 25, 2013, 10:29 »
The Redneck quotation refers to an error he caused on his own has I did myself, and thousands of others using wordpress that have nothing to do with symbiostock. It's a wordpress issue and the lack of knowledge from people messing around without understanding programing.
The people that are trying to set up these sites are basically photographers, and no, don't have programming experience. There are many wordpress themes that DO NOT require messing around with much of anything and all customizations can be done from the admin area. This theme is not one of those.
When the only way to get your site working and looking decent IS to mess around with programming, its not fair to people wanting to set up a site to minimize that fact, either. SY is not a typical wordpress theme and if you are not happy with the way it looks out of the box, you need to know css, you need to be willing to make changes to programming and you are going to need to talk to your hosting company.
The quotes that were pulled out do not give the whole picture, for sure.
I think that anyone wanting to set up a site can read through everything and decide for themselves. There are positives and negatives to SY and i dont think it's fair either to say something like "SY is wonderful and is easy to set up," and yet i have seen comments like that, too. Thats in total bad faith and a partial version of the facts, too.
I don't know any CSS. Yet I have a functioning site. I totally get that you had some issues, that you're studying web design, that you're familiar with zillions of WordPress themes you find flawless and that you wanted to futz with things, so you altered the CSS (I guess; I don't even know if "altered" is the correct terminology). But as much as you complain that it's misleading for people to say setting up a Symbiostock site is easy, it's also misleading for you to state that you must know CSS in order to do it. I'm happy to have a clean, simple site that functions properly, and I built it with no programming knowledge at all.
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« on: November 24, 2013, 20:07 »
Only 150 or 170? I thought the list had 200+ something sites in the network?
There are currently 158 sites in the Symbiostock network and it is gaining momentum.
You can see how many sites there are at the bottom of the following URLs:
symbiostock.info
http://cascoly.com/symbio/list.asp?list=25
Christine "I can't help either I eventually just accepted that people using IE will not see the colours in my site as I do not think this will affect sales."
Redneck "I'm on version 5.2.12. Your version should work, too. I guess the white screen error is caused by something else."
Lusoimages "I've just conducted a few searches on my website and in the symbiostock page and I've detected something that got me worried.
I've noticed that when a keyword is composed by two words it's ignored by the search."
marthamarks "However, I do have to say this: symbiostock-search.com redirects to this:
http://cascoly.com/symbio/symbiostock-network.asp
I find that a very confusing and unattractive page to look at and use. I'm reluctant to send any potential buyers there, to be honest."
Symbiostock_Newbie "One of the images I uploaded recently won't process for some unknown reason. It seems to process, but then when I go to "all images" it doesn't show up there. When I go back to "process uploads" the image is back there again awaiting processing!"
Snap Vectors "Hello. I've had three purchases on my site since yesterday. However, all three customers emailed me right after the sale, and said they couldn't see how to download their file."
Flawless
My site's running better than iStock. Looks nicer, too.
2747
« on: November 23, 2013, 17:54 »
Did you read the article? This came before the paragraph above:
Baio also argued that Getty Images New York picture desk manager, Andreas Gebhard, was aware of Morels images on January 12, 2010 because he sent an email that day saying the earthquake images on Morels Twitter account looked very decent. He also said that Getty senior director of photography news and sports, Pancho Bernasconi, saw an email from AFP indicating Suero didnt shoot the images in question, but Bernasconi didnt take action to kill the images. In addition, Baio said that Gebhard knew that the images were reissued from AFP with a new credit, but Gebhard did not take action to find out who the images were first credited to. Therefore the images credited to Suero were never killed, and Getty customers continued to download and use those images.
I'm not sure how my post amounts to trolling.
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« on: November 23, 2013, 17:43 »
I'm not sure linking to that article helps your employer.
"He said rather than issue an apology to Morel, the agencies wrote to him asking to license his images. In addition, Amalvy called Morel a crook in a March 2010 emailevidence that Baio says points to the character of the defense. Baio urged the jury to consider what it would take to make a statement to these leading news agencies that they cannot further infringe upon the rights of photographers."
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« on: November 23, 2013, 12:50 »
What urgent things are they doing on the buyer side that preclude them from repairing the seller side?
Making the site faster.
1. Losing contributor stats makes the site faster? If so, then was removing that feature purposeful? 2. The site is faster (after zillions of complaints from contributors, which they refused to take seriously at first and blamed everything but the sitethe country they were in, the browser they were using, etc.). So now what's the excuse? 3. Other sites manage to be even faster while simultaneously offering a much richer seller experience. What's up with that?
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« on: November 23, 2013, 12:31 »
A computer system is a computer system is a computer system, whether it's photoshop, an aircraft management system, a hospital system or an ecommerce web site. They all collect data, manipulate date and output data. No professional organisation just tries stuff out on a production system to see what happens, they use test and staging systems and, if after all that, there are problems on a move to production, the changes are backed out. There is no viable excuse for breaking something and leaving it broken for weeks.
There is always so much more involved than simply the computer system. A computer system typically encapsulates the rules of a business - how the business actually works. No two systems are ever the same because no two businesses are the same.
As you must know, in many cases the only way to see how a system works is to see what happens if you do x, y or z under real world conditions. Stuff like load balancing etc can be almost impossible to calculate and it is absolutely typical in the real world to be surprised or confounded by the results. And then there are all of the implicit problems and surprises involved with systems which have perhaps been added to over time or poorly documented.
Let's agree to differ over the details. But let's also be honest - contributor stats are not and should not be a priority ahead of the customer experience. And, as even the most indignant contributors must be aware, the customer experience is improving dramatically.
What urgent things are they doing on the buyer side that preclude them from repairing the seller side?
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