Quote from: etudiante_rapide on March 28, 2016, 08:52

hmm, good news !!!
maybe ss finally sacked the renegade reviewer, and she/he found a job with cs.

think many will be starting to upload again to ss, if this is the case.

Maybe so! After a month of smooth sailing, all of my illustrations of a woman on a cell phone crossing the street were rejected for having irrelevant keywords such as these:

careless, cartoon, cell phone, clueless, communication, crossing street, dangerous, dialing, distracted, female,

 

You should resubmit them, I think there's some reviewer who doesn't understand english and just rejects everything to earn his/her money.

I had an escort of a police truck with a big machine gun in the back in Guatemala. That seem to have scared off potential robbers.

I only give my rejects to microstock nowadays. Sick of all the agencies screwing their contributors. They pay me peanuts, they get peanuts.

Thanks Tror, very helpful!

I requested to close my account and pay me out, I never received a reply or whatsoever and my port is still active.

Quote from: Firewall on November 17, 2015, 01:43

Quote from: cobalt on November 15, 2015, 11:12

Of course, but attacks in Beirut, Damascus or Bagdad are not unexpected. The whole region is an unstable civil war zone.

Paris,London and New York are not known to be at war, an attack there is something new.

Moreover these are truly global cities probably visited by over a billion people have once in their life visited them, studied or worked there.

They are places millions of people around the world dream to move to, places we believe you can live safely and in peace.

More people around the world have some kind of emotional connection to Paris, than to Damascus or large cities in Africa that also have many attacks and violence.

The terrorists know this, an attack there will get them more attention and a lot more money from their supporters than an attack in Beirut.

If we do get monthly attacks in France, it won�t be front page news anymore. That is just the way media works.

Even in the Middle East many people are more shocked about attacks in Paris or London than at home. Especially, if they have sent their children to school or to study there, hoping they have sent them to a safe place.

That's just too bad, but not uncommon for people to consider Middle East and Africa as dangerous and unstable places. Ask yourself, how many attacks were there in Beirut this year and how many in Paris?
There are safer places in the Middle East and Africa than in France. There are no terrorist attacks in let's say Lilongwe or Amman or Muscat or Kigali.

Speaking to people in the field, whether they are Egyptians, Palestinians, Syrians, Lebanese, Jordanians, Israeli or bedouins, all say the same thing, the West doesn't care about our lives. Even Facebook has a double standard here. Sad.

I have family in Amman and Beirut, so for me personally there is an emotional connection if something happens there. But for most people around me there isn�t. It doesn�t mean that only french lives matter. It is just not the same emotional connection.

Imagine you go to attend the funeral of a very dear friend and while you stand by the grave and mourn, somebody walks up to you and complains that you are not showing any emotion to the other person who died and who�se funeral is being held two rows down.

Just because you are grieving for your friend doesn�t mean you have no empathy for other people. But you will feel a deeper loss to someone you are connected to than the rest of the world.

Attacks happen every single day somewhere across the globe. If there was an attack in my town of Cologne, the Sydney opera house would not be lit up in the colours of my city. Nor would I expect it or go on the internet to complain. There is no competition in grief.

If something happens in Asia, Sri Lanka, or Ukraine, it doesn�t affect me as much as London, Paris, Amman, New York or Athens. wherever my family and friends live will have the strongest pull on me. And I don�t see why I should feel guilty for it, I don�t expect the whole world to follow my life in Cologne, either.

It's called the proximity principle.
Lack of social and/or physical proximity leads to apathy.
Apathy is one of the reasons disasters got worse, i.e. Darfur, prelude to WWII etc.

Of course, but attacks in Beirut, Damascus or Bagdad are not unexpected. The whole region is an unstable civil war zone.

Paris,London and New York are not known to be at war, an attack there is something new.

Moreover these are truly global cities probably visited by over a billion people have once in their life visited them, studied or worked there.

They are places millions of people around the world dream to move to, places we believe you can live safely and in peace.

More people around the world have some kind of emotional connection to Paris, than to Damascus or large cities in Africa that also have many attacks and violence.

The terrorists know this, an attack there will get them more attention and a lot more money from their supporters than an attack in Beirut.

If we do get monthly attacks in France, it won�t be front page news anymore. That is just the way media works.

Even in the Middle East many people are more shocked about attacks in Paris or London than at home. Especially, if they have sent their children to school or to study there, hoping they have sent them to a safe place.

That's just too bad, but not uncommon for people to consider Middle East and Africa as dangerous and unstable places. Ask yourself, how many attacks were there in Beirut this year and how many in Paris?
There are safer places in the Middle East and Africa than in France. There are no terrorist attacks in let's say Lilongwe or Amman or Muscat or Kigali.

Speaking to people in the field, whether they are Egyptians, Palestinians, Syrians, Lebanese, Jordanians, Israeli or bedouins, all say the same thing, the West doesn't care about our lives. Even Facebook has a double standard here. Sad.

Quote from: Firewall on November 14, 2015, 16:52

Quote from: Microstockphoto on November 14, 2015, 16:34

They were in no way related to refugees.

2 of them were registered as such

Syriens that escaped from IS do attacks in the name of IS?
Please stop talking nonsense.

I'd suggest you read my earlier post and that's the last I'll post about this.

I'm very sorry this happened but it is hardly surprising, it was bound to happen sooner or later. With the influx of Syrian migrants it is no surprise there are terrorists amongst them, despite reassurances from the European politicians. It seems 2 of the terrorists in Paris came in through Greece.
There is a reason why the Gulf countries refuse to open their countries for Syrians.
I spent some days at a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan, before I really thought it was great we can help them and I truly am sorry to say that I left disillusioned to say the least.
For instance, they receive good quality UNHCR tents, after a while they receive housing from the Jordanian government, and these people sell, yes they sell their tents to poor Jordanians instead of giving it it to people in need. You should also see what they buy in supermarkets, top quality products, they won't settle for less. You see the same pattern in Europe where these people complain about not having a tv or good housing or break into a house just to watch tv for instance and they don't ask, they demand things. You should also see the footage from the Hungarian police where migrants throw away food and water that was given to them. They really give migrants a bad name.
Let me just say that Syrians are not very popular in Jordan, and there are 2 million of them there.
The attacks in Paris, Beirut and the downing of the Metrojet flight has nothing to do with religion, they are the work of terrorists under the name of a religion.
Sadly Paris won't be the last...

Run Gigi, run while you still can

The reviewers seem to have something new: Dust and scratches, unnecessary to say that my batch of images got rejected for this reason although I can't see any dust even at 200%.

Sales dropped significantly the last couple of months. On top of that they reject just about anything I uploaded, out of my last batch of 10 images or so, only my worst quality image was approved
Same images were approved by other agencies including SS and FT.
I'm waiting for payout, after that I'm closing my account there.

For me it's going to be the worst year ever at Bigstock