Aha, so it does seem to be a big influx of images from ex-exclusives.

Wait a little longer? Is over 30 days a little long enough for you? By then your image appears on page 8 of the new search when its approved. The pissing and moaning is justified. As if they add new reviewers because everybody is pissing and moaning anyways.

(last week) i've noticed it's slightly longer, like a day or two, so maybe pushing out to 10 days? but then, all images get reviewed (I tend to end up with lots of batches due to the "you spelt "colour" wrong" type messages), so some that are only a day old got through too.

Quote from: gillian on April 13, 2013, 17:10

...the "you spelt "colour" wrong" type messages)

Seriously?
Sh*t. 

yep, and I still make a *sigh eye rolling* comment. if you use their KW generator some of those words get flagged too. On the plus side, the number of times they fix a spelling mistake.... it all evens out so can't complain too loudly.

I spell it both ways color and colour and never have a problem except that the SS spellchecker says it is spelled wrong and I just leave it and hit submit once more and it goes right through and have never had any rejection for it.

Here is exactly what I get because i just did a submission.

The keyword colour may be misspelled. If the spelling is correct, make no changes and click the Submit button again. Suggested alternate spellings are co lour, co-lour, col our, col-our, colo ur, colo-ur, color, Colo, cooler, coolie

I really don't  know what to believe and what to do. People say queues are huge and that new files doesn't sell at all. My files are usually in queue for 1 week and most of the new files sell. All the files that are selling like crazy are files which were accepted in the last 3 weeks! Maybe it's different for me because I'm a new member? ( but why would it be? ) Even so, I panicked and stopped uploading for the moment >< I have a really big batch to upload and if things suddenly become bad I'd curse SS forever.

Looking at that SS forum thread today, it's clear that some people are getting reviewed in fairly normal times, and others are not, with some claiming a month or more and still waiting.

I had photos waiting in the queue for 30+ days. All of those were editorial and, as it turned out, they were waiting for me to submit the corresponding credentials. Once I did that, review time was a more "normal" 3 to 4 days.

So if you've been waiting for reviews longer than a week AND the files you submitted are editorials AND you haven't sent them credentials yet, I suggest you do so. They are obviously enforcing this more strictly now. I can't say what the review for commercial photos is now, as I haven't submitted one in ages.

And, yes, I still remember the time when you submitted a bunch of editorials in the evening and they were accepted the next morning...

Here is exactly what I get because i just did a submission.

Quote

The keyword colour may be misspelled. If the spelling is correct, make no changes and click the Submit button again. Suggested alternate spellings are co lour, co-lour, col our, col-our, colo ur, colo-ur, color, Colo, cooler, coolie

snap.

The word flavours in the 'Description' field may be misspelled. Suggested alternate spellings are flavors, favors, flavor, flours, flairs, floors, flyovers. If the spelling is correct, make no changes and click the Submit button again.

seriously, why don't they have a proper dictionary over there at SS?

And IS needs to understand American spellings are words too. This door swings both ways.

I get that pop-up and I look, check for errors, correct or ignore. The words go through fine. I've never had a rejection for keywords on SS. I have on IS. Either way the dictionary could be updated to accept either and it would make life easier for all of us.

About reviews. Read the staff message, they claim... FIFO = First in First Out. If that's true, asking for renumbering after the fact (imagine the impossible?) or all the worries about what's newest and what's replacing it, because of numbers, shouldn't matter. That's shouldn't, it doesn't mean it doesn't. FIFO everyone is treated the same.

Of course that's only if the FIFO thing is a fact. My last images took about three weeks. Plain RF, nothing fancy. Editorial or Illustration goes to a different queue? When I see a message about something sitting since March, that could seem like a long time or be two weeks?

Sorry but if faster reviews, mean more rejections and poorer reviews, I'd rather wait and get it right. Many people re-submit, so which is worse? Having to upload twice or waiting and being a little patient?

Lets start tracking. I'll make another thread?

Yes, it's always confused me that perfectly legitimate English spellings throw up errors.  An awful lot of people in the world learned to spell in UK-English.  Learning American-style English as some sort of default for English is surely a relatively recent phenomenon driven by the Internet and programming languages - and there are still huge influxes of students every year to countries where UK-English is taught.

I imagine that SS account for variations in English spellings in the actual search function (at least I hope so)... but they really can't expect us all to adopt American spellings when we write keywords.  None of the other agencies seem to expect this. I'd much prefer it if they expanded their spell-checking dictionary to incorporate UK English spellings too.

I hope they're listening to this <nudge nudge>

Fifo my hiney. Its not fifo at all, hence the numbering can really f up your image potential. If it was fifo I wouldnt worry

See the other thread, we can find out for a fact. I'm being unbiased and would like the real answer, not one side or the other making claims and us guessing.

Check the upload received notification for date and time, then check the review accepted/rejected, date and time. Include the file number.

Lets find out.

Single image (photograph) uploaded 4/8, approved today, 4/16.