Quote from: wiser on March 19, 2011, 01:01
Probably the most annoying thing on Shutterstock. Sometimes I type it in perfectly and it still makes me do it again. Aaargh... Why is this necessary every time? NO other site requires this.

Some days (and maybe Saturday is the day?) I wake up and remember things. Two days of basketball and two to go, making all those picks and watching my brackets go down in flames...

Meanwhile, this morning I was reading the forum and remembered this:

They added the verification when outside software was harvesting data from their system. How soon people forget that detail. (including me) The recaptcha prevents bots from collecting data. Things like keywords, images, (yes YOUR images) and information from ShutterStock. It's not all about login security as much as the whole site and everything on it. Shutterstock blocked ProStockMaster, and other software years ago, that's when this started.

Found it Feb. 2007 they started warning not to give out passwords and information to outside tracking software. The recaptcha was the solution.

http://submit.shutterstock.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17139&highlight&sx=1

Please do NOT give out or save your username and/or password information to any website, program, or browser for tracking your download statistics. Doing so will only jeopardize the privacy of your personal information and the integrity of our payout process.

Regards,
Shutterstock

Excellent info. I will look at this a little differently from now on.

Thanks.

This is getting entertaining.  Sorry, I can't type Chinese

Quote from: ArenaCreative on March 21, 2011, 13:40


This is getting entertaining.  Sorry, I can't type Chinese

That one is easy "onrlat littleman"

Well, this has been good for my sanity. I felt the world's biggest doofus, for not being able to log in to upload today. I simply cannot get it. I had to send a ticket . . .  Feel like a complete noob.

rimglow - ANY forum search results in a proxy error, then a time-out, then something else - you need to redo it several times - it's just another thing that frustrates the contributors, and especially newbies trying to get info from the forums.

I personally don't care about captcha - SS allows newbies to be seen in searches which has resulted in sales for me from day one.  Can't say that for the other 8 sites I'm with.

Quote from: Colette on March 17, 2011, 23:05
No, it´s not the captcha. I can live with that.

I hate the rejection reason: Your image is out of focus...
When:
I used a tripod, a remote control, manual focus and F13 and F16 for the images. 

I totally agree Colette.  The captcha doesn't bother me in the slightest.  If it's too tough, it's no real effort to refresh once or twice.  But that rejection reason drives me absolutely nuts!  As you say - it's not as though we're careless about such things.