The announcement is on SS front page by the way.


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Bizarre if its 1 in 10 why bother at all......wonder if they will go down the Istock route of accepting everything......

It'll be more like rejecting everything - with the only mystery being whether it's for being out of focus or lighting/white balance

I'm not convinced it's a bad thing, so long as their review process can keep up with demand.  I joined SS before they put the qualification exam in place.  It would have likely taken me many rounds to get to 7/10 acceptance, or I might have given up.  Instead I learned as I submitted, improving the quality of my work and its relevance as well.  So if it offers the same opportunity for others, why not? 

There's nothing that says that most of the mediocre work will get accepted, in contrast to what I'm told is going on at iStock.  My guess is that standards won't drop; new contributors will have much of their work rejected, and some will keep at it until their submissions improve.  Those who don't will at least have the opportunity to see how they do.

It doesn't indicate desperation to me.

No way to argue quality won't go down if they accept 'artists' whose work is 90% crappola.  It is very clear they want to follow Istock in overinflating their numbers to impress share holders and don't care about quality anymore.  All our stuff gonna be buried under the garbage pile.

I'm surprised they are doing this. I just applied to Alamy and they want 4/4 correct and I got accepted on the first time, I felt pretty good about myself. I can't imagine newbies feeling good about getting accepted with a 1/10 ... No confidence booster there ...

All I can figure is that they somehow think they'll be able to monetize the "learning" process. And now I really find it hard to believe live humans inspect every image. Surely they don't plan to triple their paid review workforce overnight to keep up with the influx of new contributors.

It will end up as an all-you-can-eat buffet of junk food. All the lukewarm day-old French Fries you can eat, for one low price.  I haven't seen that business concept tried yet, but personally, I would not invest. :-).

Does this mean they are going to lower their review standards or why would they let people that can only get 1/10 submit?  Makes no sense to me, it will most likely dilute the earnings of people that can produce good images and they will give up on microstock.  Every time I try to motivate myself to start uploading again, something like this happens that puts me right off.