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Microstock Photography Forum - General => Site Related => Topic started by: leaf on September 06, 2012, 14:47
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The gauges are back in place. To get them to show you have to go to your profile settings (http://www.microstockgroup.com/profile/?area=forumprofile) and enter your dreamstime and iStock user names. You can also choose to hide your portfolio links but still show your gauges (like before). Once you enter your user details it may take up to 30 minutes to get your gauges in place as it is run on an automatic update that only gets processed every 15 minutes.
There is also three options to show what your primary media type is.
http://www.microstockgroup.com/profile/?area=forumprofile (http://www.microstockgroup.com/profile/?area=forumprofile)
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Tx, Leaf.
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I have both IS and DT user names entered, but I don't see gauges for my forum posts - I can see your gauges. I had my portfolio links in place from when you updated the site, so unless I need to delete and re-enter them to get the gauges to appear, I'm not sure what I might have missed
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Did you do it more than half an hour ago as they take a while to show? Mine aren't showing yet but I only did them about 20 minutes ago.
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I have both IS and DT user names entered, but I don't see gauges for my forum posts - I can see your gauges. I had my portfolio links in place from when you updated the site, so unless I need to delete and re-enter them to get the gauges to appear, I'm not sure what I might have missed
They are showing now.. as you can probably see.
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Thanks, Will the other sites have dials or just these two?
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Thanks, Will the other sites have dials or just these two?
Presumably just these two, as the other sites don't show downloads.
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Didn't there used to be a fotolia one?
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Didn't there used to be a fotolia one?
no, one member made his own dials ant put it in his profile pic so it looks like he had more (I always forget who that was/is) .. or was it you :D ?
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Cool!
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Didn't there used to be a fotolia one?
no, one member made his own dials ant put it in his profile pic so it looks like he had more (I always forget who that was/is) .. or was it you :D ?
LOL no not me but I remember seeing it and wondering how it was done. :)
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Wow!?
How it is possible that my gauge from IS is at 2 o'clock now :o and last or two months before was between 10 and 11 o'clock slightly bigger than DT!? And I dont have any major peeks in sales there. (maybe only I have record months of 8 and 10 cent sales there)
I dont know how you script calculate this ratio btw DT and IS.
I can only tell that IS earns only 7% more than DT in my case for all time, which is not visible now in this gauge settings. From this readings looks that IS in my case earned 1.5-1,7 or more factor more than DT and that isnt true even in rough approximation.
Something is definitely wrong with new gauges.
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It's getting better and better, Leaf! I do miss the DT and IS ranking, though :)
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Wow!?
How it is possible that my gauge from IS is at 2 o'clock now :o and last or two months before was between 10 and 11 o'clock slightly bigger than DT!?
Oh, you've got a point. We all seem to be at 2 o'clock in this thread for example, and I know I'm way behind JoAnne and Leaf, for sure; and maybe the others too.
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Maybe o'Leaf invented some kind of "dynamic gauge" which are changed at every post depending which MS big/bigger dog answering at post ;D
Something like SS is no at 100% anymore.
Or when we little fishes jabbering here in this thread we have gauge near max, but if some big fish come here with his post our gauge will automatically/dinamically shrink down where we lets say belongs ;D
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thanks for the heads up on the speed dial error. The stats are being collected corect, I was just calculating the dial incorrectly. Everyone's dials should be updated properly soon.
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perfect! I can't think of anything to make it better now, thanks.
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Gauges / dials mean nothing!
There is a certain someone with over 10,000 images that are cheesy and yet there are some people with far less than 1,000 or in some cases less than 500 images that blow the 10,000 away!
So what does it prove other then having bragging rights about how many more you have than someone else?
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Gauges / dials mean nothing!
There is a certain someone with over 10,000 images that are cheesy and yet there are some people with far less than 1,000 or in some cases less than 500 images that blow the 10,000 away!
So what does it prove other then having bragging rights about how many more you have than someone else?
Tells me that I got started too late. It will take me another 7-10 years to get there. I'm not sure I have that many years left. :P
Oh... and it tells me that someone is really serious about this. :-X
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I guess it would need a mixture of dls, number of files and time uploading although even that wouldn't be accurate as somebody could have opened and account 5 years ago and not uploaded until recently and visa versa.
What are the levels needed to get to the top end of the dials? Maybe the dial limits need to be higher now that so many people are reaching the maximum.
ETA where's my IS dial gone? It was there this morning
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I guess it would need a mixture of dls, number of files and time uploading although even that wouldn't be accurate as somebody could have opened and account 5 years ago and not uploaded until recently and visa versa.
What are the levels needed to get to the top end of the dials? Maybe the dial limits need to be higher now that so many people are reaching the maximum.
ETA where's my IS dial gone? It was there this morning
Gauges / dials mean nothing!
There is a certain someone with over 10,000 images that are cheesy and yet there are some people with far less than 1,000 or in some cases less than 500 images that blow the 10,000 away!
So what does it prove other then having bragging rights about how many more you have than someone else?
The dials are an addition of portfolio size and sales. If someone has a port of 1,000 and great sales they will have a nice gauge. Knowledge is gained from both creating content and selling it and the gauges can reflect that. Obviously you still need some common sense when evaluating what someone says but it is at least a pointer in the right direction.
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I guess it would need a mixture of dls, number of files and time uploading although even that wouldn't be accurate as somebody could have opened and account 5 years ago and not uploaded until recently and visa versa.
What are the levels needed to get to the top end of the dials? Maybe the dial limits need to be higher now that so many people are reaching the maximum.
ETA where's my IS dial gone? It was there this morning
Since iStock is down lots today it is getting a reading of nothing.. so your gauge disappears.
The top gauge level is 25,000 (sales+files). I could raise the levels but that would make the in between steps so large. Anyone with 25,000 combined stats has been around a while or has been around short and really managed to figure things out quickly.
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I guess it would need a mixture of dls, number of files and time uploading although even that wouldn't be accurate as somebody could have opened and account 5 years ago and not uploaded until recently and visa versa.
What are the levels needed to get to the top end of the dials? Maybe the dial limits need to be higher now that so many people are reaching the maximum.
ETA where's my IS dial gone? It was there this morning
Since iStock is down lots today it is getting a reading of nothing.. so your gauge disappears.
The top gauge level is 25,000 (sales+files). I could raise the levels but that would make the in between steps so large. Anyone with 25,000 combined stats has been around a while or has been around short and really managed to figure things out quickly.
It's back now :)
I had forgotten that port size was figured into it and thought that it was justs dls. It would be impossible to get a real reading whatever you decided to do. The dials mean either that the person is getting a lot of images approved or a lot of sales or both so it shows that the person takes stock seriously which is exactly the point of having them.
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The top gauge level is 25,000 (sales+files).
I am far from 25,000 sales + files, so why is my gauge pegged almost all the way to the right? Before the recent update, it was just entering the yellow area on the left side.
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The top gauge level is 25,000 (sales+files).
I am far from 25,000 sales + files, so why is my gauge pegged almost all the way to the right? Before the recent update, it was just entering the yellow area on the left side.
I think that was an error in the code from before. Your stats just weren't up to date. It's fixed now.
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It's fixed now.
Oh, darn. ;D
Thanks, Tyler.
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Mine still missing. Maybe "gauge minimum value" is too high? ;D
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There is also three options to show what your primary media type is.
[url]http://www.microstockgroup.com/profile/?area=forumprofile[/url] ([url]http://www.microstockgroup.com/profile/?area=forumprofile[/url])
You might consider adding a little mouse over text to the three icons. I was not sure what they meant and could not find the answer :-)
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There is also three options to show what your primary media type is.
[url]http://www.microstockgroup.com/profile/?area=forumprofile[/url] ([url]http://www.microstockgroup.com/profile/?area=forumprofile[/url])
You might consider adding a little mouse over text to the three icons. I was not sure what they meant and could not find the answer :-)
you're right. fixed.
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Great to have the gauges and portfolio links back. Thanks! None of the links to 123RF seem to work -you just get a wikipedia article on Link Rot. Also, any plans to add more portfolio links like before -Veer, Cutcaster, Yay etc? Regards, David.
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Great to have the gauges and portfolio links back. Thanks! None of the links to 123RF seem to work -you just get a wikipedia article on Link Rot.
fixed
Also, any plans to add more portfolio links like before -Veer, Cutcaster, Yay etc? Regards, David.
If people want them I will. Are you saying you want them?
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Thanks for the fix! And, yes, I'd like more portfolio link options. Regards, David.
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Thanks for the fix! And, yes, I'd like more portfolio link options. Regards, David.
Ok. I've added Veer, Yay, Cutcaster and PhotoDune
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I like the media type icons, but it does make me feel grossly outnumbered here. :)
Although I did get my first photo accepted at a bunch of sites recently, so maybe if I keep it up I'll feel comfortable adding that photo icon eventually. Someday. Maybe. :)
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Thanks for the fix! And, yes, I'd like more portfolio link options. Regards, David.
Ok. I've added Veer, Yay, Cutcaster and PhotoDune
Thanks again for the quick work! Now what am I doing wrong with the Cutcaster link? It just takes you to the whole site and not my port. I used the 10 digit number sequence at the end of my referral code, which I assume is my UserID number there. I only just added it a few minutes ago -does it take a while to work properly? Regards, David.
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Thanks for the fix! And, yes, I'd like more portfolio link options. Regards, David.
Ok. I've added Veer, Yay, Cutcaster and PhotoDune
Thanks again for the quick work! Now what am I doing wrong with the Cutcaster link? It just takes you to the whole site and not my port. I used the 10 digit number sequence at the end of my referral code, which I assume is my UserID number there. I only just added it a few minutes ago -does it take a while to work properly? Regards, David.
If you view your portfolio (find a link inside cutcaster) it will say in the URL seller=XXXX
for you it says seller=2589
that's your number
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Thanks very much. All sorted now. Regards, david.
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Ok so I updated mine, does it mean anything?
No!
And you're still missing quite a few agencies.
IS pfffttttt~~~~~~~~~
Photodune~~~~~~~ please compress an already compressed file for uploading??????? Say what and no # insignia allowed in the title??? It's not! They have some chity rules.
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I like the media type icons, but it does make me feel grossly outnumbered here. :)
Although I did get my first photo accepted at a bunch of sites recently, so maybe if I keep it up I'll feel comfortable adding that photo icon eventually. Someday. Maybe. :)
You feel outnumbered?? ;D I can't honestly use the illustrator icon as it implies some ability to draw and I don't use a camera (for stock) and the sites aren't even consistent when it comes to 3D - maybe time to move ahead and introduce another silo?
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Gauges / dials mean nothing!
There is a certain someone with over 10,000 images that are cheesy and yet there are some people with far less than 1,000 or in some cases less than 500 images that blow the 10,000 away!
So what does it prove other then having bragging rights about how many more you have than someone else?
You would say that ;)
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Does shutterstock have a gauge? If so, mine doesn't show up. Also, where do I check to say I want the gauges to show, or do they show automatically when I enter a portfolio number?
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Gauges / dials mean nothing!
There is a certain someone with over 10,000 images that are cheesy and yet there are some people with far less than 1,000 or in some cases less than 500 images that blow the 10,000 away!
So what does it prove other then having bragging rights about how many more you have than someone else?
You would say that ;)
Thought the dials represented sales not port size?
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just noticed it today :)
thanks !
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Does shutterstock have a gauge? If so, mine doesn't show up. Also, where do I check to say I want the gauges to show, or do they show automatically when I enter a portfolio number?
No dials for Shutterstock as they don't publish sales stats.
The dials are calculated like this: Portsize+sales in a percentage of 25,000
so if port+sales is greater than 25,000 then your gauge will be at full speed
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Does shutterstock have a gauge? If so, mine doesn't show up. Also, where do I check to say I want the gauges to show, or do they show automatically when I enter a portfolio number?
No dials for Shutterstock as they don't publish sales stats.
The dials are calculated like this: Portsize+sales in a percentage of 25,000
so if port+sales is greater than 25,000 then your gauge will be at full speed
I think someone asked that earlier, I just spaced out, I remember you answering that already. Sorry.
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I was wondering, what are the lower and upper limits of the gauges? How is it divided?
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I was wondering, what are the lower and upper limits of the gauges? How is it divided?
Sell a few more licenses and you'll find out! I think the IS gauge goes full-scale at about 15K and the DT gauge something less than that.
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I was wondering, what are the lower and upper limits of the gauges? How is it divided?
Sell a few more licenses and you'll find out! I think the IS gauge goes full-scale at about 15K and the DT gauge something less than that.
I thought that it was 25000 for IS and 15000 for Dt.