Personally I'm ready to give anyone 50% of the selling price who sells my art.

50% would be way too much for the network situation.  As well as producing the images, you have the hard cost of web storage and bandwidth, as well as the soft costs of keywording etc.,

50%? Why bother you in symbiostock or with a website? At  this point sell with the agencies. When you pay equipment, host, keywording time, promoting your site, what you get? Sincerely is the worst business plan heard in symbiostock section.

LOL I guess we were due for a negative comment eventually. Symbiostock will never be taking commissions btw. But if I hadn't downloaded my own image from a  google app for free (thanks for tipping us off sjlocke) Symbiostock would not exist. So its going to pay to have a life-raft as sjlocke scenerios continue to inevitably become more commonplace-because they will. You can't tame an animal meant to be wild. The biggest corporations will always do this, because that is what they are made to do, and its what they must do. Its not even a rational issue, its simply an internal law which can't be over-ridden.

This subject tends to be hugely subjective, so I haven't said much, but my biggest payout comes from clipartof.com, and they upload anything you give them. What happens is quite simple: the customer makes a choice to buy or doesn't.

Also people have been so mesmerized by the "best match" theories they have of some of the bigger agencies they've overlooked some simple issues of supply and demand. Believe it or not search engines like flickr and google can actually accurately project which images are "interesting" or not. And there are more than one way to get found on them. Give yourself a few years "going it alone" and you'll be surprised how how you see things looking back.

I fully expect to be throttled for saying this I guess I got a bit of my dad in me. If the sky is blue I still have enough youth in me to admit it in public.

The difference is instead of agency reversing your sale on the item, you would reverse the sale. You can take precautions, but nobody is really safe from hacking or other sorts of fraud. Its just one of those issues in pirate infested waters (internet) you have to deal with.

Well I certainly appreciate people care enough to bring it up. I made it a personal decisions not to dictate license or style, or pretty much anything early on. So truly this is left to our budding community to figure out. I hope Symbiostock ends up being a sandbox where people build some pretty darn beautiful castles. All the complicated stuff aside, I'm just a kid playing in my lego pile with the added complexity that I have to monetize it.

What about ...

Way too much worries about stuff that might or might not happen. Far too early for me. I need all my worry energy getting my site up and running. 

Im convinced some sort of "whats get in"  has to be set , now or later...

What gets into my website is whatever I choose. If people want to buy, they'll buy. If my stuff sucks, my sales should reflect that. You can choose not to network with me. Again, the choice is in the individual's hands.

Besides, who would make decisions about "what gets in"? It is impossible to police any and every one who downloads this software to sell whatever they wish on their own sites.

This is the point farbled. We can think us not as all in a big ship, but as many small ship connected ready to help to reach a common goal. Some of these ship are more near (network) others are more distant and maybe want to follow a different route. In future I think what matters is that I'm ready to help near and far ship, because I believe in the symbiostock system, but the route that I follow is my choyce. So if someone in a network put in some images on wich I don't agree I'm free to leave the network. That's all. If the network is poor in content, fail; if not, it means simply that it is following another route. What we need care is the choice of the network member and the right way to promote the sites and the system to reach more ships and fellow (better member of our network).
When symbiostock will be ready, the most important thing will make it known. A network, without traffic fail it doesn't matter if it is good or bad; so first reach the traffic after the buyer and the people  judge which of these networks are good and which are not.

The first point is that if you don't like someone's images that is in your network, you don't have to leave the whole symbiostock network, you just don't network with that one person. I am certain there will be many more that you can choose from, one who's photos you do approve of.

Second, one of the beauties of the network is the SEO advantage. Hopefully, the bigger the network grows, the more traffic we will see and the higher in the searches we will appear.

I think we are saying the same thing...

I think we are saying the same thing...

Yes we are saying the same thing... but probably my poor english is difficult to understand.


no worries. You are bilingual, I am not (except for a few dirty phrases in Spanish and the pledge of allegiance in French.) I am no one to criticize.