From the iStock forums:

Posted By lostinbids:
"I think what seems a bit fishy to me is that out of the c95000 exclusive photos accepted in the last month only 231 have been made S+ (and over 75% of those accepted as S+ are from one contributor!)."

Posted By fotoVoyager:
"How do you know those figures?"

Posted By lostinbids:
"Go to the istockphoto home page, under browse click latest uploads, then scroll down to 'more attributes', expand that and check 'exclusive files', scroll up and check 'photos'. Then you can use the price slider to see the number of files in each collection."]"Go to the istockphoto home page, under browse click latest uploads, then scroll down to 'more attributes', expand that and check 'exclusive files', scroll up and check 'photos'. Then you can use the price slider to see the number of files in each collection."

http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=354349&messageid=6920094

Ha, well on my latest version of FF/Win, the search modifiers don't work at all. Here's a screenshot of the top of p3 (200 per page). You can see I've chosen photos, exclusive, and ���.
A whole batch of indie files (�, not ���), and vectors are mixed in (have they removed the vector icon etc from searches? I didn't notice that before).

On Safari it works exactly as described in the forum 231 photos, a lot of which happen to be from the same contributor, who happens to be an Inspector.. 

I can see a lot from that inspector on page 1, but indie, vectors, and S files are mixed in even though I have selected the indicators as shown.
Don't they QC on Firefox (v22)?

The whole S+ thing and what it takes to move an image from S to S+ (or upwards between any of the levels for that matter) is completely undefined whether it's on inspection or sometime down the road based on performance. My guess is that iS hasn't really defined this for themselves yet. It's a big problem for contributors going forward as many peoples current income level has a lot to do with where their files sit collection-wise.

Quote from: Ploink on July 27, 2013, 07:49

On Safari it works exactly as described in the forum 231 photos, a lot of which happen to be from the same contributor, who happens to be an Inspector.. 

How do you know he is an inspector?

Click on the contributor name, you'll see a whole row of batches, one of which happens to be an "I"...

Quote from: Ploink on July 27, 2013, 07:49

On Safari it works exactly as described in the forum 231 photos, a lot of which happen to be from the same contributor, who happens to be an Inspector.. 

How do you know he is an inspector?

because iStock has cute icons on our profile's that were supposed to be gone by now, again and as usual it is taking more time than expected

Take a look at one admin's portfolio, about 95% are 'Editors Pick'.

Quote from: ShadySue on July 27, 2013, 08:09

Quote from: Ploink on July 27, 2013, 07:49

On Safari it works exactly as described in the forum 231 photos, a lot of which happen to be from the same contributor, who happens to be an Inspector.. 

I can see a lot from that inspector on page 1, but indie, vectors, and S files are mixed in even though I have selected the indicators as shown.
Don't they QC on Firefox (v22)?

I am using Firefox v22 on Win7x64 and it works fine.

I'm on FFv22; Win7x64.
Wonder why my results are so different/wrong?

 Oh, h*ll, it's universal.
I tried with IE v10.0.9.
Even worse, just sorting the latest uploads by photos gave zero results:


So then I tried Chrome v28.0.1, and only chose ���, zero results:


Have I suddenly forgotten how to search?

What do inspectors do now that everything is accepted?