I was just thinking the other day, as I submitted a lot of similar garbage to iStock and it all got rejected with quite good reasons (reviewers went through the keywords, checked if everything was really isolated, and so on), that it must take a lot of time to review images .

So, instead of deactivating images (work for contributors, doesn't do much against them), maybe we should just SPAM them with as many crappy images as we can. I mean, just upload all of the (non-sensitive) photos you have ever taken, keyworded with no effort and incorrectly.

It's no work for us - you just need to import the images and let the upload continue overnight(s). The upload cap is currently 999 images per week, and if a significant amount of contributors decide to spam them at the exact same time, while they don't have time to adjust and enforce the new limits, the queue will grow so long that not only that it will hurt the processing times, but they'll have to hire new reviewers and so on, making their expenses even higher. If the action is coordinated enough and a very high amount of images is submitted, this could make iStock choke.

What do you think? naive or genius? Or none of those things.

Why? So the now-weeklong review process takes even longer?

No, I think they're already choking...that's the problem. I'd like to see them get better as well.

This forum has gotten so poisonous that there are people here that think this would be a good use of their time? 

I'm actually surprised to see the amount of support iStock has even though they take 80-85% of the royalties for non-exclusives. They'll never increase this percentage.

Well, you* get what you deserve.

*not you specifically, it's just a saying

I don't understand what I might gain by putting my time and effort into trying to destroy an agency where I've already put my time and effort into building a portfolio. I may not like a lot of the things they've done but I still want to make money.