Quote from: idesign on January 30, 2016, 20:44

Quote from: Copidosoma on January 29, 2016, 23:52

Here's another one (from the US).

 

http://www.shutterstock.com/portfolio/search.mhtml?gallery_landing=1&gallery_id=395407&page=1&safesearch=1&sort_method=newest

The spammer way to work, was not successful in Dreamstime 
http://www.dreamstime.com/justcause_info

Why was he banned from this forum? I think I missed that. Not mourning his loss, just curious

i don't know why he was banned from dst because i gave up on them a while back.
but i suspect it has a lot to do with dst going the other extreme with similars.

on one end of the spectrum, dst went berserk that two similars is way too much , and will reject image 3 to 3million.
on the other end is ss with some special no limit no reviewer checkpoint to stop any similars of marijuana and simple vectors of certain "elites" of mass-production

meanwhile, conscientious hardline contributors who produce non-similars and non-simple non-LCV images are constantly being screened at the checkpoint with atilla in the "immigration-booth".

go figure the sense of this. perharps, maybe not so ridiculous as it is the same when you drive through border, where innocent travellers are searched thoroughly while certain winnebagos and container ships which most likely store hidden contraband of goods and people,etc are wave to pass through without stopping.

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This is the most intresting:
http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-3026732p1.html
He started 2015 and, have 76 000 icon? Why?

76,000 on Dec 3 and 94,000 five weeks later.  Super productive!

102,853

Find myself getting all teary-eyed about the old LCV* days


*Limited Commercial Value

Another one: http://www.shutterstock.com/portfolio/search.mhtml?gallery_landing=1&gallery_id=3886493&page=1&safesearch=1&sort_method=newest
Added 5732 per week!

Also added to Alamy
http://www.alamy.com/search/imageresults.aspx?pseudoid=%7b369A18A5-1B48-4983-B598-751FEE00CC2C%7d&name=hwang+donghyun&st=11&mode=0&comp=1

Every city in the world

http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-3906626p2.html

I guess I could see where that could be useful...

By going through all these spammers ports, it looks like the SS review team is blind in these cases. They thoroughly examine all our photos and sometimes rejects amazing images. Why their vision is vanished while passing this crap???

Quote from: Sean Locke Photography on March 29, 2016, 06:45

Quote from: Dumc on March 29, 2016, 06:40

Every city in the world

http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-3906626p2.html

I guess I could see where that could be useful...

Although whether its worth the investment of time I doubt (as well as its brain numbing effect)

I had ones like that rejected (years ago) because I was told the Rand McNally maps are copyrighted. I wasn't exactly copying the whole map book and trying to sell every page, so not sure why they were rejected, but it appears as though that doesn't matter anymore. Some of those in that port look like RandMc maps.

 SS is just uploading these huge ports without looking at them, and doesn't care if they break the TOS. I think the goal is to pay out the lowest possible royalty rate by flooding the site with new images from factories that are still getting 25 cents. The investors probably want to see bigger profit Margins, hence the slashing of extended license payout amounts and the appearance of zillions of new images made possible by uploading huge ports and lowering entrance standards.

F*ck knows why I've bothered to learn how to draw again though.

SS is clearly reaching out to image factories and offering to upload all their images for them. (I've noticed a new trend at SS: When I do have images that catch on, they sell well for about a week and then suddenly stop. When I search for them, I see that my images and those of popular "older" contributors have been pushed off the front page by a flood of simple icon-like vectors from contributors who joined in 2015.)

Correct.

Quote from: Shelma1 on March 29, 2016, 11:02

SS is clearly reaching out to image factories and offering to upload all their images for them. (I've noticed a new trend at SS: When I do have images that catch on, they sell well for about a week and then suddenly stop. When I search for them, I see that my images and those of popular "older" contributors have been pushed off the front page by a flood of simple icon-like vectors from contributors who joined in 2015.)

I don't think this one has been mentioned before - over 34,000 near duplicates

http://www.shutterstock.com/portfolio/search.mhtml?gallery_id=2223479&page=1&safesearch=1&sort_method=newest

SS is now at 81,122,094 total - what metric for which investor is driving this bizarre pollution?

Clearly, not all artists are created equal. Shouldn't those all be combined into one file?  (similar policy)

I don't think this one has been mentioned before - over 34,000 near duplicates

http://www.shutterstock.com/portfolio/search.mhtml?gallery_id=2223479&page=1&safesearch=1&sort_method=newest

SS is now at 81,122,094 total - what metric for which investor is driving this bizarre pollution?

I would think that the Microsoft Windows logo would be copyrighted.  Row 14, 4th icon set from the left.  Meanwhile, mine get rejected for even a blurred hint of a single letter than I failed to clone out.