That's why you don't go as drastic as a year...3 years is more than enough time for any image to find at least one sale. Most people are not self-editing, just search for a past year such as 2005 and you will find calendars, New Years images, e [Leggi di più...] inviato in Automatically delete images

That's why you don't go as drastic as a year...3 years is more than enough time for any image to find at least one sale. Most people are not self-editing, just search for a past year such as 2005 and you will find calendars, New Years images, etc. that are also still on the site. At the rate that new images added to Dreamstime is growing, The number of images to wade through in a search is becoming prohibitive...customers only have limited attention spans, they will not look through every image. I don't think weeding out 3+ year-old unsold images is bad for business...it just makes sense. posted in Automatically delete images

I think this is a very timely idea...at some point it has to be considered. Dreamstime has been online for over four years now. Why not start with a conservative time frame, let's say 3 years. An image that hasn't had a download in 3 years is w [Leggi di più...] inviato in Automatically delete images

I think this is a very timely idea...at some point it has to be considered. Dreamstime has been online for over four years now. Why not start with a conservative time frame, let's say 3 years. An image that hasn't had a download in 3 years is wasting space that could be better served. I know there will be some who absolutely don't want this to happen, but you have to look at the bigger picture...maintaining the quality and integrity of the site as a whole benefits everyone. This kind of maintenance is routine at other popular stock sites and I'm sure is not even up for debate with their contributors. posted in Automatically delete images

A couple of milestones I just have to celebrate this week...three full years here, my 10,000th download and 590 images online, hopefully 600 soon! Not exactly sure which image was my 10,000th download, but believe it's one of these two...both are ap [Leggi di più...] inviato in Congratulations, first-file approvals, achievements and everything related goes here!

A couple of milestones I just have to celebrate this week...three full years here, my 10,000th download and 590 images online, hopefully 600 soon! Not exactly sure which image was my 10,000th download, but believe it's one of these two...both are appropriate, a tux to celebrate and a winding road with a bright future ;-)   posted in Congratulations, first-file approvals, achievements and everything related goes here!