WTF is going on with GlamourFinder?
Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2009 2:12 pm
Does anyone know WTF is going on with that big piece of sh*t site GlamourFinder?
First my lovingly tended, beautifully updated profile gets suspended for two weeks because I send a message to a model I'M ALREADY SHOOTING WITH asking her a question, which apparently "didn't include an offer of a shoot"; and then after being restored, it's deleted together because I'm "too involved in model promotion" - not on the GlamourFinder site itself, but in general.
Are there any photographers who don't do a bit of promotion for the models they shoot with most regularly?
And, more worryingly, isn't it a bit creepy that the site owners are reading all your internal mail, and looking around the internet to see what else you're doing? It would be one thing banning you if they find you're doing nothing - but now they're banning you if they find you're doing something.
And so, another site which used to be halfway OK bites the dust.
So if you're thinking of joining or continuing to use GlamourFinder, remember;
- they read all your mail
- they search for information on you to find out what you're doing
- they make arbitrary rule changes and suspend or delete your profile even (or especially) when you're in the middle of negotiating shoots, which will make you look unreliable.
Let's see if we can get the membership reduced a few tens of percent shall we?
First my lovingly tended, beautifully updated profile gets suspended for two weeks because I send a message to a model I'M ALREADY SHOOTING WITH asking her a question, which apparently "didn't include an offer of a shoot"; and then after being restored, it's deleted together because I'm "too involved in model promotion" - not on the GlamourFinder site itself, but in general.
Are there any photographers who don't do a bit of promotion for the models they shoot with most regularly?
And, more worryingly, isn't it a bit creepy that the site owners are reading all your internal mail, and looking around the internet to see what else you're doing? It would be one thing banning you if they find you're doing nothing - but now they're banning you if they find you're doing something.
And so, another site which used to be halfway OK bites the dust.
So if you're thinking of joining or continuing to use GlamourFinder, remember;
- they read all your mail
- they search for information on you to find out what you're doing
- they make arbitrary rule changes and suspend or delete your profile even (or especially) when you're in the middle of negotiating shoots, which will make you look unreliable.
Let's see if we can get the membership reduced a few tens of percent shall we?