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Sorry if this subject was already raised dozen of times (thought I still can't find answer) but it seems something has changed.

Lately my submission limit in Dreamstime has dropped to 12 photos a week. I'm in a 30%-50% acceptance ratio section. That means I have 1/3 of the MAXIMUM AMOUNT of photos to submit each week. Now my question is what is this magical maximum amount? I can't find it anywhere in the Dreamstime faq. And it's quite frustrating not to know because it's quite important number.

you can find that on the main page of Dreamstime, then look above on the right News and Announcements

March 18, 2011 (09:11)
Contributors: The upload limit has been decreased to 5 submissions/day (35/week). Such measure was taken in order to limit the massive number of similar and identical uploads. We kindly ask you to be more selective with your uploads. - posted by Tangie

The wording of 5/day is a bit misleading.  I think they must just mean 5/day in the sense of 35/week - I have had no trouble uploading more than 5 a day as long as I'm under the 35/week.

As for why, they are trying to force contributors to prune their submissions, with the stated goal of reducing similar images.  There is a lot of discussion around this, on the DT boards and here, and it isn't as simple as it first sounds.  DT doesn't have a strict policy, and you can see that there are some types of similars that they seem to encourage (i.e. facial expressions and poses) and other that they want you to combine into sets (i.e. illustrations of balls).