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Its a subjective game and always a crap shoot for me.  For example,  I had a couple of recent  shoots.  Whittled the 600 pics to about 20.  Cleaned them up and key-worded.  Split those into two folders of somewhat similar subjects so that each submission did not seem to duplicative.  Same Quality, Similar Composition, Same camera, same lenses, similar camera settings.  The first batch was 30% accepted, the second batch 100% accepted.  The only real difference was one was submitted on a weekday and the other on a weekend.

It used to bother me but I think that this is just the nature of microsctock and we need to get over it.   There are lots of reviewers and they have good days and bad days like the rest of us. 

So, 100% approval was on weekday or weekend?  The discrepancy ?

Rejections continue kinda abusive I think... they've changed something.. probably like you said, summer time and all the regular reviewers are on vacation...

new batch and always the same!!
Now they don't accept any pictures with buildings, i've send photos with petronas tower and they say "Contains potential trademark or copyright infringement" !!!!!
Dreamstime accepted 99% of the same batches...
I think stopping uploading to shutter till september.
Nobody talk about that on shutter forum, all they can write is "thanks shutter, it's wonderful" ...  

I agree completely about their paranoia about trademark or copyright infringement. Anything made by man is, of its nature, a design of someone's. The easy way is to make editorial of it, EXCEPT . . . SS doesn't really know or appreciate what editorial is. They think it must be, in their opinion, NEWSWORTHY. So most of the great photojournalism of our time, commenting on social conditions and what have you, would not be accepted. Sorry, Gene Smith, sorry Mary Ellen Mark, your stuff just isn't newsworthy! If you want editorial accepted be sure to shoot sports or a train wreck.