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Email I received says

You may notice a change to the amount of content you can submit, and how often. Your submission limit is based on a variety of factors related to your account, performance and approval rates.

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Yeah clear as mud - I upload between 250 and 400 per month video, photography, animation and illustration.  So can I upload 10 per month, 100 - no idea. 

Twitter ended up cancelling monetisation payments to a number of India based accounts because of the spamming.  They were acting as group viewing, liking retweeting each others tweets, tweets were mostly nonsense. 

Not really related but genuine twitter posters saw their earnings reduced.

Twitter ended up cancelling monetisation payments to a number of India based accounts because of the spamming.  They were acting as group viewing, liking retweeting each others tweets, tweets were mostly nonsense. 

Not really related but genuine twitter posters saw their earnings reduced.

Well, that is where most of the spam/theft comes from.

a) They (in general) don't care about quality, so you get the 6-7 fingers, 2 eiffel towers, etc, etc. They just want MONEY MONEY and spam as fast as they can.
b) Not just for photos, etc - doing the same thing on amazon. I'm part of several author groups and you wouldn't believe the amount of crap in general they post - because they want to get rich quick with amazon stuff. Titles like "How to masturb___e better, step by step techniques", or "History of The Florida Eiffel Tower", or just chatgpt spam using prompts like "Write me a 200 page book, complete with pictures, title page, and table of contents, on __subject__". Amazon for the most part seems to be accepting the garbage (they don't care, as long as they get paid) - but if the east indian/arabic spammer gets too extreme, then they deacivate the acct - and usually the east indian/arabic spammers come in crying wondering 'what happened'. Some of them even completely rip of well known company titles say like Disney titles, and try and makei it "Snow White and the Eight Dwarfs" or "Alice in Wonderland Part II", and act all confused why amazon has an issue with blatant copyright violations.

THAT is the group causing the most problems - so - simply limit it to 10 submissions from them. IF they prove they don't steal, take time to make sure there's not 7 fingers, etc - gradually increase it. But right now that's a lot more work than its worth - and most don't usually improve - they just look at a new way to 'spam/scam/steal' in the system.

What concerns me is this "Your submission limit is based on a variety of factors related to your account, performance and approval rates. " Especially the last one when we have all been on the rejection roulette wheel.
Telling us there is going to be a submission limit that is based on an individual "calculation" does not help us plan our workflow without given us our individual information. What exactly do they mean by "performance" as well???
What has my "account" got to do with my uploading ability? We all have "accounts" some upload, some download, some upload and download, some only have software. It is our registration with Adobe .... does that information have bearing on our ability to upload? In other words priority will be given to those who have the newest version of the software and both buy and sell? Clarity is needed or it is just more obfuscating!

Lol - since it seems everyone's "approval" rates were like 20-30%... I'm assuming recent roulette things don't necessarily factor in, because "everyone" would fall into that category...

I suspect Adobe was like "Holy $hit we have a lot of crap submitted in the last few months... Okay - we seriously need to clean up this $hit, and do something about it going forward". I suspect "that" is what the massive rejection rate was all about, esp. because now they have said for new submissions they are going to throttle it a bit based on past performance, etc...

Which probably means people with 5000 pineapple images will no longer be able to spam 5000 pineapples.. or the people who consistently spammed 15 finger pictures now won't be able to continue spamming that - and might actually need to 'edit' images first...

In general I think this is a good development that is way too long in coming. I can understand some sort of dynamic limits too, so they can't say exactly what they are since they are subject to change based on changing variables (like the waiting review list). I can even understand not wanting to say exactly how they are calculated to avoid people gaming the system, but they should at least mention what the thing they have the most issues with and tell contributors to avoid that to avoid harsh limits.

For example - is it vast numbers of poorly made AI images with similar keywords, is it entire series of images that look alike?

In any case I am very unlikely to run into any limitation on the number of images I upload and I'd much prefer a limit to apparently random rejections and or extremely long review wait times.

They really should have a different pipeline for AI, since what you need to review for that is pretty different compared to real photos - you don't need to count fingers on a real photo, you might need to check for digital noise though.

I have a 0% rejection rate lately because I have not uploaded anything since this one picture is being under review for five months now. Until that one is being reviewed I will not upload anything. Shameless amateur losers that cannot get done things correctly, efficient or in a decent way. That's what I think of Adobe. With all the money they have they cannot attract any proper management. It's kind of sad actually. You almost feel sorry for them. Almost eh, not really obviously.