General questions

1) Can you get banned for low approval rate? If yes is there any warning beforehand given to the contributor or is there any fixed percentage number that automatically makes you banned if you rejecton rate goes above X%?

 

By @Arcan92

There is no automatic banning and accounts get suspended without notice. I suppose that many people having many rejections over a longer time have many additional issues. In general, you should see a lower number of rejections after having learned by prior rejections. 

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@Arcan92 wrote:

 

2) About submitting similar images - I know for a fact that this can get you banned but what I am not sure about is:

-If for example I have three different pictures of a beekeeper in work, they are really different. Different poses, camera angles etc. and I upload them under EXACTLY the same title and keywords, could it be considered a spam?

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You don't get banned for having 4 similar assets. You get banned if you "massively" and "systematically" submit similar pictures. 

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@Arcan92 wrote:

 

-In the submitting guidelines they recommend to not upload more than 3 variations of the same image, but I was wondering if for example someone is uploading for years and his upload goes in ten of thousands it is really easy to forget what is in your portfolio and in the end you can end up uploading way more than 3 of similar images, for example you upload some 5 years ago, then you forget and you uploaded another batch of similar images. Does anyone have any knowgledge on that specific case?

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You should not upload batches of similar assets. Period. Best is to keep some trace of what you uploaded and what you did not upload. How you do that is your issue. 

You won't get banned for two or three similar assets, uploaded in a 5 years period. Adobe won't even see. Accounts that get banned have probably easily to spot violations, or get many customer complaints. Reading the guidelines and conforming is the most important thing you can do to avoid getting banned. You also should consider, that some rules are moving. Sometimes changes occur and you should be aware of those changes by regularily visiting the guidelines and following Adobe's blog posts on stock.