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I would like to understand the reason for the rejection of an image by the moderator

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
March 21, 2025
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I uploaded an image of a lion lying with a cub to a stock site, and it was accepted into the collection. Later, I uploaded another image of just the lion's face from a different angle, and it was rejected by the moderator with the reason 'Similar Image(s) Already Submitted.' I don't understand why these images are considered similar (I don't have more lions in my portfolio). This is just one of many examples of my images being rejected for this reason recently. The issue started about a week ago and is only getting worse (more are being rejected than accepted). I'm in a panic! I don't understand what's going on! I'm a beginner neuro-artist with a very small portfolio (339 images), and the number of rejected works (as similars) has increased sharply. I'm even afraid to upload anything now for fear of lowering my rating even further. Please help with advice!

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Nancy OShea

Community Expert

Did you compare & contrast your work with current Stock inventory?

Yours are not much different from what Stock is selling now.

https://stock.adobe.com/search?k=lion

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

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Helen4572Author

Participant

I didn't find anything exactly similar, but maybe I didn't look enough—there are so many diverse images of lions, but aren't the similars supposed to be determined among the images I uploaded? Why should they be compared with someone else's? It's physically impossible to search for similar images already uploaded by someone else on the stock before uploading each picture... Or am I wrong?

Abambo

Community Expert

Normally, assets are checked against your account. In very crowded topics, like flower pictures, sunrises etc. you may also experience this error. It may also be that Adobe is using a new tool and that is still in need of finetuning, as an increasingly high number of reports are posted here now.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

Abambo

Community Expert

Looks like a pattern. It's an erronous action by Adobe, a bug in the system.

The good news is that a refusal has no influence on your rating. I would, however, recommend contacting contributor support. As I do not recommend contacting contributor support for a specific refusal, I think it would be worth, if many contributors complain about similar refusals that are not similar.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

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Helen4572Author

Participant

Did I understand you correctly that images rejected with the reason 'Similar Image(s) Already Submitted' do not affect the overall rejection rate? I'm just afraid that with the rate of rejections that has developed over the past week, it's not far from being banned due to non-compliance with standards.

Abambo

Community Expert

No, that's not what I'm saying. What I'm saying is that there is no rating based on the refusal rate. It should still be easy to stay under a refusal rate of 50%. 50% is not an official limit, but was once used, together with other parameters, to influence the bonus allocation.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

daniellei4510

Community Expert

You're not alone when it comes to the "similars" rejections.

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