Am I the only one with a limit of 501 uploaded images?

[OleksandrJolly]

Maybe I didn't look hard enough to find the answer to my question, but I'm exhausted, maybe someone knows something?

[Jill_C]

All Contributors now have upload limits, some as low as 50, and some much higher. The reasons for the different limits have not been revealed by Adobe, but are perhaps related to how long the contributor account has existed, past sales, and the rejection rate. 

[Abambo · Accepted solution]

New contributors have a limit of 51. The most I've heard about is a waiting queue of 3000. It's a floating parameter, and it's individualized.

[Nancy OShea]

"Am I the only one with a limit of 501 uploaded images?"

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Maybe yes. Why does it matter?

Focus more on quality & less on quantity.

When your limit is reached, work on other projects while you wait for review.

[daniellei4510]

No. Abambo is correct. Everyone's is different, depending, I assume, on when you joined or on how many images you had under review when the limitation was put into affect.

[Nancy OShea]

No. Abambo is correct. Everyone's is different...

By @daniellei4510

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We don't know that.  501 limit might be common or it might not. Either way, it's irrelevant. 

Limits change over time based on one's acceptance rate, sales history and other factors.

[daniellei4510]

I'm at 501. Like the jeans. 🙂 My theory is thus: If someone becomes a new contributor, they start with 51. If one had, say, 400+ images, their limit is set at 501, 900+ images 1001, etc. Adobe would not impose limits and then delete images if one was over a given limit. So if I had 560 images, for example, they wouldn't delete 59 of my images but instead they would set my limit higher accordingly.

[Nancy OShea]

Theories shmeries. If Adobe's limit algorithm was published, we'd post a link to it. But it's not so we don't know what it is.

Until fairly recently, most Contributors exercised self-restraint & didn't flood Stock with hundreds or thousands of submissions at once. When that changed, submission limits were imposed to prevent a system overload.

Contributors did this to themselves.

[Abambo]

@Nancy OShea ,

You are correct, that Adobe does not publish their secret formula to limit uploads. We only know from reports, that new contributors have a limit of 51. We also know from user claims that they have 3000. And we know from Adobe, that the parameter is variable. That's it.

And yes, generative AI allowed for contributors to submit massively 3-handed Santas. And that clogged the system. And so, Adobe introduced the limit. A fairly logical reaction. For me they could have set the limit generally to 51, and the waiting time would be by now at a few days again.

[Abambo]

Adobe would not impose limits and then delete images if one was over a given limit. 

By @daniellei4510

Adobe could set the limit to 51 and then let the contributors wait until they hit that limit from the 10,000 they had waiting for moderation. They could also simply moderate 10 assets from a contributor, and then move on to the next one. Until all contributors got either 10 assets moderated and then come back to the first one, to moderate the next 10 assets. It even may be that they are doing something like this.

(All here is simply and purely speculation, we only know from reports, that some contributors have a submission limit of 501 assets, some have one of 51 and others of 3001!)