Curious of the Revieew Process

[steveeyes]

I'm curious if anyone knows about the review process works?

First off, not sure what they call them. Reviewers? Evaluators? Moderators, Or another name? I'll call them Reviewers.

Is it just one person or several people who review your images? If it is more than one, do you know how many.

If it is one person reviewing your images, do they rotate the Reviewers? Or, is a group of contributors assigned to a permanent Reviewer?

It must be a tough job. Over time, they made me a better contributor, or at least I like to think they have.

[photorebelle]

At Adobe Stock, reviewers are called moderators. They are image professionals who are perfectly familiar with technical, artistic, and also legal criteria. ( copyright and others )
They have to review hundreds of files every day while being accurate and consistent to meet the platform's high standards.
It's a very, very demanding job.

[steveeyes]

Oh, I'm not disputing at all that their job must be tough. I said that in the end of my comment above. I'm curious of how it all works. I worked on the IG team when I was in the military. It was not the most exciting work, but necessary.  I imagine the necessity is just as prominent here. Not sure if the other questions I ask are pertinent, but I wanted to have an idea of how it works.

[daniellei4510]

We have no clear idea the moderation system works, but it can safely be said that only one reviewer moderates a given batch of images (unless, I suppose, they are in the learning process and need to ask a supervisor). But ordinarily, a moderator has only seconds to review an image and accept or reject it. Moderators are employed world-wide. 

[Jill_C]

Adobe Moderators approve more than a million images per day, which means that they're actually reviewing considerably more than that. While no one in the Contributor community knows the internal procedures, we can be certain that a single Moderator is not assigned to your assets. Assets are segregated by file type, and allocated to each Moderator's queues based on their training and capabilities. For instance, there are probably certain Moderators that check vectors, others assigned to videos, and probably most all Moderstors assigned to Generative AI, since 80-90% of the assets added to the database each week are AI. Based on my assumptions regarding how long they spend evaluating each image, I estimate that Adobe currently employs >400 Moderators.

[steveeyes]

Some that post here on the forum are probably qualified to be moderators.  I wonder if the burn-out rate is high. I know my 70 years plus old eyes couldn't handle it.

 There were certain military jobs with high burn out rates, so usually a year was all you could tolerate. Unless you were mission essential, then you had to hang in there no matter how burnt out you were.

I'm here to try to see if my brain can still learn something new. If I make some money along the way, so be it. Keeping myself busy before the later years have swallowed me, is my mantra, despite my aging eyes.

Thanks for the info.

[Jill_C]

I think that reviewing is outsourced to workers in a foreign country where labor costs are low. Adobe HQ is located here in San Jose, California, and they're definitely not paying Silicon Valley labor rates for this work! Maybe it's a false assumption on my part, but I believe such workers are grateful to have a reliable, safe desk job; however, the tedium of staring at a computer monitor for many hours a day with the need to maintain a fast pace of reviews could definitely lead to burnout.

[Abambo]

I think that reviewing is outsourced to workers in a foreign country where labor costs are low. Adobe HQ is located here in San Jose, California, and they're definitely not paying Silicon Valley labor rates for this work!

By @Jill_C

I can't imagine that too.

[Abambo]

Some that post here on the forum are probably qualified to be moderators. 

By @steveeyes

But none that you find here are moderators.

[Abambo]

There is no official job description for moderators, so it is not obvious how this works. But from information that we got over the years, there seems to be queues for different assets and assets may be reviewed by different moderators. But I suppose that the standard asset is reviewed only by one moderator.

There is no indication that you are “assigned” to a specific moderator. I suspect that moderators simply request the next asset from the queue. And they know nothing about the creator, except, probably, that the new asset is compared to your prior submissions automatically. As a moderator has very little time to decide on acceptance or refusal, they could not work effectively otherwise.

And yes, I would consider this a tough job that most likely is not too well paid.