How can some friends be so fast?

• Your so-called friends are pulling your leg.
• Or they are factories with 20 or more people working on content.
• Or you believe everything you see on the Internet.
• Take outlandish claims with a healthy dose of skepticism.

They have automated most of the process of generating, upscaling, titling and keywording. In other words, they spend little or no time actually inspecting their images for flaws. Since they have automated to a large extent, they do not have a huge investment of their time in the process, so they don't care if 50% or more of them get rejected. By then they are on to the next batch...  Adobe's decision to throttle submissions and implement a weekly limit is no doubt an attempt to get these types of spammers to slow down and focus on quality rather than quantity.

Many are programmers who automate the process and don't bother editing the images, titles or keywords that result from the automated process.

That's an irrelevant question now that adobe has a new policy on number of submissions allowed at a time.

We should all strive for quality.

for whatever is worth to you, I've been here 5 months, have uploaded about 1500 photos... my rejection percentage higher than yours, yet 20-25% of all sales have been from images that were rejected at least once.

And to be precise, a lot of my rejections were justified, and I am better for that!