Does Pond5 still accepts SFX? 2500 files got rejected?!?!?!?!

Hey guys! Some of you know me, some don't, my name is Mirko Pernjakovic aka Mirkic. I do mostly sound recordings and generated sound effects. I was a long time IS exclusive and then went indie. After a while I got back to IS but just to found out that I cannot feed my family with income from there only. Anyways, I started chatting about recent talk on the web about Pond5 blanket rejections and nice lady from support explained to me that a reviewer cannot go through the 90% of crap material just to find 10% that he can accept so if they see several files that are "off" they reject the whole batch. I was ok with that cause I have a quality port, at least that's what I think. I uploaded my whole portfolio (9600 files) and submitted the first batch of 2400, just to get the machine running. After two days, the whole batch got rejected!!! I thought it may be the whooshes (I started doing a lot of whooshes lately and they are 1 to 5 seconds long, they tend to sound repetitive and boring after a while but they sell) or something that I did wrong, Checked everything, it was ok. Then I sent several emails and I didn't get any response from Pond5 team. Usually I get an email after hour or two. I then deleted my whole port cause the rejected files made a mess in my list at pond5 and I didn't know what should I submit next. Uploaded everything again and submitted only 49 files, just sound recordings and sfx's, no whooshes. One day passed and guess what - all rejected!!! Same curator22 Miklos. Wrote to Pond5 again, no answer. Chat, no one is online...
Btw, half of my songs were accepted. Does this means that they don't accept sound effects anymore? I went through the whole "ID verification process" and I got a green light for uploading sfx's. What's up with this place now?

And just to mention, all of the files that were rejected were selling every single day for the last two years :))) How strange, huh!
Does anyone have similar experience?

Would be interesting to know how curators become payed?

I think some of them are on staff. There was a girl at NAB that was a music/sound curator. I didn't get to talk to her, but I believe she was from the NYC office.

Don't know. Pond5 was the place to go first when I broke my exclusivity but now this is getting scary. I talked to support and they are "solving the matter in hands". Maybe I wasn't approved as a sfx contributor after all... Also, all my files have www.videoaudiostock.com in their metadata. That's my website (that is down at the moment) and all the files should and will always point to my domain and my website. Maybe that's the problem. I'll just wait and see. And hope for the best.

Any news on this?

I'm working on a large new batch of SFX right now, but am reluctant to upload these.

@mircic

I'm guessing they're getting too many sfx which might be stretching server resources(just a wild guess). I've also had Sfx rejected lately.

I don't think 2500 sfx even gets close to 1 4k video file.

I'm getting more and more rejections on music as well. And absolutely no info on what P5 need and what don't.

Any clarity on this?

I'm totally guessing here, but this first thing that goes off in MY head when I hear "2400" sound effects is that they are bootlegged or stolen.

To record, edit, tag, organize and generate that amount of effects is staggering. Career level commitment. Unless of course they are being generated from a synth and someone is just playing an effect in every key. I'm under the impression reading some threads that P5 is trying to crack down on generated FX.

they are probably just cleaning house now and only accepting the best of everything now. seriously this quantity over quality model has to come to an end eventually. i dont think it serves anyone in the long run just flooding the market with shit. maybe as a SFX writer write the best 50 SFX's you have ever wrote and submit them instead 2,500 mediocre sounds. at the end of the day pond 5 are just people at the other end and i could think of nothing more soul destroy for a curator than having to sit through 2,500 SFX sounds with only 10% of them being any good.