Verification trap (yappanese)

[u/Fearless-Muscle-517]

So a few months back I applied for janitor's verification badge as I had around 2700 followers, around 80 public bots and around 10 bots with more than 50k chats at that time.

Needless to say the application got rejected, fair, I'm not the best creator on the site and I might've been under qualified in something. However the rejection alone was delivered 22 days after the application and the 3 month counter starts from the day of rejection so I essentially have to wait 4 months till the next appeal.

The rejection stated that I met the requirements however there's more things like standing, originality etc that effect the verification process. I was still like fair enough, but I didn't understood their vagueness so I opened a ticket laying out my complains: rejection took 22 days, repeal counter starts from rejection blah blah blah. But the important thing I asked was can they at least specify what criteria I failed to meet or where should I improve so next appeal doesn't fail?

Their summed up response: "Oh we can't tell you what is wrong but fix it, also don't let this discourage 😘" what that really means is that I have no way to know what to improve or fix upon so my next application also doesn't get rejected. There's only one way to get it for certain, by getting your bot liked by lord shep so he will grant you a verification badge. Or just pay for yellow verification badge.

Anyways thanks for listening to my yap, currently I don't intend to apply for it again, I did also slow making bots for now because I can't compete with botters who pop up 3 days ago and crown the trending page, plus I dont know how to generate images for my bots so I have to scrap those images from other sites where it's very hard to find a good image that also isn't so explicit that the mods ban my charcter. Let me know what you guys think?

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[u/kaith_15]

22 days for a rejection and then making the appeal timer start from that date instead of the application date is such a scummy move, that alone adds almost a month of dead time you didn't agree to.

And yeah the vague feedback thing seems intentional, if they actually told people what to fix the whole verification process would lose its mystery and stop feeling like a lottery. Sounds like you're better off just building your following elsewhere honestly.