It would be really helpful if we could get a reason for manual declines, i.e. declines where you got 0 negative votes. Most of the times, the decline seems to be unjustified, which is proven by the fact that when I resubmit later, it then is all of a sudden accepted. E.g. I again have a decline for a new profile: the profile itself is accepted, while the scans are not, but there is nothing wrong with the scans that I can think of and all my other scans were always accepted. So I'll just resubmit them later again.
Yet, I can imagine that sooner or later I will have a genuine mistake and that my submission will be declined by Gerri. If I don't see why, I will probably just assume human error again and, not knowing what was wrong, just resubmit later.
Surely this is something we could avoid, and would also prevent extra work from Gerri (and whoever else is releasing/declining the contributions). Obviously, I don't expect her/them to start typing a reason for every decline, but assuming that they use software to accept/decline, it could be as simple as replacing the single 'decline' button with an array of buttons with the most common reasons.

Quoting Voltaire53:
You may not know but this as been widely discussed before; it's just a fact of life that te screeners deal with so many submissions they haven't got time to send out the reasons for a decline (and it's also why occasional mistakes are made).

I understand that. But what I was saying is that I then always do a resubmit later. If the decline was valid, then it will be declined again, so the screeners will do double work. A set of decline-with-reason buttons would probably be just as little work for them as a single decline button.
Then again, seeing the same submission twice coming from stubborn people like myself, may be even less of an overhead. And if I see the same submission declined twice, I'll probably revert to the forum to figure out what was wrong .

I've got to agree - I've just had two contributions with all yes votes declined, so it's obvious a screener has looked at it and decided all the voters were wrong. But without any feedback no one has any idea what they've seen that I and all the voters missed!
When I get home I'll resubmit, but there's always a doubt that maybe I'm submitting wrong info.

Quoting northbloke:

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I've got to agree - I've just had two contributions with all yes votes declined, so it's obvious a screener has looked at it and decided all the voters were wrong. But without any feedback no one has any idea what they've seen that I and all the voters missed!
When I get home I'll resubmit, but there's always a doubt that maybe I'm submitting wrong info.

There's more to it than just ticking a button with a generic reason.  Ken will have to do some layout redesign to accommodate showing the reason.

Larry;

I know it happens to me too and leaves me scratching my head as well...


Skip

I ain't goin' there...you can't make me.        

Skip

I'm not sure how helpful a reason for decline would be. Most of the time, mine don't get declined. I will admit that I haven't contributed much in the past year or so but even when I was contributing more, I usually already knew the reason for any declined profiles I received. Still, there were a few......

I will say that there are a few reasons I don't contribute like I once did. One is that I got frustrated over the several modifications to the DB and each time there was a modification my entire db would have to be re-contributed. Now that we are to a better level on the db than before, it seems more worth-while but what happens when the crew section is opened up so that more categories can be entered? Why not open it up so that all crew can be entered as-credited and be done? At least we'll see an end to these incessant debates of who did what and it fits over there, not here.

The other big reason is; (I generally don't contribute any popular titles because of this alone) there tends to be too many lengthy and tiresome debates over small details and several people jump in even if it doesn't effect their db.

The one that pushes me away the most is:
Why is it that just because someone does not want some bit of information, they feel that nobody else should either?

Quoting RossRoy:

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So what if my contribution doesn't get through.

It affects your contribution count and thus your popularity with Skip.