[calmchaos]

Those rejection emails are most likely sent by an AI. If you reply back and ask them to specify exactly what is wrong, you'll get the same generic email back. Ask again, and they'll send the same generic response without any details or comments written by a human. They simply can't specify the problem at all. That's how you know you are talking with an AI, not a human.

The correct way to respond to those rejection emails is to ask for a "human being" (this is the keyword that works) to review the case. Also explain in the email why there isn't anything more you can do (if you have done every possible fix already).

As a side note, when AI systems get more common, this will be a common nightmare for regular people. When an AI makes an incorrect decision regarding you, no-one can check the code why it happened because the code doesn't exist. All we may have are some weighted matrices and neural network data as bunch of numbers.

[icer2312]

I got a few of those rejection emails recently, and replied asking for further clarification. The replies were the exact same rejection email, but with bolded or highlighted sections. Addressing those sections got my extension into the Web Store (or at least to a new rejection email https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/8j5qim/pro...), so I think there is a human sending those replies, albeit with instructions not to send anything other than the rejection.

[PopeDotNinja]

That's like when I keep saying "pharmacist" when I call Walgreens to get a prescription filled.

[necovek]

I am pretty confident there is no AI involved, but just a regular deterministic code analysis tool that flags potential discrepancies between code and demanded permissions.

We usually simply call those bots (there can be AI bots too, but there seems to be no indication that this is one).

[solidasparagus]

> when AI systems get more common, this will be a common nightmare for regular people

I'm not sure. We've had automated phone customer service systems forever, but companies that in any way care about their customers still let you escalate to a human.

[couchand]

... and those phone systems are a common nightmare for regular people.