Wow...turned down in 10 seconds flat!

I think that the last time that I was turned down so quickly was when I was a teenager and asked the most popular girl (Charlotte) in our class out to the local drive-in.  It was awkward, and she was polite, but the answer was definitely NO.

So, I'm no stranger to rejection, but I've got to admit that the AdSense gatekeepers are giving Charlotte a very close run for her money in the race to reject this poor ol' boy from the sticks...wah, wah, wah...

From the time that I updated my blog to have a Privacy statement (at the very end of the this blog page) and resubmitted my request for an AdSense account and received a new rejection email was...wait for it...74 minutes!

The last time that I tried the approval process, the total time it took for the evaluation folks to process my request and reject it was 10 DAYS!

I've got to give it to the AdSense gatekeepers; they are getting really prompt at telling me NO.

However, here's my beef with them at this point in time.

I don't mind being told NO.  I don't like it, but I'm used to it.  After all, I've been married to a wonderful woman for over 33 years and she has told me NO almost daily about one thing or another.  You get it right? I'm used to being told NO.

However, I do believe that it's a simple sign of RESPECT for the entity that is saying NO to be specific on why they are saying NO.  What I'm feeling from AdSense/Google/Blogger at this point in time is a total lack of respect for me as a potential customer/partner of their services.

Here's a series of screen shots that show my latest round of interaction with AdSense and Blogger on this AdSense approval request:

• Here's the AdSense screen asking me to resubmit my application request:
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• Here's the AdSense screen that thanks me for my application:
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• Here's the Blogger page telling me that they are waiting for AdSense to approve me:
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• And here's my newest rejection letter:
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My problem with this response is that, after leaving my application request in the queue for 74 minutes, they gave me the same generic response that they gave me after leaving my previous application request in their queue for 10 days.  They list 6 bullets of what they mean by "insufficient content".  How about if they just come out and say, hey dude, your content sucks, or hey dude, you've got  to have content that shows us (the folks at AdSense) respect for our efforts rather than being a sarcastic tool?

Really!  Really? Really!!!