Editor Application Process Down

Would you say that generally applications are approved or denied immediately after being reviewed? I'm just wondering if it is a good sign ever if there is a long wait for an acceptance or denial confirmation.

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1. Amount of pending applications, the more there are waiting the longer the wait.
2. Amount of active metas doing applications, this varies while there is always applications being processed every day sometimes there are more done than others.
3. How easy the application is to review
   • If the application is awful we reject right away. There are always a number of metas checking for these sort of applications each day to keep the pending list managable.
   • If the editor applies to a category that we feel needs to be renamed, moved, or deleted. It takes time to decide what to do.
   • If the editor applies to a category with a good application but all of the URLs are for the wrong category.
   • If the application looks suspicious.
   • What language the application is written in is often a factor, as is the category applied too.
   • Categories with a history of abuse (SEO, Adult, Tourism, Gambling, Real Estate, etc) take much longer to be accepted into (though probably faster to be rejected from).
   • If the application is on the bubble, not good, but not bad, those probably take the longest.