Fix the review times please
The system for creating new portals, poke stops and gyms depends entirely on the players (except sponsored POIs), in my opinion and from opinions that I have read on the forum, the review system is very slow, taking years to respond to a proposal from a player (be it accepted or rejected), I think this system should be faster when it comes to getting a response.
I know that the system depends on how many portals there are near where you ask for it (by cells), how many people check in your area, etc ... There are cases that in the place where you live, play or simply ask for a POI because you have seen something Interestingly, there are few reviewers and therefore the requests remain "In Voting" for years (In my case I have several requests that have already passed 1 year since I asked for them and one of them is still "Queued")
That is why I want to propose an idea that I do not know if it will be read or not, but it is that in areas with few reviewers, fewer positive or negative votes are needed to obtain a faster response, and that the votes of the players who are in " Great "or" Good "have a greater weight in these places where there are few Wayfinders, so that the system is more agile and useful, since it is of little use to propose new Wayspots if then they are going to be two years" in voting ".
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Worse, those reviewers in poor POI areas have very low agreement ratings simply because NO agreement can be reached out of lack of enough reviewers for thousands of nomination they have reviewed desperately.
"fix the review times".... hold on guys, I'll get the popcorn, I know where this one goes.
The system wont be fixed until Niantic rebuild the system from the ground up, like or not, this isn't changing anytime soon.
@tMinnx-PGO I don't believe that unresolved reviews count against your rating. These reviewers will still get upgrades from a fairly large area, they are usually within review range of a higher-density area, and can set home/bonus locations to more dense areas to review in areas where there are more reviewers. Thus, being in a low-density area shouldn't have a negative impact on your rating.
The real answer for making the queue move is to get more people to review or to reduce the volume of incoming candidates. I've written quite a bit elsewhere about ways to make queues move faster by reducing incoming volume. (TL;dr: redo the UI to filter out a lot of coal before it gets into the system, auto-reject things that are too close to go live, give people small numbers of submissions and let them earn more by reviewing.)
Except this isn't true in all parts of the world and for a lot of people.
@Roli112-PGO Which part isn't true? Certainly not 100% of people are within "natural" review range of high-density areas but many/most are. Everyone can change their bonus location or home location though perhaps not immediately if they've already done that. I believe it's 100% true that pending reviews don't affect your rating but Niantic has never explicitly stated that.
And I specifically know @tMinnx-PGO situation, which they aren't within of any big review areas... And yes changing their home/bonus locations is not immediately possible... So being a low density area is an impact.
You can't just rule it out based on majority of situations.
I agree with this. I did like 2000 reviews in 10 days, and my review agreements to my total number of reviews completed tanked to like 3000 agreements with 7500 reviews. I still remained in great range and wasn't getting hit with timing stops. (My bonus área throws up maybe one review every 500 or so reviews I do at the moment. Not a huge área to get as it includes only the Islands of Tinian and Saipan.)