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Nominations stuck in voting and queue
Dazzz123456-PGO
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It seems that for alot of players nominations are either stuck in voting or in the queue some for months.
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Yep. And there's a whole section in the myths about there not being a queue, and different nominations taking different times, based on things like how many reviewers are in the area, what other portals are around, and Niantic's own quality control.
??? What's that got to do with nominations being stuck in voting?
One of the things mentioned by @Perringaiden-ING that is known to delay longer voting for nominations is if the L6 cell has a backlog with not enough reviewers. Unfortunately, there’s no for sure way that is the case for the L6 cell your nominations may be in but other responses even from Niantic have said they’re trying to help with major backlogs due to issues discovered in the past. Not sure if Niantic is still doing this at any capacity.
Given the large number of reviewers currently unable to review (either due to getting the "nothing left to review" button when there are lots of submissions left or those who have quit until Niantic fixes whatever bug/feature is tanking their rating), it's no great surprise that submissions are taking longer to resolve at the moment.
Some submissions are still making it through of course. In my area, they're mostly the hyper-rural slam-dunk candidates. e.g. church or playground in the middle of nowhere
In my region it's the upgraded nominations that make it through, nothing else. My guess would be that with the increased range, those can scrape up enough votes to pass.
I am sure the cause of this problem is message "There are no nominations available to review at this time". And the situation will worsen because Niantic @NianticCasey-ING @NianticKN-ING denies the problem
I assumed at first when my submission went to in voting " hooray "
It's been stuck in voting while other submits of mine have been accepted or rejected in the same area.
It's been over a week now either way it would be nice to know it's fate.
Anyone else having the same problem ?
If so please comment so Niantic reply thank you.
There is a bug in Wayfarer at the moment which is tanking peoples reviewer rating so a lot of people have given up on reviewing for now.
There is also a bug that says you have no new portals to review come back later which is stopping the people who did keep reviewing from actually reviewing lol
Oh wow really I've been gone for a while then ( stopped reviewing )
If this is indeed causing it then that is a problem.
Though other submits of mine have been processed in the last couple of weeks it's just this single one of mine which has not either way.
@NianticCasey-ING
@NianticKN-ING
this one certain submit of mine is stuck in voting.
I have had other emails regarding the fate of other submits from the same park.
Even ones submitted after it.
( Before anyone mentions just wait I know the difference it's stuck )
Iv got two submissions which now appear to be stuck, first one has been in voting 6 days and the second 5. Other subs have passed through and been accepted in the meantime, what advice is there regarding resolving the issue?
It's not just me then.
Regarding advice clearly waiting does not work only solution is for Niantic to acknowledge the situation in anyway.
Over a week?! How could you live with yourself with stuff taking that long?
It's not the fact of waiting a week I'm reporting on a sudden change to how long something is waiting in "voting" for making people aware there must have been something change or go wrong?
So it can be resolved, I just wanted to know if I'm best to resubmit in a weeks time if there still sat there or not
Myself I would wait to the bugged upgraded in voting poi is resolved.
To avoid clogging the system but I don't know what else to do there is no communication by Niantic or acknowledgement of this bug by them.
Yeah, my hesitation was not wanting to put pointless extra though slowing everything else down, but at the same time if there just going to sit there and never go though, I may aswell just think of them as never submitted in the first place
I saw something about if they get upgraded they can go back though the system is that true? If I upgrade the one stuck in voting already that's is?
We agreed on that matter then, they are in the system and after reading your second paragraph if it's not upgraded your submit it means it's probably only got one vote on it and will be stuck in voting until it's upgraded.
Mine got upgraded then went in voting and been stuck like that for a week now while other submits of mine subbed after that one have gone through no problem.
Thanks I'm only a few % off the next so il update if it works for me.
Got upgraded and went through in 45mins, rejected due to being a generic Restaurant, and not being visible at location, bit of a shame .. Maybe accepting portals like this is what got me demoted to Yellow in the ratings
That's really odd I don't get this sometimes.
I've since withdrawn my bugged in voting submit.
Over a week and nothing was happening with it.
i'm still waiting over 25 days for getting an agreement or a disapoint...
I've just withdrawn it my one.
I often nominate things when I'm out and about, I like to write descriptions etc when I get home so I just type "edit at home." One went into voting too quickly so I didn't have a chance to edit it. That should have been an easy 1* but instead I had to withdraw it after 9 days in voting.
Another was a sports bar. Should be an easy 5* because it's not generic nor a chain. Nope, still in voting since 21st May. I have 3 in voting for long periods. My friend has 7!
Sometimes when certain nominations take longer, it's because reviewers don't agree on it (some vote it high, some vote it low.) Although I don't think niantic has ever confirmed this to be true, a lot of people think that in these cases, it requires more reviews before a decision is reached.
Things may also take longer because of people's ratings dropping recently. Something taking a week in voting doesn't necessarily mean there's a bug. When I started submitting, my nominations were in voting for 2 days MAX (with no upgrade). My more recent ones have taken 10+ days to get through voting (and that's actually considered quick compared to many areas). Less people seem to be reviewing lately, in large part because of the issue with people's wayfarer rating
I have several local submissions stuck In Voting for over three weeks, in our area where I usually see requests completed start-to-finish in a few days. These submissions went rapidly into In Voting state, so they could not be edited in Wayfarer. Once an ugrade is applied to any of these older submissions, a yes/no decision is swiftly reached. This tells me that, in my hometown area at least, an upgrade is mandatory to get a possible acceptance. I would imagine that the other local reviewers are simply bulk-reviewing for the sole purpose of getting their own upgrades so that their submissions can go through, and quality continues to decline as a result. This really needs to get fixed.
Can confirm. I applied an upgrade to one of my stuck nominations, it was rejected within 3 hours of upgrading. Natural feature, apparantly. I do love a good naturally occuring sports bar.
@NianticCasey-ING it seems this is affecting a lot of people not just me.
( I have to withdraw my submissions that stay stuck in voting for more then a week )
I've have nominations either in queue or in voting since 23/4... Then had some from mid may get approved this week.. are the older ones stuck? It's demotivated me from further submissions now 🤔