Rating sudden drop
KyaPower-PGO
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Hi,
I've been reviewing a lot lately and I've noticed my rating dropped to medium. So this is my question:
Does the pending reviews qualify as a "bad" choice until the POI gets approved or rejected ?
If yes, why is that ? It doesn't encourage reviewers to keep going. If that is the case it means I have to wait for my choices to process for my rating to go back to great.
Thanks
Kya
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MargariteDVille-ING
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Undecided reviews don't count against your rating. It's about your behavior.
Interact with the page. Click the Subject (for a google). Tap some potential duplicates to enlarge them. Press the Google logo, botttom left of a map (to open a bigger map). On the location map, zoom in and out. Switch between street view, satellite view, tilt. They are tracking what you do. (This software is free - every little organization monitors how people interact with their pages.)
Don't give the exact ratings to every category all the time - judge them separately.
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MalarjusVoynich-ING
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I recently seen this thread: https://community.wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/discussion/28331/is-wayfarer-broken-or-do-only-bots-review
It seems that botters auto reject things in Order to get agreements, and I can second this because someone rejected one city map that was a easy 5*
Moreover, my rating suddenly dropped too.
Maybe this botters are making our rating worse because they reject things we are accepting.
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Undecided reviews don't count against your rating. It's about your behavior.
Interact with the page. Click the Subject (for a google). Tap some potential duplicates to enlarge them. Press the Google logo, botttom left of a map (to open a bigger map). On the location map, zoom in and out. Switch between street view, satellite view, tilt. They are tracking what you do. (This software is free - every little organization monitors how people interact with their pages.)
Don't give the exact ratings to every category all the time - judge them separately.
I recently seen this thread: https://community.wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/discussion/28331/is-wayfarer-broken-or-do-only-bots-review
It seems that botters auto reject things in Order to get agreements, and I can second this because someone rejected one city map that was a easy 5*
Moreover, my rating suddenly dropped too.
Maybe this botters are making our rating worse because they reject things we are accepting.
Sudden drops are often a sign that you missed a pre-reviewed nomination from Niantic. If this is what has happened, I can't tell.
I review since wayfarer rollout, I have 9630 review with a 69% agreement rate. What you are saying is surely possible but I'm skeptical :/
My rating got back up to Great. I think I got into a zone and was paying less attention to the number a stars I was giving. I took just a few more seconds to think a bit more and it went back up a few days after that.
Thanks for your insights !
I'm also curious about this. I had a 'Great' rating for a long while. Now and again I would trigger the 24 cooldown but I would try to learn from it and change how I review moving forward. Just this last week, after not seeing the 24 lockout screen for several weeks, I triggered it twice within three days and saw my rating drop to 'Good'.
It would be nice if there was a guide for this kind of thing.
Had a feeling these exist but wasn't sure
Besides potential honeypots, it seems Wayfarer takes into account your total review sample accuracy and pits it against your last X reviews.
This means that sudden spikes of reviewal - specially in slow areas and/or with players that have little reviews done so far - may indirectly affect your rating as they dilute your overall accuracy score until they're decided.
Assuming you're on the right track and there's other people reviewing in your area, after a few days/weeks it should be coming up even without reviewing.
Even though you should review throughly, there is no additional UI usage tracking done that influences this score.
After more than 21,000 reviews and never ever having fallen out of great I got demoted to fair a few weeks ago. It happened after a sequence of egregious coal candidates where there were something like 11 in a row that were automatic rejections. they were bad... trees, an obvious fake (clip art of an airplane), stuff in people's yards, a high school, a block of mailboxes at an apartment complex...
When it happened I stopped reviewing and just recorded my stats every day. After five days I was good, and after 13 days I was back to great.
I suspect it had to do with the speed that I was reviewing. Obvious coal can be rejected easily, while solid candidates take more time to examine. It may have also been the repetition, although I typically take the time to type something in with my rejections just to blow off steam.
I had a similar experience. Always on Great (like, for years) and suddenly dropped to Poor. This was about 4 weeks ago. I simply stopped reviewing altogether and have slowly climbed back up, now on Good.
Conclusion 1: the reward for reviewing lots is to have your rating drop to Poor.
Conclusion 2: the solution is to stop reviewing.
Is this how it's supposed to work?
I was Great for a long while but slipped to Good a few months ago, so I carefully curated my reviews to bring my approval ratings up substantially and hold Great again, then last week it collapsed to Fair. I haven’t even been reviewing very much, so I was pretty surprised to see that. But I’m still getting agreements, so…
I also have a rare occasion when my rating drops from GREAT to GOOD.
It's almost always after a series of nominations that can be immediately rejected.
In those cases, I try to stop reviewing for a bit and see what happens, but the current system seems to be too strict on review time to be wary of BOT.