Pointless Niantic Secrecy
12xuser-PGO
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It seems to me that one of the biggest problems with Wayfarer is Niantic secrecy. How many positive reviews does it take to have a nomination approved? How many negative ones will scuttle it? What criteria are used to determine if a particular area is worthy of review (rural), while others require upgrades to get any action? What are the boundaries of those go/no go areas? What is the current backlog? How many reviews do they receive every day? How well are we doing at reducing the backlog? This information could be used as incentive to increase review activity, but Niantic prefers to leave us blind in the dark, reading tea leaves by candlelight. Niantic expects us to work for them for free, but cannot trust us enough to give us the information we can use to help our efforts actually pay off.
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You have to remember that Niantic is in reality a branch of a combination of an agency conformed by CIA, KGB and M16, so all the information has to be secret, every single thing
Hence that is why of all this secrecy behavior, it makes sense in the end right to still use 2010 policies
Anything they told their users from that would lead to it being abused.
Like when S2 cells were figured out and people move things around. If they say “It takes 50 stars to get something approved” some people will go and make 50 accounts to review their own front door.
Oh man too late for that, there is people with such ammount of accounts around
And i doubt that the s2 cells things discovered by people was wrong, if from the start niantic gave that information, people would send stuff according but still real objects in that area, even if its 5m around from the start insteand of sending 4156845284528452048 edit locations because were fighting with that rule of 20m too
The more secret you put the more will hurt in the future, we are at 2022 already no more CIA things would actually be helpful in all aspects insteand of trying to be james bond or jason bourne people
Maybe not toonin depth, but niantic do jeed to be more open, for example it would be nice to know if it is 50/50 fornaccept/reject, or if its maybe 70% more good reviews than bad etc.
But they really do need to be open about what is causing people to be banned/get warnings rather than people just receiving them without any idea why
People who want to abuse the system for their own ends will do so ……. No matter how much or how little official information is available.
The only people who lose out in the wall of silence routine are those that are participating as planned.
There is no secret anymore. We do know mainly everything there is to know.
The only thing we do not know is when @NianticCasey-ING will circle back with the answers to our questions. And we do not know what happened to thousands of things we did send to the Abuse-Spiral / Google Sheet.
If the system worked better I wouldn't mind not knowing how it functioned, but with the state it's in right now I would like to know more so that we could make more informed suggestions about how to improve it.
Casey had a sendoff last year, if you have any questions it's best to forward them to the rest of the wayfarer staff, as for the topic not everything can be disclosed because like @PkmnTrainerJ-ING says it may be exploited, because Niantic is still a private company with their own IP they are as open as they can be without making it opensource, and handles IPs of other companies which have their own rules regarding information sharing.
Maybe more public information could be made available if the player community became more moral and compliant, but as far as the current situation is concerned, I don't expect to see it.
This!