How many positive reviews are required for a pokéstop to get accepted?
Spinky108-PGO
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Is there a known answer to how many positive reviews a pokéstop is required to have to get accepted? Does people know it or does only Niantic know?
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Melurra-PGO
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Only Niantic knows.
There is a lot of speculation, though, such as that the number changes depending on where the nomination is located, if it was upgraded, etc. But no one outside of Niantic actually knows the algorithm, so be wary of people claiming an exact number or factor.
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Only Niantic knows.
There is a lot of speculation, though, such as that the number changes depending on where the nomination is located, if it was upgraded, etc. But no one outside of Niantic actually knows the algorithm, so be wary of people claiming an exact number or factor.
Niantic won’t ever say otherwise there would be even more abuse then there already is with multiple accounts and such.
FYI, it’s a Wayspot, that may become a PokéStop that’s being submitted/reviewed.
Niantic won't tell us. They HAVE told us that it's not a fixed number but depends on multiple factors including the rating of the reviewers. (That's the great/good/fair/poor rating.)
Even tho you deleted what you said, it remains in my email: "I think it’s probably less than 25". I'm uncertain about what the rest was of what you said.
I think it is definitely not that many considering it would take forever for nominations in rural areas with no wayspots to get an end result at all, regardless of if the reviews are positive or negative. I'm sure Niantic wouldn't want to happen, for too many wayspots to be in a queue for acceptance or rejection at the same time. There could be a limit we're not aware of, of how many wayspots can be in a queue around the world at the same time.
I think it's around 3 - 10. Why I think that is the case: I've received location edits of existing wayspots which I've reviewed, where I get to select which location option is the most accurate for the object/place. There was either 6 or 7 location options when I reviewed it of reviewers marking where they think the object/place is located at. This makes me believe at least 3 is the minimum required.
(Sometimes when I edit my response posts, my comment disappears)
@Spinky108-PGO I'm quite certain it's measured in "dozens". Other people have done some studies that suggest that it's more like 30-50, but it's really impossible for us to know.
When you are viewing location edits what you're seeing is all of the different edits that were submitted. They all came from people submitting edits in the field... none of those pins are from reviewers.
What exactly do you mean by "edits in the field"?
@Spinky108-PGO Let's say that you're reviewing a location edit and there are ten different locations to choose from. Those locations were all submitted by players who were out playing one of Niantic's games and chose to submit a location edit from the game app. None of the pins you see while reviewing were created by other reviewers.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but you mean wayspots can get location edits from players in other Niantic games? Is there a known answer to if a wayspot can be in multiple Niantic games at the same time?
Yes, the same wayspot can appear in one than one game. In fact, this is most often the case.
You can download Ingress for free and take a look at the map in your usual play area, even if you don't decide to continue with Ingress. It's interesting to see.
@Spinky108-PGO Absolutley Wayspots can appear in multiple Niantic games. All of the Wayspots, except sponsored ones, come from a central Niantic database called Lightship. I play or have played Ingress (for almost nine years), Pokemon Go, Harry Potter Wizards Unite, and Pikmin Bloom. Every Wayspot in one of the other games was one that I knew from Ingress.
Both submissions and edits affect the wayspot in all games, not just the one that the edit was submitted in.
@Spinky108-PGO I'm doing this as a separate comment because it will need to be approved by a moderator.
This map is a small section of an area I know well. Each of the orange dots is a portal in Ingress. The purple pins indicate the ones that are PokeStops, the red pin is a gym. The blue pins are big flowers in Pikmin Bloom, but pikmin can bring things back from the wayspots that are not visible.
If you're assuming I'm not able to keep commenting because my response comments on this post thread doesn't appear and needs to be approved, then you're wrong. I am still able to comment here. I was just not commenting.
@Spinky108-PGO Nope, I wasn't doing that. There's an image attached to my second comment but it won't show up until Niantic moderators approve it. Normally the whole comment would be hidden until then but I hit post before I pasted the image in so I went back and edited it.
@ApexShadowHoOh-PGO The Wayfarer forum requires all images to go through moderator approval.
That explains why my question about the criteria had to be approved, it had a picture included to it...