Voting Process and Upgrade Next Clarification
Malicomatt-PGO
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Hey everyone. Thanks for taking the time to look at my questions. I have been trying to contribute more to the wayfarer community and had a few points of confusion about the overall process:
1. How does the voting process work? For example, I have submissions that are in queue for a day or two, go into voting and then get approved (or sometimes denied, but I'm definitely getting better with my submissions!) within a very short period of time. All the while I have submissions from weeks/months ago that are still labeled as in queue. I thought this would be location based, like the places that are getting approved needed a wayspot so they took priority, but that doesn't seem to be the case at all (quickly approved wayspots have other spots within the same cell etc). Anyone have an idea why this may be?
2. How does the upgrade next system work? I figured this was the incentive for people to contribute so they can get a spot near them prioritized, but I have a spot close to my walking route labeled as upgrade next, have an upgrade available, and it just sits there in queue. At the same time I have regular submissions going into review and getting approved while the upgrade next just sits there. Any idea on how this system functions?
Thanks again for taking the time to help me out!
-Matthew
Comments
"Upgrade next" is broken. There is a setting that lets you choose whether upgrades are automatically or manually applied. If you have it set to be manually applied, your upgrades will accumulate until you actively apply one to a pending submission.
Review times, as you've seen, vary dramatically based on location. The immediate density doesn't play a role. Submissions in wayspot-dense towns in what are otherwise pretty rural areas can be decided on in a few days, while submissions in barren suburbs of large cities can take years to resolve.
Sometimes the disparity is so dramatic that submissions on one side of a street take days or weeks, while those on the other side can take months or years. The algorithm they use is a very, very blunt object and leads to a badly broken system that is very unfair to many, including people in low-density areas that happen to be somewhat near big cities, for example.
Why nominations hanging voting status for months,, one now over year. I tested one voting status nomination with upgrade and under hour it came back not approved.
Yes, in the United States, at least, once a submission is upgraded, it gets a decision in under three hours in my experience, regardless of how long ago it was initially submitted. They are sort of like magic!
It’s been a few days for me, in a rural area. I’ve only used 2 upgrades and both got rejected, though.
My upgrades usually take a few days to go into voting. Then another few days to resolve. I live 20 miles from a big city, in a slow-tracked area. Getting an upgraded nomination back in less than a week would be a HUGE win for me.
Then another few days to resolve.
Wow -- that's really interesting. I'm in the U.S. and haven't had an *in-voting* upgraded submission last more than three hours in about two years. (And my in-queue submissions that are more than a few days old almost immediately go into voting when an upgrade is a applied.) The other people I talk to in my area have the same results, so it's interesting that your experience is so different; I wouldn't have expected it to be regional within the U.S.
Well it varies. I just upgraded one on 9/13, and it was resolved 9/15. It's excruciating when it takes several days to a week. But sometimes it doesn't. You never know which you're facing.
I'm not sure it's regional as much as the randomness of the system. I recently had one upgrade take several days to resolve while another upgraded submission a few meters away that I submitted a month later resolved in hours. Both were murals on different buildings that were easy 5*s. So timing and RNG can play a factor, I think.