Reviewing, when report nominations.
Suzs-ING
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I wonder what the reasons are to report a nomination.
From the text at the report window, it feels like you can only report things for abuse if there are combination of things ‘wrong’. Lake edit pictures, screenshots from a recording and stuff like that.
It also says that if you report things wrongly. It can cause problems for my account. That makes me afraid to report things.
I can understand that for some things people really think something is allowed. And that in that case I can use the ‘normal’ way to reject it. But what about the things the submitter knows it is not OK. A can of beer with the description that drinking and smoking is fun for example. Or a street with tiles where a couple have a slightly different color.
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The report functions are to be used when the submitter deliberately falsified data or the nomination is something like the last few examples you described.
Misuse of the report functions is not a concern if you keep it to cases like those, I would not worry about it anyways unless you see yourself use it every 5th review or so.
If you select accuracy, then abuse - that's not the same thing as reporting the nomination. Niantic seems to ignore reviewer scoring as abuse. Reporting is on a different form.
I usually just review as abuse, and let Niantic ignore it or handle it however they want. It's a business decision for them. Going to a different form is expecting to much from me as a volunteer, IMO.
thanks. And I’m for sure not planing on reporting many. It surprises me that so many ‘strange’ things still get nominated.
Thanks. Will also look into this
Hopefully the AI will get better at rejecting bad nominations, but it's still learning, thus why bad nominations that don't meet criteria get through.
I've rarely used the Report function while reviewing. Just because someone submitted something ineligible doesn't mean that person is abusing the system; it could be that they may need a reminder about eligible/ineligible criteria. If it's ineligible, I'll reject it, and if they have any questions, the rejection emails point them to Contribution Management, where they can access the help and criteria sections, as well as the forums.