Your Wayfarer Rating
Telbourn-PGO
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Just curious really, my rating has solidly been at "Great" from pretty much the start of my Reviewing time, however I've noted it has now dropped down to "Good", as far as I know I've not changed the way I'm reviewing so perhaps more people in my area are now reviewing and have differing opinions (which could also explain some recent Rejected nominations of mine too). Anyone else noticed any change in their rating?
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Mine hasn't dropped off great but since Niantic made the very poor decision to let people brute force pass the test to review by allowing them to retake it every 15 minutes until they pass, I expect a lot more people reviewing that do not have the capacity to understand the criteria. This may result in a drop in agreements for those of us that have read the criteria and follow it.
I just started reviewing a week ago. Passed the test on first try and thought it was easy.
I have read the criteria and help section atleast three times. I take my time reviewing, check details sometimes with google and try to be very careful.
But still, I just suck at this obviously. My rating hovers between fair and good.
Just removing my double post.. Guess I'm not very good at this either. 😅
I have reviewed 1.6k and got 800 agreement, but I'm still great despite only having 50% agreement 😅
It's normal to have a lower rating when you start out because it takes time for the agreements to come in as the nominations resolve. Just keep going :)
I'm in great with roughly a 75% - 80% agreement ratio, though I've not been reviewing so much the past few weeks as I've noticed the amount of terrible submissions has skyrocketed lately, and whilst yes, they are easy agreements, it is boring to sift through them all.
Sounds like you misjudged a honeypot. Niantic pre-reviews some wayspots, then uses them to test active reviewers. Here's where Niantic announced them (paragraph starting "These measures include") https://nianticlabs.com/en/blog/wayfarer-checkin/
It happened to me a year or two ago. I've been rated "Great" since I started in 2017, except for being "Good" a few days after I disagreed with a honeypot.
I have 23k reviews and 15k agreements. (And over 300 nominations accepted.)
I dropped to “good” today as well. I have been curating what I review very carefully over the last month or so, and I’ve raised my agreement rate steadily and nicely. But I have been getting a lot of captchas, especially - believe it or not - when I’m taking my time to review the map and read the information and do a Google search to confirm what’s in the nomination.
Captcha is a free google product that Niantic uses. It is asked base on a google algorithm, not a Niantic algorithm.
However, Captcha and Wayfarer could have some things in common.
Based on what we've seen Niantic accept and reject recently makes me very nervous about their Honeypot system now.
15000+ reviews mostly on great. I did dip to good when there was a bug going around though.
42000 reviews
28000 agreements
Great rating
Back up to Great again but super paranoid about doing whatever happened last time to cause the drop down to good. Haven't changed the way I've been reviewing as far as I'm aware.