Is Niantic testing us with "best title" edits?
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It seems every time I review I get ANOTHER "best title" or "best location" for this island (Gunkanjima... Battleship Island). A former coal mine town abandoned in the 1970's.
It's all ruins with no signs telling me what the heck I'm looking at is. I'm being FORCED TO CHOOSE. I got a cooldown for making no decision the first time!!! I honestly don't know what the #@## these I'm looking at things are or where they are.
This one is actually an easy choice because I can see the boat pier. I'm using it because it's what I was given just now. Others I've seen are just ruins of things that I can't identify and am supposed to believe one of the choices.
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If I don't have any skips left, I just go back to the Featured Wayspots page and wait for it to time out. I have never received a cooldown with over 27,000 reviews.
My first cooldown. Was crazy because I honestly had no idea what it was supposed to be. Apparently NIANTIC WAYFARER didn't believe that... and it was my first review of the day.
More skips would be better than making people let give up while they let things time out. From now I'll add something in the comments section as well. It's the photosphere of reviewers to prove they aren't racing through review.
So looks like someone went to this island and submitted a lot of edits. The community is being asked to vote on the choices and pick the best one but since the streetview does not show everything (nice streetview recently made by google!) and the satellite view doesn't always help, it is sometimes impossible to tell which to choose. In that case just try your best and choose "unable to determine" if you can't tell. You are getting to vote on the edits because your edit review area covers this island. Edits usually show up in bulk near the end of your voting queue so this may be a sign you will need to set your hometown and bonus review areas. I would not be surprised if so since over half this review area covers ocean. Local play and hometown review areas are a box of 9 cells at lv6 in the S2 mapping system. Bonus is smaller and uses lv7 cells. Edits are only seen by people living really close to the area, I bet a box at lv9. (I wish this would change for name and description edits at least) https://s2.sidewalklabs.com/regioncoverer/?center=32.344144%2C-230.440590&zoom=8&cells=3511%2C3513%2C3515%2C3517%2C353d%2C353f%2C3541%2C356b%2C356d
It makes me mad also. I get 80% fakes. People taking pictures of little free library and marking it at their house, or marking there bedroom, or person/animal in photo, fake titles of stuff already excepted, fake foot bridge that don't exist. Anyway, most are 15 fakes, or rejects in a row than i get a 24 hour cooldown time for it?
For ones like that I either SKIP or "none of the above" and "unable to find appropriate location"
I just this week set my hometown but... I'm at the southernmost tip of mainland Japan. Ocean on 3 sides. I still mostly get reviews from all of Japan. Its cool to see interesting wayspots and what things look like in other parts of the country but... I'd like to spread the love in my own neck of the woods. Haven't seen a local nomination within 10-15km in ages. Even though 140km straight line seems close for some it is in no way local.
I hope you are right and setting hometown will bring more actually local nominations... though I'm not expecting it will for me. This island is straight line 140km away though it would take 5 hours to drive to the ferry by car.
Wow. If it's centred on the box then my hometown area fills only two squares. You'd think that would mean more actual local reviews because there isn't much land to spread nominations in... but is is definitely not the case. This part of Japan is fairly rural with LOTS of mountains.
I'm in the same situation. I'm in the middle east, 2 hrs away from the capital of Oman but most reviews I get are from the next country over which is either UAE or once in Yemen. I know there's some players here cos people keep knocking off my pokemon from gyms, albeit after a week. I fear my nominations will be staying on queue forever 😭