Change one thing
Gendgi-PGO
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What is one thing you would change if you had Wayfarer keys for the day 5 minutes and it was actually something you think could be changed?
Gendgi-PGO
Posts: 3,277 Ambassador
What is one thing you would change if you had Wayfarer keys for the day 5 minutes and it was actually something you think could be changed?
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I would put category-specific guidance on the review screen rather than making reviewers remember what the current criteria are, and also insert the same into the submission workflow.
You only have 5 minutes, I hope you can go fast 🤪
There is no 5-minute software change - because it would need hours of end-to-end testing, on different devices and languages, to make sure it works as expected and didn't break anything else.
But I can think of several coding changes that should be pretty quick.
5 minutes, lower the thresholds in general to get things decided on (get stuff moving faster).
Full day
The above. Improve the niantic reviewers so that the appeals go faster and are done better. Improve communication in general. Give much better guides on the website and get someone to update it regularly. Remove the historical/cultural as well as the visual votes, they are pointless.
Love the email suggestion.
Sadly I don't think nomination text can change as the app owners likely prefer keeping it to their terminology.
5 minutes: Add a rejection reason that more overtly states something like "Doesn't meet acceptance criteria: Not a great place to explore, exercise, or be social" so that we can communicate when submissions don't meet the basic acceptance criteria. At the moment we have to choose ambiguous options such as "Other rejection criteria" which could mean almost anything and doesn't really help the submitter improve their understanding or future submissions.
A little more time: Comprehensively review the rejection reasons currently available and adjust them to fit with the current acceptance and rejection criteria as well as user experience/needs so that we are able to provide useful feedback to submitters and help them improve. "Mismatched location" is fine for example, but I often find myself using it in place of what should be "Insufficient evidence of location" which has a similar meaning, but the nuance is important and it can mean very different things in some contexts.
@Gendgi-PGO Your point is good, but I'm leveraging my time. "Engineering team, come here NOW. This is what you are going to do..."
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5 minutes? Reset the test for EVERYONE so they have to redo it, and change the frequency it can be taken to 30 days instead of 15 minutes.
If I have extra time, change the search and replace in the text of “PokéStop” and “Portal” to “Wayspot”.
5 minutes, such a huge amount of time.
Personally I would hijack the @The26thDoctor-PGO TARDIS and take as long as I needed…….
Whilst @Hosette-ING is talking to the Engineering team I would talk to the management team.
They would be rounded up by a Vogans repeating resistance is useless.
There would be coffee/tea etc available and fudge. Whilst they were busy eating and drinking I could quickly run through How to Communicate 101 - Listen, Listen, listen, …..respond, act.
If they don’t respond positively to the tutorial the fudge would go. I would let the Vogans read poetry.
If they do respond positively there will be more fudge.
it makes me sick to the stomach that i have to click thru ETERNITY to rate junk.
If i had 5 minutes i hust remove ***** necessity and remove criteria.
Recode the appeal to be looked FIFO rather than randomly
There is nothing in Wayfarer that can be changed in five minutes that would make any difference.
The root thing that has to change before anything else is that Niantic has to care about Wayfarer as the mechanic that tunes Lightship, the engine that runs their games. That means staff (included dedicated coders), a massive budget increase, and a willingness - if not a readiness - to cut the heart out of PoGo and Ingress players who maliciously abuse the system. Until that priority shift happens, everything else is putting strawberries on a mud pie.
I'd change the timer on Bonus Location resets from one year to three months, and spend the remaining three minutes eating the free banana muffins in the break room.