WDD Year 3 Global Review Contest: 69,000 reviews and 32,000 agreements from 57 Participants
Another year has gone by and so the Wayfarer Discussion Discord hosted the annual server-wide review contest. Like last year, the contest featured a wide variety of ways to participate and earn "tickets" for a prize drawing at the end. In total, 146 people participated in one of many different ways. Some simply engaged with the server in some small way, offering excellent advice to a newer Wayfarer or adding a festive seasonal role. Others took part in the territory control game on the server that rewards reviewers for finding specific things while reviewing (this game remains a big hit).
The center piece of the contest was focused on reviewing and earning agreements. For this portion, 92 people submitted starting stats and 57 submitted ending stats. In total those 57 completed 69,159 reviews and earned 32,049 agreements! That's an average of 1213 reviews and 562 agreements per person!
The top 3 folks completed 11000, 4726, and 4457 reviews.
The top 3 by percent increase in lifetime agreements saw jumps of 288.89%, 213.03%, and 137.88%!
Just like last year, a number of prizes were awarded, including both digital and physical prizes (including a highly coveted cheese slicer and even a gazebo), and prominent server members setting their bonus location to the location of the winner's choosing.
Perhaps in the future it might be possible for Niantic to provide more tangible rewards to folks within Wayfarer for participation in official and unofficial events including bonus upgrades, appeals, in game item codes, some kind of review focus on a particular area (sort of a broad scale upgrade) and more.
Link to last year's post:
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Cool!
It's interesting, though, that the agreement rate is below 47%. I can imagine a bunch of people doing a push at the end which would drive the percentage down some but probably not more than a few percent. Do you have any (shareable) insights into variability between people?
I ranked 2nd, but the game helped me push and hit 100k Recon points :) thanks for the motivation tehstone
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Yes I've noticed similar in my personal numbers while reviewing heavily for the November Ingress world wide challenge, in fact my percentage is almost exactly that sitting at 48% right now.
For my personal numbers, I plan to take December off from reviewing so I'll be tracking agreements throughout that month to see how the catch-up goes.
Here's a link to the publicly shared stats from the contest
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1N6zPVQt90BQnCjNv0GomMLdq_TjY5Ere4yo6jggshjQ/edit?usp=sharing
It takes two years for nominations to reach an agreement in my area and my stats are included. I was surprised the agreements rate was so high.
@tehstone-ING Cool, thanks! The range for people who completed the challenge is 36.53% to 72.26% with a median of 60.74% and an average of 58.70%. The 72.26% is a bit of an outlier, with the second closest being 68.69%.
Here's a histogram. I deliberately ignored names. It looks like the people at the lower end of the spectrum tended to have fewer reviews than those at the high end, which would make sense to me... and would also suggest that perhaps their percentages are artificially low because most of their reviews are more recent. Maybe.
Interesting stats all round. It would be fascinating ( in a totally geeky way) to look at some aspects more closely.
Does your location influence behaviour - if you get the positive feedback of upgrade points rising quickly does it encourage you to do more. And the opposite if you are doing a fair number but the upgrade points rack up slowly is feeding a negative loop of “it’s not worth it”.
This a competition set up how does that affect behaviour?
What sort of submissions are different people presented with easy yes/easy no or lots that are maybe?
it drives home yet again how different the Wayfarer experience can be for individual people.
I don’t think I review enough or am active enough in that Discord to participate but I’ll point out that Ingress officially share and sponsor (via providing codes for participants) this challenge every year.
Perhaps it’s worth the admins of the Discord discussing with @NianticTintino-ING or the new Product Manager for 2023?
I am not sure what kind of things Wayfarer could provide to help promote it, but sure they can think of something.
Heh I specifically avoided reviewing much in October to prep for this competition. Depending on how the timing works next year maybe the two can coincide.
I would love to see "official" support for player-run events in the future and it's something I've brought up directly as well.
I’m sure you could reach out to the organisers of the Ingress one via Telegram. Let me know if you want to (not one of the organisers myself, but know who they are).
I believe review location probably does influence it quite a bit yes. I can't speak for other parts of the world and the other countries, but I submit a lot of stuff in really slow turnaround areas so I need quite a bit of upgrades, so the best part of me is reviewing either a lot of straight forward accepts (which there isn't a lot of thesedays), or a hella lot of coal (which is there an overabundance of) - If I could just straight reject 50 things in a row without a cooldown and gain 50 agreements (theoretical), then that makes for more efficient reviewing.
Luckily for me, the grand majority of stuff I review is just straight coal, so it's easy to smash a few hundred reviews in one evening and then it's just rinse and repeat.
I did over 4k reviews in 4 weeks and my rating dropped from 68% to 62% (with other agreements). Surely I missed a lot of agreements this month because a few are still coming in every other day
@dustinyeeaah-PGO Here's my 2022 experiment on how long it takes for reviews to resolve, with 2020 and 2021 data summarized as well. The TL;dr for 2022:
You may have answered this in your post, but a way you could get more info is by tracking where you suspect the reviews are coming from. I know some parts of California are significantly expedited (presumably due to the ocean acting as a dead zone) and others taking years. Anything you see in the States that is not tied to your Bonus/Home (I know you've set one or both of those abroad) is likely upgraded and theoretically should be decided on within a day or two. There's "not upgraded but prioritized" nominations for some reason, too.
@Gendgi-PGO I get a lot of stuff that is within my local review area, a lot of US (and occasionally CA and MX) stuff that is clearly upgraded, plus my home and bonus locations. I could in theory track where reviews are coming from but I can't correlate them with agreements.
Based on the time scale of your data experiments it will be a long while until I can make any similar results. Here's how things look after the first month of no reviews.
As you can see, I was maintaining a ~100 agreements/day rate for the first half of the month which has since declined to a rate of around 70/day with the total as of the latest data point being 2299 agreements at 32.7 days since the first data point.