POI Approval Speed
I have nominated 32 POI :
Only upgrade seems to get processed.
A) Out of 4 Upgrades used 3 accepted and 1 Rejected
B) 1 Withdrawn due to people in it (dont wanna waste reviewer time)
C) 4 went under Niantic Review and were rejected (only appealed 1 of them)
D) Rest are Under Queue only 2-3 are in-voting.
Its been 45 days+ for my starting nomination and they are still under queue !
Why it takes so much time @_@
I have reviewed 1400+ with ~25% agreements, agreements are not happening as fast as I thought.. I am still in great range and I think many of them I reviewed are still under process.
I have hit great reviewing multiple times as home location and bonus I gave seems to have run dry and I dont usually go to another city to play.
So getting upgrade has also reduced..
Take 2 /|\ Why it takes so much time @_@
Comments
The system is broken unfortunately due to lack of care and understaffing by Niantic. Waiting 1 to 2 years is not uncommon.
I knew it was slow but didn't expected it to be of snail speed..
You might be lucky and be located somewhere it only takes a month or two. For me the average is 18 months.
Even after upgrade?
Non of my regular nominations have been moving.
Various factors affect the speed at which your nominations go through the system. The amount of reviewers in your area, the wayspot density in your general locality, and other submissions that are also in the system and in close proximity to your nominations can all have an effect on the speed at which your nominations get through.
As an example of that last point, if you ever submit two wayspots in the same level 17 S2 cell or in adjacent cells, and you don't upgrade either of them, you'll notice that one goes into voting and the other will stay in queue until the one that's in voting gets resolved. Likewise if someone else has already submitted something in that cell/an adjacent cell and their nomination is in voting, yours won't go through to voting until their's has reached a decision. Using an upgrade does typically bypass this behaviour though.
No, an upgraded submission goes through in about 7 days.
I am in an area with somewhere in excess of 27 months without an upgrade. An upgrade can be as quick as 12 hours.
It is as the the26thdoctor describes and it’s ggod that you are reviewing as well as submitting as that helps.
My non-upgraded nominations have been running about 4 months lately, and I am extremely happy with this time frame. Previously I waited nine months to two years for a non-upgraded decision. With an upgrade they usually take 2-4 days from the time the upgrade is applied, sometimes as quickly as next day.
Large cities are not fast enough to review without using upgrades.
And with the recent decline in reviewers, it will be even slower.
However, most places will get the results back in a few days if you use the upgrade.
In my case, nominations for Tokyo and Yokohama, one of the world's most densely populated wayspot locations last year, were also approved within a few days.
Therefore I believe it is time for Niantic to change the concept of upgrades.
Wierdly enough sometimes very small differences in location make a huge difference.
There is a major street running NS about two miles from me. If I nominate something west of that street even a few blocks to a half mile west... it takes weeks and weeks to go into voting and sometimes I need to grind an upgrade to get it out of voting as I have ones that have been in voting for months
Meanwhile if I nominate on that street or east of that street,,,, its in voting in under 2 weeks and usually done with voting in under a week.
@Cowyn2016-PGO
S2 cells are involved it may be that a cell line more or less runs down the street.
but it does emphasise the ludicrous situation especially if you are on the wrong side of the line.
@Elijustrying-ING it's definitely related to S2 cells, but its more pronounced than just the line between two solitary S2 cells.
Not only does that S2 cell go quicker than the S2 cell directly west of it... the 10ish S2 Cells east of that cell go fast too (I run into water after about that)
The “run into water” is the clue.
larger S2 cells with water, have no POI ( very few if there is land. This brings down the POI density for adajacent cells and therefore pushes them into the “rural” review stream. I’ll see if I can dig it out but someone did a nice piece of research about this a while back.
The reverse can happen too when you have a very rural area but at the edge of these cells there are cities with a high density of POI and that keeps everything (including the parts with virtually nothing) in those cells in the “slow” stream.
These cells make a difference.
If I submit below the yellow line they take days or weeks to g through. Submitting above the line takes around 18 months to 30 months.
It's annoying that the same street split by the cell can have such a huge difference in time to go through