Lack of reviewers in Africa
CkayHektoh-PGO
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Hey guys, I’m from Kenya a Pogo player. I was wondering if anyone can help in putting their bonus location to Nairobi?
I can see similar challenges from my African counterparts where we’re faced with dry voting where there aren’t enough reviewers and submissions get stuck in voting for literal MONTHS! Any help would be appreciated :)
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Thats not only a problem of Africa. Even Central Europe has regions with reviewing times larger than months, even years ....
If someone could confirm, that Namibia submits in English or German, I would try this, if needed....
I have my bonus location in Addis Ababa, I regularly check the map to see if there's more than the current 7 portals. But I feel your pain ****. Many of the subs I see in Ethiopia aren't acceptable.
Just remember though that a bonus location can only see a 150km radius, so best to be specific for where you'd like bonus reviewers.
My bonus location is Mombasa. It actually has quite a few portals now, though I was given nothing but hotel pools and beach bars to review for months.
I think your best chance to get new reviewers will be in early November, when just about everyone who started reviewing after Pokémon Go players gained access can first change their bonus location. I certainly know that I will change mine, because I chose one too close to my home location back when I'm started. Try and advertise the area in the Wayfarer subreddit about a month from now.
But I think you should include some important information. What language are the submissions typically in? What proportion of submissions are typically visible on Street View? How "specific" are the submissions - in other words: how well do you need to know the local culture to be able to review?
its a multilingual country, english is their official language however german is spoken as a second language
nairobi, i had stated it in the post :)
i am based in nairobi but i still get nominations all the way from Mombasa area (+450km away from my location)
i try and help out wherever i can
thanks for the feedback, ill be more specific when i lobby for people to set their bonus location, but just to answer a few of your few questions:
My next bonus location will be for Kenya. Looking forward to it.
Not quite. The area is the lvl 6 S2 cell you have your location in, plus the surrounding 8 cells. So it isn't quite a radius, it's a square, or a rhomboid, depending on where in the world you are (square around the equator, then more distorted the further north or south go are).
I hope you are right, and that you have a lot of things to be reviewed :)
Just changed from Tunisia to Kenya, since there is nothing left for me to review at Tunis and my current location :)
Facing the same issue I hope niantic solve it soon
This is probably a direct result of niantic changing algorithms as where I live in spain was fairly quick but then they changed to wayfarer and changed the rating system and I'm 6months in queue or voting now. And I won't review and earn updates as I have already done 10,000+ so I feel I have worked enough for niantic for free. Its them who suffers as I wont spend any money on any game now and neither will players here because its not worth the effort. Why do the work for them with no return.
Here is my latest numbers of stops in African nations. Note that they change daily.