Upgrade wasted
Okay, so I was baffled this morning at what my wife discovered. She submitted a baseball field for a POI and she chose to use her “upgrade next” on said submission. She doesn’t review often, therefor doesn’t earn upgrades very fast. The ball field actually went into voting on its own and got approved as a pokéstop 2 days ago, never having actually upgraded. She logged in this morning to find that she had earned her upgrade overnight. She assumed that the upgrade went to a random submission and went to check, only to find that the upgrade had been spent on the ball field which had ALREADY BEEN APPROVED. I know you can’t remove the “upgrade next” status once it’s been used, but after a submission has already been approved, why in the world would I want my upgrade to still be used on it. This defies all logic and is so counterproductive. How does Niantic not have something in place to prevent this from happening? She is disappointed, and rightfully so. She worked hard to get 100 agreements just to have Niantic basically give her the ****.
Sorry if this comes across strong, I just feel extremely disappointed for her. What motivation does she have to review stops now?
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Upgrade can be (or will be if "upgrade next" is selected) applied to submission while it's still "in voting".
You said you wife doesn't review often, maybe the upgrade (100% progression) was reached while the submission was still "in voting" and she didn't noticed that?
Are you saying that her submission of it got accepted or that someone else's did?
Nope, we check her submissions everyday to see if there is an update. She definitely got it last night.
Her submission got approved, and, two days later, her upgrade activated and applied to that submission, even though it had already been accepted for two days.
I felt bad when I got an upgrade automatically assigned to a submission which got approved a few hours later, but wow, your case is even more ridiculous.