Why are Niantic not vocal about wayfarer on social medias and on the app?
Euthanasio2-PGO
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You know telling people the rules changed on social media might help more people reviewing and having a quick link to wayfarer on the app too.
Btw I have friends who had no clue you changed the rule because you only told them on a forum where most people who review don't look.
Having more people aware of Wayfarer would drastically reduce the waiting them and increase your player base.
Also Do something about your paranoid cooldown. I only get cooldowns when I review a few obvious 1* like a mailbox, a cat or an elementary school in a row. Or when I choose between two edits when one is full of grammar mistakes. I know 5 people who stopped reviewing as they were rightfully offended at being punish for doing free labor for you guys. They showed me their ratings and they are all in Great and one is in good.
Right now in my area, it's almost impossible to get a business approved no matter how unique they are as they always get rejected for being "generic". Unless it's a bowling alley or a mini-putt. Maybe you should allow people to flag if their nominations is a business in game and have a different test for people who want to evaluate businesses?
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Asked in the AMA thread. I fully agree. On the other hand, since the current "criteria" is still so lacking, I kind of won't mind or taking a while before more people find the loopholes and start submitting things not directly being told not to, now.
https://community.wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/discussion/comment/45684/#Comment_45684
I didn’t know about Wayfarer until my sister told me about it a few weeks ago. And I’m practically a Day One POGO player.
One thing Niantic should be doing is pushing an "official" notification of the new 3.1 criteria across socail media - one would expect "Niantic" to belong be a member of all the various Facebook and Twitter groups out there devoted to Ingress, PoGo, HPWU and Wayfarer reviews and just share a post into all of them. I Admin a couple of large FB groups, its not hard.
It would be helpful if major info updates were listed the Showcase tab of the main site. Things like the AMA responses, or even just the criteria overhaul. The Showcase is the default page on login and after a submit+finish. Info here would reach the entire audience of reviewers (except those who end all sessions through review expiration), whereas a social media post would only reach those who are involved on that platform.
Seriously. It would take only a few seconds. I don't even get why they don't do it
What if they pushed it via the APP(s) with a link, so everyone knows? Just a thought...
I do know that one of their priorities in the ongoing development of Wayfarer is reviewer education as well as reducing abuse of the Wayfarer system. While neither are easy issues to solve, the team hears your frustration and is investigating ways to address it.
This was almost half a year ago. So many opportunities reviewer education could have shown any priority, but nothing but failure from the Wayfarer team.
And here's the problem. Most of PoGO players only know that they can submit things at lvl 38 but didn't know Wayfarer exist. That would explain why a lot of nominations are completely "trash".
Would be better if Niantic announce important things related to Wayfarer like AMAs in Niantic Support Twitter account.
And here's the problem. Most of PoGO players only know that they can submit things at lvl 38 but didn't know Wayfarer exist.
People who review are aware of wayfarer and have already passed a basic test, yet some still reject nominations that meet criteria and fit all guidelines (named trail makers in parks, indoor nominations, football fields). They know Wayfarer exists, they absolutely must access the Wayfarer site in order to participate, but they don’t follow criteria on reviewing. This demonstrates that knowing and even accessing Wayfarer isn’t enough to inform people of what makes a good nomination.
As the reviewing process forces reviewers to access the Wayfarer site (unlike nominations where only the app is required), the site is a good place to get in touch with this particular base. There's other things that could help, and news updates on wayfarer wouldn't target all nominators, but nominators who don't review aren't related to this particular concern of improper rejections.