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That's neat! I like it and might well be inclined to approve it.
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The email changed some time between June 7th and June 14th. No announcement or anything at the time, of course. It brings the Ingress messages into harmony with the PoGo ones. Should have been the other way around, of course. :(
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They recently made this change to all Ingress acceptance emails (presumably replacing the "too close to come online" proximity rejection email), which is really annoying, but I don't think it has anything to do with who reviewed it.
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The "cursed upgrade" experience is definitely not universal. Last time I checked, my approval rate for upgraded vs. non-upgraded submissions was the same within 2 or 3%. I've had borderline things both accepted and rejected when upgraded and when not. I've had good things rejected when not upgraded and risky stuff accepted…
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None of the visible license plates are readable. Although they might not be readable in this screenshot, it is quite possible that at least one would be in the high-resolution version of the image that can obtained through the intel map, for example. In that case, it would count as a legible license plate in my opinion.
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Definitely good/complex stuff that's been rejected a few times. Also maybe stuff that isn't local to resubmit easily. Local borderline things or plain bad rejections can be resubmitted. My first candidate would be a certain local restaurant/store that out-of-town visitors love to go to that is a perfect example of a…
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I think newspapers and radio stations are extremely culturally significant and great submissions. I'd have approved both of those as-is, but there is definitely a good bit of room for improvement with the photos as the others have said. I'd retake the one of the newspaper head-on and zoomed in. It's almost impossible to…
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You wrote: "Anything that has been in voting for more than three days gets shown to a wider geographic area. Expand the area every three days until enough reviewers have seen it for it to reach consensus." It would work if an emphasis gets put on shown to begin with rather than the area. I think the problem in these places…
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While I understand that the upgrade penalty is real for many people, this phenomenon doesn't exist everywhere. Last time I checked a few months ago, my acceptance rate for upgraded submissions was almost exactly the same (within 2-3%) of my non-upgraded submissions. I've gotten bad and fair rejections as well as borderline…
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Singapore probably has a ton of reviewers, but is deprioritized because it has too many wayspots. There are many cities like that in the US, where are there many people reviewing, but they see almost nothing in their immediate localities. The vast majority of their "local" reviews are in neighboring, less-dense L6 cells.…
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To go along with the not-enough-reviewers dead zones, they need to do something about the tons-and-tons-of-reviewers-but-"too-many-wayspots" dead zones, which comprise many major cities. Nothing whatsoever moves in places like greater Washington D.C., Boston, LA, and many more areas without upgrades. This includes…
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I've done more than 30,000 reviews while located in an L6 cell that would include Washington DC as part of its review area and it's very, very rare that I'll see something from the city. I'm sure I've seen many more Lititz, Pa. submissions than WDC submissions. The L6 cell that contains Washington is very badly throttled…
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I'd raise an eyebrow if someone had done thousands of reviews and a great rating with a 38% agreement rate. Granted it was a different era, but by Sept-October of 2018, if not even later, I had done thousands of reviews, had a 38% agreement rate, and hadn’t dipped below great since I first got there. My rate started…
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To prevent abuse. If one got to see only or all of one's hyper-local submissions, the potential for abuse would be huge. Which is frustrating for non-abusers, of course.
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Isn't this a great thing for people who didn't want upgrades randomly applied and hence potentially being assigned to stuff they didn't want upgraded? It certainly solves that common concern.
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OP specified that he or she has a PoGo and an Ingress Wayfarer account (possible if you use different emails for each game, of course).
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In voting since July 7, 2020. Marginal submission in what is essentially a suburb of a major city. Nothing moves there without an upgrade.
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In my experience, if a queued submission is 5-7 days old and I upgrade it, it immediately goes into voting. However, if it's a newer submission, it can take several days to go into voting, so that might be what's going on with you.
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Gotcha -- thanks!
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I think those are fine. The pedestrian access criterion is asking if somebody can walk up to and touch the object safely (they have previous clarified that overhead murals, etc. are also fine). Driving or taking a boat to a location and then walking up to the PoI is fine. Examples of things that aren't pedestrian…
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reused photos (fake submissions, anyone?) Nothing wrong with reusing a photo when resubmitting something that had been rejected that the submitter feels is indeed valid. I've done that lots of times and am usually successful on the second try.
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And only a few people came here and give advice on how to avoid false rejection like "not permanent" ou "natural feature" witch are the two things i have in rejection email. Even if you can overcome those reasons in the minds of what could be a very small number of people, you still need to overcome the "doesn't meet…
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Are we sure the problem has actually gotten worse? Complaints about bad rejection reasons began pretty much as soon as they started appearing in Prime submissions. If the volume of complaints has increased, could it simply be that, as, e.g. @DerWelfe2205-PGO pointed out, people submitting in languages other than English…
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There's also something to be said about letting reviewers review these too-close submissions to gather data about POI that Niantic might not bring online but still use for their own internal purposes, but that's getting way too speculative on what is already a pretty speculative post on my end. I think this is absolutely…
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15-30 for a good submission also seems reasonable to me based on some photosphere testing I did in remote areas. For example, I had nice trail marker approved with under 20 photosphere views during the brief time period during which it was upgraded, for example. (It probably had some reviews before the upgrade, but not…
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Also, in the case of a place like L.A. it appears that they deliberately throttle way back the rate at which submissions are reviewed to the point where an extra reviewer will hardly make a dent. My regular and home locations cover major metropolitan areas where nothing moved without upgrades, but the vast majority of the…
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Do you have a bonus or home location set? Do you have an Ingress account? If so, I'd recommend opening it and doing a couple of actions. The system is confused about your location, which is why it's giving you the thing in San Francisco and maybe Tokyo(?). Playing Ingress briefly has fixed the problem for some.
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I had this happen to me on Friday evening after having done maybe 30-40 reviews sporadically over a few hours. This was after not having reviewed much for a couple of weeks. My main review area is a major metropolitan area, I have a rural bonus location, and my home location is another major metropolitan area. In the…
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Agree that the photo is fine, and that you'll have to do an amazing sales job to get that approved.
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Yeah, upgraded submissions are sent to a national audience and get processed very quickly (usually within about 3-4 hours if not faster in my experience). In past when they weren't processed nearly as quickly, I assumed that they needed at least a couple of local reviews, but with the super-fast times to decision we now…