Nominations Pulled into Niantic Review - Discussion
Hello Explorers,
Thank you all who’ve helped with this investigation by providing examples and connecting with our Ambassadors. Thankfully this is not a bug but rather an unintended impact from one of our new systems calibration. Moving forward you will not experience this issue as we have corrected the number of nominations it’s pulling into Niantic Review. All nominations that were pulled into Niantic Review due to this calibration will be sent back to community reviewing starting today and should be completed within a week. We also noticed that it was pulling nominations that were Upgraded, it will no longer do this and you are welcome to use your Upgrades as needed. While an Upgraded nomination can still be pulled in for another reason i.e. resubmitted after being placed ON HOLD, this new system will not. All Explorers with Upgraded nominations that were impacted as a direct result of this calibration between the time we started and now will be refunded the Upgrades used on nominations in Niantic Voting. If your nomination is currently in Niantic Voting as a result of being placed ON HOLD and then resubmitted, that is intentional and not as an impact of the new system calibration. Those will not be sent back to community reviewing. If your nomination was impacted by this new systems calibration, you can expect your Upgrades to be reimbursed no later than next week on April 14, 2023
Safe Exploring!
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So a bug then. Thanks.
I want to thank the Ambassadors and the Niantic team for addressing this problem so quickly. What a great partnership!
Thank you everyone involved in resolving this issue.
Did the upgrades refunded count at the nominations that were forced on-hold before they're sent to Niantic voting?
@patsufredo-PGO short answer, no.
The posting tries to distinguish between different instances of when something has gone to Niantic review.
Under normal circumstances any submission can be selected to go to Niantic for them to review. The posting clarifies that those that were in the backlog and placed on hold by Niantic as part of trying to finally resolve these submissions, once released can be selected for Niantic review. If no action is taken on those submissions they will be picked up again anyway after a short period of time to be reviewed and decided as part of the process to clear the backlog.
The posting says the submissions that were picked up by this unusual behaviour of the system are the only ones where if an upgrade had been used it will be returned.
Just a warning: the 2 contributions Niantic snatched from me went back into queue.
Problem : those are next to each other.
Anyone in the same 🚢: be sure to put one of them into Hold. You otherwise will end up with nothing
Just checked and my upgrade has been refunded with the nomination gone back to the community for voting.
Thanks to @Elijustrying-ING and the rest of the Ambassadors for pushing this. Great job.
All of my recent nominations that were pulled for Niantic review were returned to the queue, except for 4. Is that intentional, or were all recent nominations supposed to be returned? Because even 4 recent nominations in Niantic voting at once is a lot more than what used to be before the recent bug.
@NianThib
Hi @NianticTintino,
My nomination was upgraded, then pulled by Niantic for voting by them, and now placed back in the queue. However, it’s still in queue two days after it’s been placed back in the normal queue.
Could you please help on this issue?
I had this happend too, now it is in regular voting with the upgrade label still on it. It has now been in voting for 3 days, wich is a lot longer than usual for an upgraded nomination.
I’ll also raise this.
Same thing happened to me. Voting usually takes a few hours, it's been days now.
Mine is still in queue. So it sounds like it might as well stay there since it will just sit in voting anyway. Should have just told us to resubmit and given us 2 upgrades. Process would've been a lot faster.
Hopefully with tomorrow being Monday @NianticTintino will be back in the office and can look at some of these. With the upgrade tag still on mine but not seemingly upgraded maybe he can push some buttons on his end.
Same thing happened to my nomination that was pulled into Niantic voting after it was upgraded.
I would've hoped it had gone into voting by now after waiting so long but presume the queue waiting period had reset when Niantic returned it back to the queue.
I still think if you upgrade a nomination it should go into voting straight away rather than having to wait. It probably would've saved all these shenanigans from happening if it did!
My nomination that was returned after being in Niantic voting and upgraded went into voting yesterday and was decided upon by this morning.
. Thanks for this.
was it approved?
It was.
Second on the list. First also went through in a couple of days although it wasn't part of the being pulled into Niantic voting and then returned bug.
Was the nomination that was accepted and had the niantic bug upgrade before or after it was pulled by niantic?
Same here. Not even going into voting.
I had my upgrade still stuck in queue after being return by Niantic
This upgraded nomination was picked up by Niantic but then released back in to queue but still has not gone in to voting. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
Now on day six(technically day 17) and still in queue. I guess after stating "All nominations that were pulled into Niantic Review due to this calibration will be sent back to community reviewing starting today and should be completed within a week." means any minute now right? No way this takes longer than what we were told right? Never happens to us. If this was real money sitting in some holding account I would be losing a fortune in interest right now. Something equal to let's say 3 upgrades not 1 since I have earned 25 since upgrading this nomination that was already in voting & before someone comments it never was in voting I was out playing when it hit voting and saw on my phone so upgraded it on my phone before looking on computer so does not show when it entered voting.
Hi @Demartin0-ING
we are following this up.
Submitted 30/03
Upgraded 31/03
Added to Niantic Voting 01/04
Returned to In Queue and still upgraded 07/04
In Voting 09/04
Accepted 10/04
You guys feel free to go ahead and vote on it from niantics end while you are at it.😁 Has a lot better chance than the upgraded voters. No offense voters I love you guys and your monthly checks have been mailed early for April. They do not seem to like me sometimes though and seem to frown upon nominations I make like this perfectly fine and eligible BBQ joint . 🤣
Now on day six(technically day 17) and still in queue. I guess after stating "All nominations that were pulled into Niantic Review due to this calibration will be sent back to community reviewing starting today and should be completed within a week." means any minute now right? No way this takes longer than what we were told right? Never happens to us. If this was real money sitting in some holding account I would be losing a fortune in interest right now. Something equal to let's say 3 upgrades not 1 since I have earned 25 since upgrading this nomination that was already in voting & before someone comments it never was in voting I was out playing when it hit voting and saw on my phone so upgraded it on my phone before looking on computer so does not show when it entered voting.
@NianThib You asked someone on reddit for more details about upgraded nominations released from Niantic voting not getting processed.
People have been posting about it here on your -official forums- for days just to be ignored.
Please, please review the messages just above.