"I started playing Ingress on the recommendation of a friend, and I quickly reached the level where I could review portals. I was excited to review over 200 portals in one evening, only to find that my rating had changed to poor. I believe this is an incorrect rating system.
As far as I know, there have been instances of incorrect ratings changing to poor due to portal reviews before and after the OPR Live event. I’m not sure if my situation is related to this.
Additionally, I want to mention that I have been carefully reading the review standards throughout the process, and I have consulted experienced players to clarify any doubts I had while reviewing. I did not cast an excessive number of perfect or opposing votes. I believe I should not be rated as poor, especially with such a rapid decline in my rating; I think this is problematic.
You’ve reviewed 269 submissions and only got agreements for 36 of them (edits are not counted in the agreements figures). That shows a success rate of 13%, which is very low, and possibly why your rating is currently down.
That being said, it is possible that a lot of those reviews you’ve done have yet to reach a decision, and that as they start to reach decisions, your rating may go back up. It’s not uncommon for the rating of new reviewers to fluctuate at the beginning.
Please notice that while you have reviewed 269 nominations, only 34 have been agreed on. That does not mean that you got disagreements on the others, but it takes some time for reviews to get decided so that you can earn agreements. I always recommend that new reviewers go slow in the beginning. Glad to see the enthusiasm, though, and welcome to the forum!
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Thank you for your reply. I think I understand your point, but I still don’t fully agree with this calculation method. For someone like me, who is very passionate about any work, encountering such issues in the early stages of reviewing can seriously undermine my confidence.
My location is set in China, where there aren’t many reviewers. If the rating is based on the number of agreed reviews, I believe I could be in a ‘poor’ state for a particularly long time—possibly lasting one or two months. I would like to suggest implementing a mechanism that allows for a longer period of being rated as ‘good’ during the initial review phase to avoid long-term declines in early ratings
Thank you for your reply, but I assure you that I did not use any plugins to help me review quickly. In fact, the 200+ reviews took me about three hours to complete. When I first started reviewing, I felt very excited. However, since the portals I reviewed did not yield results in the system, and I am still affected by this, I find it somewhat unreasonable. At the very least, this is very discouraging for new players like me
I don’t know the language, but everything appears to be there.
I just recommend that you don’t do too many reviews at the beginning. It takes time for agreements to come in. You could be reviewing perfectly in the community, but if you review faster than agreements come in, you will rank poorly.
The first image shows my current status. The second image is a screenshot taken when I posted this. You can see that the ratings ‘Poor, Fair, Good, Great’ in the middle have disappeared. Ratings can affect the acquisition of medals in the Ingress game, which is something I care about. Of course, I understand your point: reviewing too quickly may lead to a decline in ratings. However, my concern is the impact this phenomenon has on the confidence of new players. Many of my friends have reviewed around a thousand portals, with some going through two to three thousand, and many of them have an approval rate of about 30%. Yet their ratings are still Great.
Again I caution you to wait a bit for the agreements to come in. I don’t know how long your friends have been reviewing, but more recently more Edit Reviews have become available. To my knowledge, these don’t show up in the statics in the same way. This could make your friends seem to have a lower percentage with a Great standing.
Okay, thank you for the reminder. I will wait a bit longer and hope that the scores can improve a little. Of course, I will keep reviewing regardless! XD
I also agree that there is a problem with the rating. It is a good phenomenon that the rating appears depending on how much the result came out in the overall screening. However, once you become proficient in the screening, you can proceed with the screening quickly. Nevertheless, I think it is an act of preventing quick screening to reflect the rating only when the results come out from the screening conducted. I was definitely on “Amazing”, but I conducted about 500 screenings in a few days and the rating dropped by two levels due to the process. The results will come out only when other judges conduct the screening, but there are not many judges, and if I continue to conduct the quick screening, the rating will eventually change to insufficient.
Your ratings issue though is because you are in South Korea, and Google Maps currently doesn’t work there with Wayfarer. This reviewer having issues has not said where they are, but from their screenshots, it doesn’t appear to be South Korea.
There are only a few people since the rating issue was fixed who are having issues. This person is new to reviewing, and it’s not uncommon for this to happen at first. They need more agreements, and may need to look over criteria a little better.
Another person is having a ratings issue as they are in South Korea, and currently there is a known issue with Google Maps not displaying in South Korea in Wayfarer. This most likely has caused other South Korean Wayfarers to stop reviewing, as well as submitting, and the issue is causing ratings issues in that country.
While I did drop from Great to Good a few days ago, I assume this is due to there not being many people in my area currently reviewing, so there are still a good deal of submissions in voting waiting for more votes. Summer is a downtime where I live for reviewers. I expect things to pick up once school starts again, as they did last year, and my agreements to tick up more again.
I dropped back to good last week as well, super worried tbh
I got a bunch of agreements back but not gone back up to great
Maybe I failed one of those trap reviews, or maybe its just because Emily takes all the obvious stuff now, makes it hard to get agreements without also getting disagreements?
