greetings! I’ve been voting on potential wayfarer locations for about a week now so I’m still very new. I have reviewed about 260 nominations so far with 90 agreements and have a rating of great. About how many agreements should I aim to have before I continue reviewing? I know each nomination can take months or more to reach a consensus, which is why I’m not asking about a time frame, but what’s a good ratio of agreements:reviews that I should aim for? Being so knew I know there’s goid chance that a larger portion of my reviews could be poor in quality and I don’t want to flood the system with reviews that lead to bad data and potentially bad locations being accepted or good locations getting rejected. I know there’s not a hard and fast rule for this, but a general rule of thumb would be much appreciated. Thank you in advance! I’m enjoying using my autisims ‘no room for grey areas’ for the saftey of the niantic community (if you are putting ‘alcohol location’ in the tags I am marking the location as adult lol). but that can also be to my determent. (your finger could have hit the wrong tag).
Hello! Tell me more what you mean by this statement.
There are people who have done over 200,000 reviews. So I’m not sure how to answer this.
I saw some posts cautioning newbies to slow down after a few complained about their various things happening to their accounts after they spam reviewed nominations. Others I saw complaining about their rating dropping and garnering sinilar responses to give the processes time to catch up. because each nominations can have vastly different lifecycles this means that, especially for new users, it can be difficult to know if you’re reviewing correctly because you can review faster than the nominatione get accepted. This can lead to making a lot of reviews that end up getting rejected and what I assume are consequences against your account. So, as a newb, how many acceptances should I wait for before I continue reviewing, assuming I currently have 90/260 or a 34%* agreement rate?
When I have advised new reviewers to slow down, it is when they are saying that their rating is dropping. If you are staying in “Great” then you don’t need to slow down imo.
I wish I could give you a concrete number, but I cannot. Keep doing the thorough job with each review that it seems like you are doing, and welcome to Wayfarer!
Oh and NianticAaron put it differently in this post.
I have been comparing agreements to the total reviewed since we can’t see disagreements, but I mean that it is easier for a few disagreements to hurt you when you have less total reviews to have a cushion of agreements. I will try to figure out a better way to say that for the future.
I would not overthink it. No “recommended” number is known, the formula for ratings isn’t known, and if you’re going with the flow and reviewing there’s absolutely no reason to stop.
You might be wondering about agreements, and they do help get you upgrades that you can apply to your submissions. For every 100 agreements, you get 1 upgrade. More info can be found here:
Your upgrade percentage has nothing to do with your review rating, just how close you are to getting an upgrade. More reviewers these days have a lower agreeemtnt rate compared to their total reviews done, and this most likely is due to ML, the AI, or less reviewers in general these days. In the last month, I have seen my agreement rate drop .5%, but my review rating is still Great.
Hello and welcome @wenzelsays
It sounds as though you are doing ok, so I would say just keep at the same sort of pace you are doing and you can slowly increase if that feels right for you……we all review at different rates.
I am curious what you refer to as Tags do you mean these categories?
These categories are just for a way for Niantic to potentially search the database.
Some references to alcohol are actually probably ok depending where you are. So pay more attention to the main nomination rather than the categories.
But basically just keep going and if you need help do come and ask.