Lately when I review, I come across location edits that have all the possible locations in the exact same spot (less than 1 meter apart from one another). The first few times it happened, I just clicked one of them and moved on, easy 10 seconds review.
But now I notice that these types of edits always happen on the same area, so I assume this is always the same player editing them. I must have reviewed these types of edits for the same 2-3 wayspots about 5 times now, so I’m suspecting some kind of abuse.
Is there something to gain from doing this? Should I start reporting when I find them?
When I get these in review, I have never been able to work out what the point is. I also suspect abuse, but I just can’t see how an indistinguishable error can be abuse. Maybe someone is trying to gentle shuffle a wayspot into a new cell, gradually over time so it won’t be spotted.
I tend to choose “cannot pick a location” (or whatever that button says), as I refuse to make a pointless choice.
I’ll report a location choice when all are obviously equally valid, as someone is almost certainly trying to abuse the system and get the wayspot moved for game purposes. Maybe that’s the right option here?
Sadly I didn’t screenshot the review at the time, but in case the Wayfarer Team can access the history of edits to a spot, I know the coordinates of one of the spots that is usually edited:
38.73285, -9.14097
There, you can find a 4-leafed clover on the pavement tile that is also wayspot, and I must have reviewed location edits of this one at least 3 times that I remember. Each of those times all the available locations are so stacked together that I struggle clicking any location other than the one on top of the stack, even when I zoom in as much as possible.
I’m unsure what’s the point of editing these, even if it’s the case of “shuffling to a new cell” as @salixsorbus mentioned, all the adjacent cells are occupied anyway
Since I am asked to assess the location edit and where it should be, I do that rather than speculate about what might be happening.
When I get multiple at the same place most of the time I can’t tell as there is not a good view so I choose unable to determine as that is the honest assessment.
Sure. I’m more interested in how there are so many POI stacked on top of each other but I suspect that will remain a mystery. I just wanted to offer another example for the thread.
I can very well imagine a scenario where a POI is clearly misplaced, someone submits a location edit, forgets about it and/or doesn’t hear back, or maybe doesn’t know there is a review process and that it takes some time, submits another, etc, or maybe several people submit this edit since it is obvious. In the meantime someone goes to help chat with evidence, the wayspot is moved, but the pending edits are not discarded, so they now make no sense and are all clustered close to the correct and current location of the pin. Reviewers are confused.
This is just one example of how this could happen without any abuse whatsoever, so I also recommend against jumping to conclusions.
