It is maddening in every definition of the term. I’m happy to review rural nominations. My bonus location is set to a rural area that I’m familiar with in order to help out. However, there’s no reason why we can’t have 5-10% of our reviews be “rural” and clear every queue there is, but the entire point of having local reviewers was to ensure quality in Wayspots.
The demonym for Boston is Bostonian but we’re usually called “Massholes” given our great state of Massachusetts.
There is a fundamental flaw in coastal cities where half of the area being pulled from for reviews is occupied by water. L.A. likely isn’t as bad because they’ve also got San Diego in their review area, but the entire system is kaput.
I thought I heard recently that they had adjusted an area that historically had water cells in the region. Can’t remember where I saw that.
Some of this I could see as being an algorithmic bad area (high pop needs to balance rural, adjacent to water, other factors), but unless there are regions like yours that just aren’t as vocal you seem to be an anomaly?
I hope that Niantic is looking at understanding and fixing this.
Sounds like a lot of us are seeing similar trends while reviewing. Oh, and I still get the refresh page error from time to time, and it may take a minute before I get another review. Hello? I’m in the US! Why not give me some Boston area submissions to review?
The Boston Metropolitan Statistical Area is the 11th largest in the U.S. with just short of 5 million people. Boston is a small 46sqmi area within that. Our review cells cover more than the entirety of that. but Boston understandably has the most enjoyers of Niantic games and likely submit the most Wayspots.
All I’d like is for an engineer to spend 2-4hrs looking into the issue and seeing if it’s possible to fix. The Wayfarer back end is assuredly extremely complicated but nothing should be impossible.
Yes I agree most are still approving all the memorial stuff. I see new ones popping up. I have nominated a few, but with a description on importance. It is the neighbourhood signs which I know I am not selecting the same. I reject them, but each time a new place is built, a new one pops up. One area that was all trees years ago has grown so much. Each time I am out that way a new one is there.
I was driving with my son and an apartment/condo/business name not sure was there but it had this gorgeous dragon mural on the side of the building. I just shook my head as the place sign shouldn’t be there but the mural wouldn’t even show up since it is right next to the sign.
I will admit I have submitted a memorial bench and approved several, but that’s because it was only a few days ago that I even found out that most of those items aren’t supposed to be eligible/accepted based on the updated clarifications thread. But now I know, so I’ve adjusted what I do based on the guideline clarifications now that I’ve found them. I would say that while yes, there are people going to approve anyway despite knowing better, there are also a lot of people who just don’t even know better in the first place because this information is not exactly easy to find.
It is very frustrating as a reviewer and nominator to not have clear guidelines laid out in one place so we all know what’s what, and it leads to frustration, inconsistent submissions, lack of agreements, poor/inconsistent quality, and more. We don’t all have the same information, so it makes the whole process harder than it needs to be. Niantic (or whoever, I assume them) needs to let everyone have all the same information, but it’s all very spread out and not efficient. For the most part, we only find the information if we are dedicated enough and search the right terms, or have a lucky accident and happen upon it.
I would love a more streamlined way for everyone to stay informed. That would definitely help improve reviews and nominations.
I feel with you
In my opinion the games don’t really fits to eachother.
My game is pogo and one day I saw the button “submit new pokestop” active and click it to look what they may asking for.
Assumed from my surrounding pokestop you could nominate each stone in neighboors garden.
But than came wayfarer…
The game let you think everthing nominated by everyone could be part of the map (yeah look this stop I’d created) and wayfarer tells you how wrong you are
That you can’t assume anything by looking at the map.
Kind of hopping onto what’s been said above, it’s been weeks since I got a review from Milan (where I live). I overwhelmingly get reviews from rural Italy (which is great, no problem) or from Switzerland or Southern France. Once in awhile I get something from Bologna or Genoa. I get excited when I see a review from Rome because they so rarely pop up. However the majority of my reviews seem to be from small towns across Italy and Switzerland. I’m all for rural priority, I am so pleased to see these nominations come through, but it seems absurd that I’ve never had a review pass through the system without using an upgrade or having it be picked up by the ML. That isn’t hyperbole either. I only started at the end of 2023 but I still have never had an organic resolution to anything I’ve submitted. I have nominations from last year that just moved into voting. Nothing has budged. Not only were several of my nominations in queue for nearly six months, but others submitted around the same time have been in voting for almost six months. I think what especially discourages me in this moment is seeing a nomination I submitted while visiting a rural community in Italy two weeks ago move from in queue into voting within a week. Yeah, I have some banked upgrades I could use to push stuff through (upgraded nominations resolve within 24 hours here) but I wish upgrades weren’t necessary to see movement of some kind when most of my nominations are in a major metro area. Like Boston (and Charlotte, NC) Milan is a blackhole and no matter how many reviews I do, there doesn’t seem to be a way to turn the tide against it. Sorry for going off on a tangent, I just empathize so much with some of the frustration going around. Not seeing any difference in resolution time (plus sudden unexplained drop in rating, as noted in other threads) has killed my motivation to review right now.
but we’re usually called “Massholes” given our great state of Massachusetts.
