Is there any way to find out why my rating is dropping so fast?

I started reviewing waysposts about almost two months. I spend a good time reviewing each submission to be sure it meets the criteria and today I realized my rating is marked as “poor”. Is there any way to have a feedback from other reviwers to find out what am I doing wrong? A kind of a review of the review, idk.

A lot of newer reviewers find that this happens to them. Niantic has said that rating depends on agreements and disagreements, but we don’t really get to see our disagreements. You can kind of get an idea of how you are doing by comparing the number of agreements you have to the total number of reviews you have done, but remember that it can take time for those reviews you did to come to a decision.

Go slow, review the criteria clarifications, and don’t be afraid to use “I don’t know.” A lot of people think they shouldn’t choose that at first. And if you are just completely confused about a nomination, it is fine to skip it.

The Review Support category is for topics that come up as you are reviewing, where other explorers can weigh in with our opinions.

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Thank you so much. Apparently there is some polemics around the acceptance of some graffiti art here in the community. I often come across some stuff like that to review and for now I am just skipping. I usually marked them as “not permanent and distinct” but in real life I see many Pokéstops that are just like these.

I agree that these are difficult to judge if they aren’t clearly art or clearly vandalism. If you would like to say what country you are reviewing in, maybe folks more familiar with your area can help guide you with what that community considers significant. Criteria is the same everywhere, but importance to the community can be different for different communities.

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Hello,

There is actually criteria clarification on graffiti such as this, as well as murals and street art in general that may be helpful to you:

Besides the Review Support thread, there is also the Criteria Clarification Collection thread, and there are several different topics here that may help when reviewing.

Yes, there are Wayspots out there that no longer meet criteria, or never did, but may have gotten approved by the community. One of the issues I have in my city is people nominating Little Free Libraries (LFL) that are on single family private residential property, PRP for short. LFLs are eligible, but if it’s at an ineligible location, it shouldn’t be accepted. Luckily, I’ve been able to get these removed, and I’ve even had the homeowners thank me for doing so. With that said, you may want to look at seeing if you can remove some of these Wayspots, and more info can be found here:

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Anyone know the location of the Frankestein graffiti?

No clue, but feel free to search the image online if you’re interested in it.


I think it just a graffiti on practice wall and not a mural, probally replaced by this one above.
If there is a location its easier to find
https://graffiti-database.com/

Information from the company about this is minimal. My surmise is that the rating goes on agreements. That, as I understand it, means your review decision being the same as the decision finally arrived at by the group.

So, it seems, in a a way, that the criteria are less important than the accuracy of your feeling on how those in your pool will vote.

So it may be, that to achieve a better rating you have to vote as others do.

That means there can be conflict on rating v criteria. If the design of the system is as we think

Good luck @jupkmn !!!

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I actually have the feeling people in my area try to nominate some weird stuff that does not meet the criteria and the community aproves it because here were I live there is so many places with nothing interesting (not poor, but really inequal country with lots of slums and rural-like areas) but the people want to play and enjoy the game. I don’t know if its fair or not because the only official guideline I have is the Niantic criteria.

Recently I travelled through Italy and for sure the Pokéstops there looked way cooler and made more sense acording to the guidelines.