Just now, for the third time tonight, I received a review for my own contribution. And it was two in a row.
And most of the night I’ve been seeing stuff from no where near me.
Very strange.
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And a fourth.
So far I’ve had two sets of photos, a pair of title/desc edits, and now a location fix.
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I thought we weren’t allowed to review our own submissions anymore. I haven’t seen ANY of mine, or got to vote for them for over a year now. It’s still possible to review your own?
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Are you referring to Nominations or Edits? Because we’ve always been able to review our own Edits.
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Perhaps someone elese has also put this as a possible POI as well as yourself.
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Edits.
It seems odd that we’d be allowed to review our own edits. It’s like approving your own code review. Of course it’s a good change, I wrote it!
And while I have occasionally seen my own before, I’ve never seen four in one session before, and certainly not two in a row.
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There were definitely edits (two spots with photos, one spot with both a title and desc change, and one spot with a location). One did have a photo that was of the spot, but I rejected because it also had a person in it. But everything else was definitely mine.
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Yes, contributors should not receive their own contributions for review. I have a few theories on why this might have happened. Could you please share the examples so that I could check? Thanks,
Please share the examples here and I’ll have a check.
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I see my own text edit suggestions frequently. I’ve even noticed several that I was the first vote on: checked my contributions page, it was still in queue, went back to review, submitted, and the edits were then in voting status in my contributions page
I can’t remember the spot with the title & desc edit nor can I remember the location edit. Sorry.
But, I do remember the photo edits. In both of these cases, it was the second time the associated images was going through the system, for different reasons.
The first was:
Classic Car Wash Fountain
37.258653,-121.876715
This was the second time I’d tried to contribute this photo (it is quicker to resubmit and hope for a success the second time around than to appeal).
The second was:
Avenue One Community: Amphitheater Pergola
37.243098,-121.794812
On this one, I was given two photos to review. One was this new one, the other was the current image for the spot. I recently nominated this spot using this second one as my support photo. I often eventually submit my support photos as extra photos to spots. I feel they often provide extra context (particularly useful when spots disappear and it makes it easier to verify that indeed, something has gone missing).
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That’s not the intended behavior.
Thanks for sharing these examples. I’m going to file a report for the concerned team to look into it. Meanwhile, please share any other cases you come across.
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Amusingly (?), those were about the only things I approved during last night’s batch. 
I did skip a lot, as most were from places I was not familiar with (I live in Silicon Valley, I don’t know anything about the east coast, upper mid-west, Texas, or Florida, so not sure why I was getting those).
The rest were generic or obvious dupes of existing spots.
I wasn’t aware of that, I’ve occasionally seen my own edits for as long as I can remember. These were submitted two days ago, and I voted on them today. They were shown to me combined on one review screen.
(Edited to change the date I said I submitted them, apparently I can’t read dates very well 
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This happens quite a bit with my edit submissions, and I have reported this before.
It just seems that I was the only one reporting this, but I’m glad now that others are getting their own submissions, too. I don’t feel alone!
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I see that the issue was escalated back then as well but we could not reproduce it. That should not be a problem now with multiple examples. Thanks again for your report.
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That’s been a thing since before I started contributing in 2019. It has been verified multiple times by multiple PMs as intentional.
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Further proof that Niantic’s staff doesn’t ever use their own program. As long as I can remember, reviewing my own edits has been a regular occurrence
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Further proof that Niantic’s staff doesn’t communicate with each other either
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