Currently, we can only submit 40 nominations for Pokemon Go & Ingress at the moment and we get 1 back each day. With the Machine Learning bot, nominations have been getting decisions much faster than it historically. That bring up the question: Is it time to increase the limit and/or increase the number of nominations you receive each day?
I have been submitting like crazy since the Machine Learning bot was introduced & have 0 nominations available on both Pokemon Go & Ingress and a camera backlog of a lot of nominations.
I would need more information on why the limit of 40 per game and the rate to get them back was chosen in the first place before voting. I know some people plan their vacations around submitting a LOT of wayspots. I know my area is just about maxed out and I don’t use the 80 I have.
I voted “not now, maybe later” but then again I rarely use up my quota in any game. I think I’d be more interested in seeing other games get nomination rights and more frequent in-game syncs first, or some sort of merit-based increase system. With the current limits in place, I’m able to plan out, pre-research, and budget my submissions while still allowing some leeway for those lucky finds I stumble across while exploring the countryside.
I put yes and i rarely have more than 6 or 7 nominations to make per week, I think there should be a thing where with every 200 accepted reviews you get an extra nomination with a max that you can get of like 5 or 10 extra nominations every week. This would definitely get me to review a lot more as upgrades are becoming less useful now.
I personally have never reached 40 per day; I think the most I’ve done is 6 or 7 in a day. But I do know of users that use up all 40 in both games daily, but they are not a large group.
So, I’m a maybe, but there needs to be conditions. Maybe the medal counts increased, maybe PoGo introduces a badge for submitting Wayspots that increases submissions, maybe have it tied to player level (although I will say it’ll be hard for me to get to 41 in PoGo with that 200 catches in 1 day).
I put maybe because, while I agree some users would really benefit from it, I think that it shouldn’t be a straight cap increase. If it’s a reward for reviewing for example, it balances the system more.
To be honest when they increased it from 7 nominations every 14 days to 40 nominations, I thought it would be madness. It kind of was, since it partially caused the large backlog of nominations. I do not think they will ever reveal why they picked the 40 limit, but if I had to speculate, I imagine they picked that limit because they thought the community could handle it. I do not think at the time that we could, but now with Emily and all the challenges,
I absolutely think more games needs nomination rights and more in-game syncs, but I am not an engineer or anything so I do not know how easy that would be to add. I imagine changing the limit for Pokemon Go and Ingress would be much easier in comparision, especially since they have done it in the past. Ideally I want the other games to get the ability to make nominations, but I just do not know if that is in the cards or not.
I hate the mindset with some Wayfarers that more quantity automatically means less quality. I see this mindset with reviewing as well. (Not throwing shade on you or anything.)
Honestly, most of the people that are dedicated enough to submit their full 40 nominations on both Pokemon Go & Ingress are likely submitting good nominations. If I had the majority of my nominations just rejected, then I would be extremely discouraged to submit 80 nominations between two games.
I agree there are some questionable nominations that gets approved, but that is just how things goes.
Last year, it took some nominations a year & half to resolve, but after all the Wayfarer Challenges, the backlog is much smaller than it used to be. Now, we have the Machine Learning bot Emily accepting and rejecting a bunch of nominations. Community voting have not been bad recently, and if it gets bad again, another Wayfarer Challenge can fix that.
Believe me, waiting a month for a community to go through community voting is a million times better than before.
Personally, considering that the current waypot management is independent in Wayfarer, it would be better to remove the nomination function from each game and make it clear that all nominations are done from Wayfarer as waypots to eliminate common problems.
It should also not be difficult to make it so that pressing the nominate button in the game app will launch the wayfarer application and allow nominations.
It’s a behavior that has already been achieved with the Campfire application.
Also, I have no comment on whether or not to open nominations for other games, as that is up to the managers of each game and their teams.
However, I personally don’t think it is particularly necessary for either Pikmin or Monster Hunter, since the importance of wayspot as a game system is not that high, and there are no real-time mushrooms, flowers, mining camps, etc. to be added.
Even if the need arose, it would only be a matter of organizing the first mentioned mechanism.
Maybe not necessarily having more than 40 nominations but possibly being able to get them back at a faster rate than one per day would be nice. I typically submit more than seven per week but then I’ll go on in extended period where I don’t submit anything and get them all back. But right now I am starting to get close to that zero.
ML has approved nearly 100% of my last 80 so I’m not putting any burden on reviewers.
I no longer nominate in pogo which leaves me with only 1 per day and that just isn’t enough. I have a huge list of stuff to do someday and I add on average more than 1 thing to it each day. that doesn’t even count things I find and nominate while traveling further than 25km from home so I do them right then.
Go to 2 per day for nominators with a solid record, maybe even 3 or 4 per day. and raise the cap to at least 80 if not more.
there’s really no good argument besides some vague notion of “quality” but I would bet the number of folks who would take advantage of these changes for good far outweighs the number who would use it to spam.
