Successful Appeals

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I won both of my appeals the last few days, now I have to wait 11 days from 7 Jan 26 to get an appeal back. Seems like if you are successful in your challenge, you should be able to earn at least one of them back.

Anyone have any thought on this?

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I do not want them to get so many appeals coming in that they get backed up again.

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Several threads have had similar comments dropped into them.

I’m not convinced by the suggestion this would overwhelm the system, because it would only be for successful appeals. Statistically, new appeals from someone who has successful appeals are more likely to be good appeals. Throttling the process to prevent good appeals due to poor reviewing is very negative.

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If it could be made to work without slowing things down, then that would be wonderful! Also it would be good if this could also happen when a poor appeal rejection is overturned on the forum

I have to appeal a lot of my submissions. I recently had a patio area at a spa consisting of loungers, sunlamps, and hot tubs that even had a sign rejected by regular reviewers as not distinct. This was overturned on appeal (obviously). Regular reviewers consistently reject everything I submit at this spa despite these being areas that are great places to socialise and/or exercise. Its the same for gyms. And the ML recently is rejecting trail markers too (for established trails that have PoIs already). All this stuff has to be appealed

So appeals are really important for me and the only way to get things that meets criteria accepted a lot of the time. My main backlog is just waiting for appeals to reset.

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Would people be willing to add the opposite end?

Example:

  • Any accepted appeal is returned straight away but…
  • You use both and they are both Rejected then the “timer” is extended say to 25 days.

This should correct any problem of “overwhelming the system” and maybe make people consider whether an appeal is the correct thing to do…

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Nice idea. There’s a distinct chance that people will just try it on with appeals - “this failed review, let’s give it another try”, without considering whether it is simply not eligible - so this delay would either make people think twice or reduce how frequently they could try it on.

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I wish there was a way to mass appeal trail markers lol. I understand why you can’t (each needs to be reviewed on its own merit etc etc) but it feels very bleak to have to wait 14 days just to appeal the same thing but 100m away

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if a successful appeal is returned immediately, the appeal processing lag would likely increase to around two weeks for everyone. However, it shouldn’t keep growing beyond that. The “returned immediately” effect would be naturally negated by the processing time itself - in practice, the appeal would only become available again after about 15 days, roughly matching the time it takes for the previous appeal to be resolved :upside_down_face:

Personally, I prefer to keep faster appeals for everyone, with no extra appeals, and no discrimination.