After a discussion elsewhere on “rejecting” submissions that do not belong in the system, how do you reject very generic submissions?
Would you simply thumbs down “permanent and distinct”? Or do you take the risk and 4 up 3 down and hope it equals reject? 
Also what was your average time spent reviewing per day for this challenge? haha (for me bank holiday weekend meant less time as taking care of a 3 year old means no review time 
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This is what I did, and my rating dropped, presumably partly due to the number of rejections I had to do on this challenge, which felt much higher than usual. So I assume it doesn’t mean reject.
Which leaves us with no way to actually reject things by saying they’re permanent, real, and safe but don’t meet any criteria.
For very generic submissions I just thumb down permanent or distinct, I don’t take the risk of 4 up and 3 down as I’m not sure if it rejects the review or not and I don’t want to be, by mistake, approving stuff I consider is not valid.
Related to the time spent per day was of some hours, about 3 or 4h (mostly in the night time that was when I had free time). It could have be more but I had other obligations that didn’t let me review as much as I know I can.
Yes this is what i do too. Though they probably should make the “permanent and distinct” criteria explanation (and rejection mail) clearer, as it still seems there is wiggle room for people to argue that its not an appropriate way to reject bad/generic submissions 
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I usually don’t reject unless it’s obvious
If in doubt, the skip button has been very helpful.
Has the ‘must spend 15 seconds at each edit/nomination to avoid the ban’ been removed??
To do 12,596 edits at 15 seconds each requires 52 hours of reviewing!
I gotta say that my stomach is sinking a bit hearing about spending 15-30 seconds on a review… I’ve only done a few nominations but they were all quite a bit of work… I don’t think someone could read what I wrote in 15 seconds, let alone check the internet/streetview/etc to make sure I’m telling the truth. Most of what I’ve done has been accepted (25/28, and I think one was because of the upgrade glitch). I did a few more than 250 reviews during this event because it was a reward level, and I try to give them the respect I’d want someone to give my nominations. My supporting text is longer than I usually see, but my goal is to make it easier for reviewers by pointing out where the supporting picture is taken from and in what direction, and adding links that might help confirm my assertions.
That is when you put on Paw Patrol and review with kids
My kids are both teens now so they ignore me and I therefore have more review time. I was hoping for 1500 but due to errors, lag, and general life demands I was just shy of that around 1393 or something.
I forgot all about some photo edits I did while in Mexico in December. They were resolved during the challenge when we soared that way. Although, after reviewing again more often than I did years ago, I know they should not have been approved as they had people in the background, but they were anyways.
From my experience there are reviews that I need less than 5s to know if they are not valid (the most obvious ones), so some times I don’t really need to read everything to know is an instant reject. I’m fast reader so usually I don’t need 30s to read all the nomination and check if the rest is okay. I know there are more folks like me, so spending less than 30s to check all the review is not a madness for me.
Quite apart from the full nominations, you dont need 15 or 30 seconds to say “all pictures meet critiera”. And considering this was an edit challenge, a lot of the reviews were pictures, or locations ie which of these dots that are practically in the same place is correct? Well, both of them, so that’s about 3 seconds to click one and move on.
The actual nominations might take a little longer but there were a lot of edits that are very fast.
Also agree, for some things they are either obviously acceptable or obviously rejections. It’s the in between that might need more time, but we are taking about averages so for anything less there is then some more time for something that needs more thought
I don’t need 30 seconds to approve a playground on a housing estate that just got built for example. Nor do I need 30 seconds to reject an ugly grafitti scribble
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I’m not complete with that.
The “graffiti scribble” f.e. for me comes under accuracy. Before that I check for dups, pot. abuse (wrong location), safety.
Maybe I’m too picky, but in the challenge I only achieved 534 and it took looong and was hard for me.
30 sec? Only for photo edits.
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If its just a vandalism ie not art then its straight away reject for me, I dont need to read what they made up about it being important (often these are low effort submissions anyway- only a few words to read in each box)
If its an amazing cool mural I also dont need to read the supporting info because I dont need any convincing.
Supporting info for me is really important for those cases where the submitter is needing to convince me to accept something that is less obvious. I always like to give the benefit of the doubt so I don’t usually reject without reading everything, but for vandalism graffiti I would make an exception
Sorry, I meant “permanancy”.
Even one process step more 
I didn’t say that I don’t pre-judge with the first photo, but I do all steps within.
Ok, a graffiti scribble nominator will calculate the risk of rejection, but I hope that my “full review” give the chance to response something useful (not 1:1, but they can make something out of this) or even be food for the robot brain.
Not more not less
ah, the pictures… I open each one in a separate link to look for people, license plates, and the reflection of the submitter in windows… but that’s just me. Well taken that edits should be faster, though.
Well I’m a boomerass 60-something white man and I think that grafitti scribbles are … NOTHING MORE OR LESS THAN CULTURE THAT I DON’T UNDERSTAND. For this reason if there’s any chance of permanence and other factors are good I always approve.
Seeing as I’m on a roll of being a dim boomer, how do I claim or otherwise get my in-game rewards for this escapade?