I don’t mean to come off as pedantic. But i feel like presenting something as a black hole is a big deal. I’m in a city that used to have a bad black hole. We are now back to about a month wait time for comminity reviews for some things. Some things get rejected really quickly by the community. It just depends on what has been submitted.
Here’s the thing. Boston got attention from other wayfinders. People chose to help by setting their bonus location there. And to hear that “it’s still broken” makes those people feel like their contributions didn’t help. But then to hear that it’s not actually broken, it’s just performing the same way it does in other big cities, makes it feel like they were kinda tricked into spending time and effort on Boston.
I just want the people in Boston to realize that they aren’t being targeted. In fact, lots of people responded but now the local community is quiting because they don’t like how the system works? That’s not a good look.
As for people quiting, do you really mean to say that your locals would rather manually review than allow ML to handle reviewing? Most of the wayfinders in my area have 90%+ acceptance rate from ML and would never give that up. If y’all are struggling to get ML to accept your submissions, that is a conversation i think is worth having. Lets see if we can improve your submissions. (“Your” meaning the community as a whole.)