I’ve had a question on my mind lately—new Wayfarer spot nominations seem to be taking longer to move from queue to voting. I don’t mean to cause any trouble, but it really caught my attention that out of four recent nominations, only one has made it to the voting stage. This didn’t use to happen, at least not a month or two ago.
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Something that happens to me is: send portal nomination like 2-4 times and get rejected because yes (sometimes they put wayfarer criteria but that means nothing), and suddenly that portal appear without a owner but with my 2-4 pictures.
This seems super fast to many of us. I don’t see this time frame as an issue. Did you see this announcement?
If you review, you can earn upgrades to use on any of your nominations that you think are taking too long. That will send them to a wider review pool.
I think this must be a case of where it had been submitted and accepted through Pokemon Go where it did not show in Ingress, then your nominations were marked as duplicates and the photos were added to the Wayspot, which is how that works. Then something happened to make it eligible to appear in Ingress, probably a location edit, so now you see the portal with no name and your photos.
Sometimes they approve one point but no for ingress, is for the other games, for me is got no sense i check the games and they got less spots than ingress, it should be the same map but i really dont know why they complicate a simple game
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Oh Ingress decided not to use Wayspots Niantic imported. That could be why you see them in other games and not in Ingress.
Ingress is not going to Scopely so there won’t be any crossover in the near future.
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Thank you for your response, @cyndiepooh
Yes, I don’t see any issue with the timing, and this isn’t a complaint at all—what caught my attention is simply that the local park where I live only had about 4 PokéStops within a 5-kilometer radius (maybe one or two Gyms), and I’ve put in a lot of effort to ensure that my nominations meet Niantic Wayfarer’s acceptance criteria, aiming to turn the area into a more meaningful point of interest for the local community.
What I mean is, the nominations I submitted over a one-month period (roughly 10–15 nominations) were typically processed—moving from “in queue” to “in voting”—within about 8 to 10 days.
That timing will depends on ur area. Some of my submission still stuck in queue from january and february
Did you upgrade them before 48 hours elapsed? Then your “upgrade” is actually a “delay”.
I knew this longstanding (but unadmitted) rule, but I forgot and upgraded one in each of several sets of three - a mere 20 hours after submitting. Of each set, the un-upgraded two went through before the upgraded one.
OTOH, what do you mean by “longer”? It’s taking a month, when it used to take a week? It takes a day and a half, when it used to take 18 hours?
I know a lot of long time explorers believe this, but I do not find it to be true. I recently checked it by submitting two nominations in a single cell and one in an adjacent cell and upgraded one of them after 24 hours had passed to be sure there was no “automated process” rejection. It went into voting first.
Interesting. I’m talking about nominations and text edits I made Friday April 10. The 30-45 not upgraded ones resolved first. The 15 upgraded (~20 hrs after submitting) ones are just now coming thru.
This still seems lightning fast, after old trauma of things taking years to resolve. But it’s annoying that it feels like my upgrades were used against me.
Can you get a lucky trinket from this?
No. They announced that the lucky trinket was not going to be possible to reward and changed it to a super rocket radar.
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