Wayfarer Ratings Bug

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My wayfarer rating was affected by the bug last year and has never been fixed.

I’ve reported this before and it was ignored (below).

I’ve only done one batch of reviews in the past 12+ months because of this bug. During the last challenge I did 62 reviews and I believe my upgrade % went up by 60 (+/- 5 or so). My rating remains “Fair”.

I’ve done nearly 7000 reviews all time. I review slowly, I check streetview, I google things to verify existence and facts, I never click a decision within 60 secs even if its something very obvious, say a clear duplicate. For unusual things I’ll take the trouble to go back to the criteria pages and double check. I have nearly 350 accepted wayspot submissions at a success rate of around 80%.

It only dropped in the challenge period last year when there was the bug. Before that it was Great almost always, occasionally dropping to Good if I had a long break and came back and did a bunch of reviews in a day or so. Then it would go back to Great after a while.

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Hey @kruddel ,

Wayfarer rating is based on the number of agreements and disagreements. Here are a few tips to help you review more effectively and maintain your performance rating:

  • Follow the criteria while reviewing nominations, we recommend keeping the eligible and ineligible criteria pages open in a different browser tab for easy access.
  • Take your time and review each segment on its own merit. Read this article for tips on how to review each section: Niantic Wayfarer
  • Avoid using third party tools/plugins or depending on others to decide on how you vote on a nomination.

Regards,

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Great.

But there was a bug.

You guys took a long time to acknowledge it, and did not explain the intricate details to us.

If I remember correctly, you may have attempted a fix, received a lot more complaints, and then offered a fix to the fix.

If you read the OP’s post, you may have noted that they already addressed the top two points that you fed back as tips. They described how they understand the use of criteria in their own analysis, and make sure to take their time over each review.

This leaves only tools/plugins, and I am ignorant of these outside of TehStone/AlterTobie stuff that doesn’t appear to influence voting.

Are you sure nobody’s stats remained stuck due to previous bugs?

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Yes, there was an issue. It has since been fixed. We had rolled back any impact it had on anyone.

Absolutely.

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