Someone post their guesses on how OPR votes count

iLovePortalsiLovePortals ✭✭
edited June 2019 in Wayfarer (Archive)

Whats the minimum amount of reviewers needed for an agreement?

Is it true that a certain number of ENL and RES players need to vote before an agreement happens?

Are 1 star ratngs more detrimental than 5 star ratings?

Example, if a portal had 10 reviews and 2 are 5 star and the rest are 3 or 4 stars, is it more likely to be accepted than a submission which has 4/10 submissions with 5 stars and 2 with 1 star?


Edit: I'm posting this in the community ingress forums because I cant find an answer anywhere. The reddit AMAs make it sound like theres a system which isnt disclosed. I don't know why they do this. While community forums like these are helpful the lack of transparency and insight from older players is disheartening.

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  • HydracyanHydracyan ✭✭✭✭✭

    Don't know, but there been some of my limbo that became upgrade and in less than 5 minutes i got the final result, so I believe it was sitting there waiting for 3 years because a single vote...


    I believe the bigger the difference on rating, the faster it is. A really bad or invalid submission tends to be faster to reprove than a regular one.

  • MrajaniMrajani ✭✭✭

    @iLovePortals I think @LemoMcLemonFace got the point. We usually do OPR with my group of friends, and we noticed that. Remember that NIA wants essentially portals SAFELY ACCESSIBLE by almost anyone. So a portal might be not that good visually, but with a perfect / safe location, and get approved easily...Also candidates which are visually nice, but not in a perfect location to be safely hacked, being rejected easily.

  • oMrSinisterXooMrSinisterXo ✭✭✭
    edited June 2019

    I have the impression that the minimum number is 500. When I submit a new portal request, I do also upload the photosphere to Google Street View. The ones that gets approved usally gets above 500 viewership.

    Edit: There could be checkpoints along the way. For example, after n number of reviews, it the point system sums up positively, then system allow next batch of reviewers to assess the portal request. If at any point it is weight down, system will reject it immediately. This could be the reason why not all photosphere gets minimum 500 views.

    Need more people to test this theory.

  • I've had portals accepted after max 30 views on my photosphere (middle of the woods, no reason to think random people would view it)

    None of my photospheres have reached 500 views.


    It might ofcourse all depend on density aswell.

    Rural submissions might need far less reviewers than city based submissions.

  • OGMagusOGMagus ✭✭✭

    Sometimes, I get a sub up TWICE in a few days. I think the relevant number of reviews is highly dependant on player density/activity; they probably have software who do this, and adjustment, automatically.

  • EvilSuperHerosEvilSuperHeros ✭✭✭✭✭

    Based on the fake portals that some Pokemon Go users created with purchased accounts, and the amount of likes once the portal(s) went live, I'd guess about 8-12 agreements. This is for a location with 3 active agents. (all same faction (excluding one that was banned for spoofing)).

    Fake portals were removed from the user's home residence after multiple contacts to support then eventually forwarding all the info on to Krug. Guy even stitched in fake images into Google Street view, he was really wanting the home gym and stops.

    The purchased accounts, are still submitting portals and reviewing them in OPR currently.

  • The latest photosphere for a portal that went live for me currently has 83 views on it. There is no street view other than my photosphere so I know it loaded every time.

  • PangarbanPangarban ✭✭✭✭✭

    Thanks for posting that image @LemoMcLemonFace . The issue still comes up and players are still confused by things the help says. And I forgot I had asked and been answered on it!

  • The more 5 stars, the sooner and lesser votes required to get approved.

  • Lo que yo no entiendo es que como un grupo de agentes, llenos de envidia reprueban portales aun cumpliendo con las condiciones De portal, ¿Qué hace NIANTIC en ese caso?

  • I would speculate that there is some sort of checkpoint evaluation. After x time if the portal submission has a certain number of stars (total or scaled for local portal density) it either gets approved or denied.

    I think this because I had two "joke" submissions last almost 500 days. One was for a street sign for a "Niantic Drive" -total coincidence- and in my description I wrote something that sounded fancy followed by, "this is a terrible submission, hope you got a laugh!"

    Another was named "Hole in the wall" and made some double entendres for humor (even though it was literally just a large circle cut out of a stone wall).

    I imagine a significant number of people laughed and gave them 5* while others gave them the 1* they deserved. Because they likely got mixed reviews, it confused the system and they got stuck in the queue for a long time. If it was a certain threshold, I feel that they would have been denied much faster.

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