Make OPR more rewarding
I can think of several ways to make OPR more rewarding.
- Let reviewers choose which nomination gets upgraded. Nothing more disappointing than getting an upgrade on a crapshoot submission from a month ago. It would be out of OPR on its own in a couple of weeks anyways. Reviewers could either choose the next nomination to be upgraded ahead of time, or upgrades can wait for a manual action once 100 agreement threshold is reached.
- Allow portal edits to be upgraded. I have an edit from January 2017 stuck in OPR; I wouldn't mind spending an upgrade to push it through. In most cases reviewers would prefer upgrades to be used on new portals rather than edits, so this should be optional, with the ability to select which edit would be upgraded.
- Double-point events to clear the backlog. The backlog in my area has been growing since January 2019. It went from days to 1-2 months now. And that's in the US. I can only imagine what the backlog looks like in countries with Pokemon GO nominations.
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Agreed. Also making good submits should be rewarded.
I also think that people who get a lot of rejects in a row should receive less submits
That will encourage reviewers to auto-reject anything form an area, even if all portals are legitimate, if they believe that it can harm another players ability to submit. Best not empower players in such a way.
IMHO it will be great, to have "super upgrade" chance, IE with 200 agreements, which may lead you to choose 3 of your pending submitions, or just one. It is very unfair the way are upgrades implemented right now.
As always, we need to be careful features that can be "gamed". How 'bout some easy QoL like;
-Rejects getting info on WHY it was rejected
-Prime edit with supporting photo and text
etc.
Stuff that that would feel rewarding, at least for me.
We do need double point events. The upgrade effects wore off and we are down 50% from the peak of upgrades going live and 90% down from when OPR was doing a million agreements a day at the peak.
Yes please, I keep saying this: we desperately need upgrades for portal edits! I’m begging you, Niantic.
I need to echo the portal edit upgrade. I also have several that have been suck for over a year. Nominations for me have been coming back within a week usually, so I don't really need the upgrades from OPR. Edits on the other hand would be amazing.
I think the edits lag time is a much worse issue, even than the new portal delay. There are DOZENS of portals with bad info, misspellings, missing details like the names of artists for murals. I think it's important to credit artist's work but edits I put in in November are still hanging around and most OPR reviewers skip the edits because they get no reward for them. Furthermore location edits are an absolute JOKE. I submitted a gazebo in a park that somehow got moved to the wrong spot, but determined it would be easier to submit the gazebo next to it as an additional portal than to try to move the original portal to the correct spot. Edits should be easier to do than submissions, not harder! It's crazy that I can't even fix my own submission that I mistyped while walking around eaten by mosquitoes on a hot and sunny day where I could barely see my phone.
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"That will encourage reviewers to auto-reject anything form an area, even if all portals are legitimate, if they believe that it can harm another players ability to submit. Best not empower players in such a way." (Wow the forum won't let new members quote in their posts
Something should be done. The biased abuses of OPR are ridiculous and need to stop. At the same time we have been flooded with poor attempts at home portals. One farm has been submitted 4 times. Another family keeps taking photos of their stuffed animals, and a third player keeps trying to pass off a wishing well 2 blocks away as being at their home... Whereas I have an 82% acceptance rate (with many of the rejections passing on second tries) and put genuine effort into high quality descriptions and photos.
Going back to the op...
I'd like a sudo financial reward. If I got 100 credits a day to use in ingress, pogo, or WU, I'd review as many as needed for those CMU or coins. It would likely have little to no financial loss to Niantic, but would have reviewers back in troves.
To me, the fast tracked review have been not noticably faster, and I don't really care about it. They'll be reviewed when they're reviewed.
Currently I review in OPR when I remember to, probably a dozen or so every few days.