Declining Portal submission quality in general.
I have been getting portal submissions lately that I feel are people either to afraid that they will get rejected and write in wrong support statements on why a portal is needed or I am getting a ton of submissions with the supporting photo showing the vehicle is it just me or do people not understand or care to even try with prime submissions. I don't need a paragraph why this portal is going to be a good portal why it will give off a lot of XM and the vehicle showing in support photo should be an instant denial as it shows they aren't following naintics rules but I give them a chance as we have not gotten clarification if the support photo is taken from vehicle 1* is appropriate.
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I agree that portal submission quality is down, but that could simply because all the good portals in areas that get a lot of submissions are already in use.
I don't think the quality of the support photo should have anything to do with how we star a submission. It is there for reference only. If the actual portal photo is taken from a vehicle then, yes, that is an instant one star.
But my point is you can pretty much deduce that they are submitting from the car and zooming in for the portal photo against the rules set by niantic. There needs to be a way to flag agents who repeatedly take photos from inside the vehicle. I feel like im just getting sick of voting hearing about saying it will make a good portal or this will give more XM. I feel like these people have made the supporting photo and statements worthless if they are going to do this just revert back to redacted style submissions for prime so reviewers time isn't wasted.
The rule isn't that you cannot take pictures from your vehicle. The rule is that parts of your vehicle should not show up in the photo.
@TheFarix it is still cheating the system the support photo is supposed to show the surrounding area and if someone is just driving around snapping shots from their car no. Stop the car get out and take a photo of the portal because the reviewers can't get a good shot of your surrounding area if all we see is the review mirrior or your door quarterpanel with a smaller view of the candidate wasting the reviewers time if they are going to submit from the car might as well just use redacted and save their time showing the support photo as at this point the support photo is worthless.
It could be new submitters or returning players who could be submitting it. Ingress Prime agents just got the ability to submit a month or two ago and if they haven't been properly introduced on how to submit in a properly manner then issues like this arise. Not to mention I know a lot of very casual ingress players who probably didn't even know REDACTED existed and they could submit in there still.
It felt like an overall decline because of a mass wave of new submitters who need to learn how OPR works, in a couple of months it will be just like to normal for most places unless the countries you review gets Pokestop Submission capabilities.
Probably is because there is a lot of valid candidates rejected too, ive had churchs and tennis courts rejected, while i know i will just need to send it again making me waste time and money, others might feel like they need to tryhard more for convince the subjective and biassed way so many people vote in the opr
supporting photo you could careless if appears from a car, what it matter is the actual portal photo, nothing more, dont be a nitpicking person, follow the guidelines and rules, not invent yours
I am not one starring based on support statement my point is they are wasting the feature and not helping them out who isn't to say some of these are rejected due to the supporting photo and sstatements making the sumbitter not taking the time and effort into doing the submission. i give a fair vote but it is tiring and wasting people's time when i could be onto another vote.
Lots of PoGo players (Level 40) submitting nonsense in my area. The quality of submissions have gone down from the reviews I have done.
We try to educate but many don't bother listening and just keep submitting nonsense.
received 90% portal from singapore address is just for edit location next to it around 10mm, im so done
@saltedeggfries I am level 13 in ingress and level 40 in Pogo it depends on the person. I have had issues locally where pogo players were tagging portals for their friends names in the submissions but it was one or two people. Most of the people that jumped into ingress locally from pogo are trying to make areas better with quality candidates and not gaming the system it also helps a lot of the agents submitting started with beta and played ingress first. I started in pogo but I took the time to study the POI system for a year or so before I started playing ingress and when OPR came out I read up on what makes a quality portal and I have done a few tests on things like trail markers etc. Nothing that is against the guidelines. I have played ingress for almost 2 years.