Time limit for portal edits, please!
Portal edits take too long, unreasonably too long. There should be a time limit (like 3 months) after which a decision is made, regardless. If the majority of reviewers in the 3 months period approved the change, then the change is made, otherwise it gets rejected and can be either appealed or submitted again.
So many months or even years to fix a misspelling or move a portal from a dangerous area are just ridiculous.
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I would put it at one year for all edit requests except location edits. There definitely should be some sort of time to live (TTL) for any edit request.
But I also like to know why edits take forever to get through. Do edits require a higher threshold of agreements than portal nomination before they are approved? Do they get be seen by the same size reviewer pool or is the pool smaller? The latter is extreamly troublesome because our area because we barely have enough reviewers to process portals nominations.
Edits are processed like portal reviews. If you want faster edits, convince more people in your area to do OPR. At least you rarely get edits outside your play area, so you don't have to convince the entire country to do it.
@TheFarix I believe that you only receive edits on OPR corresponding to level 6 s2 cells that you actively played in recently (a few days). When I travel to a nearby city 200km away (crossing into a new scoring cell) I get all their edits start to come through on OPR.
In comparison, you receive portal submissions from all over the country plus bonus and home areas. So there is a larger pool of reviewers for portal submissions compared to portal edits.
So many OPR reviewers skip edits anyways. That's why it takes so long compared to portals.
Not to mention a lot of reviers refuse to do any portals since it makes your agreement rate looks worse.
I have edits from March 2018 that are still in OPR because people won't do them. Even with photo spheres, new photos, etc.
If they skip edits and portals what do you think they ARE doing on OPR? *add Bobs from Office Space*
Looking for their red stapler.
I can honestly say edits are the easiest review to do, so I don't know why people would skip them. The "makes your agreements look bad" is their own nonsense. If you did 99% edits, and had a 1% agreement rate, Niantic still knows better.
I get less than 5% edits (all edits, not just location) and find them trivial BUT sometimes you get a satellite image of a forest and two (or multiple) dots and no way to verify which is correct. I can see these as being time consuming if you try to research them or worry about them.
Solution: Use some code from the submission screen and let "editors" make an extra photo as well as extra text! Could solve a lot of the worries.
I don't think this is 100% true. It is the L6 you played in and any of the 8 cells that surround it. I constantly get edits from the surrounding L6 cells.
@kholman1 The exact mechanics might be different then. Perhaps it could even be distance-based. I play near the north side of my scoring cell and I don't get any edits from the closest regional city, which is 150 km away in the cell to the south-west of mine. Whenever I go there a few times a year, I get all of their banked-up edits come through.
Regardless of the exact mechanism though, it still means that edits are highly dependent on local reviewer population. None of my edits made in my home city or the nearby regional city have ever received responses, but edits I have made interstate have come back in (only) 1-6 months.
I get edits from at least the scoring cell directly north of me which is about 20 miles north for the border and I get edits from a town 70 miles southwest in an adjacent cell, I am in the northern section of my S2 L6 cell though. It extends all the way to Waco Texas and I have gotten edits from there and they are about 90 miles south of me.
The base edits area is your scoring cell plus the 8 adjacent ones.
Being in LA I get a lot of edits from around me in all directions, so can be pretty sure of the average region.
However once or twice every few months I've gotten ones from further away, most noticeably one from Alaska where I've never been in range of.
When I do travel I seem to get an abnormally high burst of edits from that area which says to me that most areas are short of enough reviewers for edits.
IMO the only solutions are PoGo reviewers, or expand the edit range.
I too would like to see something done with edits beyond the 'recruit more' response. I believe a reasonable solution would be to expand OPR to level 10, but make them a sort of "OPR Lite" set of reviewers where they are restricted to a much smaller range and have their bonus location locked off until they reach level 12. It would certainly be better than letting Go players vote.
The "Smallest Range" would be their own cell only, which wouldn't really help the issue. Incorporating PoGo is really the only way that the PoGo level of submissions and edits is going to be supported. Even expanding the range would slow down areas with lots of Agents because they would be busy doing more edits from other regions.
Have lvl 10s ONLY review portal edits which count towards upgrades?
Give reviewers an option. That we can toggle between at whim..
1. Mixed
2. Portals only.
3. Edits only.
I'd actually be happy to work through edits only for a while.. If I cba opening opr atm.
If given the option, I believe most will choose "portals only", which won't solve the problem because it narrows the pool of reviewers. Instead, the solution is to expand that pool. And the simplest way to do that is to expand the review radius to match that of portal approvals.
That's a fair point.
How about give the options, then create a new badge based on edits.. 😂
Expanding the range won't really help in a specific area. If the count of reviewers is the problem, expanding it will slow down edits everywhere, and won't particularly help that area.
I've been thinking more about this issue and aside from "Convince more people to OPR", the only real solution is onboard PoGo and maybe WU in a non-detrimental format, to my mind.
Today (9th October 2019) I had the "Portal Edit review complete" email.
Looking through the emails I made the edit on 21st March 2018 in St Kilda, Melbourne.
Absolutely no idea what the edit was and 567 days is ridiculous. 18 months 18 days.
It isn't a one off either.
On the 6th October I got an edit review complete for Bayswater, Melbourne I submitted also on the 21st Match 2018 (Must have been busy that day!) So 564 days.
The time taken for edits and submissions is ridiculous. My oldest limbo submission is 677 days, 675d, 675d, 552d etc. And it's not the lack of reviewers as all of the aforementioned were approved in under month when I submitted them again a year later whilst the originals remain in limbo still.