Are there documented rules against OPR abuse/coordination?

One concern about the influx of PoGo reviewers is how rampant multi-accounting is in PoGo. There remains a distinct possibility that this will make it easier for Ingress Agents and/or PoGo Trainers to coordinate votes in order to abuse the Wayfarer process.

Obviously this kind of thing is talked about as abuse (and I agree that it is) -- but are there actually documented rules against it? Because I've been unable to find anything other than Nia commenting on things being "against the spirit" of OPR.

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  • In my experience, about half the pokemon go players are not in discord or other chats. Coordination is unlikely. A good portion of the multi-accounting is a result of the inability to coordinate to do the raids.

  • RostwoldRostwold ✭✭✭✭✭

    Another large portion of multi-accounting in Pokemon is to act as a 'radar'. Monsters you've never caught show on your 'nearby' screen with priority, and at quite a long distance, but once you have one, this stops. In order to catch the multiple rare 'mons you need for evolution, a second account that never catches them comes in handy (and many players see this as a work-round for the removal of the 'three footsteps' system that let you actually track monsters in the wild when the game first came out, rather than blundering around as you are forced to do now).

  • slalomzslalomz ✭✭✭

    Playing multiple PoGo accounts is already against the ToS. It just doesn’t seem to be enforced.

  • TheFarixTheFarix ✭✭✭✭✭

    You can report PoGo multi-accounters until you are blue in the face, but nothing was ever done about them. So most other players just gave up and joined in since there were no negatives to using multiple accounts.

  • I probably should've left the PoGo bit out as it has little to do with my question...

    Are there any rules explicitly stating that reviewers should not collude to influence the results of wayfarer nominations?

  • harkonnnenharkonnnen ✭✭✭✭

    Forget the pogo part, it's a struggle to get people to review let alone review on 2-3 accounts.

    People will try and collude, others with vote more favourable to ones that benefit them, nothing is new about that even now.

    Let's just all wait and see, some areas might be a massive blessing others far less so. Terrible stuff will get through like before, but maybe a higher amount but similar percentage that's currently getting through.

    Also who doesn't want to watch the forums see which ones might fail the test, see How there ranking goes etc

  • Since we have no insight into how many reviews one would need to do in order to run into our own submissions, it would be a daunting task. We do not have much insight into how wayfarer determines which submissions to let you vote on next. I believe it'd require review-bots in order to actually exploit the system. The anti-botting measures are what would keep this from becoming a problem.

  • OGMagusOGMagus ✭✭✭

    "OK, that's one hour down on my firt account. Now let's get started on the second. Hope I'll get to the third by lunch! Man, I really love playgrounds! : Best of all, when I get home from work, I get to do it all over again!"

    The theory of multi-reviewing as a big problem, is already weak, but in light of presumed deluge of "newbie" submissions in any given location I'd say it's highly unlikely.

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