Submissions near each other all in voting, aren't they meant to queue to prevent duplicates?
I have a half dozen submissions within a few dozen metres of each other, and are all in voting. Looking at them now, it seems like something might be wrong, since previously my understanding was that they'd wait until each was accepted in a local area to allow checking for duplicates.
Oddly none have gotten a response for about 3 times as long as the usual wait around here, and those in voting stage have been there for something like a week when it usually takes a day or two.
It could just be that reviewers have slowed down, or the increasing portal density of my area has lowered their priority. When reviewing was briefly available for pogo players I reviewed about 183 and have agreements on 83 in Ingress, and so my internal wayfarer rating might be in the red which might have caused my submissions to freeze up, though I'm unsure if there's any reports of that. I also tried to use an upgrade which I've heard may be bugged, or perhaps was in my case after being locked out of reviewing.
Comments
I have lots of examples of closely-spaced portals that are in voting/were seen in OPR at the same time. I even have a case of a portal that was accepted, then 4 hours later another I’d submitted on the same day got a proximity “rejection” based on the first portal. (Meaning that two submissions that were less than 20 m apart were being reviewed at exactly the same time.)
So so if there’s anything to the blocking theory, it’s complicated.