Reviewer test needs variety!

Right now my local/regional community is getting a whole lot of new portals, no doubt bolstered by the fact that PoGo players can review as well now. However, the vetting process for authorizing new reviewers has a serious flaw - it seems to pose the same questions for everyone doing the test. As I saw some friends who plays exclusively PoGo answer the questions they very much looked the same as the ones I undertook.

In my opinion, this will only allow huge amounts of truly unqualified reviewers access to Wayfarer as it'll be easy to make a cheat-sheet with the answers to all the questions. Needless to say the ramifications of this is a lot of potentially invalid portals getting through causing Niantic all sorts of hassle. I've already seen candidates like a boat mast get voted through.

A suggestion to remedy this is that there should be more variations in the test - perhaps including title and location edits as well. After all approving new candidates is only one aspect of Wayfarer.

Niantic likely considers their catalogue of POIs a valuable asset, so please take more steps to ensure what's going into your games at least meet the very criteria you've set yourselves.

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  • TheFarixTheFarix ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 2019

    In my opinion, this will only allow huge amounts of truly unqualified reviewers access to Wayfarer as it'll be easy to make a cheat-sheet with the answers to all the questions.

    I'm pretty sure that already happens, and unfortunately, there really isn't a way to combat it. Even if you add more questions or types of questions into the pool, a resourceful enough group will eventually get all of the questions and their likely answers.

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