Wayfarer abuse via edits
So we have a situation here in Split, Croatia where someone is trying to sabotage Wayfarer, stop people from reviewing portal submissions. This happened right as Pokemon players got the right to use Wayfarer and submit Pokestops.
Some Ingress player (or a group of them) flooded the system with edits, at least 100 of them but could be more haven't gotten to the end yet. These are all completely useless edits, correcting a single letter, or moving a portal few meters. Just pure spam.
We really need some report system to stop abuse like this.
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If correctly submitted first time edits wouldn't need to be done. Are you next going to say ban submissions?
Sorry but my area is littered with wrongly submitted portals that are not in the correct place. People submitting need to check the Marker when submitting portals.
How do you know they aren't edits that have been in the queue for months or years?
because I'm very active on OPR, I have reviewed all old edits.
No you haven't. Nobody has ever reviewed all edits.
take screenshots and report it via in game support they will take action if they deem it necessary.
After spending few months reviewing the submissions in Croatia and by the default submissions from the surrounding countries too, I totally understand where you are coming from. The situation was a bit demotivating for the submitters (I never faced so many denials of legitimate submissions as much I have in Croatia) but also for the reviewers (fact is that we are reviewing submissions with 3-4 different languages, not to mention that big number of submissions that have outdated or non existent street view and so...) The influx of pogo subs hasn't helped the system. I honestly don't see what can be done with it, but I hope something will be done with it, as non necessary edits are really a big waste of time.
We've had stupid edits go live lately. Renames of things to completely nonsensical ****.... the standard for edits must be massively lower than portal creation/deletion.