Portal Edits MUST be answered in a timely manner!
And is just from when I started keeping track of the portal edit submissions. I didn't keep track of edits I made during the first year and a half. For example, I first reported Mortality's mislocation as far back as late 2016. @NianticCasey and @NianticBrian, when are these ever going to get answered? It is absolutely unacceptable to have edits as far back as early 2018 or before still in the system.
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I would avoid sending new edits on portals that have been in queue for some time as it seems to reset their votes and push em back to full vote circle🤔
That's just a ridiculous number of portal edits.
You realise it's not Niantic that needs to answer them. It's reviewers that need to review them on Wayfarer.
And how long should one wait for a response? We have people grouble when they don't get a responce in a couple of weeks, but I've been waiting 2 years or more for a single response to any of my edits. Wayfarer is clearly broken in regard to portal edits, so Niantic needs to take direct action to correct the problem of unanswered portal edits.
lol only 2 years? I still have some out from a long time ago (2014/2015) that are still pending. I had one deletion request come through 2 years after I submitted it it for something that had already been gone for a year. Starting to think that the old edits got pushed through silently and no email sent, like many portal submissions that were quietly denied (no emails sent) right around the time Wayfarer started.
But that is a large amount of portal edits. Just moving stuff around, or name edits or what?
As for waiting a long period of time, Wayfarer is still not in chronological order. Just think if they had their support tickets not go in order...just random...wait, nevermind, still generic response then closed. Not a good example there.
I only just got my 2016 edits completed.
Yes, I do feel like you are investing too much time in
pokestopportal edits.@EvilSuperHeros wrote:
But that is a large amount of portal edits. Just moving stuff around, or name edits or what?
The majority of them are title edits, mostly renaming US Post Office to <community> Post Office. There are probably a dozen location updates, most of which are around the Raleigh County Courthouse and neighboring Shoemaker Square, which is just a mess of mismatched locations. Of the 13 waypoints, only 6 are close to being in the correct locations. The other location edits I made were do to bad data when the post offices were originally scraped from Google Maps in 2012.
There seem to be a few in the middle of the road. Most look like their off by about a block but not in a dangerous or forbidden place like a school or prp. Have you considered reporting for removal and re-submitting at least for some like the ones in the middle of the road?
Have you asked these pogo players to help you via reviewing so you can get these edits processed then? I find they generally use what's put in but few submit and far far fewer review.
I'm not connected with that particular community since they exclusively use Facebook and I've closed out my Facebook account years ago.
I think the only way you're going to get an answer is to have players in your area get involved in Wayfarer.
You can't just shove the sole responsibility of getting people in Wayfarer on the few Agents who do it though. Wayfarers try a lot to get others involved, but it's not exacltly an appealing activity.
I understand you're just giving the practical advice, but it's something that just doesn't work most of the time.
Seeing as Niantic has pushed reviewing waypoints to the community since 2017 and expanding it to Pokémon Go a few months ago, that is what they are wanting. Niantic has been hands off unless it's a private residence or there's evidence of dirty play.
Maybe Niantic will add more moderation down the road?
Some areas are locked without replies for as long as I remember. I've made literally hundreds of edits, mostly title adjustments. I've managed to track it down and it seems to be governed by level 10 S2 cell boundaries.
This is how it looks like in my home area. I've made edits (a lot of them) all over those cells. The ones in cells marked green get processed (some in less than 2 weeks). I never received a reply to edits inside crossed cells for as long as they got thrown to OPR/Wayfarer reviewers.
I don't know if it's a bug or a design decision, but it surely warrants being checked.
It's actually a fair amount considering the time. You either live in a perfectly portal Network, or don't care at all if everything is misplaced and mislabeled.
I don't think the comment was about the total number of edits over the course of two years. It would be a lot more if edits were processed in a timely manner. The comment was more about how many unprocessed edits there are with no action taken.
Sometimes portal edits aren't processed because information is ambiguous (meaning reviewers disagree for some reason) until the reasons for the edit are clear enough to the reviewers no reasonable action can be performed.
I've occasionally had success by first submitting a clearer picture, so some of the more glaring issues can be solved.
Location edits, for example, seem to work best when more of the location is recognizable.
Post office names, for example, go through faster if something on the buildings g says the name.