Took 40 days and 3000 reviews to review a local upgrade that is still pending (some perspective)
There has been a lot of discussion on how long upgrades result times have been and while Niantic acknowledged they were looking into the inconsistent review speed for upgrades, they also said they didn't have an answer for it yet.
Locally we have some fairly high volume reviewers and I was always shocked when even they would be seeing a local upgrade 2 months after it had been upgraded. This made me curious as to just how many reviews they were doing before seeing said upgrade and today I finally pinned down specific numbers.
Submitted: 12/9/19
Submission: A train caboose repurposed as a commuter information office. Nicely painted, safe sidewalk access, commercial area. Easy 5 star candidate or at worst 4.
Upgraded: 12/23/19 (have discord message on that date from submitter saying it was upgraded)
Total Nominations Reviewed of the reviewer at time of upgrade: 10,033 on 12/20/19 (confirmed from discord screenshot)
Date the reviewer reviewed that specific submission: 2/2/20, now with a Total Nominations Reviewed of 13,253
Submission is still in voting.
Area generally has a 2-6 month result time and hometown is set as the same town as the sub.
Comments
Where are you seeing the votes?
What he saying is that he reviewed it on 02/02. It was upgraded a month ago and 3,000+ other things were prioritized for his reviewing before seeing it. He is wondering why 3,000 things are prioritized before an upgrade.
But where is he seeing the number at?
Those are totals on profile page. There were that many he personally reviewed.
Uh what? How are you seeing the review counts?
Totals for each submission is not on the profile page.
This Agent looked at their Profile and say how many total reviews they had done when this submission had been upgraded.
This Agent looked at their Profile to see how many total reviews they had when they finally saw this "local" submission in their review screen.
They took the difference and saw that it took over 1 month from upgrade date and they had to review 3000 nominations in order to just see this submission.
They are not saying they know how many others have reviewed it. They are saying its upgraded and took them over a month to see it for the first time.
Will also add that in the same exact area, there have been 5 other upgrades which all got results back within a few days.
4 submissions in the l14 cell to the right of it were submitted weeks after the submission mentioned in the OP, upgraded immediately and all 4 got results within a few days.
The submitter of the OP sub, also just upgraded another submission from the same submission date of 12/9, 3 l17s cells above op sub location and that got a result back within a day of being upgraded.
Reviews go quick if you spread your submissions out and not at just one cell. One cell they seem to go in a random order of one at a time, until the others are resolved. Areas with nothing in them go faster than ones that have a bunch of portals already in it.