Pokemon Go Mark III

josip wrote: »

Ignore it, there's very little you can do.
Most of us who were green up to the 20th-25th of April are now in red also. That was when they changed the algorithm and since then submissions take way longer because they ended up nerfing everyone's rating.
Reviews from Red Ratings count way less than Green Ratings.
They will probably at some stage try to retune the algorithm, and in the process break something else.

Well there's a bit of nuance required here; all of this is speculation because Niantic is as free with information as the Catholic church are about pedophiles basically. There been multiple changes but what it boils down to is previously your score was based only on what had finished voting. If you had were aligned with what ever direction (reject or approve) you got points and if you were not you lost some points. Anything in voting was in limbo basically. What they then changed for unknown reason was to count anything that is under voting, but not finished, as part of the disagreement pile. Hence suddenly if you review 200 stops you suddenly got 200 disagreements until those votes resolved themselves which quickly drove you into the reds as it measures on your latest reviews (total number unknown). If you then waited out those 200 reviews you'd swing back into the green again.

Really stupid system but this is Niantic; chances of them acting on it before 2021 is low simply because they then took the second approach to resolving it which is throw more bodies at it. Hence they dropped the review requirements from 40 to 39 / 11 and then 38 / 10 and dangled a medal for it. That way they get more bodies into the system to review and the "problem" of the veteran reviewers not bothering goes away for a while. The problem with that of course is not only is the quality of reviews dropping like a stone (the stuff I've got approved because of this...) but it's a short term fix to a long term problem.

Just for comparison, here are my agreement stats.
My Accepted and Duplicated are fairly normal I believe, my Rejections might be lower than average, but they were the same when i was in green.

Sorry to be the bringer of bad news but first of all your rejection rate is way to low; normal rejection rate is around 40 to 50% on a global scale (and that's with new reviewers; once the new people drops out rejection rate goes up a lot higher esp. as people get pissed of about their sofa stops being rejected etc.). Secondly your total approved/rejected/duplicate vs. review rate is at 44% which is once again very much on the lower end of green. This may be partially skewed if you've done a lot of recent reviews however as your at only 2.1k reviews. As a reference I'm sitting at 14.5k reviews with 63% agreement rate and I'm probably middle of the pack; some reviewers are in the 80s on alignment.

josip wrote: »

You're completely right and it's been said many times before
I don't really care what my percentages or rating colours are.
I vote on submissions according to what I believe the game should be about.
So I'll lose percentages because I didn't 5* the 67th pub in Abbeyfeale like everyone else because I don't think playing pokemon is about sitting in a pub spinning the same stop repeatedly.
And my rejection rate is low because if there isn't a pokestop within a few hundred metres, then I'll 5* the estate entrance stones that everyone else with higher percentages are rejecting.
I know that as a red, my reviews are next to useless, but I'm not going to change my reviewing beliefs for a better number.

Your votes as red are not useless; they are only weighted less. The problem is no one knows what's the difference is between a red or a green vote. Is it 1 vs. 1.2 or is it 1 vs 10? From my experimentation it's closer to the first rather than the second but if you're an Ingress player (and only if you're an Ingress player as far as I know) your agreements don't count towards the medal if you're red. Of course as there's no way to see the total votes for something it's a very rough estimation in the first place.

Secondly; voting on something that's not perfect if there's nothing around is normal and you'd not be alone in that. But if that stop is a tree, horses (yes I've got that as a stop a few times) or on private ground etc. then even if it's alone I'd recommend it as a no simply because a stop should at least have some basis for approval.