Hi @NareshDarji ,
Thanks for posting your question! Do you want to know when and why contributions can be marked as private in general, or are you currently experiencing that yourself in particular? In the second case I am available to address the issue, escalating it to the relevant team.
Hi @SholaIB ,
Thank you for these interesting questions! About the third one, as you mentioned is more of a request so I suggest you share it as a proposal in our Idea Exchange board, if you want. 
Hi @tjwal1lolo ,
Welcome to Connect and thanks for sharing your thoughts with us! As you can read in the Terms and Conditions, Local Guides are not paid nor may they earn money for their contributions, since the program is completely volunteer and people can contribute in order to help others make the best choice when they explore the world.
Besides helping others, getting in touch with fellow Local Guides, and sharing your experiences, your contributions can also get you some rewards. Make sure your email preferences have rewards emails enabled by visiting your settings page. Some of the benefits can include:
If you have a suggested partner or a reward you would like to see offered in your area, we welcome your feedback in the Idea Exchange on Connect.
I also wanted to let you know that you can read more about why be a Local Guide in this relevant thread.
Since this is your first post, I suggest you read more information about the forum in Your guide to Connect.
Hi @DavidTerronPla ,
Just wanted to let you know that I already commented on your Problemas con el retoque de fotos en Google Maps thread.
As for your question, would you please specify what type of interaction between Local Guides you are referring to? Are you interested in knowing if there’s going to be a chatroom on Google Maps?
Hi @Mukul_Anand ,
Thanks for your questions! Since this is an opportunity to take advantage only of Ian’s professional knowledge gained within the Google Maps team, I wanted to let you know that he won’t be able to answer your questions which are related to his passion for the mountain.
Have a nice day!
Yes, I am asking this question because of my recent experience. All my reviews have been privately marked for the past month. @Giu_DiB
Hola @user_not_found ,
¡Gracias por preguntar! Dado que esta es una oportunidad para aprovechar solamente de los conocimientos profesionales que Ian adquirio trabajando en el equipo de Google Maps, quería informarte que no podrá responder tu pregunta.
¡Que tenga un buen día!
Hi @SebaasC ,
Since I am able to asnwer your questions, I will be happy to do so.
You earn 10 points for each eligible list you publish, and 5 points for each description you add in a list. To know more about the topic, you can review this helpful article: Points, levels, and badging.
About gaining extra points when one of your lists get featured, you can share this proposal in the Idea Exchange, if you want.
Hi @TraciC !
Thanks for introduce us Ian Leader !
This is my question: will one day be able to upload a small video as a profile picture so that we can better present ourselves and make the profile page in Maps more original?
Bye,
David
Hi @rachanadhekane ,
Thanks for sharing your questions with us! They are very interesting but I wanted to remind you that Ian won’t be able to answer on subjects that are not related to contributions. We will keep them into account for potential content in the future.
In the meantime, you can look for upcoming online or offline gatherings in the Meet-ups section, and you can follow the Announcements section on Connect or The Keyword, the official Google blog, to get the latest news.
Hi @NareshDarji ,
Thanks for your answer! We will now investigate from our side and we will let you know as soon as possible.
Hii @TraciC
Thanks for sharing
Ask a Googler.
My question is that
What the problem you facing more.?
Hi @Pratik_89 ,
Thanks for posting your question. I would also love to hear more about Ian’s climbing experience! Anyway, in this occasion he will be answering questions on the topic of contributions, sharing his knowledge as a Google Maps User Generated Content Product Lead.
If you have questions about contributions, such as reviews or photos, your profile or the following feature, feel free to share them here in a comment.
Thanks for post!
Hai @TraciC and Ian Leader.
Thank yoor introducing Ian to us.
I just want to ask about safety driving an electric bycycle like you use to climb mount Fuji from 23m to 2600m.
We have a sad strory in my country, a lady doing downhill ride and she cannot control her malfunction electric bike that run faster and faster. She died after she hit a tree.
Need your advice Ian. Thank you
It’s absolutely great to see this initiative pop up here! I was one of the lucky local guides to be selected for Connect Live 2019 and I’ve already mentioned on several other occasions that the ‘Ask a Googler’ sessions there were definitely one of the highlights for me. So wonderful to see this opportunity now opened for all local guides smart enough to hang out on Connect 
For Ian I have a question about something a lot of local guides will know (and often dread): the “Not applied” outcome for submitted edits (I hope the “and in between” part of the topics suggested for questions to Ian includes edits). I’m not asking about the reasons why we get this outcome from time to time, but simply: Why don’t we get email notifications for edits which are not applied? For Pending and Approved edits we get an email, but for Not Applied edits there is only the notification in the app. That makes it hard to get a full picture of the outcome of out our suggested edit contributions (which I would love to use for analysis to help improve future contributions), as none of the sources has all the details (the list of edits in our proflle does not include approved removal edits - which I can understand from a database perspective - and is hard to analyze for high volume contributors, as @AdamGT already pointed out in another comment to this post).
Bonus question: in the past few years there have been (highly appreciated!) efforts to provide more details about the approved edits we have made. Are there any plans to also provide more info on why edits are not applied, apart from the infamous ‘Google could not verify your edit’?
That’s a great question @JanVanHaver , Why don’t we get email notifications for edits which are not applied? and this was raised as an idea in response when Michael Toshiro Omoto fielded questions in the Ask a Google series.
Wow that’s good idea
someday i will ski like you…nice day for Mr Ian
There is one thing I’d like to know, I’ve noticed some behind the scenes action on duplicate images, but would it be possible to detect the duplicates up front and prevent the upload?
Paul