No. of Answers (from achievements) is disapparing (about 600-800 answers lost)

Hello everybody,

in context with the “Faktenermittler” (do not know the English term) batch I’ve entered quite a lot of (qualified) answers (I’m talking about these “Simple yes/no questions”). To whatever reason a lot of them were disappeared. Since several weeks I’m not going to get offered any new questions, I possibly can answer. Even (in parallel) I’m still entering a lot of other contributions (ratings, qualified description for a certain location, pictures, movies etc.).

FYI - currently I’m holding Local Guide level 9

I’ve already achieved the expert level (about 1200 answers), in the meanwhile just a 670 are remaining.

Is there anyone who has an idea of what can be the reason for?

THX a lot in advance

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Hi @mcf1964 , welcome in Connect, and thank you for asking.

I’m sure you need to verify your settings.

The following post will answer to both your question:

Answer questions

  1. Make sure you have the latest updated Google Maps.
  2. Make sure that your Web & App Activity is on. Changing this setting can delete the answer already given

Regarding being promoted with answers for place you have visited "To trigger prompts for places you’ve visited, be sure your Location History is on. You can view or edit your Timeline at any time."

Hi @mcf1964 ,

Welcome to Connect!

Thank you for reaching out. I would suggest you have a look at what @ErmesT shared with you in his comment above. You can check your My Activity page if you have enabled automatic deletion and make sure to turn it off.

I moved your post to How-tos, since it is not related to the board you published it. Here, you can swap advice with other Local Guides and share how to create helpful contributions on Google Maps and Connect. When you have a question, you can start a new post or search if there is something similar to what you are asking already on Connect.

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THX Ina,

I checked my settings, but the automatic deletion has been already turned off.

So maybe someone else might have an idea, why my answers are being deleted this way. Certain up’s and down’s might be common, but loosing about 600 to 800, couldn’t be usual.

And - I do not get any further options, to answer those “yes/no answers”. Whenever I click there, I just get the message "there’s currently nothing to contribute.

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