2022
No one trusts anyone these days.
Do you want to tell me again that my 5,000+ edits are worthless again? How about my mom's account, the first 300 or so edits often went through without a hitch, and then magically out of the blue she gets hit with the 'not applied' hammer. She made suggestions to many places she didn't go to, many of the edits were those that I made with this account which weren't applied and all of a sudden she deserves more trust than I do? In your case, you say that trust levels look at a user's past edits to determine whether or not the algorithm should reject them. With my mom's account, I even managed to close down a clearly operating Indian restaurant at lunchtime! Instead, you have clearly attempted to speculate using a contradiction and are therefore questionable. So if I want my edits to go through, I should create a clean Level 1 account and be on my merry way until it gets hit by the not applied hammer? In fact, I bet I can create a new level 1 account, spam listings until I get hit by another ban hammer and then start again from square one.
Clearly if Google cannot review in due time, find extremely trusted users such as reintroducing the regional lead program to help ease your workload because clearly you don't have the time to review. Why should you get the last say when you don't know anything about our local areas? Spend time more on features such as getting those badges and the additional points for longer reviews being rolled out and actually innovating for a change, because clearly you think the moderation process is just plebeian work for low IQ people who manually reject something that is clearly in accordance to the guidelines/rules of the map.
@Anonymous, congratulations on removing Google Maps. I hope you'll be able to find other projects that are eons better than the current state of this forsaken app such as Waze, OpenStreetMap or even anything outside the mapping concept. You'll make a mark better out there.
@IDW, from what you've said did you try to make simultaneous changes to multiple fields in one edit? In this current climate, it is recommended only to edit them individually and submit. I was once told off for points-mongering because if multiple places need changing, you should change them all at once for one set of points instead of rapidly suggesting changes to individual ones, but I honestly believe that all your edits should be treated for consideration and separately (think of checking the facts, you can choose which ones are correct and which ones are wrong). Like I illustrated here below, for example:
This recent heartache of the 'not applied' syndrome is clearly the result of the algorithm shift around the 10th of October. A translator in Thailand has incredibly slowed down his suggestions because his endeavours to add the English translation of listings in Thailand are also being unfairly not applied. For most of my Google Maps journey I had suggested more successful edits than photos I have uploaded, but now that balance has shifted because I cannot suggest edits without the grounds of being immediately not applied.
So all my attempts of climbing the trust ladder over the last 10 months (and formidably climbing it at an incredible pace) has been reduced to null because you think it's appropriate to just cut off my legs and then put a cast on it writing "I trust that you'll get better" on it? You have no grounds during this time to advise such Gregg. Blah blah blah blah civil war.
In this regard i would like to emphasize some facts. The trust and encouragement was more at the initial stage of LG Level. The more the points i got the more Not Applied edits were reflected. Most of the edits are simple and genuine which are being rejected which definitely affect our further incentive and sincerity.
