Points, scoreboard and ranking problems

[dknight212]

In /my/ humble opinion 100k, and even 70k, in one week is not possible if you are taking care with what you are doing, ensuring things are correct and not using other, copyrighted, sources!

Some of the top editors on here, and I don't mean by points, have been editing for a long long time and getting nowhere near scores like that. My highest ever weekly score is around 27k and involved editing for roughly 6 hours a day for 6/7 days! To suggest the effort I have put in over almost 2 years of dedication can be achieved in 6-10 weeks is nothing short of insulting.

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I'm lucky (?) enough to live in base-mapped London which has a very high density of roads. There always seems to be plenty of base-mapping to be cleaned up wherever I look. This, together with me being stuck at home looking after my children so with plenty of computer time, means I can get higher scores than most. I don't value my work more or less than others but I (nearly!) always defer to Darren or Tim (in particular) in terms of the more technical aspects - their knowledge has been invaluable to me.

[crazycomputingdotnet]

Do you get points for adding cameras to the editor? If so I am seeing an issue with people adding cameras for points. I live in the country and I have seen cameras pop up in the couple of miles around my house, and even cameras on top of cameras. I have since deleted them. In the couple of months I have been editing I have seen cameras in other areas in the city that I thought hat is a weird place for a camera but thought nothing of it because I haven't driven on those roads yet to verify.

On an unrelated note, do any of you know who nata365 is? It is a level 6 editor who made incorrect changes to an area I work at and had to go back and unfix what they fixed. I sent a pm, but I also searched out and found that they haven't ever posted in the forums either.

***edit: Thank you! vvvv

[AlanOfTheBerg]

Do you get points for adding cameras to the editor? If so I am seeing an issue with people adding cameras for points.

No, not that I am aware of.

On an unrelated note, do any of you know who nata365 is?

Lvl6 should be Waze employees only. I have also seen bad edits by this person and have never been able to contact them.

[CBenson]

I have also seen bad edits by this person and have never been able to contact them.

Ditto.

[Spil]

I have also seen bad edits by this person and have never been able to contact them.

Ditto.

Add me to that list also ... nata365 messed up a lot of the offramps and onramps on I-86 through western New York last year, caused me a bunch of trouble (and a bunch of points ) in going back to fix the problems.

[gerben]

Anyone reported this through the support form? I've also seen reports about l6 editors made using twitter.

[CBenson]

The IGN form? I haven't. Only tried to PM nata365.

[llayden]

In /my/ humble opinion 100k, and even 70k, in one week is not possible if you are taking care with what you are doing, ensuring things are correct and not using other, copyrighted, sources!

Some of the top editors on here, and I don't mean by points, have been editing for a long long time and getting nowhere near scores like that. My highest ever weekly score is around 27k and involved editing for roughly 6 hours a day for 6/7 days! To suggest the effort I have put in over almost 2 years of dedication can be achieved in 6-10 weeks is nothing short of insulting.

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I agree that 100k is unlikely to be legitimate. However, I have had to revise my suspicions as to what may be legitimate. I was a die-hard Cartouche editor until about a month ago. I noticed what was going on with points and did an experiment which I have told some of you about - basically I did a once off cheat of 20,000 edits (took about six hours to complete). This was worth 60,000 points. I told Waze exactly what I had done and the counter measures that would prevent it happening again. They have said that some of the counter measures will be introduced shortly. I also asked them to reduce my points - but they didn't. However after that, I switched to Papyrus and have been very surprised that without increasing my editing time, my points have substantially increased. I used to be good for 15-25k a week but am now hitting twice that per week - quite legitimately. However, its patchy. My impression is that when I'm concentrating on junctions, I score more than when I'm concentrating on naming things or drawing roads. For sure many things are faster in Papyrus but I also think its counting differently.

BTW I think that at the end of every month, everyone should lose 5% of their total points - give new entrants a chance to catch up - a discounted points flow?

[Nemrek]

How long do you wait or when do you get a rank

[pulsarxp]

not synchronized with the dashboard points and scorbeard points.