Add a reliability score to users notifications?
Hi,
I frequently drive past speed traps where officers are parked dangerously in the road in an effort to increase revenue in the city and have clearly seen some on the Waze app while pulled along side of them.
I periodically see that Waze sends me an update letting me know other users have thanked me for my posting. Is there any technology that allows Waze to gauge a posting based off of a users reliability score?
The reason I feel this is important is because I frequently feel that police officers are falsely reporting that the report of their presence is no longer valid.
I feel that invalid postings such as this should be "black holed" until the user can be validated as reliable once again.
For instance, you could have varying degrees of a reliability score. If you have made 0-5 unreliable posts, you would be banned from removing content from a map until your votes reach back to an acceptable range or until a penalty time period expires.
For those who continue to show their unreliability in the 5-10 posts range, they cannot remove or add content to the map PERIOD, until their penalty time period expires.
I feel like control measures such as this will help create a more valuable user experience for all WAZE users.
Thanks for your consideration.
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Chris Knipe commented
you could also validate the removal of police from a map by verifying that a removal request is coming from someone whose GPS position is not fixed. Police exhibiting these types of behaviors will usually stay in a fixed location for a longer period of time than a normal driver.