I was travelling 100 km from Home towards Newcastle from Sydney. I had reported five broken down cars on the side of the road at different places. When I went to report another one app had told me too many reports, I thought that was too many people had reported it. Further down the road, I seen another car broken down and was told after reporting it that I risked being blocked because I had reported too many times. as of now I will no longer be reporting them and don’t bother asking if cars are still there because I won’t be answering those either.

Hi.

Please, could this be introduced by where the limit for Reports are increased from around 3-4 every few hours to like 20 for example.

However, after the usual 3-4, the user will stop reciving the points assoicted for that report until the reset timer for points has been reached. As a regular user on the motorways (UK) for many hours 1-way.

I tend to spot far too many hazards which could do with reporting. But i get blocked for a few hours after a few reports (3-4). Allowing users to keep reporting but limit the point “grinding” would be greatly appreciated!

I am not too sure in the other regions how common hazards are but here in the UK (well where i am located) the amount of hazards have increased daily and could do with informing the members on the App.

Maybe this can also be trusted depending on the users contribution level and/or their WME Editor Level?

Thanks!

I have seen a problem where when there is a saturation of reports in an area I can only get rid of one or will only be notified of one. And that makes it so a lot of the reports will stay on the map for longer than is relevant

I think it would be helpful to add a different layout. Where if there is more than one type of report, to list all of the different reports in different colors. Then its a bit easier to distinguish them and have the buttons to dismiss them etc. And maybe have something to just clear all the reports for a spot so when it does build up it doesn't stay on the map

Stop blocking user for too many reports! In my 25 mile 30 minute commute this morning, the weather was horrendous! No one had reported any of the floods, debris and dead animals in the road. After my third report, you suspended any more even though theses were all genuine!!

Too many reports of construction in the route by multiple users. Allow only one at the beginning or only allow senior users to report a start and end of the construction.

Allow more reports for trusted users. On a number of occasions I've been flagged for tooany reports. I drive long distances and long hours. It is not uncommon to report multiple safety issued over a long journey. Today I got flagged for too many reports which stopped me reporting a car that broke down in the middle lane of the motorway. Shortly after I passed, a car smashed into the stopped car causing a huge tail back. The occupant of the car that smashed into the broke down car apoarently had to air lifted to hospital according to later reports. You must have a way of determining trusted sensible users from those idiots who spend all there time reporting highway patrols for police!

why when my wife (co driver) is loading the many pot holes does your app say 'reporting too many'

Just a concerns. Driving on bad roads means increased number of pothole reports. Waze has immensely contributed to making drivers aware of hazards ahead. I received a pop up reading something that I've made too many reports and therefor my reporting privileges may be blocked. This was quite disturbing. I thought that was one of the many aims of this app. Why limit users to contribute to the safety of other fellow users?

The message popping up to say you have made too many reports is using criteria that are far too strict. During a 15 mile drive recently, I made 4 unrelated reports (heavy traffic, car stopped, flooding and a dangerous pothole) and got flagged for it. I couldn't care less about points or rankings, I just want to make sure other road users are aware of hazards!

This policy has prevented me on several occasions from placing genuine reports which were necessary for the safety of other road users. I never place reports other than serious ones - yet I have been flagged for too many reports on several occasions. Point farming can be prevented without blocking genuine reports and endangering road users! Waze is jeopardizing road safety with this policy!

Why limit reports to 3 or 4 a trip? This surely severely limits the functionality and actual purpose of the app? Please unlimit.

For some odd reason, Waze has introduced a limit on reporting when out driving.. There should be NO limit as you can easily hit the max of 4 within 20 mins of driving if you drive in bad hotspots.

Remove the limit please...

First, I understand why you block/ban some people sending too many irrelevant reports, but the other end is I cannot report other important things on the road after I reported a traffic jam on one section of the long road too many times.
For example travelling 20-30 miles, report 5 or 6 traffic jam through the town and on your remaining journey not able to report anything at all. Problem exist mainly when you try to report a traffic jam on a long road, report heavy traffic and Waze cover 30yard section on the road, so moving a bit report heavy traffic and guess what, Waze covers another 30yard (What a...?), but the traffic jam is long until the next traffic light/roundabout whatever which is 1 mile away. So you start to try covering the whole section of the road, but Waze block you out due to Too Many Reports.
May be you can filter users and let those users report "unlimited" things who is using Waze for years and never been banned etc., so the trustable ones. Or cover sections on the road from junction to junction.
Thanks.

I 100% agree! This is especially pertinent when driving through a large city such as London, where hazards are constantly popping up.

At times there is no Waze community out there, and system shows as no traffic even though it could be a standstill. We are only allotted (approx) 3 slow traffic reports within 30 seconds or so. Then system states "too many reports", even though two mins later there is still heavy traffic, but Waze again shows clear traffic, because you are the only Wazer reporting at that time. Allow unlimited or more reporting entries.

After generating a certain number of reports in a specific time, you can not enter more reports. I'm sure someone else may want to know about the hidden cop. Just allow me to enter the report and don't give me points.

On a recent trip from Texas to Wyoming and back, I would post updates along the way. I saw a lot of things during this trip posting radar traps, accidents and traffic issues. But all of a sudden, Waze started complaining that I was posting too much and threatened to suspend my account. You see a lot of things driving hundreds of miles each day. So now I no longer post ANY updates at all. Let me just say, I was trying to provide my input to help others with information that doesn’t benefit me at all. Why would you restrict folks providing information on the Waze app? Anyway, I use the app now, but no longer contribute anything. Maybe some people abuse the posting feature, but my posts were legit. I think Waze should rethink how this feature works before nobody post updates at all.

Stop flagging people. I do rideshare so I report more than the average driver!!! I shouldn’t be penalized for making sure the map is updated. This is absolutely stupid to say the least since we this is supposed to be a community type app

While some users may certainly attempt to gain points for unreasonable numbers of reports, there are many circumstances where high-frequency reporting is justified and should be allowed.

I suggest you allow users with higher rankings to post more reports, trusting those that use your app most frequently to be reasonable enough to post when needed.

Today I was driving through downtown Milwaukee. Waze kept instructing me to drive through streets closed for a large downtown event. Each intersection kept advising me to turn into a street newly closed, each with a police officer. After I reported just 2 street closures and 2 police cars, I was warned about losing privileges. Waze kept instructing me to turn into streets newly closed, each with a police vehicle, though I was unable to continue reporting, most certainly causing other users to get useless instructions.

When there are large events (marathons, parades, etc.) there are going to be many streets simultaneously closed. Often this is accompanied by high police presence. Waze should trust its users to report these high-frequency events, especially their most trusted users.

Override of a single update that is road closure/accident. Something beyond “standstill traffic.” Often, I find out the reason for the standstill traffic- usually accident or road closure - only to be stymied from sharing what is causing the standstill traffic because I've run out of updates. That would be useful to people behind us. I can’t track the time and number of updates while I’m driving.

In fact, why limit updates anyway? Limit points for updates if you must, but users give you the information you need, so why limit? It’s like record companies that sued its customers until the ipod came about.