# “Fast & Furious Suggestions: How do we keep Quality high? **URL:** \ **Category:** Hunter guides\ **Created:** [October 14, 2026, 9:54am UTC](https://streetart.community/t/fast-furious-suggestions-how-do-we-keep-quality-high/3798 "2026-10-14T09:54:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TinyTim](https://streetart.community/user_avatar/streetart.community/tinytim/32/695_2.png) [@TinyTim](https://streetart.community/u/TinyTim)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2026, 9:54am UTC](https://streetart.community/t/fast-furious-suggestions-how-do-we-keep-quality-high/3798/1 "2026-10-14T09:54:54Z")
This taps into a previous topic on [how to handle suggestions](https://streetart.community/t/super-hunter-tips-on-how-to-handle-suggestions/3518). Over the last weeks, we’ve all noticed it: **the suggestion feature is booming**. People are dropping photos left and right, sometimes great finds, sometimes half‑thought uploads, sometimes even artworks where the **artist’s name is literally painted on the wall** , yet the suggestion comes in as “Unknown”. That’s not a complaint. It’s a sign of a lively community. But it _is_ a moment where we need to talk about **quality, speed, and responsibility** , especially now that Super Hunters have platform‑wide review powers. ## 1. A quick reminder: Suggestions are _Not_ uploads Earlier this summer, I shared a post with **Super Hunter tips** on how to handle suggestions responsibly. The core idea still stands: - **Treat every suggestion as a review, not an approval** - **Run a quick Google Lens check** - **Cross‑reference the Street Art Cities map** - **Verify artist naming rules** - **Check the city’s Unknowns page** These steps keep the map clean, avoid duplicates, and help new hunters learn through good examples. If you want to revisit that workflow, tap Super Hunter workflow. ## 2. But now the challenge is different: _Speed vs. Quality_ With the surge of suggestions, we’re seeing new patterns: - Photos uploaded without any context - Artist names visible in the artwork but not added - Blurry or low‑quality images - Works that don’t meet our street art standards - Quick-fire suggestions from travellers who don’t know the city - Multiple suggestions from the same user in minutes This isn’t about blaming contributors, they’re doing their best. But they are missing the yearlong experience of our community. Question is **how we, as reviewers, keep the map credible without burning out**. ## 3. About photo quality: where do we draw the line? We’re seeing suggestions that are: - Too blurry to identify - Cropped so tightly the artwork is unclear - Photos of vandalism or tags - Photos of artworks that are already buffed - Photos taken from a moving car - Photos with heavy reflections or obstructions Should these be: - Rejected outright? - Accepted with a Community Note? - Accepted only if the artwork is important? - Left for CMs and hunters to decide? This is where I’d love community input. If you want to dive deeper, tap quality standards. ## 4. So… how should we handle fast suggestions? Here are the questions I’d love the community to react to: - Should we expect suggestors to add the artist name when it’s visible? - Should low-quality photos be rejected automatically? - Should Super Hunters avoid accepting suggestions in CM-led countries? - Should we add a “minimum quality” note to the suggestion flow? - Should we create a short “How to Suggest an Artwork” guide for app users? - Should Community Notes be mandatory when rejecting? This topic isn’t about rules, it’s about **co-creating a shared standard**. ## 7. Your Turn Super Hunters, Country Managers, hunters, photographers, travellers, you all see different sides of this. **How do we keep the map clean, credible, and welcoming while the suggestion feature explodes in popularity?** Drop your thoughts below. Very curious to hear from you ---
**Author:** ![Andrew\_Haysom](https://streetart.community/user_avatar/streetart.community/andrew_haysom/32/855_2.png) [@Andrew\_Haysom](https://streetart.community/u/Andrew_Haysom)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2026, 9:18am UTC](https://streetart.community/t/fast-furious-suggestions-how-do-we-keep-quality-high/3798/2 "2026-10-15T09:18:52Z")
Before I give you my thoughts on your specific questions, I’ll preface them with my thoughts on the “new world” which I have to admit I am perhaps struggling to adapt to a little. As I review the “Review Queue” I struggle to feel “capable” of rejecting or approving most of the entries, I have been limiting myself to Australian ones, as well as a few others over this side of the world (eg I have approved a few for New Zealand I think, as well as one or two for Malaysia). I generally don’t feel “qualified” to process those for Europe etc, feeling that there are others far more familiar with that part of the world than me. I also strongly support a previous request of Stefs that there is a way to claim these “while you work on them” to verify them, I think often will I try and research that one, knowing that there is a significant amount of work to run the Google check, SAC Map check, check the artist etc etc, worrying that someone else is doing it too, and deciding not to bother. All that said, I absolutely agree that there deserves to be a high-level of quality-check performed to keep the quality high. The other fear I have is that adding a large number of artworks to an area where we have no “hunters” is always going to lead to low quality, as there is no-one there to maintain it. But this is the “new world” and I guess we need to adapt, hard though it is (for me at least). With respect to your examples, I think that “Photos uploaded without any context”, “Blurry or low-quality images”, “Works that don’t meet our standards” - are all immediate rejects for me. Also, all the examples you give in your Photo Quality section for me, are immediate rejections. Should we expect suggestors to add the artist name when it’s visible? Yes. Should low-quality photos be rejected automatically? Yes, reject. Should Super Hunters avoid accepting suggestions in CM-led countries? Ideally yes, but what I’d like to see here is the suggestions going into a CM queue for the first five days, like they do for a hunter in that city. If this was the case, it’d give the CM a chance to see and handle them, in that case and if they hadn’t been handled by the CM, then I guess they should be fair game for all other superhunters. To extend this idea further, perhaps Super-Hunters from the same country could get that early access for the first five days for all cities in that country. Should we add a “minimum quality” note to the suggestion flow? Not clear what you mean by this, could you expand please? Should we create a short “How to Suggest an Artwork” guide for app users? Yes. Should Community Notes be mandatory when rejecting? I thought Community Notes were dead? Can you explain what you mean by this. Do Suggesters get any notification when things are rejected? If this is what you’re getting at, then I think that it would be useful to provide feedback on why it was rejected to hopefully drive improvement. ---
**Author:** ![Geanina](https://streetart.community/user_avatar/streetart.community/geanina/32/3097_2.png) [@Geanina](https://streetart.community/u/Geanina)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2026, 7:18pm UTC](https://streetart.community/t/fast-furious-suggestions-how-do-we-keep-quality-high/3798/3 "2026-10-17T19:18:23Z")
Regarding this topic I have a question about contributions in another city. I am a hunter in Bucharest, but recently I went in vacation in another city and spotted some works that are not on the map. If there are a few active hunters in Romania, can we become hunters for other cities as well even if we live elsewhere? ---
**Author:** ![Jesse](https://streetart.community/user_avatar/streetart.community/jesse/32/2979_2.png) [@Jesse](https://streetart.community/u/Jesse)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2026, 10:26am UTC](https://streetart.community/t/fast-furious-suggestions-how-do-we-keep-quality-high/3798/4 "2026-10-19T10:26:15Z")
I think you’re right – and it’s not too much to ask – to link a few basic rules to the option of uploading suggestions. **Location** After my first uploads, I was advised to include the exact location in the description, at the very least. That seems to me to be a good addition for the suggestions, because it’s not uncommon for the location pin to be placed incorrectly (for example, it’s generated automatically for iPhone photos and ends up on the other side of the street – or people think afterwards that they still know which street corner they took a photo at, only to be a few turns off). **Thumbnail shot** I didn’t realise at first that it’s best to take a close-up (for the thumbnail) first and then the full shot. That might be worth mentioning too. **No blurred pictures** I think you could also add that out-of-focus and blurred photos won’t be considered. That saves the hunter assessing the submission from having to explain why it’s been rejected. **Watch out with Google Lens** As for tips on the assessment: Google Lens gets it so wrong so often that it isn’t a reliable source unless you can check an artist’s Instagram (or a related article) to confirm whether a piece of art actually belongs to a particular person. (To give you an idea: I’d photographed a mural in Groningen and used Google Lens to check who’d created it. I was told the photo had been taken in Valencia. When I pointed out that I’d taken the photo in Groningen, Google Lens said my mistake was understandable, but that the photo really had been taken in Valencia – the artist had simply hung up a street sign from Groningen to mislead the viewer. I took a screenshot of this exchange – it was that bizarre.) **YES** In short: YES, I think a number of very clear rules can and should be set for people who want to upload suggestions. It might be a bit more work for them, but it maintains the app’s high quality and makes the work for the (super)hunters a little easier (and it is part of the fun ;-)). ---
**Author:** ![Enwanderland](https://streetart.community/user_avatar/streetart.community/enwanderland/32/2958_2.png) [@Enwanderland](https://streetart.community/u/Enwanderland)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2026, 12:33pm UTC](https://streetart.community/t/fast-furious-suggestions-how-do-we-keep-quality-high/3798/5 "2026-10-19T12:33:48Z")
I agree with you on keeping the Quality High which obviously apply to the " receiving end" (the approval) , but what about the “suggesting end”? we all agree that most basic users will just add a picture and very basic context, if any, so we could discuss about minimum quality, but what about maximum quality, why is quality limited on the “suggesting end” for those who want to keep that quality high? I am still fairly new here, so I might not be using the app correctly (correct me if I am wrong), but yesterday I suggested my first artwork in a city away from my hunting area, and as a visiting hunter, I could not add any tags, not even the very basic ones, such as the date of creation, or the Sponsors of the artwork, which are basic for documenting an artwork if we want to keep quality high Also, it took me some time to document the artwork, translate it into English which for many of us here, is not our mother tongue, create a new marker for the artist , etc, etc, then you submitt the suggestion, and that marker evaporates, you cannot even know if you have submitted it right, because you lose total track of it until someone else approves it, apparently, it does not even appear on your logbook. So if you want to correct it or add some more information, you simply cannot. I frankly find very disincentivizing not being able to retrieve your own work and edit it, once you have submitted it, as a visiting hunter, why invest lots of time in documenting something that goes into a limbo? ---
**Author:** ![Kaamis](https://streetart.community/user_avatar/streetart.community/kaamis/32/3043_2.png) [@Kaamis](https://streetart.community/u/Kaamis)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2026, 3:00pm UTC](https://streetart.community/t/fast-furious-suggestions-how-do-we-keep-quality-high/3798/6 "2026-10-19T15:00:20Z")
I completely agree that quality is important. No blurry pictures, messy locations, or poorly documented artwork. We should all strive to keep the quality high. At the same time, I sometimes feel that with both suggestions and Super Hunters, the role of the hunter is becoming a little diluted. I’m fairly new here myself, but in the relatively short time I’ve been part of this community, I’ve learned a lot about street art. It has encouraged me to dig deeper into the street art scene in both my city, my hometown, and the countries I’ve lived in (or visited). I’ve become more familiar with the artists and their work, and I always try to find out who created a piece and when it was made. For me, that research and documentation are a big part of the fun and value of being a hunter. That’s why I agree with Geanina and Enwanderland that perhaps seasoned hunters could be given more responsibility and greater freedom when managing their suggestions. Especially if someone has consistently demonstrated that they care about quality and take the time to properly document their finds. I personally think the option to be a temporary hunter worked better. Of course, quality control is essential, but I think there’s a balance to be found between keeping standards high and giving dedicated hunters the opportunity to contribute more fully.