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Re: Fake POI-s - photos stolen from other portals
I officially accuse user xezar66 of insistently trolling all threads he participates in and forcing actions on Niantic employees. He is doing this intentionally to get the thread locked again. He makes Polish Wayfarer participants a laughing stock. Please think of an effective and final solution.
Oficjalnie oskarżam użytkownika xezar66 o natarczywe trolowanie wszystkich wątków w których uczestniczy oraz wymuszanie działań na pracownikach firmy Niantic. Robi to celowo, aby wątek znów został zamnkięty. Przez niego polscy uczestnicy Wayfarer stają się pośmiewiskiem. Proszę o przemyślenie skutecznego i ostatecznego rozwiązania.
Robert4444-ING
Re: Mobile library bus stops - opinions?
Thank you for all the comments and rationalizations so far!
Especially analyses by @PkmnTrainerJ-ING and @Theisman-ING clarified my own reasoning. I've never nominated such a stop and always given them 1* ratings when encountering them in Wayfarer.
There was a discussion on a local Wayfarer forum about library bus stops with pro-arguments pointing at the educational values of the bus itself and I wanted to get a broader opinion on this subject. The pro-arguments were mostly from people with so called "more-is-more ideology".
So far I've reasoned myself mainly with a thought experiment of "would this be a great wayspot I'd like to take a random visitor to see" and my answer has been "No" as 99% of the time there won't be anything to see but the bus stop with timetables. Now I got more reasoning behind my thinking and I really appreciate it!
ForzaComo-ING
Re: Abuse Rejection?
You copied the text directly from the object into your description. That makes it 3rd party text - so 1* automatic rejection. Don't tell people how to vote, this could be considered "Abuse" and result in your nomination and you being reported to Niantic
sogNinjaman-ING
Re: Why is this invalid ?
At one point in time, it used to be the case that wayspots which had their locations edited didn't get checked against the proximity rules for any games. This meant that you could create a wayspot in an empty level 17 S2 cell, then request an edit to move it to a different level 17 S2 cell that already had a Pokéstop or Gym in it, and if accepted, the cell would have two Pokéstops or Gyms instead of one.
As you can imagine, a lot of people abused this oversight, and Niantic eventually fixed it so that now when a wayspot has its location edited, it is checked against the cell rules, and if the cell would go over the limit of one Pokéstop or Gym, one of them will disappear from Pokémon Go. Any cells that already had more than one wayspot before this exploit was fixed were allowed to keep their extra wayspots though.
HankWolfman-PGO
Re: The confusing case of the fast food playground
I mean, most playgrounds in parks are mass-produced and come from kits and installed by professionals. The only difference is that most fast food playgrounds and regular playgrounds is that FF ones are mostly plastic where as Park playgrounds are usually wood, metals, some type of composite, or also plastic.
GearGlider-ING
Re: When was the Wayfarer program established? Also, how did Niantic find Wayspots before then?
The previous Wayfarer was called Operation Portal Recon (or OPR) and all the FAQs, Appeals, and such existed on Google+ as Niantic spun out of Google.
However, Google+ got turned off, so some resources like that may not be available now.
To fill up the map, Niantic used databases of historical items, and then later accepted submissions via email from Agents, which got reviewed by Niantic staff. No Agents reviewed anything until 2017. Foursquare wasn’t used until very very recently.
Ingress was once the “true source” of Wayspots, so when Pokémon GO launched it got the information from there and then adjusted for cell rules in Pokémon GO.
PkmnTrainerJ-ING
Invalid Wayspot Appel - Puit de la fontaine…
Title of the wayspot : « Puit de la fontaine la nue »
Location : 47.265986, -2.314782
City : Pornichet
Country : France
This wayspot is no longer valid because road works removed the well and replaced it with a manhole.
During the report in game a scan and a 360 street view were made. They should not have been taken into account when deciding to reject. We must maintain a quality network and this wayspot is no longer right to exist. Please proceed with its deletion.
KikiiiLuke-ING
Re: Title abuse
Thanks for following up! We have made the necessary changes to the 11 Wayspots in accordance with our policies. Having said that, I can see we have taken action on the Wayfinder already who was involved with this abuse.
NianticGiffard