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Re: New Forum, New Adventures, Same Explorer Community - Discussion
Ambassadors having more abilities to keep the forum functioning smoothly and fairly is probably the least of my concerns when it comes to Wayfarer.
That's just my personal opinion though and I'd even say the same about the horrible ones.
Re: Forget every clarification ever made by AMA or on this forum ...
Well apparently this was the right advice, since those clarifications are about to be left behind when this forum migrates.
Re: More Appeals Coming (Discussion)
With the stupid AI now instantly rejecting POI submissions, you better make 25 appeals each day rather than an appeal every 25 days.
Re: Chased off By the manger
It's up to the owners to have it removed if they like.
I would personally not raid at the gym since they obviously don't want people hanging around.
Re: Chased off By the manger
Here's the thing... you didn't have to be at the coffee shop. You could have been up to 80 meters away and still been able to access the gym, though maybe take 10 meters off for drift. Find a public space nearby, or street parking, or anything where you aren't going to draw attention or cause problems.
At a larger scale, work with your local community to build respect for the locations that you're using. Make it a point to think about whether your playing would be obtrusive or an annoyance. Don't get in the way of other people. Keep your voices at a reasonable level. Park in areas where you won't cause a problem... in a large parking lot the spaces very close to the businesses will often be taken while those 2-3 rows away will be empty. Learning to be unobtrusive and developing good manners is an investment in keeping your area playable.
I just found a random coffee shop not too far away and marked up the map as an example. The purple pin is the front of the coffee shop. Just to the west is a parking lot for it, with another entrance and a drive-thru. Parking in the lot near the door could be an annoyance, but in this case there's legal street parking in front of the shop and on the street to the south of the shop, as well as lots of other street parking in range. Depending on how busy the business is you could possibly get away with parking 1-2 cars in a not-crowded section of the parking lot. You could park a block or two away and walk over. Different areas have different situations but in the ten years that I've been playing Niantic games I've rarely found places where I couldn't do what I needed to do without bothering anyone, although sometimes I've had to think creatively about it.
And, yanno, you could always go into the coffee shop and buy some coffee.
Re: More Appeals Coming (Discussion)
As someone also with 600+ accepted Wayspots I'd have to disagree about appeals.
Personally I've seen a huge improvement in the speed of edit approvals and the speed of submissions going through the system. It's still not perfect and probably never will be but it's still massively improved in the last year.
Emily didn't get a say in any of these. I have more that are similar that need appealed due to reviewers and plenty more that were denied then later accepted after an appeal or resub.
Re: New Forum, New Adventures, Same Explorer Community - Discussion
- "New Ambassador Privileges
- Ambassadors will have some additional forum moderation privileges to ensure the community continues to be a safe, fun, and inviting environment for all Explorers. Some of these new privileges will include editing, deleting, and closing of threads and posts. We will test this out and revisit as we see needed. "
I have some problems with this. I have already ran into an some issues where the Ambassadors don't read before they commented. And they seem to be on a high hose a lot in comments I read. More into trying to boast more then help. Given the power to delete post doesn't set well.
Now I am not wanting to make anyone mad but I think there needs to be a check and balance on this from Niantic. No free reins on this one.
Re: My suggestions are always refused, what am I doing wrong
@Faversham71-PGO is spot on with what they're saying, regardless of whether you disagree with it. They have been previously clarified to be ineligible. The sign itself is not a location worth exploring. You wouldn't bring someone from out of town to solely come and see that sign - it's not like the famous Las Vegas or Hollywood signs as those are iconic tourist attractions.
Just because others have been mistakenly approved, or approved when criteria was different, it doesn't change the fact that in the here and now, they don't meet the current criteria. The automated filter is designed to prevent low quality nominations that don't meet the criteria from entering the review queue, so the fact it caught this nomination was perfectly valid in this case, and you shouldn't be looking for a way around the filter for this nomination.
Additionally, being able to get resources in a game is not a valid reason in and of itself for suggesting a wayspot. Wayfarer isn't a game, it doesn't care about in game mechanics. It exists to be a database of locations that are great places to socialise, exercise or explore. The fact that certain games borrow certain wayspots from the database isn't really relevant to the purpose of wayfarer.
I can appreciate that from a gameplay perspective, US neighbourhood developments are usually pretty bad for wayspots. I don't know why the architects and planners behind them seem to be almost allergic to providing public amenities in a place where there is a large amount of people (it's not like that in the UK at all), but it is what it is. I have looked at the map and can see you do have probably more wayspots local to you than the average US neighbourhood development has, assuming you count the ones up near The Knolls as still local, as they seem to be within a reasonable walking distance of what you tried to submit.
Re: New Forum, New Adventures, Same Explorer Community - Discussion
Oh damn, I thought the déjà vu was strong a minute ago.
Re: Sensitive Location?
It was part of the November 2020 criteria reset. There used to be a web page for potentially confusing nominations and memorials were specified to be 1* (bearing in mind the criteria reset happened during the old review system) unless they were for a significant person or event. The list probably does still exist somewhere, but Niantic has a habit of moving stuff around and misplacing it.
That was the last time anything was said about them though, and as nothing has been said since that would overrule that, then it still stands that memorials need to be for significant people.
As for the rejection reason, you may disagree with sensitive, but I know that if these were my family members and they'd passed fairly recently (bearing in mind I have no idea when these two people actually passed), I wouldn't want a personal memorial for them turning into a wayspot. So I would see it as potentially sensitive from that regard. Even if it is the wrong reason though, it is still correct to reject it if they're not significant.