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Re: There's no pokestops around me for several dozen kilometers, Niantic just rejected me nomination.
If you'll share your nominations (photos, description, supporting), we're glad to see if we spot what's going on.
For example, if you used any game work (Pokemon, spin, stops, etc) - that's an immediate reject.
Also, did your rejection say "the community decided" or "our team decided"?
"This place really exists" or "they sell stuff" - has nothing to do with acceptance criteria. Did you explain how it's a great place to explore, socialize, or exercise?
Re: Wayspot looking generic at first glance
Nothing that I wrote was snarky. You kept mentioning "tells you something about your local community" as a criterion. But that's not one of the main criterion. The criteria are what I listed. When people post here, we have no way of knowing what they do and don't know about Wayfarer. Many have just heard bits and pieces from their locals. So we always go back to the basics and ask someone to align their submission with one of the official criterion.
Re: Wayspot looking generic at first glance
The criteria are, a great place to:
- be social
- exercise
- explore
You have not convinced us, the experienced Wayfinders, that this sign meets any of those criteria. If you want to let people know about the volunteer organization, then nominate their headquarters. A random sign with the name of the organization on it, isn't a great place to explore.
Re: Wayspot looking generic at first glance
I would disagree with that assessment. Whether the sign was installed by the local authorities, this club, your aunt, or anyone else, it is still a generic warning sign that isn't a great place to socialise, exercise or explore. If I'm visiting from out of town, I'm not going to want to visit a sign that warns people of potential ice on the road.
HankWolfman-PGO
Re: How do I upgrade a church pokestop into a gym?
No, you can't request that a stop be made into a gym. Whoever said that has absolutely no idea about how the system works.
A while back there was a way to influence it, but Niantic didn't intend for this (they actually viewed it as abuse) and as a result they randomised the process to prevent people from abusing the system.
You will need to try to find another eligible location in the same Level 14 S2 Cell as the church and then hope that the church is the one that gets promoted to the Gym. I can appreciate it's often hard to find things in rural villages, but if you feel like sharing the location of the village, maybe we can help you try to find something else you can submit?
HankWolfman-PGO
Re: Trailmarkers - warning received
Niantic state trails are a great place to exercise - the trail markers are placeholders for the trail - placeholders do not have to be distinctive if the trail section is distinctive.
Faversham71-PGO
Re: Historic Lighthouse. Bad Appeal Decision
A month after this was originally posted, a Ingress agent died kayaking home from a tiny island wayspot. Niantic hasn't been very supportive of tiny island wayspots since then. Don't get your hopes up.
XK150-ING
Re: Trailmarkers - warning received
I think that you received rejections with reasons like a flowerbucket is the result of Aarons statement. Some (or most but quiet) reviewer wanted to follow his giving clarification but there is no thumb area to say "mass product". So they try, in hope to do the best in this case, to use one of these categories to reject it.
Re: Trailmarkers - warning received
Let's also not forget Niantic's financial incentive to be against trail markers.
Less Pokestops means less free items, which means people will be forced to buy items for Pokecoins or just not have items.
Less Pokestops also means less gyms, which means less free Pokecoins given away, which means people will have to buy them for actual money. Less gyms also means fewer raid opportunities, which means people would have to resort to the pricier remote raid passes to get their raiding done.
Less Pokestops also means less routes, which tend to give valuable items like incubators and lure modules upon completion.
In certain areas (mostly rural and suburban ones), trail markers account for A LOT of the Pokestops and gyms.
This also explains why Niantic is so determined to keep the trail markers out. If you submit them again, you'll get banned. I submitted like 40 of the ones that were removed, and after a few of them were approved by the reviewers, the rest went into Niantic Voting and were rejected. The approved ones were removed again, and I was banned for 30 days.
Niantic is certainly no stranger to making anti-consumer moves. Remember when they wanted to roll back all the game improvements they made during COVID because they made the game too enjoyable to play? Or when they doubled the price of remote raid passes and implemented the remote raid limit? Or when they tried to halve the range of the interaction circle until the immense backlash forced them to change it back?
This is just their latest attempt to stick it to their playerbase.
Re: Trailmarkers - warning received
there's no probably about it - trails are great places to exercise according to both Niantic and most reviewers:
The trail markers are placeholders for the trail because Niantic want a physical object:
Faversham71-PGO