Please accept this location edit I submitted three times now which also made me recieve a warning

LukeAllStars-INGLukeAllStars-ING Posts: 4,625 Ambassador

History:

When I woke up this morning, I saw that one of my location edit appeals got accepted. Also, I received a Mail from Niantic saying that my account got warned because "I have been submitting PoKéStops in the wrong location." On my question for further information, I received the information, that "I have been trying to move existing PoKéStops to the wrong location". Because of this, I highly predict that this warning was because of anything from the appeal. After checking all of the POIs I edited there, I found out that the warning was probably because of this POI I tried to edit three times now*. I also created this edit history of the two POIs I edited at this location. In the first appeal, the POI got edited to a wrong position (it got edited right next to the POI of the graffiti next to it which was also misplaced), even though I clearly showed where the POI's location is. In the second and the third appeal, nothing happened, even though the POI next to it I also wanted to edit got successfully moved. I tried different images* for the edit, nothing worked. Now, since the POI got moved to the wrong location in the first appeal (even though it got moved to a wrong location because of the Niantic employee who processed my appeal), I now probably got a warning because in the latest appeal, the image I put one that edit was buggy, it only had the "This one got moved to the wrong position last time" (see discussion) description. So whoever processed this appeal probably thought about abuse (even though it was Niantic who messed up) and warned me.

I answered the mail with the same like here. However, I haven't received an answer (yet).


All I can say that I am on the one hand disappointed in the system to receive a warning for trying to increase the quality of the portal network and on the other hand shocked that this happened to someone like me who is clearly against any kind of abuse. I never abusively misplaced a POI or abusively submitted a POI at the wrong location (at least not on purpose, if something was wrong, I always edited the location when I saw that. This was only the case on new objects not visible on the map or objects covered by trees. Normally only a few meters so no big deal.) or edited a POI to a wrong location. I have edited hundreds of POIs and reported a high four-digit number of fake POIs. In the end, it wouldn't have mattered whether I would have tried to clean up the system or spam it with fake nominations, the result would have been the same. It just shows one more time that trying to improve the already maximally exploitative system is not supporting the Wayfarers, more likely the opposite: You will get warned because of mistakes you haven't made. Very disappointing.

I know about similar situations where other German Wayfarers got warned for trying to fight abuse or increase the quality of the portal network. All of them are quite sad stories showing that increasing the quality of the portal network. Both have been trying to clean up edit abuse of a single person or a group of abusers. In the end, they got punished for it.


In the end, I hope for the removal of the warning or at least any kind of information about what I did wrong. If there are any privacy issues, please mail me (you got my mail address) or feel free to message me on Telegram (@ LukeAllStars).

In general, I would suggest improving the system and be more specific about why someone got warned. With the information "you have been submitting PoKéStops in the wrong location." or "you have been trying to move existing PoKéStops to the wrong location" you can't really know where you did something wrong.

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The appeal:

Title of the wayspot: Love Sprüh Kunst

Location: https://intel.ingress.com/intel?ll=53.605915,10.155845&z=17&pll=53.605915,10.155845

City: Hamburg

Country: Germany

Additional information:

Everything is shown on this image: https://ibb.co/s1CFzPd

more evidence:

https://us.v-cdn.net/6032079/uploads/AQUBPZB9C1YW/so-geil-x-love-spr-c3-bchkunst-gt.jpg 

https://us.v-cdn.net/6032079/uploads/LPOMZ5XDGITQ/so-geil-x-love-spr-c3-bchkunst.jpg 

https://us.v-cdn.net/6032079/uploads/C0W82DCF972J/so-geil-x-love-spr-c3-bchkunst.jpg 

https://ibb.co/RbzJT2P

Correct location: 53.60574450003057, 10.155558724153924



I hope that the edit can finally get approved and I can get some more information about this warning or the warning can completely get removed. Thanks!

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