About abusive re-nominations
tp235-ING
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Hello, Remember this invalid wayspot appeal?
Last time I was approved for this deletion.
Therefore, I also removed the 360° photo with no worries.
However, the nomination, which was placed under false pretenses, was submitted to Wayfarer again.
They set up a temporarily placed shrine that clearly does not match the foundation, and the size of the Jizo and shrine do not match at all.
This player can be considered extremely malicious.
Therefore, all of this player's applications (including those that were denied) need to be re-examined.
Also, while I can usually spot such low-quality disguises, I suspect that there is a Wayfinder community that scores them distinctly differently than others.
Therefore, I would like to see a detailed investigation.
Sorry for the blurry 360° photo, but it suddenly started raining. But the location is the same.
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Thanks for the flag, @tp235-ING! We'll have it investigated and write back once we have details to share.
@NianticGiffard
Thank you for your work.
I know you have more information than I do, but for completeness, I am attaching the agent profile who applied for the Wayspot that was invalidated in March 2021, and a picture of the Wayspot at the church in the immediate area.
We can infer that these accounts are Pokémon trainers, as the profiles of these two Ingress agents are different from normal agents, as they are at agent level 8 and show Recon medals.
And the photo shows a number of thumbs up that I don't think is just a multi-account action of one player.
This is also the case with Wayspot, the church right next to us.
Another photo of the church shows a full view of the church, suggesting that the church itself was initially the spot, but that the title and photo were arbitrarily switched and repositioned in an attempt to abusively increase the number of Wayspots.
In other words, these traces suggest that a particular gaming community may be trying to manipulate the Wayspot in an arbitrary way. (Perhaps they are arbitrarily inducing Pokémon GO to promote gyms.
We would appreciate it if you could investigate this point as well.
Thank you.
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Hello @tp235-ING! We have reviewed the report and have taken action on the reported Wayspot and the Wayfinder in accordance with our policies.
Thank you for making the right decision.
And we support Niantic's efforts to improve the quality of POI.
Please let us know if we can help you in any way.
We'll be happy to help.
This must be the only place in all of East Asia that has a Buddha statue that looks like this!
The position and shape of the scratches are so similar that you'd think they'd been carried in and photographed!
牧野池のお地蔵様
Just recently, a case I reported also repeated the proposal by carrying a shrine of the same shape from one place to another. It is a pity that there are people here and there who repeat similar things.
wow!
You look so much alike! No, it's the same thing!
Thanks for letting me know.
I'm sorry to say that I'm very busy, but I would appreciate additional research.
@NianticGiffard
@NianticGiffard
Thank you for your hard work and professionalism.
Unfortunately, I found the exact same Jizo statue.
All the features match.
And the description is the same as the Wayspot that was previously removed elsewhere.
Therefore, it is clear that this is a photo of a particular player who carried this statue and duplicated it.
This player does not understand the purpose of Wayfarer, but rather abuses Wayfarer for his own pleasure.
Therefore, it is necessary to recheck all the Wayspots that this player has made Live.
It is also necessary to delete any Wayspot that cannot be confirmed to be in the correct location.
We would also like you to investigate the relevance of the judges who gave this application a higher score than the other applicants.
Title:持蓮観音菩薩立像
Location:35.169996,137.004523
This POI went live yesterday or today due to low quality screening.
The player who applied for this POI, and the current owner on Ingress, they are an odd match.
And strangely enough, there are a lot of thumbs up for the photos.
Seven of them.
And the POI I deleted the other day had 7 of them.
Both of these forgeries are too weird to be a coincidence.
We don't know how many people are responsible for this, but we can easily assume that there is a Wayfinder community that is abusive.
I am concerned that this could be abuse on a large scale.
Please continue to investigate in detail.
Thanks for the follow-up! We'll look into it.
We have reviewed the report and have taken action on the reported Wayspots and a Wayfinder in accordance with our policies. Thanks for helping us maintain the quality of the Wayspots.
Thank you for the quick response.
I also found another POI that was generated by a false application made by this player.
I will be asking for your help again later.