State Survey Marks
I would like to express the current discrimination issue regarding state Survey marks being a pokestop or not. I live in a community where there are absolutely minimal pokestops. I am trying to add Survey markers as there is nothing else. Someone else a few km away got their pokestop state Survey approved yet the 100s of mine I submitted never got approved why is this? This is not about any anti social behaviour it's being able to enjoy a walk an visit a variety of pokestops instead of the same 1 all the time. As how can someone choose if it's a valid pokestop or not I'd they do not reside in the country they are reviewing. I know all the pokemon go players don't mind the state Survey marks and would enjoy to have them in the area they live in. The people who state they are ineligible do not live in these areas and should not have any say.
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This thread may be relevant reading for you:
Half the threads in this forum about not being able to get stuff approved, and the other half are threads about “I can’t believe this got approved”
I'll comment on your "post". The people who review Nominations are the same people who play any or all of the games. The majority of the people reviewing your submissions will be from the "same country", so I highly doubt there is any "non local bias" being exhited to you personally. Having something "eligible" to be nominated does not guarentee it being accepted. Reading some of the discussions in here, a lot of reviewers in Australia are not happy with seeing multiple submissions of "survey markers" which seem to be very abundant in some places, so many in fact that they are starting to appear as "generic / mass produced / not interesting" to a lot of reviewers. How many of these have you submitted, and how many of these are repeat submissions.
If you want some constructive comments on your nominations, post some details of your nominations in the forum - sub photo / supporting photo / details etc and see what people think on them. It's not a case of "pokemon players don't mind the state survey marks", it's a case of "does this submission pass all the Niantic criteria - both acceptance and rejection - to become a Waypoint". I think you will find that people who regularly review nominations are also those who regularly play one or more Niantic games when they have the chance, not just sit at home waiting for another of your reviews to reject. Just for interest, how many subs have you reviewed? Until Niantic changes the way they populate their Lightship database, everybody who play any game is reliant on community members doing reviews to help populate the database. Some people have done a lot, as well as play the games, so complaining about people who review a lot shows little understanding of the way things work.
So you used to enjoy Pokemon and now because reviewers have rejected your nominations you have stopped playing it?
I don't understand the logic behind that.
State survey markers can be a hard sell. Based on just the ones in my area they tend to be in the most random locations. Sometimes in the middle of a highway, often down deserted country roads with nothing on them. Sure, some get approved but location is the key. I know of one as a waypoint that existed what seems like forever in a rest area near me. I also know of a few in the middle of a highway that never should had been approved.
The point of the Wayfarer system is to develop and improve a map for use across games, not just for Pogo. Your argument that something should be included just because you want more stops closer to your house or along your walking trail is completely contrary to what nominations are supposed to be doing.
As for survey markers themselves, read the thread linked above.
Yea. But my point is why do you guys care so much. It's just a game. The time it takes to create a pokestop. Keep in mind I use specific descriptions as well as I provide a link so you people can see its a genuine spot and matches the location. Yet it's still rejected. Maybe if your kids were submitting pokestop locations you will pass them without reviewing them aye.
I can't think of anywhere else that doesn't already have at least one State Survey Mark already approved, and as a reviewer am wondering where you're submitting "100s" of them, and if they're all being rejected and being resubmitted again and again, then it is literal spam. Are you even looking at the reject reasons?
Why don't you show an example of one? Unless I can guess where these "hundreds" of survey marks are located (Werrington, Luddenham, Morisset, Doonside, Toongabbie, Loftus?) then you're never going to get any feedback. If my "kids" were submitting Pokestops, then I assume they would be terrible (2 and 4 years) and I would wonder where they got their phone from. There is always something wrong if someone has outright rejections for days.
We're not reviewing for "Pokestops", we're reviewing for interesting points of interest across all Niantic games. "I want a Pokestop close to my house" is a good way to get the rest of your submission ignored. If hundreds of your submissions are denied, perhaps check out the criteria and find out what doesn't fit. That's a you problem. Perhaps maybe they're probably in someone's yard, or the photo is bad, or that many people will find a notch in the pavement saying "state marker" isn't a very interesting POI anyway. Just because something is in the game right now does not automatically mean another one should be, or will be.
But we can't know or judge your submissions unless you offer a photo and a map and show us what is wrong.