Your rejected nominations may be appealed from within Wayfarer! When you view the details of a rejected contribution, you’ll see the top 2 reasons the community rejected it, and a button to Appeal this decision to Niantic.
You’ll be allowed to appeal contributions one-time per contribution, to Niantic. Appeals will be limited to one (1) appeal per 30d from the date of your first appeal. In addition, you'll have a chance to further explain in writing why your nomination should be accepted by Niantic.
Appealed nominations cannot be edited after it has been submitted to Niantic, but you can track the status from your Nomination Management page. Upgrades may not be applied to Appealed nominations. Niantic will review your appeal and send you an email when a decision has been made, with a written explanation from us. This does not apply to contributions that have been reported. Review times are not guaranteed at this time, but we will be tracking it over time to see whether the appeal limits could be adjusted.
There seems to be a strong restriction around the number of submissions, but still, I hope the Wayfarer team doesn't become dysfunctional in the first three months.
I think some people were expecting to be able to appeal "all 40" submissions at one time. 1 a month is fine, it means submitters do still have to try to remember criteria and find good eligible stops, and it gives Niantic a chance to see if they can cope with the volume they are going to get and if the process is workable.
My oldest rejection that isn’t now a wayspot dates to Sep 2017 and has the “Appeal” button. But it’s too close to now-existing things to come into ANY game, so definitely not going to bother.
I’m probably going to burn my first appeal tomorrow when I’m back at a desktop, pick one of the weird historic things that it’s just impossible to properly describe without having a whole museum. Oh wait, it HAS its own museum lol
I just had a movie theater submission get denied this morning. Maybe I'll use my appeal on that, i thought movie theaters were good POI. Hopefully the turnover isnt long! one every 30 days is definitely enough to choose wisely on what you want to appeal. If you're submitting 12 a year then you definitely gotta rethink your submissions LOL
I would like more of an, once a month, but if your appeal gets accepted within that month you can appeal another one right away if rejected you don't get it back till the month is up.
Either way, i can start appealing the ones that were rejected with the only reason being "historical/cultural significance"
@Kaladin4Kholin-PGO when you select appeal on a nomination you are presented with a text box to fill out on why you believe Niantic should accept your appeal and approve the nomination.
It is up to you what you want to write in your appeal.
I did one this morning and based the comment on the rejection reason and that the poi met criteria, but it would be nice to know if its just niantic taking a look at the submission from scratch, or if they are just saying "yeah, this rejection reason is wrong, accept"
According to Danbocat, the Niantic decision maker sees your full nomination plus whatever additional text you provide in your appeal, and they will use all that information to reach a decision. So you can use the appeal text box to explain why you're appealing and further clarify what criteria you believe it meets.
The appeal text box seems to allow a decent amount of text as well. I'm not sure if there is a character limit, but I was able to type plenty in the box to both explain why I thought my nomination meets criteria and to further explain a bit more about the nomination itself.
Cool. Tbh i think the submission was pretty much fine as is, it got rejected fir historical/cultural significance, can't really do anything about that (which I said int rh appeal" but just reiterated that it meat exercise and exploration criteria, and added that it met social criteria as walking groups used it (it was a health walk route trail marker)
I wanted to ask if the Niantic Staff reviewing the Appeals could see the rejection information entered by reviewers too. If I have rejected as “Other Rejection Criteria” and written a few lines why I rejected it, will that be seen as it may be important in forming a decision for the Appeal.
Of note, text that was ~2600 characters was accepted, but ~5700 was definitely too much and triggered an error message. I had to cut out my appeal's text paragraph by paragraph until it went through.
Someone else tested it and found it was 3000 characters. I can't remember who it was or where they posted it though, but it's floating around somewhere on the forum.
I just wanna have it clarified. And yeah, doing them in english sounds more logical. I would really like to avoid translators, even though german-english ones work pretty well these days.
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Nomination Appeals
Your rejected nominations may be appealed from within Wayfarer! When you view the details of a rejected contribution, you’ll see the top 2 reasons the community rejected it, and a button to Appeal this decision to Niantic.
You’ll be allowed to appeal contributions one-time per contribution, to Niantic. Appeals will be limited to one (1) appeal per 30d from the date of your first appeal. In addition, you'll have a chance to further explain in writing why your nomination should be accepted by Niantic.
Appealed nominations cannot be edited after it has been submitted to Niantic, but you can track the status from your Nomination Management page. Upgrades may not be applied to Appealed nominations. Niantic will review your appeal and send you an email when a decision has been made, with a written explanation from us. This does not apply to contributions that have been reported. Review times are not guaranteed at this time, but we will be tracking it over time to see whether the appeal limits could be adjusted.
Thank goodness it's only 1 every 30 days.
It'll definitely be interesting to see the turn around time.
There seems to be a strong restriction around the number of submissions, but still, I hope the Wayfarer team doesn't become dysfunctional in the first three months.
I think some people were expecting to be able to appeal "all 40" submissions at one time. 1 a month is fine, it means submitters do still have to try to remember criteria and find good eligible stops, and it gives Niantic a chance to see if they can cope with the volume they are going to get and if the process is workable.
Some one should see if they can appeal a Scanner-Redacted nomination. I would, but I already used mine on a trail marker that keeps getting rejected.
My oldest rejection that isn’t now a wayspot dates to Sep 2017 and has the “Appeal” button. But it’s too close to now-existing things to come into ANY game, so definitely not going to bother.
I’m probably going to burn my first appeal tomorrow when I’m back at a desktop, pick one of the weird historic things that it’s just impossible to properly describe without having a whole museum. Oh wait, it HAS its own museum lol
I agree. The people spamming ineligible stuff because they "need moar Pokestops" can not flood the appeal system spamming multiple appeals.
Depending on how fast the turnover is, I more wish it was one at a time. I.e. If you get a response in 2 weeks, you can appeal the next one.
I just put an appeal in on a rejection that surprised me. One every 30 days is strict but makes us use them for ones we firmly believe in.
Many times I would just re submit but was nice just now to appeal one that I'm not close to.
Heck I might even appeal the one that I submitted in Hawaii.
I just had a movie theater submission get denied this morning. Maybe I'll use my appeal on that, i thought movie theaters were good POI. Hopefully the turnover isnt long! one every 30 days is definitely enough to choose wisely on what you want to appeal. If you're submitting 12 a year then you definitely gotta rethink your submissions LOL
I would like more of an, once a month, but if your appeal gets accepted within that month you can appeal another one right away if rejected you don't get it back till the month is up.
Either way, i can start appealing the ones that were rejected with the only reason being "historical/cultural significance"
I would also like to know, does the appeal basically have your submission be reviewed by niantic, or are you appealing the rejection reasons?
@Kaladin4Kholin-PGO when you select appeal on a nomination you are presented with a text box to fill out on why you believe Niantic should accept your appeal and approve the nomination.
It is up to you what you want to write in your appeal.
I did. Seems to work with old Redacted nomination also.
I did one this morning and based the comment on the rejection reason and that the poi met criteria, but it would be nice to know if its just niantic taking a look at the submission from scratch, or if they are just saying "yeah, this rejection reason is wrong, accept"
According to Danbocat, the Niantic decision maker sees your full nomination plus whatever additional text you provide in your appeal, and they will use all that information to reach a decision. So you can use the appeal text box to explain why you're appealing and further clarify what criteria you believe it meets.
The appeal text box seems to allow a decent amount of text as well. I'm not sure if there is a character limit, but I was able to type plenty in the box to both explain why I thought my nomination meets criteria and to further explain a bit more about the nomination itself.
Cool. Tbh i think the submission was pretty much fine as is, it got rejected fir historical/cultural significance, can't really do anything about that (which I said int rh appeal" but just reiterated that it meat exercise and exploration criteria, and added that it met social criteria as walking groups used it (it was a health walk route trail marker)
That's the good part. Appealing nominations you won't get back to soon... or ever again.
Agree. Bit of an incentive to only appeal good candidates would be helpful .
Hi @Danbocat-PGO , you clarified a lot of stuff here;
on Appeals.
I wanted to ask if the Niantic Staff reviewing the Appeals could see the rejection information entered by reviewers too. If I have rejected as “Other Rejection Criteria” and written a few lines why I rejected it, will that be seen as it may be important in forming a decision for the Appeal.
Just submitted my first appeal today. We’ll see what happens.
@NianticGiffard Which language shall we use in our appeals? English or our own (In my case: German)
@RyuuVanDraco-PGO their preference is that appeals be in English, however you can use your native language if you feel more comfortable with it.
Minor update: submitted my first appeal.
Of note, text that was ~2600 characters was accepted, but ~5700 was definitely too much and triggered an error message. I had to cut out my appeal's text paragraph by paragraph until it went through.
Someone else tested it and found it was 3000 characters. I can't remember who it was or where they posted it though, but it's floating around somewhere on the forum.
I just wanna have it clarified. And yeah, doing them in english sounds more logical. I would really like to avoid translators, even though german-english ones work pretty well these days.
@RyuuVanDraco-PGO it was a clarification that Danbocat posted in the thread announcing the feature after LukeAllStars asked the same question.