Seriously what is going on?
Baekje-ING
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First of all I live in a small town in Sweden with around 1,500 residents and have made many stops here but I do not understand how it can be so hard to get some stops that are seriously acceptable in the criteria accepted. It is unbelievable. I am a Pokemon GO player who plays PvP (which is broken now) and fighting rocket grunts (is broken now). But then I also have to deal with crazy decisions done by Niantic on my submissions as well. In the last week I got about 2 emails a day that said "Niantic has reviewed your whatever and sadly it was not accepted by the community". Am I wasting my time making requests for stops or what? I actually walk to these places and take my time to write the information down and take photos.
#1, Floor warming station in our town.
#2, Frisbee golf course run by the government
#3, Pier, bath place run by the county
#4, A cool mural in the town
#5, Art on a box
#6 Water Cleaning Plant
#7 The only pavilion in our little downtown
#8 A factory that dates back to 1500
#9 The only library in the town
#10 A directional sign that shows all the interesting places in the town.
#11 A music hall that where concerts are held and local music groups have practice
#12 A sculpture that was paid by NASA to be put on the moon but never was.
#13 The only Electric station in the town.
Not even one was accepted, wow!? Do you have any answer NIANTIC?
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Could you perhaps post the full details of a few of your nominations (title, description, supporting info, and both photos)? Some of the things you've described don't sound eligible, but several of them seem like they'd be easy to accept, which makes me wonder if there's a systematic problem you're overlooking with your submissions (like a watermark applied to your photos by your phone camera or in-game references being used in your descriptions).
Also, what are satellite views and Street Views like in the area? Are the satellite views clear and up-to-date? Are there Street Views, and if so, are they somewhat recent?
So, in short all your nominations was suddenly reviewed manually by Niantic reviewers, just like what happened to @Nadiwereb-PGO . Unfortunately all of them are rejected.
@NianticGiffard can you explain what was happened to the OP?
Thanks for reaching out, @Baekje-ING! I would request you to check the rejection emails you received for these 13 Wayspots put them in a doc and send it to us. In case they were manually reviewed by us, I'll ask our staff to re-review them.
@NianticGiffard
Thank you for your reply! Where should I send the doc file to? Also in what format?
You can share it here after clicking on the 'Upload file' icon in the bottom left corner of the chat window. It can either be in a google doc (enable view only) or PDF.
@NianticGiffard
Here I attach the document, thank you very much for your time!
Best Regards from Sweden!
I know that Niantic auto-rejects your nominations when they detect Wayfarer abuse.
A few days ago, there was the big thread of 200+ fake wayspots in sweden.
Maybe a connection?
Thanks for writing back! We have given it a thorough look and can see only "Virsbo reningsverk" was reviewed by us and was correctly rejected whereas others were rejected by the player community.
Having said that, you can always appeal nominations if you believe the outcome should have been different. Also, we have now stopped accepting appeals on the forum (even for the ones rejected by us). You can now appeal through the Wayfarer site.
@NianticGiffard you might want to make it more prominent that Niantic rejections can no longer be appealed on the forum, as opposed to having it tucked away in a random thread in the nomination improvements section.
I'll start commenting the same for the users whenever we start receiving fresh appeals on forums from now on.