Are information boards eligible?
DeoxyDante-PGO
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I requested an information board which contains the history of the Town, but It continues being rejected for "other rejection criteria" and a nonsense reason changing everytime. It has already rejected tour times, despite It has pedestrian access, has cultural value and promotes exploration, It Is visually unique and you can clearly see It in Google street view.
Firstly It has been rejected for "other criteria" and "not visually unique", then " not historically or culturally significant", after "inaccurate location" and last "title or description are offensive or not relevant".
Can you please help me?
Answers
What does the text say in English?
Have you had problems with any other submissions in that area? It looks good to me. I would try it again after you get your upgrade. Maybe there is a problem with local reviewers.
Another possibility is it is a duplicate. Sometimes that doesn't get recorded correctly. Did you check this when you submitted?
Thank you for tour answer, i check everytime I submit something so it's not a duplicate, maybe you're right It's due to local reviewers, because it's not the only request in that area that has been rejected many times, It also happened to two playgrounds, to the local stadium and a war memorial near the church, all these were completely legit requests. I started submit things there because nobody were doing anything and it was a shame leaving a Town with such potential completely empty. The only One that requested something there is submitting a bunch of fake nominations in the suburbe of that town,near his home and incredibly all his requests has been accepted despite he steals images from other nominations and there's no support images or street view demonstrating that they're location Is accurate, i reported these fake POIs many times, but they're still there. Just to bring an example, he submitted a wooden cross with a Mountain in the background landscape, when the Town Is in plain.
What can I do?
History of Quinto di Treviso - Information Board
This information board reports the story of the Town of Quinto di Treviso which name comes from the latin "Quintus ab urbe lapis" (far five leagues from the city of Treviso), proofs of its foundation came from the Bronze Age, developing and becoming wealthy due to trades and fishing along the River Sile, but it's only during the Serenissima Venetian Republic that some very rich merchants settled down there, bringing the Town to his maximum splendor.
Support information: it's an information board with cultural value,It promotes exploration and culture, it's located near a cycle and pedestrian path, so pedestrian access Is granted, It Is clearly visible in Google Street View
Just a check (sorry), the description is written by you, not a copy paste from town site?
Otherwise I can't think of a reason for rejection.
Yes Is written by me
That is a shame. It sounds like maybe this other person is abusing the system. Sometimes people have multiple accounts or work together with their friends to cheat like this.
How did you report the fake stops? If you reported them in the Pokemon Go app, you can appeal when your reports of fakes are rejected. The best way to appeal this is to go to Wayfarer, choose "Help", then go to the bottom of the screen and select the chat bubble.
Type "skip" and then follow the instructions to report. You will need the wayspot names, latitude/longitude, and evidence the wayspots are fake. The evidence they prefer is geotagged photos of the location, but other evidence may be possible.
After all that, the cheater may be banned from Wayfarer for a short time. During that time, it may be possible to get your submissions into the game. If the cheater's friends or other accounts are not banned, you may have to rely on upgrades for all your submissions. Unfortunately, Niantic is not very aggressive about stopping abuse.
That is a very good nomination and very well presented. I rarely see anything that good when reviewing.
The only possible thing I can think of is the inclusion of punctuation characters in the title. For some reason, it seems that this causes rejections in some areas. Commas are OK, for sure, and very common, but anything else is risky.
I vote in the same area,but I have never seen that nomination despite finding the well know spammer's fake ones. I have already reported that guy three times and opened a thread in this forum. No answer whatsoever was given. They just don't care
Yes. Niantic is terrible about ignoring reports of abuse when you mark them during review. They also mostly ignore reports of fake Wayspots made in-game after the fakes are in the database. The Wayfarer support is the best way I've found to get these removed.
Even when you do get theM removed, the "penalties" are so useless that the abuser will just create them again in a week or 30 days after their suspension ends. On top of that, these kind of abusers usually have multiple accounts, which Niantic also refuses to do anything about. These other accounts will be unaffected.
For whatever reason, they've decided to become an AR company owning a database with many fakes. I'm not sure how they think they can sell their AR product after the games end.
I hope by reporting the fakes in the Wayfarer chat, you can at least get the abuser suspended long enough to get some legitimate wayspots approved. I think removing the fakes permanently is a lost cause due to Niantic's weak policies, unfortunately.
I reported the fakes but Niantic refused to remove them. Maybe if Niantic will hire players or loyal reviewers to do this job, the entire system will work better.