From a Wayfarer point of view, how can the community & Niantic educate persons like this?
PkmnTrainerJ-ING
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I’m sure you can all locate the thread if you wish. But to say that you think you deserve a stop, and for the rest of the thread to be encouraging adding fake info?
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Just an example of the comments;
Get a fake memorial plaque made up for like 10 bucks and put it in the center and submit that as the stop. In a park near me there are like 6 bricks with names painted in them that are stops (well 5 stops and a gym). You can even take the plaque away after you submit it because literally no one cares about what the stop is and they only care that there's a stop or gym there.
Have you tried lying and saying it’s a famous tree? Like “the Adams Tree” named after the towns first mayor, Jack Adam’s. When the orginal died of rot, the town replanted the tree from a sapling of the orginal tree in 1995”
Look up your town's first mayor, go to Google maps and mark the tree as his memorial tree, hell create a Wikipedia page about his love for trees and how touched he was st the dedication ceremony, link that to the Google map pin about the now Historical tree. Wait a month then submit again.
For once at a loss for words.
That's a lot of effort considering the fun of having a home stop/gym wears off after two or three days.
The question seems moot because for all the great ideas about how Niantic can discourage or prevent fake stops we know they will do exactly zero of them.
I don't understand why they never take strong action to protect the integrity of their "real" product, the Lightship database.
Typical entitled attitude. Not surprised at all to see it come from r/pokemongo.
Just read some of the 454 comments... Most are either advocating creating something fake like a plaque or LFL or art, or naming it "Pokémon/Pokéball" something.
And then others are complaining why it just isn't automatically a gym because Circle K near them is one and so is a lame mural and electrical box with art painted on it....
The few people I see on there that say that "this doesn't meet the criteria and fakes will not get approved and are abuse" just get downvoted... lovely.
The sheer lack of understanding of how "PokéStops/Gyms" are created is a real problem apparently... I thought the pre-submission wayfarer test would have fixed some of that??? I guess not.
You read all the comments? Do you need a mental health check-in after that?
lmao, some not all.
It was, wow.
Ah, I misread and thought you’d been through the whole thread!
The three I shared were amongst the worst but I haven’t seen any new ones added since.
Wayfinder Pokémon trainers here think differently, but unfortunately for the vast majority of average Pokémon trainers, a Pokéstop is just a sequential number.
A wayspot is just a place where you go to get a Monster Ball, beat up a Rocketeer, or go to a Raid Battle or Gym Battle at a Pokémon Gym that has been promoted to a Pokémon Gym.
They don't go there because there is something interesting or wonderful there.
Unfortunately, Wayfarer has been opened up to such players, and now it is rapidly turning into a pile of garbage.
They conspire and use all their multi-accounts to just hit 5 stars in a row.
It's really that easy.
And the Wayfarer team's vague and sometimes blurry approval criteria are adding to it.
The only way to reduce the amount of garbage is to at least ban players who make false nominations, as well as drastically revise the criteria for wayspot and scrutinize all of them, including past wayspots.
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Has Niantic considered effective and recurrent penalties for such obviously abusive behavior?
It seems to me that many Wayfinders here need effective penalties to prevent abusive behavior.
Those leaving comments aren’t necessarily Wayfarers, but anyone playing Ingress or Pokémon GO is a potential Wayfarer, so it’s on Niantic to make the rules clear up front.
A test you can retake every 15 minutes isn’t a good thing to stop that.
That is typical for the Pokémon Go subreddit.