Nomination Rejected In Appeals, Then Gets Approved By Other Submitter
Steagle-PGO
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I am a little confused, I submitted this stop a few times and it was rejected a few times as a school or Other.
I resubmitted with a link to the organization’s website to show it’s not a school, they aim to provide a safe indoor place for kids to play together and socialize.
It was rejected in Appeals as does not meet criteria. I walked by it today and see it’s a stop that was approved a few days ago. Niantic appeals said it doesn’t meet criteria.
I am definitely confused on this one.
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The Niantic reviewer rejected it for K-12, which is wrong. It is an indoor playground, which is just as valid as an outdoor one. They probably thought it was a daycare without checking the link you provided, or they don't understand the K-12 rules. There are plenty of examples by now where internal reviewers make obviously wrong decisions.
K-12 isn’t just for schools, it covers day care, boy/Girl Scout locations, and other places that are more or less exclusive to children. This reads like it would fall within that purview, and I believe Niantic rejected it correctly, according to the information to on in this nomination.
Another nominator may have provided different information that described it more in line with criteria.
I believe the main difference between child-oriented things that are eligible (like playgrounds) and those that are ineligible (like schools) is in the person taking care of children. If the typical users are parents who bring their children there and stay with them during the entire time (which is how playgrounds are commonly used), it's a place for socialisation (not only for children, but for adults as well) and therefore eligible. If parents drop their children off and paid employees care for the children while the parents are off working/shopping/whatever, it's considered K12 and therefore ineligible.
So playgrounds are eligible, but play centers (essentially indoor playgrounds) are not? Make it make sense, Niantic.
This happened to me several times and to further compound this issue is there's 4 nominations for Playgrounds that are daycares and it shows so on Google maps yet reviewers approved those in our are I've had 3 nominations near but not on in front of and nowhere near "within 20meters if a k-12" yet it was denied anyways for a school being down the road. Yet that same spot (the school down the road) was approved for the daycare play yard so definitely some issues with some reviewers. But it may have been the reviewers you got and someone else got lucky with reviewer(s) who 1) understands the difference or 2) they live in the area and know better.