Rejection criteria out of hand
Minkz8-PGO
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I've entered trailmarkers for a while now. These trails are set up by the governement to get people walking safely. So ideal for the game as you can walk safely and spin when you pass one of the signs.
One of them got rejected with reason: accessibility to pedestrians.
It's a pedestrian trailmarker which is right on the street where they want you to walk!
That the picture reflects myself I know, and only noticed this after it got rejected. The sun reflected myself so if they turned it down on photo criteria wouldn't bother me so much. This bothers me so much. You put in the effort and makes me wonder who reviews these things and whether they check the photo's and area.
So I get it that it got rejected for the stupid reflection, don't get me wrong!
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There are nearly always totally silly rejection reasons, and irritating though they are you have vent frustration, ignore and move on.
The feedback algorithm seems to want to find more than 1 reason, so it appears to hunt around for any low score and present that as a reason. It could easily have been 1 person misclicking.
Seems a perfectly reasonable trail marker to me.
It took us a year to convince Niantic to even have rejection reasons. (In 2017 you could just 1* and done - really fast!)
It took us another year to convince Niantic to return those rejection reasons to the nominator. They said no, bots and cheaters could use them to game the system. But they finally agreed - with the caveat that they will return random reasons sometimes, to confound the bots. This would also help educate nominators on what's invalid, even if it doesn't apply to THIS nomination. We can't assume nominators read and understood any of the scant and confusing documentation.
These conversations were back in G+ days, so gone today. So, you can take my word for it, that Niantic does some crazy, counter-productive things sometimes - and this is one of them. Or not, and believe it's your fellow reviewers. I believe reviewers are more likely to pass too many, than fail too many - because they want waypoints in their games. I believe the random rejection code encourages nominators to demonize reviewers, when it's Niantic's doing.