Gym in Pokemon Go not following Nomination photo likes rule

Mrughani01-PGOMrughani01-PGO Posts: 14 ✭✭
edited December 2022 in General Discussion

Hi all. I've been nominating a lot in a local shopping mall recently, and I had even planned out which stops became gyms so we could have a good spread through the mall on raid days.

However time came for a new gym to appear and the game chose to place the gym on a random pokestop instead. I know how voting on photos works in game (I have used this successfully in other locations). The planned pokestop has 3 votes on the photo. The pokestop that actually received the gym only has 1 vote. While it is still near the mall this gym is located on the sidewalk instead of within the mall, making it a slightly more dangerous place to have a raid group playing the game (vs a pokestop where it is simple to spin and walk past).


My question is why was the nomination with less in game votes picked for the gym? And is there a way to reverse this?


Many apologies if this is not the right community, please do redirect me if this is the case.

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