Keep getting rejected for low quality photos
BravestSquirtle-PGO
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I'm really doing my best to find quality Waystops and provide clear pictures of the topic in question but continue to get rejected for low quality photo.
Please help me. Is the attached low quality? I'm sincerely feeling defeated and want to quit both submitting and reviewing.
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Hello @BravestSquirtle-PGO ( love the name 👍)
It would be help if you provide the full submission. Both photos and text.
That will help us see the whole context and how strong a submission it is overall.
Any chance you also got “Other Rejection Criteria” as a reject reason, and glossed over it? Because I would not vote to reject solely on the basis on that image, if that’s what you’re asking; but I am not convinced on sight that this is an eligible subject, so I would need some supporting info to make the case.
Yes. Maybe 49 people said "Other Rejection" because it meets no acceptance criteria https://wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/new/criteria/eligibility and 1 person clicked "Low Quality Photo" - because it's also not a great photo.
It looks like a park (or wherever that plaque is) had a fundraiser, and the DuPlants and Kaplans donated money to honor some dead family members / friends. Millions of people have lived and died on this earth, and someone mourned them. They can't all have wayspots. Having money to donate and get a plaque - does not make a person wayspot-worthy.
Look instead for things you'd take an out-of-town visitor. Then make sure it would qualify in one or more of the elibility categories: socialize, exercize, explore.
the photo you have is a good photo because we are able to read the plaque. sometimes people reject things for stupid reasons
Yes! I missed that. Though I'm still not sure what that means. Here's the full sub:
When there is 12 of the same thing nearby it's understandable that you would submit this @BrandochDaha-ING@BravestSquirtle-PGO
Yes! I missed that. Though I'm still not sure what that means. Here's the full sub:
@The26thDoctor-PGO Genuinely thought it'd be perfect.
In other news I finally had two Waystops accepted so perhaps it was an arbitrary rejection.
Usually they don't get through the system. Benches with memorial tributes are meant to have dedications to someone more well known or who has had an effect on the local community etc.
Memorial benches are generally ineligible as new subjects; most of them in the map are several years old, as they are not subject to removal but also do not meet current criteria for inclusion.
“Other Rejection Criteria” is a very unhelpful Niantic-ese expression meaning “does not meet criteria,” and it is the most common rejection reason.
It's from a fundraiser. It's not a destination for exploration, exercise, or socialization.
Billions of people have lived on this earth, and all the dead ones don't get wayspots - even if they leave behind someone rich enough to donate to a fundraiser.
Here's where you can get a plaque on a bench for $10,000: https://www.centralparknyc.org/giving/adopt-a-bench
My only advice for getting these generic memorial benches through is to see if they might be the *only* thing in a walking area of a park. If the park has a walking path, but no trail markers, you could make an argument that these benches act like trail markers. But that is difficult to get approved. Most people will see the bench photo amd reject without reading the nomination, unfotunately.
the description is probably the problem try and tell us a little more about the people