Lack of Feedback on Rejected Stops
YoWoody-PGO
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I'm fairly new to stop nominations, and one of my biggest gripes about the process has been the lack of feedback regarding rejected stops.
While most reasons are self explanatory (Submitter identified, duplicate, etc) some of the reason I seem to get the most often are quite vague at times ("Other rejected criteria" is the biggest offender) so I'm not sure how to improve when submitting the next stop, or even retrying to submit the same location.
On one of my most recent rejections, I didnt even get a feedback label (This stop and the one approved were both reviewed by Niantic and not the community.) While I can assume it was likely due to low photo quality when looking back at the submission, having no feedback at all seems counter productive.
Is there a reason why we are only given these vague reasonings for rejections? When one-starring a stop, we are prompted to leave a comment explaining why. How come we don't receive these comments on top of the quick response reasonings?
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what criteria does a university sign meet? Exploration, excercise, socialising? If you can't anser this well, you will get a guaranteed Other rejection criteria rejection, which can be translated to "not interesting enough to accept, not fulfilling any criteria".
Niantic reviews don't give rejection reasons for ages. They will not fix it until their resources become available after the wayfarer app is finished (roadmap says somewhwere in summer)
Comments are only visible to Niantic, they do use it for reports and other stuff, but the reviewers doesn't receive them (the rsik of trolling is high there). You don't actually need to write something in the comment section, it works leaving it blank for most rejection reasons, still you would be expected to fill somehing in.
To me it looks like the sideboard guards are at the same location? If that's the case, the other one can not be accepted since it would be considered a duplicate.
While I do appreciate the feedback, having to post on the forum to get some seems counter productive. The majority of this comment doesn't really respond to the question I am asking about.
And for your questions,
Exploration: The sign acts as a navigation device for students and game players (the campus is free use to the public)
Exercise: The sign is on a set of set of sidewalks not often utilized by people. Having a stop there would compell people to use them and get more steps in.
Socialization: Its in an open area of space in a not-so busy portion of campus, which means that people could meet up outside for quick meetups instead of sitting inside at a nearby building.
One thing I've learned from scrolling the forums is that signs are hit or miss among reviewers and there is no clear consensus among reviewers, so I'll just stop submitting signs as half of them get through and the other half do not.
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As for the Sidewalk guards, they are near eachother, but not close enough to overlap (also the image shows that they are two different structures as one says "Welcome" and the other does not).
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In reference to why theres no comments, I feel like "high risk of trolling" isnt valid enough of a reason. If Niantic already reviews the comments, why wouldn't they just filter out troll comments much like how they limit "bot behavior" when people review. Commenting on reviews just seem like an unnecessary step in the reviewing process since they arent visible to the person submitting the stop.
@YoWoody-PGO One thing to remember is that people can socialize, exercise, or explore essentially anywhere on the planet. The criteria specify that something must be a GREAT place to do one of those things.