Rejection Ideas
Hello all,
May someone please offer their thoughts as to why this may have gotten rejected?
This is the placard at the entrance of our neighborhood. It is a permanent structure and it's easily accessed with sidewalks all around. I've seen neighborhood placards as poke stops before so I'm confused why this got rejected.
Thank you all



Answers
Yeah, it doesn’t meet criteria. You’re welcome to check these forums for similar submissions - you’ll find many of them - to find the arguments that people make about how neighborhood signage is a good place to gather or socialize, which are silly nonsense. The only way a neighborhood sign is going to meet criteria is through the explore channel, and that requires something extraordinary about the sign itself.
Neighbourhood signs are ineligible unless artistically or otherwise special. If that applies though, you would need to show reviewers why it is not such an ordinary sign which you haven't done yet.
You probably wonder why it didn't get accepted despite others being online, too. In Wayfarer, existing Wayspots are not to be meant as showing that one kind of an object is always acceptable, stuff you see in games could have been accepted under old rules, in error, or other scenarios despite not being eligible.
Your whole nomination just says "it exists". But Niantic isn't trying to log everything that exists.
Instead, look for great places to explore, exercise, or socialize, as described here https://wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/new/criteria/eligibility