Watermark when taking photo of new pokéstops
AtiIax-PGO
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Dear community!
Two days ago I hit level 40 and was exciting to make new pokéstops, succesfully made 5 nominations, but the problem is that 4 out of 5 has watermark of my phone camera at the very left-down corner. Will it 100% get declined? If so, can I still try to nominate them again after decline?
Thanks for your answer in advance.
Atilax
Comments
If the reviewers due their job correctly anything with a watermark will be rejected.
Turn off your phone's watermark before resubmitting.
I did turn off after realised it was on. Thanks for the answer, appreciate it.
Niantic's guidelines are to reject watermarked photo.
You can turn off the watermarks in your phone's camera settings.
When/if the nominations get declined, you can nominate them again. Any nomination can be submitted again, even in cases where it's obviously ineligible.
While I'm sure one or two have snuck through the reviewing process, a watermark will almost certainly cause a rejection. But yes, you can resubmit them, minus the watermark of course.
I would withdraw those nominations than to let it clog up the pipeline in voting and get rejected. It's better to wait 14 days to resubmit new ones than to wait a month or longer waiting for results. It depends on how crowded your area is for nominations. As far as I know, you can't replace the photos once you've sent the nomination into queue.
It is written everywhere to write a photo with a watermark, but why do we have a photo with a watermark given on the main page as a sample?
"If the reviewers due their job correctly anything with a watermark will be rejected"
So, if it got accepted then something is wrong with the reviewers.
Oh, for the Featured Wayspot I think Niantic are still doing something about it.
The showcase is not is any way curated by Niantic. It is just a listing of recently approved Wayspots in you area. If bad reviewers approve something they shouldn't (which happens all the time) there is nothing stopping it from ending up in the showcase.