Fake nominations
Pdor95-ING
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Hi everyone, i report fake nominations approved in my town. (Sorry if its the wrong section, couldn't find the correct one, first time in this forum)
There are four stops that got approved in my town in an area where there is nothing that meets a portal criteria.
The name of the portals/pokestops are : (i just resized the pictures to better view, you can find them on Ingress map easily)
-Laughing Child
-Bird Writer
-Marmotta d'acqua
-Mister Bloby
They are good portals, right? Yes, i have nothing against them, if they were in the correct location and not creating gyms in PoGo that are held by the same trainers.
First of all the coordinates, the portals are all around 45.334743, 9.101047 close together.
Street view for access the area:
As i said before they are located in a pedestrian-only area, so no cars and no street view.
No problem at all, one of the abuser posted this photosphere:
Well, this photosphere is.. FAKE!
The photosphere exists, it has been taken in a different town and then moved to that area to make sure the pokestops were approved.
I have 2 proofs to give you.
First: location of photosphere
The photosphere is located here:
The arrow i drawed shows where the photosphere should be, after all it shows a corner and where its located there are no corners, it is a straight forward street.
Secondly as i said the area where the stops are located is only pedestrian, but from the photosphere you can clearly see cars and a parking area near (strange in a pedestrian area with no street view uh?).
The second proof is the real location of the POIs, yes after some attempts i found it (i was sure they were taken from other cities and not simply from internet).
Coordinates: 45.448400, 9.091341
Street view:
Near this area you can see a duplicate of the photoshere i posted before, clear sign of abuse.
Please, remove this portals from my town as clear abuse of Wayfarer guidelines.
Thank you for you attention
Pdor
Links (for all checks needed)
Link FALSE Photosphere
Real location of POIs
Street map of POIs
Street map where the POIS are actually (street view from outside pedestrian area)
Comments
This is the wrong place for this.
1. If you have access to the waystops, you can report them in the game. This method has the advantage of a email confirming your report and an email for the decision that is made.
2. You can also report them using this form: http://bit.ly/LocationUpdateRequest but this method has no report back to you.
Really this is the wrong place?
I reported this portals dozens of times
and they are still there, i used the form to report the abuse 2 months ago and still no answer.
What i should do? Write directly ti Niantic?
I am pretty certain that the 'General Discussion' forum is not the place to submit/report invalid wayspots.
If you reported the wayspots in game, did you get a confirmation email for the report?
The online form has no confirmation.
If all else fails, you can post your concerns in the 'Invalid Wayspot Appeals" forum. They have a specific format to use to make the report there, so try to follow that.
Hope that helps and Good Luck.
I reported in game, i received always the email:" we examined the portal and we confirm that it should stay in the portal network".
So they reviwed my reports, but i don't know how they review them.
Guess i will post tomorrow in the invalid appeal section.
Thank you for your help =)
Hello there, @Pdor95-ING! I have moved this discussion to 'Invalid Wayspot Appeals' also flagged your report to our team internally. In the meantime, I'd really appreciate if you could report all the Wayspots via the abuse form if you haven't already. We will get back to you as soon as we have more information to share. Thanks!
@NianticGiffard
Thank you for your help!
I confirm that i reported 3 of them, now i report the last one with the form.
I will wait for your answer.
Hey there, @Pdor95-ING! We have reviewed the report and have taken actions on the Wayspots and Wayfinders in accordance with our policies. Thank you!
@NianticGiffard Thank you for your help!
I confirm that all portals have been removed from Ingress, but in pokemon go there is still Laughing Child as a gym, just to know if the staff needs to remove in manually or it will disappear with synchronize.
Thank you!
They will get deleted with the next sync. When I deleted a POI, it already went out of ingress but was still in PoGo. Thats normal.
@LukeAllStars-PGO
Thank you!
Please, also report the fake photosphere to Google.
@52cucumbers-ING can i report it?
Can you tell me how? Thanks
@NianticGiffard
Sorry to bother again, but the gym "Laughing Child" is still there even after synchronize.
All portals and pokestops were successfully removed, but this POI is still there in PoGo.
Thank you for your patience
@NianticGiffard
They started to submit again all POIs, i already reported them and i also reported the fake photosphere, but i don't know when google will remove it.
This is the main problem, until the photosphere is there they will keep submitting, anyone has any advice?
Can you flag again this issue to your team?
Thanks
Hi there! We have reviewed the report again and have taken actions on the Wayspots and Wayfinders in accordance with our policies. Thank you!