New "submitter identifiable" trend?

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  • Gazzas89-PGOGazzas89-PGO Posts: 2,619 ✭✭✭✭✭

    By that logic, no more photosphere, as that can be construed as influencing due to username appearing onto he photosphere, a d that appears in the review process

  • HaramDingo-INGHaramDingo-ING Posts: 1,725 ✭✭✭✭✭

    This happens to me more often than it needs to, actually. A photosphere with an ever-changing Google account name will often come back as 'extraneous objects or identifier not relevant to the nomination'. There are a lot of others who generate photospheres to help assist their nomination as I review, but I can only assume that their volumes are slightly lower and so they don't get done in for submitter identifiable.

  • Gazzas89-PGOGazzas89-PGO Posts: 2,619 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Tut tut, having plants in your supporting photo, people might now think you are influencing the reviewers 🤣🤣🤣

  • BleedBoss-PGOBleedBoss-PGO Posts: 269 ✭✭✭

    @NianticGiffard , could you **** a solid, look into this thread, and pass on your judgement on this kind of behaviour? Would really make my day.

  • AScarletSabre-PGOAScarletSabre-PGO Posts: 754 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Yeah, reminds of all of those people in the USA today crying and whining about so-called "election fraud" when there basically is none. There is not enough fraud in Wayfarer (or elections in the USA) to have a noticeable impact. 99.9% of people are not deliberately trying mislead people. Yet, as soon as something slightly out of the usual appears, suddenly it's as though the apocalypse has begun!

  • TheZodiac007-PGOTheZodiac007-PGO Posts: 860 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @TheFarix-PGO While I can agree with you that I don’t like seeing people or animals in the photos at all, I recommend to review as normal unless they’re in the main photo. It is the only one that will be seen by everyone else. We (the reviewers) are the only ones seeing that supporting photo. That is the only reason. If it were represented in game, it would cross the privacy barrier but since it’s not & this person in particular probably photographed their own kids, nothing can be done unless someone were to come forward with a lawsuit. Therefore all we can do is review these as if the person isn’t there (unless they’re in the main photo)

  • Hi there, @TheFarix-PGO, thanks for bringing this to our attention!

    First of all, we had to close this thread because of contentious comments made by some users and to avoid further toxicity.

    Secondly, as long as the people shown in the photos are not intentionally/ purposefully posing such types of nominations should be fine for consideration.

    I'll reopen this thread however I request a proper and healthy discussion.

  • Shilfiell-INGShilfiell-ING Posts: 1,559 Ambassador

    Thanks for re-opening! It's often difficult to tell intentional posing in those supporting photos, though - so I can see the OP's point a bit. If people or animals are in the supporting photo, at what point should we cease giving the submitter the presumption of innocence?

  • Gazzas89-PGOGazzas89-PGO Posts: 2,619 ✭✭✭✭✭

    With the op picture, that doesn't seem posed as "let people know who i am", though they have probs been told to look away

  • TheFarix-PGOTheFarix-PGO Posts: 5,063 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited July 2021

    Thank you for the comment and for removing the comments that felt the need to directly attack me for bringing the topic up—though it appears you need to remove yet another post that feels the need to personally attack me. I will note that this is not the first time this person has attacked others for reporting abuse.

    The fact is that I've been seeing several nominations where a person directly beside the object, either facing to the side or behind so as not to be identified. While one such nomination may seem innocently coincidental, the fact that this was a repeated pattern made me think that this was a new way to signal to reviewers to "approve this nomination". So for future reference, how should review go about handling suspected messaging in nominations, whether it be in the main photo, supporting photo, title, description, or supporting information?

  • Nadiwereb-PGONadiwereb-PGO Posts: 1,119 ✭✭✭✭✭

    You yourself said that it wasn't the same poeple on the supporting pictures, so without further information, I fail to see how this could be seen as a pattern. If it was the same children or they were in the same pose, I'd say you're right that there's something there, but without any actual visible pattern, I'll just say this is nitpicking.

    Also, "messaging" this way would only makes sense if the nomination is ineligible or highly suspicious. This doesn't seem to be the case in the nomination in your original post. But if it makes you feel better, I'd suggest you collect screenshots of "suspicious" nominations and if you can see an actual pattern (same pose, same people), report it as a compilation.

  • CheshireCat49-PGOCheshireCat49-PGO Posts: 23 ✭✭

    This ain’t a place to attack people. Anyone who is here for that purpose just needs to leave. The door is wide open. We are here to better the ENTIRE community. I understand where you’re coming from entirely @TheFarix-PGO. If avoidable people should’t be in photos. If people attack someone for an opinion, how will they treat them in real life.

  • aleprj-INGaleprj-ING Posts: 565 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I have to agree it would be the best practice. Judge the nomination on its own merits, there's no reason to reject a good nomination because there is a very slight possibility that it has a "approve this" sign. You are doing more harm by rejecting it than approving it if it's a good nomination.

  • Gazzas89-PGOGazzas89-PGO Posts: 2,619 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Before I get into this, I'm not attacking you or anyone. I'm just pointing out.


    You yourself said these arent the same people that you have seen before. You admit it's a perfectly viable nomination. So it seems, because you've seen a couple of times people doing this (bearing in mind, this is children, chances are this was the best the person could do with them) you created a scenario without any proof. If it was things that weren't acceptable or were borderline, sure, but there is no reason to reject, so it seems you concocted one

  • Shilfiell-INGShilfiell-ING Posts: 1,559 Ambassador

    I may disagree with the OP's handling of the issue, but understand that this is a possible vector for abuse and would like some polite discussion on the matter. I would feel badly if the thread was shut down again because of comments directed at individuals.

    I don't think a line can really be drawn between posed/not posed unless the person is staring at the camera directly and waving. I don't mind seeing the occasional kid or dog or rabbit in supporting photos, myself, and think they can show safe access or size/perpective. That being said, as long as the OP is using a 1* rejection reason, I don't consider it abusive on their part: It then comes down to reviewer opinion with ratings at stake.

  • Eneeoh-PGOEneeoh-PGO Posts: 747 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Shilfiell-ING It sounds like your answer is ‘yes, no, and maybe’, or I don’t understand correctly.

    Some instances have come to light of local ‘cabals’ tagging their submissions by adding initials to the end of an entry, or including an acronym like “NWC” while faking a submission.

    Reviewers here seem to agree that extra content in the supporting photo would have to be rather blatant to merit any abuse flag.

    You, yourself don’t mind an occasional animate thing being in the support photos you create or review.

    It seems to require fewer NO votes to tank a submission than YES votes needed to pass review.

    When, where and why is it okay to one-star something that should be acceptable?

  • aleprj-INGaleprj-ING Posts: 565 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Some instances have come to light of local ‘cabals’ tagging their submissions by adding initials to the end of an entry, or including an acronym like “NWC” while faking a submission.

    So, this is my problem with this idea of rejecting something because it might have been "marked for approval". If it's a fake submition it should be rejected for... Well... Being a fake?

  • Eneeoh-PGOEneeoh-PGO Posts: 747 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Detecting fakes can be quite challenging, and I don’t want to write out anything that could be used to tutor future fakers, but we’re supposed to be on guard against gaming the review system.

    The Rejection Criteria include a number of ‘ineligible’ categories as well as the direct label of ‘Fake.’

    I think the reason this discussion is here at all is that Niantic says animals, people, or personally identifiable elements in photos mark them as ineligible. They don’t make clear if that only refers to the primary photo.

    This is why guidance is requested from The Team

  • Shilfiell-INGShilfiell-ING Posts: 1,559 Ambassador
    edited July 2021

    I think the whole thing is rather unclear myself! I would not reject these candidates, but it appears the OP did. I don't think they (the candidate waypoint, not the reviewer) should be marked for abuse without stronger proof (adding initials or code words/letters to text is an obvious abuse and should rightly be flagged) and I was happy that these nominations were not treated this way. By giving a 1* rating to an acceptable, not-faked, obviously great candidate the OP is staking his/her own rating that other reviewers will agree.

    I still contend that the whole point of submitting a waypoint is to influence reviewers to vote Yes. That's why I carefully consider my title and description, try to submit worthy candidates, try to get a good photo, and try to upload photospheres when location is difficult to pinpoint. I would expect my candidates to be approved for criteria only, and not rejected because my grandson is famously naughty and tends to photobomb anything possible, or because I happened to show the hood ornament of my car in a wider supporting picture. Attempt to Influence is forbidden in Edits, but is a fuzzy thing in original nominations.

    I'm not proposing answers and I have no official voice here. I would like to know the views of other reviewers, and of Niantic, so that I can more accurately review - and appreciate a good conversation!

  • Gazzas89-PGOGazzas89-PGO Posts: 2,619 ✭✭✭✭✭

    My issue is that the op is then posting in the forum, obviously it's not the intent, but I take the intent to be either


    1. Make other people do the same

    2. Make it seem like something is going on

    3. Make niantic comment on it and possibly have it so even people in supporting info is no longer allowed


    It's basically making somethi g out of nothing that mught impact other perfectly valid submissions

  • TheZodiac007-PGOTheZodiac007-PGO Posts: 860 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I personally don’t recommend for anyone to review based from supporting photo & I recommend for others to do the same unless there is some kind of abuse. If there’s no abuse & no person or thing that isn’t the POI in the main photo we are to review as normal. Especially as previously stated. If they are posing for the camera in the main photo, then we are to reject it. If they are placing objects or things in the photo though we are also supposed to reject. I understand what @TheFarix-PGO means but it’s just hard to tell unless you are local & notice consistencies in their photos to earmark so people know which POI to accept

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