I keep seeing this in French nominations. What on earth is “RAS”
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Keep seeing this in many French nominations in a certain area. While some of the nominations are at least acceptable. What on earth is “RAS”. Seen loads of them. And some slightly obscure nominations accepted with it when you’d think it needed more information in supporting.
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It looks worryingly like someone(s) is trying to mark submissions so they can be specifically identified when reviewing.
It could be innocent or it could be used as a marker so that reviewers automatically accept any submission with those letters in the support statement
If I was to make a bet it wouldn't be that that it was innocently done especially if some of the candidates that you've already seen marked like that were dubious at best.
Perhaps @NianticGiffard may want to take a closer look
According to a translator it means “nothing to report”. If I had to take a guess they either are not very creative or didn’t bother finding out what said object is.
that is very poor indeed. i have seen things getting rejected because people wrote "it is a sculpture, what else?"
Assuming "RAS" means nothing to report, as alluded to above, perhaps they simply want to have no description for their nominations? I.e. to leave it blank. I've left descriptions blank in Pokemon GO submission process by leaving a space where the description would be and it submits the nomination with a blank description.
I'm not entirely sure if it's possible to change a description to a blank description in Warfarer at the moment. For certain nominations, such as exercise equipment, playgrounds and certain sports pitches, I don't believe a description is always necessary since it wouldn't always add to the nomination. Simply repeating the title feels pointless to me.
In summary, if we're being kind, I'm guessing people want to leave a description blank but are unaware of how to do that.
As mentioned above and confirmed through a short search, it seems "RAS" can be used in the same way English speakers might write "N/A" while filling out a form. Not really an ideal thing to put in the description field for a wayspot but also doesn't seem to be abusive.
I know that sometimes when I submit, an obvious "shoe in" nomination doesn't need much more supporting text, so I've left some at very brief things like "church" "park" "hiking trail" etc.
But poking at a French dictionary and google translate, I would come to the conclusion that whoever is using "Ras" is not being similarly unimaginative. I'd suspect it's a "signal" to a cadre of reviewers, trying to quietly identify theirs as a "please vote this up!".
Edit: I imagine that non-native-English readers would have equal difficulty interpreting our idioms that don’t show up in dictionaries, ie “N/A” doesn’t mean anything unless you already know what it means. Plus if they tried to translate it and got told (in their language) that it was “not applicable”? That certainly wouldn’t be helpful lol
Instead of everyone chiming in and providing their expertise to use an automatic translator, why don't you wait for some native French speakers to provide their point of view?
**** my god ! I'm French, and RAS means Nothing special to report.
RAS = Rien à signaler.
This is not a mark for signal an upvote proposition
Cheers. I thought it was odd. But even simple nominations should at least explain there is maybe for example safe pedestrian access or something. I find it quite annoying when people go to little effort and get things accepted when I go in depth and explain everything and it still gets rejected. Even so continuously using the term “RAS” as innocent as it looks can identify the submitter considering it’s always in the same area.
They should, but are not oblied to. If the pictures and other fields prove all that is necessary, it can be more than enough. I wouldn't submit a nomination without the additional information, but I think that it is a huge overreach to make it an "submitter identifiable" thing. It seems to be a common expression.
I just wish people would go to a little more effort regardless of what the nomination is I suppose. But it’s just every single nomination I see with this “common expression” is in the same area of France. I don’t think it’s a coincidence. I can tell by the way they submit things it’s the same person or group submitting these nominations. But I don’t have any evidence to prove anything anyway I suppose.
I will disagree with your example that safe access should be explained. You don't get to decide that for me. I'm going to use the location verification window to validate location, and then the level of safe access. You might as well tell me your shoe size for all I consider your assessment of safety. It was submitted, therefore I already know that either the submitter does not know about safe access, does not care or believes it safe. None of that matters to me, it's up to me to examine the surroundings and make my own judgement and it's an important part of reviewing. I'd prefer an N/A or RAS over "safe to access" because it's at least neutral.
If someone declines to add approval information, they can. If the submission is rejected because of that, that's on them. If it is accepted in spite of it, well that just means reviewers agreed that it needed no additional info.
Calm down. It was an EXAMPLE. You know some things need saying others don’t. On the nomination above I posted. The cross is in the middle of a busy road junction and doesn’t look very safe. But explaining that there is access via blah blah would have been good for this nomination. And reviewers do decide what is safe access it’s in their hands. Give them nothing and don’t expect rewards. Being aggressive as you are I can see why no one bothers posting in this forum. It should just be closed to anyone new and let you lot get on with it
@NianticGiffard hi can you just close this thread. I’m bored of it now thanks.
Dude, when you don't know it's better to just say nothing.
I mistook this as being in the description rather than in the supporting info. Yeah, there's nothing wrong with it in the supporting info. Though evidently it can be confusing for non-French speakers!
Or perhaps you could re read what I wrote and said it could be innocent or abusive. So thanks for the totally pointless advice which I'll happily ignore
Is this allowed 🤔
What does that have to do with this post? Create a new post if you have a question.
Hi! RAS is N/A in English as correctly pointed out by some people in the comments and it is nothing suspicious or abusive.
Having said that, thanks for the discussion. I'll close this thread now for future comments.