More and more TEMPLES were removed due to malicious revenge
Endless appeal if the malicious revenge continue
1.Title of the Wayspot: 土地公
Location: 23.339979 120.254425
City: Chiayi
Country: Taiwan
Screenshot of the Rejection Email: N/A
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This temple is the earth god temple witch is build on a levee. Only pedestrian can access. No vehicles can drive on the levee.
Temple also has a name"福德宮"
Wikipedia introduction for the earth god temple which is local culture: https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%9C%9F%E5%9C%B0%E5%85%AC
2.Title of the Wayspot: 營冬
Location: 23.339291 120.253992
City: Chiayi
Country: Taiwan
Screenshot of the Rejection Email: N/A
Photos to support your claim:
Space for pedestrian safety. People can worship the god in the front of this temple. The temple's actual name should be "東營", "營冬" is a typo. 東營 means the temple of the god of east captain.
The five direction(East, North, West, Central, South) temple is a Taiwan local culture.
Wikipedia introduction: https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BA%94%E7%87%9F%E7%A5%9E%E5%B0%87
3.Title of the Wayspot: 北營兵將公
Location: 23.469331, 120.332407
City: Chiayi
Country: Taiwan
Screenshot of the Rejection Email: N/A
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This is the North captain temple.
Much space for pedestrian safety. There is even a sidewalk aside the temple.
This wayspot is a pokegym which disappeared on 9 August in PMGO. Still a portal in Ingress and still show on the intel map. I don't know the reason to remove/hide this pokegym.
Please note there is a malicious player trying to remove all the wayspots in Chiayi area for his revenge. There are much articles discussing about this. Please try to stop the situation. Thank you sincerely.
Local community forum are discussing about this also
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You'd better to put this into Invalid Wayspot Appeal section, or list every Wayspots removed by this player in General Discussion.
Also, make sure you tell the culture of your country about pedestrian walkway, or Niantic will assuming them to not having safe pedestrian access.
I would like to provide some additional information about safe pedestrian access.
Case 1
In the first picture, there are some cars blocking stones in the middle of the road. It indicates that vehicles are not allowed to enter this road. As a result, pedestrians can walk around without any potential danger.
Case 2
We call this kind of road "農路", which means "agricultural road" in English. They are widely paved in many rural areas in Taiwan. The purpose of agricultural roads is more than agriculture. They play an important role in transportation in rural areas. Usually, when you enter a village in a rural area, all the roads in the village are agricultural roads.
As the picture that OP provides shows, agricultural roads are not as wide as regular roads. And there is no road marking on the ground. They are intended for the villages where the traffic loads are low. Vehicles are allowed to enter agricultural roads, but usually, there are not many. Furthermore, since the roads are not very wide, drivers would not drive fast. As a result, pedestrians can walk around safely on agricultural roads.
You could also enjoy jogging on the agricultural roads. The following picture is from Strava. It shows the heat map of joggers.
https://www.strava.com/heatmap#15.35/120.24905/23.33835/blue/run
Case 3
There is a clear paved sidewalk. It should be perfectly fine.
I mean, you guys should explain the entire situation including this abusive player and your pedestrian walkway culture, list ALL Wayspots removed by this player, all in a single post in either GENERAL DISCUSSION or INVALID WAYSPOT APPEAL.
In case of him (with several accounts) against players all across Taiwan, you shouldn't be worry about being harrassed by him. He's alone and being the one who started this whole mess.
Anyway, I hope @NianticGiffard @NianticTintino and others will understand the entire situation.
Thank you for your suggestion. The following two discussions are about the same case. And I'd appreciate it If @NianticGiffard @NianticTintino could move this thread to the correct place.
https://community.wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/discussion/21500/intentional-wayfinder-maliciously-used-multiple-accounts-to-abuse-wayfarer-system
https://community.wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/discussion/21504/help-we-are-suffering-from-massive-removing-attacks
We have found some new evidence. It indicates that the wayspots are not removed by a player. They are removed by a secret group. The following picture is a recruiting message on a Facebook group.
Translation: I made three gyms and two pokestops myself in the place where I live. It's cozy that I don't need to go out to reach the gyms. If you pass the reviewing test, your applications for pokestops will be processed within seven days. There is a reviewers group to back you up. Your application will have a higher chance to get accepted. Text me if you are interested.
After conducting some searches, we found that the place is in Yongjing, Changhua, Taiwan. Two of the gyms are low-quality gyms. And they were reported by @aeromycity-ING in April 2021. The gyms were removed and can not be found now. The following map is a local pokemon go map that does not update recently. Location: 23.913652,120.544229
Report article:
https://community.wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/discussion/16806/someone-use-multi-accounts-to-aduit-the-wayfarer
The members from the secret group proposed the restoration appeal for the gyms, but they were denied.
https://community.wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/discussion/19582/request-to-resume-poke-gym-appeal
https://community.wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/discussion/19583/request-to-resume-pokestop-gym
After that, the members got angry. And they start removing the wayspots in Chiayi, Taiwan. The remaining story is the same as the posts on the general discussion says. As far as we know, they have removed at least 82 wayspots in Chiayi.
I hope @NianticGiffard @NianticTintino could investigate this problem. Any help would be appreciated. If there is any problem, please let me know.
Thank you.
@NianticGiffard @NianticAtlas if you didn't wish to review this one, would you at least move this thread into General Discussion?
Not our intention. I already had this report flagged to our abuse team for investigation and waiting for the decision so I can share it.
Also, I have moved this discussion to the Invalid Wayspot Appeals section. Thanks!
Thanks for the appeal, Trainer. We gave this a second look and after reviewing the additional evidence provided we have decided to restore the 2 Wayspots in question.
Hi @NianticGiffard,
Thank you for your time. But there are still some problems that remain unsolved.
Is there any action against the abusive reviewers? Is there any plan about repairing the damage that they have done? Is there any mechanism that prevents such things from happening? Do we need to provide more evidence about the damage that they have done?
According to the discussion on the local forum, the system has been abused since last year. In addition to the damage mentioned above, the abusive group also tore down gyms in pokemon go and rebuilt them at the location in their favor. Please refer to this discussion on the local forum:
https://forum.gamer.com.tw/C.php?page=1&bsn=29659&snA=41827&tnum=29&bPage=2
As NianticDanbocat said, the whole community shapes the game that we play. However, the abusive group has taken over the system for a very long time. Countless long-term contributors that had reviewed since the OPR time quit reviewing because of their frustration. The community was totally ruined.
It is never too late to do the right thing. There are a lot of things that need to be done. I hope such malicious abuse will come to an end very soon.
If there is any thing that I can do to help, please let me know. Thank you.
The 3rd temple with paved sidewalk aside is still retired from both Ingress and PMGO. Yesterday it even been taking down from the intel map. I have no idea why this temple is ineligible. Could you please at least give us some guideline or suggestion?
I've been review the wayfarer and OPR system for more then 80K wayspots and never being as frustrated as now.
Dear @NianticGiffard and @NianticTintino
The 2 temples restored on Aug 26 were both found to be removed again recently.
I have no idea how this happened. Could someone tell us the story?
Thank you very much sincerely!