Declining standards?
Davejjjjj-ING
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It's never been that easy to get approvals through in Singapore, and for the most part the 'quality' POI's I feel is quite high. So when I saw this stop below today it's really hard to understand how it got approved. Abuse, Niantic reviewers, just reviewers accepting everything now???
Kind of discouraging actually, for the amount of effort put in, through all the approvals and rejections. Someone can just come along submit old stairs with a boarded off wall and a danger sign - I can't see how it can fit into approval criteria. Title spelling not even correct either!
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Niantic has no standards. That's why they import POI from Foursquare. I used to to report a lot of fake/garbage POI on this forum until I realized how futile it was.
Standards aren’t really the standard, getting through the process is the standard. So by that measure, standards have never changed.
Some low-quality submissions go through. Some high-quality submissions get rejected. It’s unfair, it’s unequal, it’s never going to be perfected.
Still deciding if I should report this POI of the stairs, or just shrug and leave it be.
Are you referring to reporting the garbage POI (the stairs) or the actual comment you referred to?
It is extremely difficult to get things removed simply because they are ineligible.
Remember that some Indonesian and Malaysian reviewers are also reviewing nominations in Singapore. I don't know how this Wayspot was nominated, but probably they thought this nomination is 'unique enough' they let it pass.
But if this one is actually imported from Foursquare...
It was not imported from Foursquare, Singapore is not one of the countries this applied to, plus Wayspot has photos (imported POIs from FS do not).
Over the years, the criteria change, so what may have be eligible at one point in time, no longer is. Unless a nomination is overtly abusive, obstructs emergency services or a land owner requests it to be removed, I'd say it should stay. Periodically removing older nominations sets a dangerous precedent I feel.
For all we know, the stairs could have been there since the earliest days of Ingress. The stairs look like an entrance to a historic building and the Wayspot description is being used to inform viewers of the building. I would say yes, it's a borderline nomination but I can see no reason to remove it.
It could be that it is a proposal accepted at the time that the players did not qualify and that was done by the niantic employees.
It appeared a couple of days ago, it's in pogo and catan, but not in Ingress/intel.
Did you know that Wayspots not showing up in Ingress/IITC but populating PoGO is consistent with Niantic reviewed & approved candidates?
Yeah i'm aware of it, there's a couple of stops in my area that aren't in Ingress. One I left to come back and nominate later, and now I guess it can't ever be in Ingress which is disappointing.
Shouldn't really come as a surprise tbh. There is a reason why they leave WF in the hands of the community, apart from the main one which is FREE LABOR: They themselves are not capable of building a QUALITY network of POIs (Importing things from a public database? Really?). And nobody will invest or pay for a subpar quality network. So, they leave it to the players: Higher quality, with 0 effort, completely free 😂