Centralize criteria, please
X0bai-PGO
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Approval, rejection, and removal criteria are completely decentralized and scattered across forums and AMAs and FAQs. This makes discussing and citing criteria much more difficult. Can we please get a centralized repository of feedbacks, clarifications, and overall criteria judgements, so that researching - and subsequently understanding - eligibility is easier for everyone?
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Can I add a request that any "clarifications" given by Niantic staff over a particular issue be immediately added into this "central repository" so that players can find them easily and link / reference them, we see far too many comments of "but NianticGiffard said this in a forum post". Casey, when he/she was here agreed it was a ghood idea, but Casey is long gone.......
I understand Niantic want to keep criteria a vague as possible in order to help populate the Lightship databases, but if we have to have criteria clarification separated down into subsections for particular things that regularly appear (e.g. This trailmarker in Germay is acceptable - this one is not") then lets have it.
And by this I mean, we've all seen little snippets from old amas, new amas, the criteria guidance threads etc, but they never make it to the actual criteria pages (some of the ama questions did at one point). So will niantic be planning on having somewhere where it's all there, the answers, the examples, the explanations, preferable with pictures showing what's good and not good for specific things (like trail markers).
Forgive me if I misinterpret a key difference you're trying to make, but I believe this is a duplicate question:
https://community.wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/discussion/26412/centralize-criteria-please#latest
Hadn't seen that one, but I'm also wanting it to be more comprehensive, with better examples
I would add specifics to that thread, since it has more attention at this time.
To add to this (as I didnt notice this one when I made mine) can we get much more examples of acceptable things, like we essentially got a yes/no list for the cycle trail markers, could niantic do this for other ones, like trail markers in general, bridges if they think those are acceptable, listed buildings, good cafe/resteraunts etc. So that people know what to look for and don't get annoyed when their perfectly acceptable one is rejected
No matter how much the standards are unified at present, it is an incompetent sentence for people who do not see it and do not refer to it, and it makes no sense. I don't want to think that it makes no sense to discuss here.