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Wayfarer effectively dead due to mass & random invalid rejection reasons
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on 4 accounts! Niantic surely wants to hear about those 4 accounts!
But the poster is from Brazil. I can understand if few nominations from Poland, Netherlands, or Italy might be affected by this abusive rejection activity, but a country separated by an ocean...
Oh, are we still talking about massive rejection abuse over Southern Germany?
@rodensteiner-ING mine. My two kids and my husband. They play but are not interested in proposing (my husband) my kids are in just for catching and playing.... I'm 37 yo. I drive all around the city and every possible wayspot I see I submit... is that a crime?
Of course it is not a crime - but it is very much against the terms of service aka rules.
sigh
if i count every person that does something that is against the rules and then tells me "is that a crime?" i would be a rich man.
Happy New Year and thank you for your efforts thou
A short reply to (my) the initial post of this thread: 3 of the 4 mentioned wayspots have been accepted now. Waiting time: ~2weeks.
So the waiting time was many months till autumn (results mostly comprehensive), dropped to ~1 week in late autumn (nearly everthing rejected) and increased to ~2 weeks (results somehow back to normal).
Looks like a step in the right direction. Please keep that direction!
@rodensteiner-ING ok. I will stop then and use mine only. It was a lot of work. Now with the 40 proposals a month is more than enough
you could have yourself an ingress lvl 10 account which isnt rocketscience. it is fast to lvl 10 if you know how. then you would have another batch to submit
Then I want to give you some feedback. I can confirm this behavior. The situation has returned to normal. Proposals will be processed and accepted or rejected in a reasonable time. In the event of a rejection, you no longer have any pointless reasons.
I don't know if anyone from southern Germany can confirm that.
I'm not sure we can conclusively close this down, though. I find it possible that the people responsible for it were simply taking a break during the Holidays. Loads of people have their first full workday since Christmas today - let's see how it goes for a few days before going into conclusions.
Same here. My submissions are being reviewed properly now and the outcomes (even if rejected) actually make sense now. The timeframe is around 1 to 2 weeks, which seems fine.
Let's hope it stays that way.
i feel ya. Same here, things rejected over and over... If only they actually Niantic reviewed the nomination appeals we could have a solution...
Ingress is way harder to level up than PoGo.
maybe to 40, ingress is easy-peasy to lvl to 10.
You couldn't be more wrong. You literally need to be in a big city to level up on Ingress and on PoGo you can get hella gifts from friends , it will give you lots of xp in two ways - friendship levels and getting free pokeballs. If you do excellent throws thats 1k xp per pokemon.
I have a feeling this issue now somewhat affects my city.
We in our City, Bremen, have a crazy amount of suggestion rejected because of "location sensitive". This denial reason is present in almost every denial here now.
And the ammount of submission rejected, all because of location sensitive, has increased massively over the last 3-4 weeks.
My last few nomination were accepted within less than 48 hours after me finding and nominating the wayspot. This is extreeemly unusual. Now that issue with a wayspot being falsly recected for completely ridiculous reasons within a very short amount of time seems to have hit me as well.
The sign by the local tourism society giving information on the historic name of a building was rejected for "inaccurate or offensive title or description". 🤦♀️ No offensive language was used, and all the information given is correct. Please have a look into this. Please restrict accounts giving such obviously incorrect ratings! Please care for Wayfarers reviewing according to your guidelines, and please care for Wayfarers, Ingress agents, PokémonGo trainers who go out of their way to discover new valid wayspots and who do their research to ensure their nominations are of high quality and without mistakes or inaccurate information! They are your most valuable contributors...
Title: Zum Esel - Informationstafel des Fremden-Verkehrsverein Konstanz
Description: Das Gebäude "Zum Esel" am St. Stephansplatz 2 wurde im Jahre 1326 erstmals erwähnt. Es diente dem berühmten Vorarlberger Baumeister Franz Beer (1660-1726) als Wohnsitz und steht heute wie nahezu die komplette Konstanzer Innenstadt unter Denkmalschutz. "Für vorbildliche Gestaltung" wurde es von der Stiftung Stadtbild Konstanz ausgezeichnet.
Location: (47661468 , 9173933)
Date of nomination: 2022-02-03
Date of faulty rejection: 2022-02-06
Reason of faulty rejection: Title or description is inaccurate or offensive
wayspot picture: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/i6oGzY5xYJDJ_pzT8TZfQLCpQ7fvSLgS7NJa9xMy1c0d7zvHz5cXsHI3QEVwNigTfD7hFAGKUd80T0vFcDT-Xot2lFQuiQ5d8kCGxld0=s0
additional picture: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/wVZhYyUHKLRWcInFT_p22lbFDxYSrKECxx0bMndli7Kapc-U14Ve0hMwGx_Dnmhv10B8sst0uU8LDqVW6qVCIXMuO4lXM4zI_MrpPNTGBA=s0
additional information text: Direkt in der Fußgängerzone am St. Stephansplatz 2 gelegen, barrierefrei 24/7 öffentlich zugänglich, offizielle Informationstafel des Konstanzer Fremden-Verkehrsvereins zur Vergangenheit des Gebäudes.
Please investigate and take action accordingly, @NianticDanbocat, and please give us some information on the current situation. Are you still investigating the issue? What will happen to the great wayspot nominations that have been falsly rejected for ridiculous, non-existent reasons?
@NianticGiffard shouldn't you track the Wayfinders who falsely reject those Wayspots and take action against them? This is already 3 months yet none has done with this abusive rejections.
@NianticGiffard Come on at least take action against the false rejecters or actually process the appeals... it's been long enough now.
Following my last post, within 12 hours of that false rejection of a perfectly fine wayspot nomination, another 2 nominations have been rejected with equally ridiculous "reasons", only 3 days after me nominating the wayspots. It makes me both sad and very angry, and not wanting to nominate any other great locations as wayspots. I don't want my efforts to be in vain. I'm sure other wayfarers experiencing this feel the same. PLEASE protect your wayfarers and your system against those exploiting this system, ignoring your rules, and breaking your ToS! @NianticPooja
I've literally lost ALL motivation to put effort into nominating even CLEARLY eligible waypoints like modern playgrounds or basketball courts because everything gets REJECTED! For a test i've literally went to A DIFFERENT CITY and nominated a bunch of stuff. The result was mostly the same, about 50% of clearly eligible waypoints like public basketball courts still gets rejected, even with the fact that both the city and neighbourhood is basically empty. Help/solutions would be appreciated.
@NianticAaron @NianticAtlas @NianticVK @NianticGiffard @NianticDanbocat
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So, will you sit this out like our Mama Angela Merkel always did? The Community is in a very bad state, as there are clearly Bots running and rejecting left and right. It would be nice if you could make a statement in the situation and/or just ban those people alltogether.
Is it such a hard duty to find the culprits? Are you not having the manpower to do that? Can we help you somewhere? Are you lost?
Have a great weekend!
I am honestly pissed at Niantic's ignorance to so many issues reported on here. Ridiculous mass rejections are increasing again, destroying months of work of regular submissions. Yet, not a single word by any of these Niantic accounts. Issues with Ingress submissions are there again, making us waste our nominations; yet, not a single word by Niantic. The only ones who seem to care is the community itself. Honestly, what the...? You make millions with a game whose whole ingame infrastructure relies on the work of thousands of Ingress and PoGo players and you show so little interest and respect? Don't you think this behaviour makes it even worse and more players may lose interest in devoting their time to improve the game?
I'm literally taking a break until they fix things. If that means never nominating waypoints ever so be it. I'll just move on to communities that aren't completely ignored and left in the dirt.
I understand your sentiment folks.
I apologize since there was no communication from our end during this period about this matter but be assured we are actively looking into this. It is taking a while since the list is huge and we are looking into every rejection with a close eye.
We'll ensure to expedite the process and keep you guys posted afterward, until then, I would appreciate your patience.
This thread was started in November. February is coming to an end. Not a lot of players have the patience of Seasons. 😐️
I think there is some need for us to help out here. Or the Ambassadors. I bet there are enough people out there that would help out.
Just today, in one day, I received another five rejections. One public playground (not historically relevant), one historic mansion which is nowadays a protected apartment house (private property, despite providing evidence that it is NOT private), one allotment garden sign (school, how ridiculous), tennis courts (no safe access)... this is no fun anymore. It takes way more attempts to get something valid (!) accepted. It takes much time to submit ideas, search for information to add to the title and description, provide sufficient supportive information... such a waste of time. I will not submit any other wayspot until there have been significant changes to this ridiculous system.
Has anyone noticed that if you refresh your contribution management page and review a rejected contribution, that the rejection reasons change after each refresh?
Well, we as the community already gave you some data and probably enough reports to draw conclusions from back in November. Since the trolls and/or bots behind this were not punished and could simply carry on, encouraged by the lack of intervention, there was certainly more and more abuse to report, so the list eventually became huge and probably keeps growing. That's what obviously happens over time when you don't nip something like this in the bud. Apparently it didn't hurt your business enough, so many players quit because they have no choice than wasting upgrades or giving up on it entirely.
I stopped expecting more communication on this because I assume the trolls/bots exploit some significant flaws in the system. I guess the findings would be either too embarrassing to admit, or it's actually too hard to tell what it is.