Valid wayspots being rejected for invalid reasons
I want to know why Niantic doesn’t allow for more appeals or better ways to challenge a reviewer. I have had 3 valid wayspots rejected for no valid reason.
If people in this community can’t follow the rules when reviewing wayspots and just want to reject valid nominations, then what’s the point of even trying to make these games better by adding more places for people to gather and explore?!?
Niantic needs to make a better process for appeals and enforce their own rules on reviewing waystops. Below is an excerpt from their response to my email.
April 27, 2022, 06:05 -0700
Hello Trainer,
Thank you for your feedback.
We have implemented several measures within the system to detect and penalize reviewers who do not follow the criteria and guidelines while reviewing Wayspot nominations and edits. This includes, but is not limited to tanking their profile stats, imposing cooldowns on reviewing, suspending their wayfarer privileges, banning their in-game accounts etc.
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The title of this forum is nomination improvement. If you want to post your 3 rejections, people will offer you advice on how to improve your nomination.
Short of posting your nomination, it's just as likely you are wrong on what a valid wayspot is, and your question could be reversed and asked why don't people get penalized for bad wayspot submissions and bad posts.
Share the rejected nominations so you can potentially get advice to help improve the nomination.
I get the frustration but there are neat people here who will provide good feedback.
No nothing is equal. This is a mass game with masses of people all with their own opinions of what makes a good nomination. Nor does there always appear to be consistency. Unfortunately opinions, the ability to game the system, people working together to get way spots etc all come together to impact some valid nominations or in other cases allowing invalid.
But what ever the case no one can help you if you don't share the nominations ;-)
Niantic did not create a good system of giving nominator feedback. In fact, it’s a terrible system that had led to so much unnecessary frustration that the DMV is jealous.
Sometimes you need an outsider to help interpret reviewer feedback into useful information for improvement. Most of the time when this forum gets a thread that starts like this one, commenters can help point out how to address your reviewers’ objections.
@Cowyn2016-PGO: all of my submissions followed the guidelines set forth by Niantic. However, people are using “other rejection criteria” to reject the posts. Which is kind of a cop out and tells me they just want to reject it because they want to reject it. Which is not right.
If you're so sure that all your nominations are valid, Why do you post under "Nomination improvement"?
We all know that there are plenty of bad reviewers, but we also know that there are lots of people that nominate thinking that they have 5* nominations and it turns out that it's not true.
"Other rejection criteria" is a bit nonspecific, but usually reviewers will use it if they think your nomination doesn't meet the eligibility criteria. Without seeing screenshots of your nominations, we can't really comment on why you might be getting this reasoning. You may be right that your nominations should have been fine. On the other hand, you may have missed something when making your nominations and it might turn out they were correctly rejected. We don't know until we can see them, and until then we can't really help you either way.