Niantec voting but no supplemental info added
pepijn77777-PGO
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I just nominated a new waypoint, but only placed a half finished description with some spelling mistakes and just typed placeholder for the supplemental info.
I was planning to add to, and fix mistakes in the description and add the supplemental info when I got home to my PC. I have trouble typing on my phone so I though this would save me some hassle.
When I got home I noticed I'm unable to edit the waypoint since it went to Niantec voting. If they review it like this it is either going to get rejected, or if it somehow gets in it will be incomplete with spelling mistakes. The description is also only in Dutch, normally I add an english translation in the supplemental info.
Is there anything I can do to edit it before they review?
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No, you can’t edit it now if it’s been taken for Niantic voting.
I’d advise using Upload Later or Hold to stop this.
Some folks have had luck sharing their additional details and tagging Giffard for a second look.
Unfortunately, they even pull nominations from Hold.
This behavior should not be the norm.
Oh, that’s interesting to know, but not good, that they take them from On Hold.
Ugh, this happened to me this morning too! Within two, no more than three hours from when I submitted the nomination. I knew Niantic could grab nominations quickly, so I at least put the right title and a very basic description. But like you, I don't write full description or supplemental info until I get home. The one they took isn't on street view... I didn't think they would snipe nominations on a weekend morning, especially before 8am PST.
It makes no sense that they grab fresh nominations instead of those that have in queue for, I don't know...2 years? And if they can take "on hold" nominations, what's the point?!
Concerned myself such a thing was possible, I tend to take the images - multiples thereof to make sure I get a good one in sharp focus - and simply save them until I get home. But that's also because I find that I more often than not cannot nominate a wayspot using my 4G mobile/cell carrier and need the phone connected via my home WiFi. The connection 'times out'.
Once home and I switch my phone to using the WiFi I create the nomination with little beyond a single 'X' in the text boxes and wait the few loooong minutes (usually) for the nomination to appear in my Contributions page. A quick click of the [Edit] button and I can properly type-in the true fields. I'm an 'old-fogey' and not hip with one-finger speed typing on a screen keyboard that I have to be wearing my reading glasses to even see properly.
I like my mechanical 101 key keyboard, thank you very much! Having learned to touch type back in the early 80s I'm reticent to give it up for a supposedly predicative itty-bitty screen (so called) keyboard. Bah humbug! 😁