Abusive player deletes POIs by making duplicate photo.
Hey fellow reviewers!
Our community has been really concerned lately, since for the past couple of days we’ve been experiencing a series of disappearing POI. Apparently a player nicknamed serek1964, seems to be replacing original photos with different ones in order to report them as duplicates. It is a clear abuse and it destroys our community’s hard work of submitting POI’s.
nicknames: serek1964 and Marchessault64. Multiacc on Pokémon GO
City: [Katowice]
Country: [Poland]
POI which has been deleted by him today and screenshots:
50.238091,19.006036
Mały plac zabaw na skwerze Kaczmarskiego
Original photo is from POI "Duży Plac Zabaw Na Skwerze Kaczmarskiego". Around 2h ago pokestop "Mały plac zabaw na skwerze Kaczmarskiego" has been deleted. Below good photo:
Graffiti Scerb
50.274742, 18.986723
Original photo
Added photo by serek1964:
Original POI:
Graffiti scerb has been also deleted in-game around 2 hours ago.
Comments
This is absolutely disgusting behavior. I wasn't aware that someone is doing this on purpose. Why is he even doing that? :/
Thank you for taking action btw.
the next cheeky cheater in this country. one already got permban this one should get the same. How can you cheat brazenly by adding other photos and then deleting portals out of spite? a child with complexes. I am asking you to take quick action and punish this person. it would be best to restore all deleted portals by this person
@NianticGiffard
Plac zabaw na osiedlu 50.1974301,18.9923654
was also deleted with a photo of POI
Karuzela dla dzieci 50.197335,18.993024
@NianticGiffard Please take quick action against this person, because he is constantly adding fake photos and using his multi-accounts to vote for them to keep the fake ones on top and report them to remove.
Since September 3 NianticGiffard is unfortunately "offline"
Please check this issue @NianticOtoStar
Thanks.
Niantic Giffard hasn't spoken for over a month and a half. I don't think he works here anymore.
Here is an example of a POI he is clearly preparing to delete. 😢
This is a photo on my POI
And here’s what I found on the neighboring POI.
There are was one POI next to it that is already gone.
@serek1964-PGO maybe you can kindly explain why you are doing this?
@Robert4444-ING it is second account of Marchessault64
@Marchessault64-PGO, is @serek1964-PGO your other account? if this is true, you are breaking the TOS.
This guy main account is @Marchessault64-PGO @serek1964-PGO is his additional account. Previously his nickname was xxxGajosxxx. He was always using fly gps to kick out gyms. If someone was kicking him out so many times - he was making an account which has been aggresive to that player (nickname + some bad word in polish).
He is a problem from few years. It is quite impossible to speak with him without any problems. In local community messenger chats he was mostly abusive and insult to other players.
He also deleted gym „Pałac Młodzieży” and here are coords: Mikołowska 26, 40-066 Katowice 50,2549480, 19,0111810
Quite suspicious that two different accounts are writing in different threads about the same thing:
https://community.wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/discussion/29531/player-nick-in-the-gym-description
https://community.wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/discussion/34143/player-nick-in-wayspot
If it is the same person, he should be blocked immediately. Such behavior is unacceptable.
Yes. It's clear that he doesn't care about TOS but i'm still curious why he even started this campaign of removing POIs. Like those are perfectly fine nominations and removing them doesn't do anything good for anyone :D Removed POIs will be nominated again by other players. There is just no point. Why bother? :D
Maybe he wants to be featured as the submitter of the given POI? 🤷🏼♀️
I'd never understand to the abusive behaviors in Poland. First, those pathetic quality of Wayspots with additional irrelevant codenames. Then, abusive removal attempts by manipulating OSM maps that let the Polish OSM community got mad. And now, this?
Can't you people just play the games fair and square?
I also confirm this post above. In the vicinity of "Pałac Młodzież" there was POI "Zabytkowa wieża strażnicza", it was removed and in its place a "Areszt Śledzczy" was created. He removes the POI and puts his own in their place.
this POI was:
It was removed and it soon appeared:
Coords: 50,2557242, 19,0123357
I doubt that the defendant will answer. When we tried to contact him, he always shied away from responsibility.
The same two posts are my fault ... I thought it was not added and he was for approval.
When i draw circles - way between playgrounds was not clear.
Another attempt to replace the photo, fortunately, the community managed to restore the old photo.
50.235842,19.004711
That photo is taken from 50.236300,19.005582
@NianticOtoStar @NianticAtlas @NianticCasey-ING @NianticAaron @anyone
Please take a look at this case and all editions of both accused players, because there will certainly be a few more cases of abuse here.
As a community, we ask you to restore all wrongly deleted wayspots and take action against the perpetrators of the abuse.
He probably won't stop doing this until he is properly punished😔
@ZeroTheBuster-PGO dude, as I see he also unliked his photo according to your screenshot 😂
I am pretty sure that second like was from @Marchessault64-PGO 🕵️♂️
Hi,
Our community in another city is also concerned about this person's strange movements. Thank you for coming across this thread. One POI has disappeared today: „Płaskorzeźba Twarz Chrystusa”.
City: [Chorzów]
Country: [Poland]
POI which has been deleted by him today and screenshots:
50.269744, 18.935177
Has been replaced with another POI
The same has been done here:
50.269717, 18.934969
And the same thing here:
50.269860, 18.934801
Other places are adding false photos:
The situation is similar in several places !!!
I would very much like to ask you to investigate this matter so that this problem does not arise in the future. We put in hard work and someone tries to destroy it.
After investigating the matter in many places, people are reporting similar moves by these players: serek1964 and Marchessault64.
Thanks a lot
the country's image on the forum has been ruined again by some weirdo. first the player cheated with maps from Rzeszów (B4), and now here in Silesia the next one is cheating. maybe you will do something about it? I do not know myself, if canceling the editing of adding photos to portals is not a better solution in this matter?
The problem is not that someone is doing such things. The real problem is that Niantic does nothing about such people despite the evidence. There are still a bunch of people moving and removing Wayspots that have often been in the game for many years.
"we taken action on X Wayspots, and on the X Wayfinders in accordance with our policies" is not enough.
Oh, what do we find here?
Plac zabaw 50.26699,18.932198
is trying to get a photo from
Urządzenia Do Ćwiczeń 50.266679,18.932658
Come on, I cannot understand how someone can do this. Hope that we will have a result soon in our community
@NianticAtlas hey, maybe you will check this case?
Hey @NianticOtoStar , as you seem to be the most active admin.
Any updates on this issue?
Our community is concerned about further abuse of this player.
While playing the game, we'd like to focus on having fun, not checking every single Wayspot just to see if he swapped another photo.
@NianticOtoStar @NianticAtlas @NianticAaron
Quick action is needed. This abuse is also taking place in other parts of Poland:
https://community.wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/discussion/36714/another-abuse-in-rzeszow-adding-fake-photos-to-existing-wayspots#latest
will you check it out?
@NianticOtoStar @NianticAtlas @NianticAaron
Can you finally take action? In Rzeszów, known for many abuses such as B4, fake photos are also added, which I have already written about. Maybe these abuses are jointly carried out by some group of abusers? They must be stopped as soon as possible. Consider this post fast!
@NianticLC @NianticAaron @NianticOtoStar @NianticOren @NianticVK @NianticAtlas @NianticGiffard @NianticSC
None of the wrongly deleted Wayspots have been restored, so I suppose you took no action against the abuses of this player?
It's been 2 weeks since we reported the problem and in the meantime you have responded to other reports that were written much later.
@NianticLC @NianticAaron @NianticOtoStar @NianticOren @NianticVK @NianticAtlas @NianticGiffard @NianticSC