Strange accepted poi in The Netherlands
pieniechan-PGO
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Hello !
I was wondering if a admin or someone who can look into nominations can contact me about this issue.
I noticed on different forums (reddit / discord) that since the Spain challenge there are odd nominations being accepted in the Netherlands which would in general be rejected in the past because they are generic.
I already contacted the wayfarer support about this but they didn't see any strange going on with these nominations.
Strange portal 1 :
Test
Located on someone's private property picture is a black photo, nothing else.
Location of this portal :
https://intel.ingress.com/intel?ll=52.096004,5.05857&z=17&pll=52.096004,5.05857
Strange portal 2 :
Big tall three
Found this one on reddit the person who found this portal was confused why this was accepted
Location to this portal :
https://intel.ingress.com/intel?ll=51.425933,5.475388&z=15&pll=51.425933,5.475388
Strange portal 3 :
Generic street sign. Nothing special about this street sign and every street has a similar street sign in that neighborhood.
Location to this portal :
https://intel.ingress.com/intel?ll=52.020142,5.185241&z=15&pll=52.020142,5.185241
Strange portal 4 :
Groen in de wijk
Location of this portal :
https://intel.ingress.com/intel?ll=52.1153510, 5.0797950&z=15&pll=52.1153510, 5.0797950
But I also noticed that two of the three current spotlight nominations are generic items.
These post boxes are placed all over the Netherlands and not "special"
I was wondering if more people noticed that there are strange nominations currently being accepted which would be rejected before the Spain challenge.
Answers
Wayspot 1 is clearly fake or anomalous and should be removed. It's strange that Support didn't.. However, since it is on private property anyway, you can report it in-app with that reason and if it's not removed then, appeal it.
The rest of the Wayspots have all been reviewed improperly and should all have been rejected. However, strange as things are, these portals don't get to be removed unless they are unsafe, hinder emergency services, are on private property or K12, unreachable for pedestrians, non-existent.. in short: if there's something wrong with them other than having been improperly reviewed.
Here's hoping that one day, there will be a criteria check on all of them, but that takes a lot of time and work for the Wayfarer team..
Haven't noticed anything out of the ordinary when Spain reviewing.
Oh, and the Spotlight seems to just pick random spots from your area.
They're just coal nominations. Maybe because of many other reviewers are participating the whole challenge, some local cabals are taking chances by not participating and reviewing only local nominations.
Sorry, but they would remain as Schrödinger Wayspots if you report them here except the "test" one.
I agree that they are all coal but I noticed a insane addition of coal the last few days.
Today a temporary playset is added as example
This item can be bought here :
Because of the insane acceptance of coal I was wondering if @NianticTintino-ING or someone from niantic was noticing something off because The Netherlands & Germany are known of voting rings and bots who would accept these coal nominations.
And if there where more places or players in the Netherlands where noticing that the strange amount of coal being accepted the last few days. The test poi is deleted but I have a feeling something else is also going on currently in the Netherlands what makes these coal nominations currently being accepted.
It has been noted and I shall bring this specific thread to the attention of the team.
Thanks for posting.
Edited to add - to be clear please add to this if you have further examples from this area.
Unfortunately, there are more example of such insane accepted wayspots in this time here is another:
Ingang bos Peppengouw
52.347881,5.210713
Another generic mailbox is accepted today
More coal poi found
Poi 1 :
Poi 2 :
Poi 3 :
Poi 4 :
Poi 5 :
Poi 6 :
Poi 7 :
I also asked in the local discord if people where noticing something off and apparently today a lot of 5☆ - 4☆ nominations are being rejected today for not being cultural and historical. If I remember correctly these rejection notice would also be used by the German bots in the past.
And this reddit post is also about a weird nomination in The Netherlands and the poster is also noticing a lot more of abuse poi around there city.
Another report from the Netherlands:
Dutch Girl Art
51.7895,4.66956
Went there, didn't exist of course. It's a cheap statue placed on the sidewalk for sake of the photo graph.
another nice one https://intel.ingress.com/?ll=52.127155,5.100811&z=15&pll=52.127155,5.100811
and its brother https://intel.ingress.com/?ll=52.127369,5.100932&z=17&pll=52.127369,5.100932
Today's new coal
Poi 1 :
Poi 2 :
Poi 3 :
Poi 4 :
Poi 5 :
Poi 6 :
Thank you @ernie1601-ING , @Jeroenix-ING & @patsufredo-PGO for collecting more strange accepted nominations. I really appreciate it 😊
Thank you all
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Three duplicates of the same poi
Today's coal
Poi 1 :
Poi 2 :
Placed on a roundabout so no safety access.
Poi 3 :
One of them is a duplicate but I'm not sure which one
Poi 4 :
Already in game so a duplicate
Poi 5 :
Also a duplicate
Poi 6 :
They really liked their home stop/portal. Original test was deleted but they requested it again so maybe the requester also needs to be looked at?
Poi 7 :
I think this is the same person who requested test
Poi 8 :
Poi 9 :
Private property
Poi 10 :
Poi 11 :
Poi 12 :
Are tiles to warn people that the neighborhood haves a neighborhood watch.
Poi 13 :
Poi 14 :
Poi 15 :
no one who plays the game would complain about having more stops. How about enjoy it or I presume you’re one of the people who finantically reviews and does niantics work for them 😂
Another topic about the current abuse on reddit.
@kawin240-ING I saw you're the current active reddit ambassador for this issue. Do I need to add the reddit topics about this issue to here as well? Or are you saying this conversation + the reddit ones are collected in one file so you don't need to worry about those.
So you're the one who accepting coal nominations in the Netherlands then. @NianticAaron @NianticLC @NianticRN this person deserves your method of educating Wayfinders who did wrong things.
where have you got that from? The bootlicking is crazy
Then where have you got this from?
I presume you’re one of the people who finantically reviews and does niantics work for them 😂
Was I wrong? No.
Same happening in my hometown, NL. Normally this POIs don't come through because of mostly decent reviewing, but the past days more coal comes through. And now this comes through some in our community think it's a good plan to submit ALL dogfield signs in the city (which are probably hundreds identical signs)
Today's new spotlight nomination.
Also I'm trying to report the private property poi's in the chat option and I keep getting these responses. Can someone also look at this, @Elijustrying-ING ? It's frustrating enough that a lot of coal is getting accepted but the wayfarer support isn't seeing anything wrong with the poi in the front garden. This is the second time I received a similar response from the support and the main reason I started this topic.
Also more coal nominations
Poi 1 :
Poi 2 :
Poi 3 :
Me and other ambassadors are making a list of all the stuff we and you have found so far and send it over to Niantic.
Also, this abuse case carries over to German neighbouring state Nordrhein-Westfalen, so those will be included as well. If you have more examples from there too, please share them!
Keep in mind that any user showing up here complaining about the reports here is probably part of the abuse group and is only here to troll. Save your energy and don't feed them. Interacting with such people can be dangerous.
@kawin240-ING
Every obvious Wayfarer guideline is ignored lately. Here's a short addition:
A plant pot at 51.789873,4.684416 (passed off as a "beautifully dressed mini garden")
Roundabout art at 51.784196,4.684725 (No pedestrian access)
^ this is even a unsafe location as shown in the picture
I also heard that currently the Netherlands has 600+ new poi by this abuse. Some are legit, some are clearly trash. I was wondering how niantic was going to find all the coal because there is no coal option as @EddyToo-ING already stated in his topic to report all these nominations.
I tried in the chat option and they keep responding that there is nothing wrong with private property poi's and that they are not going to delete it.
@NianticAaron , @NianticCasey-ING , @NianticTintino-ING , @kawin240-ING , @Elijustrying-ING
I also received these nominations in inbox but not sure where they are located in The Netherlands
Yeah like I said, the support staff is incapable of handling this. We can share this further up the hierarchy
That last sign is in Zandvoort.
That said, this weekend when dustvsettled down a bit I will collect some coal from my area and whatever coal I may encounter. While I like having a lot of POI to play I'm still for guidelines above quantity AMD hope the coal can be cleared some day.
Poi 1 :
52.0949020, 5.1017110
Poi 2 :
52.0940590, 5.1018180
Poi 3 :
52.0938250, 5.1041650
Poi 4 :
Duplicate already in game
52.0147470, 5.1727830
Poi 5 :
Duplicate
52.0650110, 5.1245500
Poi 6 :
52.0940080, 5.0991760
Poi 7 :
52.0652410, 5.1224430
Poi 8 :
52.1043830, 5.1335670
Poi 9 :
52.1049100, 5.1336730
Poi 10 :
52.0924010, 5.1003890
Poi 11 :
52.1008140, 5.0569530