Anger will not help. Let's take another look at the different questions.
We cannot exactly tell you why your wayfarer ID was banned. These decisions are made by Niantic and they are not made public for the individual account. They seem to do this if you have multiple accounts, use tools to change your seemingly location, nominate fakes, systematically accept fake nominations or make too many mistakes while reviewing. The last one is tricky, you will know if you cheat, you may not be aware of mistakes.
Criteria for stops have changed. One really huge change is, no stops are allowed on private property. This includes the walls of the property from the outside. I do not know why this has changed, I read about law suits they are having, this may be it, maybe not. The pikachu drawing seems to be on a private wall, and the statue as well.
I get so many reviews with objects or drawings on private property, I have the impression that maybe Niantic picks existing stops per software and sends them to be re-assessed. So it maybe is not a rival group complaining about your stops, but a software routine. And if you are not aware of the change, your anger is understandable.
Many players in rural areas in every country are shocked. But solutions come with creativity. Rural areas sometimes have beautiful nature around them. An educational trail with signposts makes good new points of interest. I am not talking about fakes with a sheet of paper mounted on a stick. I am talking about really solid ones, supportes by city administrations and schools, who are educational worthy and make all people of the city visit, not only gamers. It is hard work to create such a trail, but if you are a group and find a way to contribute to your city, good thing. If a trail is not needed, maybe other community projects can be done and the result could make a new, worthy POI.
@Ultimo6419-PGO I agree with your comment. I just want to make it clear that it's not all private property that's forbidden. It's only single-family private residential property that has to be rejected.
Oh. I got it but this case is different. I didn't know about that change. I got the strike for wall paitings but when wall paintings were accepted was months ago. Then why am I getting a ban now? Thats my question?... You can simply remove the stops if it doesnt fit your guidelines from now on but why to give a ban?
I had to do this cause cause the man who post 10 portals randomly which included a play ground and evem has not posted any geotagged photo or any proof and still niantic banned it.
Untill seeing his post, i didnt know how to remove fake portals. When I got banned for the real ones then I was searching and got to see that post.
I wanted to show the fake portals to niantic. I am not as good as you in english. Those were created before I became level 40. But still niantic asked me about geotagged photos but didnt ask him about any proof. So tell me what should I do? I am continuously saying that we are attacked ramdoly that by those 2-3 players. If you check that post that man said about continuously doing that.
From reading the past two pages what I can infer here that you are constantly trying to justify your post without giving any evidence of the submissions being legitimate. Every phone has geo-tagging facility. Whenever you take pictures the location data gets saved in the EXIF data. Giving an overlay image on top of the picture doesn't make it legitimate. Anyone can edit a picture with those text. Geo-tag is embedded in the file and no-one can change it. If you can't give proof of your submissions then it is implied that you are lying about facts. Every image that is uploaded via PokemonGO or Ingress app for submission is geo-tagged. Niantic checked that and found that the submissions very fake and thus they were removed. Giving reasons after reasons will not help your case here without any proof. Getting insightful or getting likes on the post will not help even. You are just beating around the ****. Please provide proper proof then come here to post.
Now we maybe are getting to the reasons of your ban. Niantic wants wayfarers to keep up to date with criteria changes. They announced consequences for wayfarers who nominate and review not according to (new) criteria. You must regularly check for new criteria. If you miss changes your rating will drop. They also send you test reviews to check if you know the criteria. If you fail the test frequently, you can receive a ban.
I doubt that Niantic is gonna ban someone for using outdated criteria.
The post that seems to have generated the ban claims that they were fake portals, and Casey replied stating that they removed only 8 of the reported portals and 7 additional ones all due to abuse, not related to criteria.
And there's the additional part about all the multiaccounts that the OP used to vote "Insightful" in his posts and "Disagree" on those of the people that replied to him. He seems to have removed all those votes by now, but meanwhile he had been lying claiming that he didn't know the passwords for those accounts.
So maybe the abuse is due to the detection of a mix, some fake nominations, 5* voting on them from a group of accounts, multi-accounting, ...
Only Niantic can tell the truth, and at this point I can't expect the OP to be honest.
Listen @WheelTrekker-ING I am living in that area and reading this comments from few days so I wanted to tell that those you are calling it multi account just shut your mouth because those insighfulls are coming from 15-20 players who are playing playing this game in mogra. They are hot high level players most of them are 30-35 level in pokemon go. They cannot rate those nominations. Those portal got accepted naturaly , not by any community and we dont have that kind of community to help us like that. Thanks to you and every one who are chatting here negetively and thanks to the player who reported this area almost every player stopped playing because they lost motivation.
Request Niantic & @Nadiwereb-PGO to take action against such fake appeal and ban the agent who does or promotes Fake nomination.
Moreover in the About section of the channel he is clearly stating to contact him for "Fake" submissions.
What I learnt from local community is that this guy has multiple Ingress and PokemonGo accounts (which is against TOS to start). Also all are leveled up using unfair means (no doubt some of them has strikes). Many honest players from local community have personally contacted him to stop using unfair means, but to def ears.
EDIT: just checking that YouTube channel, and I'm just laughing to one of his video that trying to create cluster Pokestops, which was uploaded 1 week ago. Wondering if he made those with fake Wayspots or not.
Hello, @TrainerTicklu-ING! I appreciate your efforts in trying to keep the gameplay fair and fun for everyone. Since these video are against our Community Guidelines, I have removed them from your post. If you haven't already, could you please report this (with the links) via in-app support? Thank you!
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Anger will not help. Let's take another look at the different questions.
We cannot exactly tell you why your wayfarer ID was banned. These decisions are made by Niantic and they are not made public for the individual account. They seem to do this if you have multiple accounts, use tools to change your seemingly location, nominate fakes, systematically accept fake nominations or make too many mistakes while reviewing. The last one is tricky, you will know if you cheat, you may not be aware of mistakes.
Criteria for stops have changed. One really huge change is, no stops are allowed on private property. This includes the walls of the property from the outside. I do not know why this has changed, I read about law suits they are having, this may be it, maybe not. The pikachu drawing seems to be on a private wall, and the statue as well.
I get so many reviews with objects or drawings on private property, I have the impression that maybe Niantic picks existing stops per software and sends them to be re-assessed. So it maybe is not a rival group complaining about your stops, but a software routine. And if you are not aware of the change, your anger is understandable.
Many players in rural areas in every country are shocked. But solutions come with creativity. Rural areas sometimes have beautiful nature around them. An educational trail with signposts makes good new points of interest. I am not talking about fakes with a sheet of paper mounted on a stick. I am talking about really solid ones, supportes by city administrations and schools, who are educational worthy and make all people of the city visit, not only gamers. It is hard work to create such a trail, but if you are a group and find a way to contribute to your city, good thing. If a trail is not needed, maybe other community projects can be done and the result could make a new, worthy POI.
@Ultimo6419-PGO I agree with your comment. I just want to make it clear that it's not all private property that's forbidden. It's only single-family private residential property that has to be rejected.
Oh. I got it but this case is different. I didn't know about that change. I got the strike for wall paitings but when wall paintings were accepted was months ago. Then why am I getting a ban now? Thats my question?... You can simply remove the stops if it doesnt fit your guidelines from now on but why to give a ban?
Well well. Here's the original post, with the result @NianticCasey-ING has issued the punisment to those involved:
AND the copy of that post, however the team couldn't tell if those are fake Wayspots (also I've noticed this is not a full copy):
Unless I've missed something, why would you do this?
I had to do this cause cause the man who post 10 portals randomly which included a play ground and evem has not posted any geotagged photo or any proof and still niantic banned it.
Untill seeing his post, i didnt know how to remove fake portals. When I got banned for the real ones then I was searching and got to see that post.
I wanted to show the fake portals to niantic. I am not as good as you in english. Those were created before I became level 40. But still niantic asked me about geotagged photos but didnt ask him about any proof. So tell me what should I do? I am continuously saying that we are attacked ramdoly that by those 2-3 players. If you check that post that man said about continuously doing that.
From reading the past two pages what I can infer here that you are constantly trying to justify your post without giving any evidence of the submissions being legitimate. Every phone has geo-tagging facility. Whenever you take pictures the location data gets saved in the EXIF data. Giving an overlay image on top of the picture doesn't make it legitimate. Anyone can edit a picture with those text. Geo-tag is embedded in the file and no-one can change it. If you can't give proof of your submissions then it is implied that you are lying about facts. Every image that is uploaded via PokemonGO or Ingress app for submission is geo-tagged. Niantic checked that and found that the submissions very fake and thus they were removed. Giving reasons after reasons will not help your case here without any proof. Getting insightful or getting likes on the post will not help even. You are just beating around the ****. Please provide proper proof then come here to post.
Now we maybe are getting to the reasons of your ban. Niantic wants wayfarers to keep up to date with criteria changes. They announced consequences for wayfarers who nominate and review not according to (new) criteria. You must regularly check for new criteria. If you miss changes your rating will drop. They also send you test reviews to check if you know the criteria. If you fail the test frequently, you can receive a ban.
I doubt that Niantic is gonna ban someone for using outdated criteria.
The post that seems to have generated the ban claims that they were fake portals, and Casey replied stating that they removed only 8 of the reported portals and 7 additional ones all due to abuse, not related to criteria.
And there's the additional part about all the multiaccounts that the OP used to vote "Insightful" in his posts and "Disagree" on those of the people that replied to him. He seems to have removed all those votes by now, but meanwhile he had been lying claiming that he didn't know the passwords for those accounts.
So maybe the abuse is due to the detection of a mix, some fake nominations, 5* voting on them from a group of accounts, multi-accounting, ...
Only Niantic can tell the truth, and at this point I can't expect the OP to be honest.
Listen @WheelTrekker-ING I am living in that area and reading this comments from few days so I wanted to tell that those you are calling it multi account just shut your mouth because those insighfulls are coming from 15-20 players who are playing playing this game in mogra. They are hot high level players most of them are 30-35 level in pokemon go. They cannot rate those nominations. Those portal got accepted naturaly , not by any community and we dont have that kind of community to help us like that. Thanks to you and every one who are chatting here negetively and thanks to the player who reported this area almost every player stopped playing because they lost motivation.
I have eyes, and I saw the obvious multiaccounts that he used. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/639640865966653451/755906381369966743/Screenshot_20200916-164126_Chrome.jpg and lied claiming that he didn't know the passwords. At this moment we can't trust that any other "person" that writes here supporting his statements isn't just another account that has been created without using the same pattern.
And don't forget to thank also the OP for reporting another area in your city, https://community.wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/discussion/7298/multiple-fake-portals-which-doesnt-exist I don't think that his English is so bad that he doesn't understand what does it mean to claim that a list of existing portals are fake. In fact, I would say that his English is very good.
Well, @NianticCasey-ING can we have the resolution to this problem and end this already?
At least I got a laugh out of this thread. "You mussel head fool" made me crack up.
Thank you for that, at least.
The people who reported the area probably used the Abuse Form first which is why they didn't post additional info while making a post on the forum...
Geo tagged pics are used only in appeals, but it's possible there are enough means for Niantic to detect any discrepancies.
And yeah, this thread needs to be shut down.
Request Niantic & @Nadiwereb-PGO to take action against such fake appeal and ban the agent who does or promotes Fake nomination.
Moreover in the About section of the channel he is clearly stating to contact him for "Fake" submissions.
What I learnt from local community is that this guy has multiple Ingress and PokemonGo accounts (which is against TOS to start). Also all are leveled up using unfair means (no doubt some of them has strikes). Many honest players from local community have personally contacted him to stop using unfair means, but to def ears.
With all these proofs I request @NianticCasey-ING @patsufredo-PGO @WheelTrekker-ING @NianticAndres to take necessary action against such cheaters and please review all submissions by main or alternative accounts.
Now you see that. The OP was caught against ToS (spoofing, multiaccounting, Wayfarer abuse), and now all his arguments are just lies.
@NianticCasey-ING @NianticEG @NianticGiffard your move, please.
EDIT: just checking that YouTube channel, and I'm just laughing to one of his video that trying to create cluster Pokestops, which was uploaded 1 week ago. Wondering if he made those with fake Wayspots or not.
all messages with pictures in it needs to get approved by the mods first. All text-only messages are appearing instantly^^
Thanks for that info. Still learning. GG
Hello, @TrainerTicklu-ING! I appreciate your efforts in trying to keep the gameplay fair and fun for everyone. Since these video are against our Community Guidelines, I have removed them from your post. If you haven't already, could you please report this (with the links) via in-app support? Thank you!