What to do when the Abuse option isn't enough?
Purptacular-PGO
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I have just reviewed a submission called Ivy's Bedtime Story showing a child in bed, with her full name in the title and description, and her house clearly shown on the Streetview. I marked Abuse but I really think the submission should be taken out of queue before it is shown to more reviewers. I have screenshots but I don't want to post them here. Is there anything further I can do?
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Ping a few of the Niantic mods - @NianticCasey-ING or @NianticGiffard perhaps so they see your post.
Thanks for reaching out, @Purptacular-PGO! If you're hesitant to share the screenshots in public you can message me directly or reach out to our dedicated team through in-app support. We'll look into your report.
Is there a way you can perhaps forward this to the abuse team with request for expedience, given the extra sensitive nature of this nomination? I'm sure the abuse team can filter out any nomination in-voting with the title "Ivy's Bedtime Story"
Thank you for your help. I was not able to figure out how to sent a private message to NianticGiffard so I reported the abuse through the Help->Reporting Abuse in Wayfarer.
Yes @Gendgi-PGO, I have shared the report with our abuse team as well.
This thread made me think... I think adding an requirement to have purchased something in any of the games would be a sensible requirement, to be able to do anything alterations on waypoints. A bonus could be that this could reduce the amount of kids submitting bad nominations, but the main motivation for my idea is that this will connect each account to a payment card that can be traced by the police in these cases...
I disagreed with this - I know so many totally free-to-play people who are among the most dedicated players around. Spending money should always be an option, not mandatory, to take part in various aspects of the game.
That’s the whole point of Wayfarer. So players can add and review POI. Niantic don’t need a team for it. I have added lots of POI in rural areas.
Hey man we get your frustrated with the current system and lack of accessible stops/gyms/spawns in your area.
That being said you’ve already gotten your original rant thread shut down by mods and now your spreading your negativity to other threads. Either be respectful to the other users and there threads or take your rants to a different platform as they hold no constructive value
Also to point out your spawns are changing in sequence with the current events that niantic is doing through pokemon go. So last week you would of gotten different spawns as this. And within the next day or two you will get new ones as well
Use the free items you get and just walk/travel to other areas. My local area had almost nothing when I started. I think 3 POI, added by Ingress players.
I got myself to level 10 on Ingress by travelling to other POI heavy areas like major towns, and then added new POI in my own area to help others get items & level up.
You aren’t going to get preferential treatment because you can’t be arsed to get out a bit more.
Plenty of others have done it. You aren’t a special case that Niantic will do anything for.
As is said in the Ingress community, it’s time to move Agent. 😉
Definitely not a fan of the "must buy something to be able to nominate" idea. But totally support making the nomination system way more robust and putting more burden on the submitter and adding some validation in the submission process.
If the post that started this thread is an indication that pedophiles or other criminals are starting to try to nominate something, I think Nia should do whatever it takes to give the police the information they need to find them. If people really want to submit nominations, having to pay 1$ once shouldn't be too big an investment.
I think it’s more that a parent nominated it without realising that it would be globally reviewed and hadn’t read any guidance around what to nominate
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