Remarkably inappropriate showcase?
Markov2097-ING
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Currently, in the showcase at my place, such a spot is displayed.
Is this a bad dream?
Obviously the photo was taken from inside the car and should have been rejected as a low quality image. However, in reality, it was highly evaluated and is thus exhibited in the showcase. I think we should take action on the judges who approve this.
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Thanks for flagging this, @Markov2097-ING! I'll share this with our team for their investigation and will take appropriate action wherever required.
The showcase ones are just random.
In the U.K. at the moment there is one with a very clear car number plate.
I don't see how this could have been taken from inside a car. Rather, it looks like the curb is painted black. You can tell from how there are specks of dirt and grass on it, and the shape of the curb. No car windows look like that. You can also see the reflection of the sign shining off the paint, which the inside of a car definitely wouldn't do.
One of my current Showcase wayspots is a fake, part of a bunch of stolen nominations that have been submitted in the same area over the last week or so.
Low quality Showcases are really quite common. This system is very flawed.
You must be getting a different showcase to me. My showcase only ever shows wayspots from Boston and Spalding (so basically places within the PE postcode region) and none of those are invalid photos currently.
Interesting I get those based in Burton on trent, I thought they were for a wider area. The work someone did to show the pattern was fascinating
anyway here is the ingress link
https://intel.ingress.com/intel?pll=52.799653,-1.647109&z=17
The showcase is based on lvl 6 s2 cells
My showcase is marked with the red dot
The showcase system its self isnt flawed, its the reviewers who have agreed those recent submissions that should never have been accepted who are at fault.
Yup, it seems to favour the bottom right corner of my level 6 cell as well. I would prefer if it showed stuff randomly from anywhere in the cell, as I'm never likely to go to the places it shows me, and it would be nice to have a chance to see something I actually recognise.
Hopefully, Niantic thinks about my idea to give the showcase to the upcoming wayfarer advocates.
This looks fine to me, dont see any piece of a vehicle in the picture and no reflection from windows if the windows are up. If you would have rejected this for that reason you are the problem
I don't see the car in the picture. There's a bit of a blur top right, but it doesn't interfere with the picture, which is of an eligible object, so I'd have approved it. The picture could be nicer but it isn't bad enough to be grounds for rejection in my opinion.
I've seen plenty worse showcases than this one though, they are often of things that should have been rejected. There was one a while back that was of an eligible object, but had a very clear license plate in the background, parked on someone's driveway across the road.
The rejection reason "bad picture" says "e.g. blurry or made out of a car"
Just because the car is not fully visible it is still a reason for rejection.
Additionally, the sign is totally on the right side of the photo which is also a posible reason to reject.
But I don't see any proof that this was taken from a car. The blur in the top right corner could have been a branch or just the telephone's case. It's definitely not blurry enough for me to reject it based on this.
Also, "the sign is totally on the right side of the photo which is also a posible reason to reject" is total nonsense. You can't expect perfectly centered pictures, especially for a playground where taking a picture with nobody in it is hard enough.
I have to concur with this. There is no evidence it was taken from a car. The blurry thumb or case or whatever in the top right corner is also so far out to the side that nobody will notice it in-game. In most cases it will be cropped out anyway. The full size photo definitely isn't blurry either.
And I mean yeah, sure, the photo could have been better. The object is clearly visible, although it's a little bit on the right side, and a pretty tall aspect ratio, but it's far from reject worthy in my opinion. It's a game after all, not a photography contest. If we had to set the bar that high, I frankly think there'd hardly be any wayspots in the games, based on what I see in review.
I could understand both, an approval or a rejection. Its like the little "to catch Pokemon" in the description than is getting ignored by many reviewers.
Obviously the photo was taken from inside the car???
WHAT? where? where can you see that?
ok, now i see why we get dumb reject reasons. Reviewers over-think the things..
yes, i read its nonsense.
possible reject reason? what?
no, it's not. I am pretty sure the nominator did that to show the plaque and the playground.
this forum is scary. jeez.
Why are you all looking at the slight blur top right? If you look at the bottom of the picture, that certainly looks like a car door to me. The black bit at the bottom where the "submitted by a fellow wayfinder" text is located is the inside of a car door. The thin band above that is the groove that the window slides down into when you open it. And then the thin band above that (right below the grass) is the outer seal of the window.
As I've mentioned in this thread already, it's not a car door, it's the street curb that has been painted black. Look at the full size photo and you can clearly see dirt, grass etc. strewn on the surface. You can also see the reflection of the sign on the ground, which would be impossible if the surface was slanted towards the camera like the inside of a car door.
Ummm someone needs a eye test... that's a curb
There's an easy way to notice that it's not a car door without zooming in: it's not a perfect line, it's not manufactured by a machine. It has different width and height along the part that we can't see, so a street curb seems far more plausible.
This is just another example of how there's always people searching for reasons to reject anything.
I'm actually a very lenient reviewer all things considered. I was just going off what I could see in the photo in the first post of the thread, I hadn't noticed the link to the full photo and would've checked it out first if I had (or indeed if I was reviewing, as I make a habit to do that to every photo when I'm reviewing). In the full photo it does indeed look more like you say, though I will point out that not being a perfect line doesn't prove that it's not a car door by itself. Cars are subject to wear and tear, and seals do deform over time. I've seen this in many used cars. I've also never seen a kerb and road surface that are so dark, which doesn't help. Surely that has to be a safety hazard for drivers?
At any rate, I'm happy enough that that isn't a car door at the bottom of the picture having seen the full image.
I wouldn't even go so far as to say that curb has been painted black. It could be a normal grey curb after it has rained and it's later in the day, as evidenced by the sky above being cloudy and starting to darken at the top of the frame; I've seen plenty that look like that in the pacific northwest.
Where I'm from, our kerbs are normally on the whiter side of grey, and when it rains, they do get darker, but not to this extent (they also look slightly brown/green in the rain, probably due to the materials they're made of and how those interact with the water). The kerb in this nomination looks like it should come with a disclaimer about not being for use by Anish Kapoor or anyone associated with Anish Kapoor haha.