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The suggestion was to have them provide rare researchtasks, better items or upgraded gifts. I think that would create incentive for someone to try and create such stops which is not really a solution to the problem with misplaced POIs.
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It's a bad idea because you'll then create an incentive for having "invisible" POIs which is the exact opposite problem of the problem we have today, but an equally big problem. The incentive should be on placing POIs where they belong in the physical world.
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I feel this creates more than a few issues. How am I as a reviewer looking at a single instance of a franchise store in a small town I've never visited to know if it "may be a hyper-local" spot? Am I supposed to just take the submitters word for it? Wouldn't that effectively say that every business in every small town…
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I wrote a long post in answer to this but it disappeared when I edited it. @JohnnyAlphaCZ-ING Sometimes that happens when your edit triggers something that requires the post to be reviewed before published. It's visible now. The fact that you're at no point told this is just one of the many things about this forum software…
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I'm not going to submit something that won't go live in either PoGo or Ingress myself. We all have limited nominations and typing on a phone and getting a good picture can be a hassle anyway. Niantic misses out on POIs they could have used in other games and future projects but that particular hole is one they've dug for…
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Would it make you feel better if I switched to posting from my PGO account? I've been level 40 since before the gym system was reworked. Wanting more stops is perfectly fine, it's the entire reason for Wayfarer to exist. Deliberately misplacing POIs to achieve that isn't.
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The location should be where the picture is. If I see a submission where that isn't the case, e.g. the marker is at a corner, in the middle or at the back while the picture is of the front door I fix it. If I'm unsure I leave it alone. If you want to submit the corner of the building then take a picture of the corner of…
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We can only hope that when Niantic looks at appeals they also check out the original submission and who rejected it and take appropriate actions if it's clear they did not review properly.
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I mean, they should still crack down on people who submit things in the wrong location but it's difficult to know if they do it to abuse the system or if it's an honest mistake. They could probably weed out a lot of the people who do this on purpose just by reading these forums though, there's no shortage of people…
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I thought they already fixed this so that the pokestop gets removed now if its location is changed to an already occupied cell?
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@NianticGiffard The picture I have is geotagged but the information seems to be stripped away when I upload it here. There's not much I can do about that.
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No, it's not a bad quality photo, don't review it as such. "Use for nominations where the photo is blurry, pitch black or is taken from a car." I'm tired of getting that reject reason for photos that are clearly none of the above and that applies here as well.
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So it seems the geodata didn't get included in the photo. Tried to edit it and add image as attachment instead but not sure how that worked so attaching it here instead
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I play both games little friends, maybe you should stop trying to make this a us vs them thing and look at your own actions leading up to this situation.
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For what it's worth, I think the S17 stuff isn't a very good system. I played to 40 and for a long time after that in PoGo and I was deleting inventory daily. Adding more stops wouldn't have shifted the balance of anything for me. Since I only played in a city I don't know how it would affect play in rural areas to just…
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Yes, you're caught in the fallout that was caused by the people doing these kinds of edits in bad faith. That's unfortunate but also why we can't always have nice things. In Ingress we're left with a broken and largely unusable edit system now, for the same reason. I wasn't saying all PoGo players have been doing this or…
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That seems like a very theoretical thing and it's probably good to remember that the stops and gyms that just were removed from PoGo was removed because of actions PoGo players did to abuse the S2 cell system, not because of actions other players did. The things that got removed were never meant to be there in the first…
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I can see that argument if someone is submitting a large building or something else that possibly covers more than one L17 cell. Picking the left corner instead of the right corner of a church isn't really abuse. Same if there are two eligible candidates too close to each other to get both in and you pick which one to…
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@Itsutsume-ING That's from the 1 star rejection text on wayfarer when you select Location -> Pedestrian Access.
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Luckily for us there is a metric, unfortunately it still opens up for being subjective in the last part, but the first part is crystal clear. "There must be a pedestrian walkway or a trail leading all the way to the object. Remote nominations, such as those on mountain tops or on small islands, are acceptable if they can…
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@Drunkardzz-PGO Imagine you were a person who had to review your appeal and have never been to the location you're talking about. Include enough information for such a person to understand why the waypoint is unsafe. See for instance this post:…
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Come on people, there's no need for all this snark. But yes, OP should fill out the form and provide the details needed for Niantic to actually handle the appeal. And never trust children to make their own decisions when it comes to what is safe or not. That is something we need to consider now that portals are also used…
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That's someone's front door. Niantic had to settle a lawsuit over having waypoints too close to single resident private properties last year. This didn't use to be a problem before PoGo came out, but now it is. So waypoints within 40 meters of private residencies are eligible for removal.
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Still image taken this morning. The facade on the right can be seen on Google Maps streetview, the waypoint used to be in the building that is no longer there.