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I can't be bothered to go to raids, but I'll sometimes throw remote raid passes around like confetti. It's not that I'm lazy... it's just that in-person raids aren't interesting enough to me to get me out of my loft. Plus there's the issue that you have to find a large enough group to win the raid and that's much easier to…
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@The26thDoctor-PGO They are not great accepts if they meet any of the rejection criteria.
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@AadenRaye-PGO The likelihood of submissions being accepted scales with the amount of effort put into making good submissions. I don't think that will ever change. I would have rejected the water store and the cafe for not meeting any of the criteria, though a good description and supporting information could convince me…
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@PaperTech89-PGO Excellent. It's a lot of information to retain when you read it all, and that's especially true before you start submitting/reviewing. Now that you have some context for it you'll probably pick up a lot of things you missed the first time. I'm also happy to see that you're interested in giving Wayfarer…
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That is definitely a legitimate candidate, especially if they have an exhibition space inside the studio. It might be a difficult one to sell, and as @sogNinjaman-ING said you should rewrite your description. I would focus on it as a collaborative artists' space. In a similar vein, there are glass-blowing studios that do…
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@AadenRaye-PGO Some of your examples look like good candidates to me, some marginal, and some not. Others have covered that above. One of the things that people often overlook, and that Niantic doesn't explain well, is that there are two components to getting something accepted. The first is obviously that you need to find…
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@PaperTech89-PGO wrote: I am new and still learning and didn’t know that using Google photos was ineligible I would strongly recommend that you go (re-)read Niantic's criteria and perhaps save yourself some future frustrations. The prohibition against third-party photos is under ineligible photo, "copyrighted material or…
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@The26thDoctor-PGO In order for something to be accepted it needs to meet at least one acceptance criterion and not meet any of the rejection criteria. A mural pretty much automatically qualifies as a great place to explore, but being on private residential property overrides that disqualifies it. A gym would qualify as a…
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@X0bai-PGO I mashed Insightful on that about ten times.
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Maybe enlist a friend and take the supporting photo with their finger disrupting the water flow?
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It's pretty common for new people to show up on the forum fuming about bad reviewers rejecting their great candidates. What I've learned from reading this forum for a while is that about 2/3 of the time the great candidates actually don't qualify, and many of the rest do qualify but they were presented in a way that made…
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I understand your frustration. Have you considered sharing some of your rejected candidates so that you can get feedback?
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Rejection reasons can often be unreliable even when the rejections themselves are correct. Not historically or culturally significant seems to come up when reviewers rate the object as "meh" or some of them mark it as a duplicate but not enough to reject it as a duplicate. Weird rejection reasons can also come from…
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@CiscoPlayz00-PGO You don't need photospheres. You really just need to know what information is available to reviewers and figure out how to fill in the blanks for reviewers.
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@CiscoPlayz00-PGO As you're submitting things think about the experience of reviewers. Will they have the information they need to confirm the existence and location of the things you're submitting? Is there reasonably up-to-date street view for the area? If not, are the things you're submitting easily identifiable via…
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@Quinchapeces-PGO That would not scale as the number of games increases. I believe it's the case that games pull from the Lightship database and follow their own rules rather than Lightship pushing data based on the games' criteria. Also, it would require Niantic to document the inclusion rules for each game. That's not…
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@SaintAAlain-PGO No, not necessarily. First, reviewers aren't expected to know local codes for every area that they are reviewing in... that would be madness. Second, we're expected to review things carefully if they're within 40 meters of a private home to see if they could be disruptive to the homeowners/residents. The…
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Yes, absolutely. The rule is that some people must have safe pedestrian access to it, not that it be open to everyone.
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@PkmnTrainerJ-ING Please don't get hung up on "public access". Things do not need to be open to the public at large in order for them to be wayspots-- things on closed business campuses are acceptable as wayspots as are things in gated communities. The rule is that someone has to have safe pedestrian access to the wayspot,…
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@PkmnTrainerJ-ING Yes, good find-- it is definitely Crèche De Roye - Le-s Roitelets. (The link is to Google Maps.) However, that playground clearly has safe pedestrian access, as I can see a door. If it didn't then nobody could ever use the playground, and that would be silly.
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@flatmatt-PGO said everything that I was going to say, only more eloquently. In a similar vein, I just saw a recording studio submitted while I was reviewing. I didn't think that a nondescript recording studio qualified but I looked closer and also noticed that it was a rehearsal/practice space. That felt more like it…
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That last one was rejected correctly because it doesn't have safe pedestrian access. Niantic requires a safe pedestrian walkway and for people to be able to stand there safely. That is a busy road with a traffic roundabout in the middle.
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@NianticTintino Thank you! Also, updating the apps I hope? The earlier in the process you set expectations the less frustration people will feel.
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@29andCounting-PGO The Wayfarer team probably doesn't control the submission workflow but that doesn't mean that they can't drive change. It's not that hard to reach out to two development teams and say, "We would like to solve (problem). In order to do so we would like you to make small changes to some text in your game."…
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100% of the time, and I have for years. I have around a hundred upgrades available right now so everything is just automatically upgraded. In the last three years I've only had two things rejected. One was sort of marginal at the time but Niantic changed the criteria right around the time it was rejected and it was…
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@The26thDoctor-PGO You are right that Niantic is also bad at operational excellence, and it didn't start with Pokemon Go. I've participated in lots of Ingress events well before the PoGo launch that had fairly painful failure modes. That's definitely related since it's about not valuing the customer experience, but it's a…
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@RubyandSamsMama-PGO Is it in Niantic voting (i.e. does it have a Niantic logo on it in Wayfarer)? If not, it may just be an oddity.
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@RubyandSamsMama-PGO The statue having those parts visible isn't the problem.
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It varies a lot. It can be anywhere from a few days to a couple of years. (Via Google translate): Varia molto. Può durare da pochi giorni a un paio d'anni.
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@Gazzas89-PGO I had things like that a few years ago but learned to use my supporting text to hand-hold reviewers through the process of lining up existing street view with my supporting photo. I'm not criticizing you or your submission skills, just sharing what worked for me. Here's one example, a really classic-style…