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Thank you @NianticAaron ! Unfortunately, the forum software doesn't handle the redaction gracefully when a post is quoted and later edited.
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As others have said, territory does not have ownership. It also isn't unique to your game. You used an interesting phrase, though. What does "building a planned Wayspot" mean? Does it mean you were about to submit something, or that you were creating an object with the intent of submitting it?
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Not once in the last decade have I even come close to running out.
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Most people check their photos before submitting them, and it would have only taken a few extra seconds to notice the fingers and retake the photo. This is such an easy mistake to avoid that it's not even clear to me why it's an issue for discussion other than the face rejection reason being a bit inaccurate.
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The main entrance is typically the most logical point of exploration and is where I would usually place the pin. Sometimes something about a specific situation argues for a different placement.
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The problem with those hail mary passes is that when they succeed they're contagious. People see them in the games and assume that they're good wayspots, so they start submitting more of them. Reviewers see them in the games and assume they're good wayspots so they approve them. Lather, rinse, repeat, until an area is…
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@Elijustrying-ING Isn't it weird how one person seems to always disagree with people who give accurate answers? And it's always the same person, and they have a private profile?
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Flagpoles are rarely eligible since they are basically generic, mass-produced items. While you can explore, exercise, or socialize near them the flagpoles are not fundamentally great places for any of those things. Sometimes there can be something special about a specific flagpole or set of flagpoles. Hypothetically, I can…
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@cherry2299-ING Niantic has a fairly short list of reasons that they will remove a wayspot. I believe the list includes obstructs emergency services, on K-12 school grounds, no safe pedestrian access, no longer exists, on private residential property. I don't think that's an exhaustive list but it hits the highlights. They…
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@PeteC303-ING Again, only guessing, but perhaps they return all of the hard rejections that were selected by reviewers as well as No consensus?
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@MargariteDVille-ING I understand where you're coming from. The flip side is that punting to Niantic review puts more burden on them to do in-house reviews, and those cost them money. Niantic (quite rationally) has a strong preference for technical solutions over human ones because technical solutions scale far more…
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@Skpangpang616-PGO The criteria for what can be included in Niantic's games have changed many times over the last 10+ years. There are lots of things in the games right now that don't qualify under the current criteria. Sometimes that's because they were incorrectly approved, and sometimes it's because they were approved…
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@holdthebeer-ING We obviously don't know. The logical thing would be that Niantic applies some sort of your logic to all of your ratings on a review and come up with a yes or no (or duplicate, which is obvious). My understanding is that it worked that way in the previous system too, although I think it was heavily weighted…
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@RodvelaSan-PGO Street number signs, postboxes, and neighborhood entrance signs are extremely unlikely to be eligible candidates, although occasionally there will be something particularly unique and interesting about one of them. It's fairly typical that subdivisions don't have much in them that would qualify since they…
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I don't know, but I can speculate. I'm going to oversimplify a bit, and any numbers that I use in my explanation are made up examples only... like everyone else I have no idea how many reviewers see each submission. TL;dr: My guess is that Niantic gives up earlier on submissions where reviewers are strongly split rather…
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There are actually two invisible numbers. As mentioned above, the first one is reviews where you disagreed with the community assessment. The second one is things that you have reviewed that haven't yet reached a consensus. The time that it takes for reviews to reach consensus can be highly variable, and it also seems to…
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@Eneeoh-PGO People have made all sorts of ludicrous claims, but that doesn't make them true. I've never heard anyone say that you must prove that a toddler has a safe path to touch an object, and I think that's a silly claim. I roll my eyes when someone says that anything in a parking lot is fundamentally unsafe. To…
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A wayspot has to have safe pedestrian access for someone, but it doesn't have to have pedestrian access for everyone. That access doesn't have to be easy and there's no requirement that you can't use "special gear" to get to the location. I don't know where you live but out here in the western United States it's really…
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@Skpangpang616-PGO Have you ensured that your wayspot candidates meet one of Niantic's three acceptance criteria-- a great place to explore, a great place to be social, or a great place to exercise? Note that the word great matters... people can explore, socialize, or exercise just about anywhere but that doesn't mean…
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@cherry2299-ING In general, if you can hike to it and it's not fundamentally in an unsafe location (see the list in an earlier comment) then it's OK. There are lots of really cool wayspots at the top of mountain peaks, some of which can only be accessed by expert climbers, and these wayspots are some of the most-valued in…
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@DTrain2002-PGO My counter-argument to that would be that if the art is on a public street then the community has already made a decision. There's a huge gap between adults dressing in costumes and hate speech. As for saying that an adult activity that at times "can be s3xual", there are many many things in the world that…
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WayfarerCoal on Twitter has some good ones. @DTrain2002-PGO Why would you consider a large outdoor mural coal? You may not have liked the content but there are lots of cool murals in the world that don't suit my personal tastes.
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Five years? Really? Time flies when you're having... fun. Most of the things in the areas I play in were approved so long ago that I am just used to having portals piled on top of each other. I'll admit that the density makes big smashing runs more fun. (-:
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If by animation studio you mean a company that employs animators then that doesn't sound like it's likely to meet any of the acceptance criteria. If it was something like an animation club/shared workshop where people came together to hang out and work on their personal projects then that seems likely to meet the criterion…
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@mugigaga-ING There are also tons of portals that were approved long before the 20m rule existed. That rule has only been around for... a year or two? Ingress players have been submitting portals for over a decade now.
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I might call it a sculpture designed in the style of a topiary.