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Something along the way might catch their eye. It isn't guaranteed but it's better than them not even having a chance to see it.
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(Separate comment because it's a separate thought that I know will attract the disagrees.) Improving overall submission quality by improving submitter education would also help prevent disagree spammers. Where I used to review, 90% of the submissions were easy accepts. Anyone spamming rejects would have quickly had their…
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I don't think it's possible to slow down rejections by x4 unless you add some sort of timer to each review. That would definitely lead to longer queue times for submissions and probably fewer reviewers. Identifying rejection bots and areas which have a lot of abusive reviewers spamming rejects for upgrades and then…
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Open to the public doesn't mean that anyone can visit it at any time. At any case, it's not really relevant because Niantic's removal test is PRP or farm. It's not on PRP or a farm, so it won't get removed for access.
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For abuse, some people might choose that if they think you are spamming the nomination. I don't personally consider it spamming if you're clearly trying to improve it, but your reviewers may have. If local reviewers are tired of seeing it, after you make this round of changes, either upgrade it or wait a while before…
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Legit doesn't mean run by the city and your backyard is obviously PRP. This isn't just a few benches. It's picnic tables with grills. If it's a "park" park or a picnic area named "park", they're both eligible. Now, if it were just an empty field of grass you'd have a case.
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Haha. Seriously, that sounds like a super boring game, but I don't like to play on easy. It would be great if everyone who wants stops everywhere just spoofed so there wouldn't be so much coal.
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Yeah. That's definitely something case-by-case and the reviewers and submitters would have to take a look at what the safety features are for the course. I suspect reviewers will be much more strict about it than submitters, especially as these kind of features you described are unlikely to be obvious from satellite photos.
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They look good to me. Pedestrian access is about being able to walk up and touch them safely, which you can clearly do from the sidewalk without even reaching. I think the problem is "position not matching". I checked Google Streetview and it is too old. Reviewers could match the building in the background, but most…
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For me individual disc golf and ball golf holes are a matter of safe pedestrian access, not an issue of whether they should be considered part of a single field. Players cutting across the course in between holes while staring at their phones are at risk for getting hit by discs or balls. I used to play in disc golf…
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For the archery course, I'd be concerned about clueless gamers walking through the course from an unexpected direction to get to the first "tee". That being said, I'd approve an indoor archery range or a sign for the woodland course that was in the parking lot or somewhere else people were unlikely to try to reach by…
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He doesn't want them removed, he wants them restored.
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I've never been able to get obvious fakes (in this case I mean there is a photosphere right at the location that shows the wayspot doesn't exist) removed by in-game reporting. I think they auto-reject 99% of the reports. I've always had to escalate in the Help chat. Usually that works, but last time I submitted a cluster…
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> 1) By your logic, every portal is valid access-wise, because someone could access it. Correct. It's not @HankWolfman-PGO's logic, though, it's Niantic's. If some group of people can access it, no matter how small, they won't remove it. They only apply safe pedestrian access for things like a sign in the median of a road…
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I think the difference is trail markers fall under the "exercise" criteria as part of a hiking trail which is "a great place to exercise", not the "explore" criteria.
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I had a similar situation come up yesterday during reviews. The edit pages don't always give reviewers enough information to figure out which is correct. There is not even an address provided. There is just a small, non-interactive satellite photo. I had to take the street names from the satellite map and search them in…
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Thanks for that link for future reference, but I do want to make clear I wasn't debating post office or package station eligibility. Just pointing out that a lot of coal is due to Niantic being poor at communication, not submitters submitting in bad faith.
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But they don't state it anywhere in the Wayfarer Criteria section. That's my point. (I meant anywhere in the Niantic "education" material. I'll edit that.) What about post offices makes them "a great place to socialize"? They don't have meetings. People walk in to pick up and drop off mail. You can do that at these package…
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If it's not on Google Maps, you can make a photosphere. Install the Google Street View app to make photospheres. Another option: sometimes, you can use your supporting photo to show where the object is. You need to get background objects that are on Google Maps into the picture. The title looks fine to me. The description…
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For the other question, I don't think they're auto-reject if you can't read them, but reviewers in your local area definitely seem to be erring on the cautious side.
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I think the ambiguity may be because church signs are eligible. However, church signs are eligible as a proxy for the church. I.e. the church and the church sign are duplicates is they are both submitted. This kind of church direction sign is too far from the church to be a good proxy. Some church signs are separately…
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Even the people in this thread saying they are eligible (the Polish comments) I don't think they're doing it maliciously. Post offices are eligible, but why? It's not written by Niantic in the Wayfarer education material what makes them eligible. People see package stations and think they're basically post offices so they…
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The problem with that is Niantic's guidelines are intentionally vague and they consistently decline to add clarifications to them in Wayfarer. On top of that, even the criteria from the Wayfarer page aren't provided anywhere in the games themselves. For something abusive like a dog or a foot, I agree, but Niantic has to…
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That leaves me with a lot of questions. In the end, the signs definitely weren't photoshopped and we hadn't seen an answer to whether they were installed by the submitter or this park supporters group. Did Niantic investigate and find 2 other Wayspots that were definitely faked by this reviewer then remove this one as…
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It probably means Niantic staff are not from the UK and don't read this forum so they aren't aware of the different standards the community have settled on for them. I'd wait for a few more appeals on them before deciding it's the official Niantic stance. If anyone appeals another, you might even put links to one of the…
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Scrolling back through just now, my brain still saw Martha! Sigh...
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P.S. That's me laughing at myself, so I don't start another misunderstanding.
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Hahaha. Yes. My eyes definitely saw "Martha" not "Maria". Your original musing about Cardi B a few posts back had put me in the mindset you were using modern American celebrities as examples. I definitely read that comment more than once. Every time until now my brain said "Martha". I can completely understand why you…
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The smiles aren't laughing at you, they're showing I took no offense at your replies and was in no way upset about them. They were just to show I was enjoying the discussion. I didn't realize it was an argument. I apologize that you thought I was laughing at you. I'll avoid them in the future.
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Anyway, as I said several posts ago, our definitions are too far apart to do anything but go around in circles. I thought mine had been sufficiently clarified before, but now it surely is, so I don't see anything else for me to add about this topic.
