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On the Wayfarer website, look on your Contribution page. If you don't see rejection reasons there, it was likely reviewed by AI, and should have reasons in the email. Yes Niantic makes this more complicated / obtuse than it needs to be.
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My latest appeal result came Sept 13. The email where I submitted it came March 20. So it took six months. (The nomination date is irrelevant.)
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Niantic should just say so on the contribution page, if you click the appeal when it's not available. "Your next appeal will be available in 23 days." It would save a lot of confusion and angst.
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As an IT professional, I am often mortified at how Niantic acts. The inability to do a counter would be the most shocking ever - if it weren't for 22 months of false and misleading email text, horrible guidance in the nomination process, lack of explanations on the review site... But really: is there an easier thing to…
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If you see pictures, they're from your place of current play, or home or bonus locations. A picture from a non-challenge country definitely wouldn't add to your counter, because its country code won't match. If you live in one of the challenge countries (or have home or bonus set in one)... you might get credit. It would…
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You get an appeal every 30 days. Check your email for "Niantic Wayspot appeal". Yes, it's silly that Niantic doesn't tell anyone that. The info could easily be shown on the Contribution page. But that's Niantic's way.
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The "What is it" categories do not affect reviewing. They have no affect on PokemonGo, Ingress, Pikman Bloom, or other Niantic games in the Play Store. They are used for developers to whom Niantic sells access to the Lightship database. For example, an app in London was to take an art tour. It pulled in wayspots with…
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I can't imagine expecting photo results in a mere six weeks! I have some outstanding for 2 or 3 years.
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Niantic was very surprised that we didn't like (found stressful) leaving the webpage with an unresolved nomination showing. They were also surprised at the rejoicing when they added the "Submit and finish reviewing" button. And that people reviewed more - it made 10-15 minute sessions more palatable, vs: why start when I…
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Those who said their Review page "Challenge" counter went down one or two - I'll bet your review completed after the nomination was resolved by other people. That's how Niantic has always worked, and there's no indication they changed it. For example, say you first get an Italian nomination to review at 8:01. At 8:03 you…
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The problem is: if you start a review on country A, and before you finish it, the challenge moves to country B - you won't get credit for that review. That may not be too bad if it only happens 3 times in a week. But if it happens 14 times in a week, people could easily lose 5-10 reviews. Also, it would matter what time of…
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I have gotten several sports and playground things that when I back up, I see they're on primary or secondary school grounds.
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Kcaps are around $1.42 in the store. (Breakdown: $5 for 7000 CMU, and kcaps cost 2000 CMU) It should take at least 8 hours to do 500 reviews in another language (62.5 reviews per hr). For $4.28 in prizes ($0.53 per hour value). How about at least make the number of kcaps equal to the number of upgrades?
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My counter is correct on the Review page, but too small on the Showcase page. As long as Niantic uses the one from the Review page, I've already hit 52. And so I turned the challenge setting off for now, to see local nominations.
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Niantic has said art on roll-up external windows are good. (Like lunch counters.) I assume that applies to doors too. The thing is, a lot of them look like temporary graffiti. And Google translate doesn't work on pictures, so I don't know if they're obscene or something.
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Have you ever changed the email address associated with any Niantic account? They were sending rewards to you very first email, even if it's not current. Hopefully they've fixed that.
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Whenever someone starts getting nominations... maybe they only get 10, until they get 100 approved. Then they get 20, until they get 200 approved. And so on. Something like that. This would only be right if everyone's nominations take around the same amount of time to resolve. If you're in an area where it takes 18 months,…
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I like this statue holding up the building. (It's Chrome with right-click, Translate to English.) The supporting reminds me of how my Italian brother-in-law speaks.
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Right click on the background, and choose Translate to English. Works on most browsers.
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Niantic has always said that transit hubs are good Wayspots, but not every bus stop. I guess they taught that to their AI.
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At least it's a warning email, not a ban. As I understand, a common reason for it is nominating the same thing over and over without changing the text or crop.
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Maybe it's not about being legal or ethical - maybe it's about what they can let slide while they put out fires somewhere else. A lot of their other bugs are also unethical, like making some areas' nominations wait 18 months while others take days, and lying/misleading Wayfarer emails. Hiring more developers is... well the…
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Or the location edit appeals forum.
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Yes: depend on local voters, or even upgrades. But don't depend on appeals because they could be across oceans and across cultures.
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Appeal reviewer contractors might not know what a "dog park" is. Many countries don't much have dogs as pets, like in the U.S. Reviewer contractors are very likely not in the U.S. When I hiked with Indian co-workers at lunch, I learned that they don't understand dogs. I knew to position myself between my friends and any…
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Yes, my two stars are rare. Good when you want to specify which category this fails woefully. Like if the object is two inches big - it might get 2 overall, with 4 stars in some categories, but 1 star for Visually Distinct, because it would be hard to find. Or if you COULD walk up to it, but not be safe while you're there.
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For Niantic, this is pretty clear text. (That's a low bar.) It falls short tho, because reviewers could think of one apartment as a single family residence (one family lives there). Especially if they think this is a privacy issue. It's not - it's a U.S. legal issue for property zoned as Single Family Residence. So,…
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My standard ordinary score is also 4 star. Five is for outstanding. Three when it's valid but meh.
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Marking time on my calendar! Excited to see the details!
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You are correct about "abuse enforcement" email content. We Wayfinders sympathize - as people with a common general idea of what's ethical, and what are normal business operating procedures. But Niantic does not hold those standards. Every email we receive has falsehoods and misleads. For years bugs have been opened about…