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I have an appeal that's been In Voting at least six months.
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My 2 rejected app nominations were removed from the Wayfarer App view. I had loaded extra pictures and lots of scans - all lost.
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People probably selected "Temporary Display" because they thought it might be grafitti, that was done without permission and could be painted over at any time by the city or owner of the wall. As said above, you can prove its permanence with a link, info on the author, etc - and get rid of that rejection reason!
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Was the approved new or an appeal? We don't get emails for appeals of nominations originally made before September 2019.
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I've never gotten a cooldown (28,700 reviews). I get distracted and let it time out all the time. Every web site you visit tracks your behavior on it. How fast do you scroll, where do you pause, what do you click. Wayfarer also uses this common code. So, interact with the page. Do a couple things each time, from the many…
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I think it's gone on too long to be a bug. I think they actually want you to look at streetview (satellite if no streetview) FIRST.
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Niantic doesn't want volunteer / community improvement type wayspots. Food banks, blood donation centers, recycling centers - all have been nixed. Gather there to socialize = great! Gather there to accomplish something = nope. If it's along a trail, say so. If it's part of a series of info boards, or at a park - say so.…
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The front gate is not eligible in itself. You don't meet at that gate to socialize or explore or exercise. I guess you could make a case that the stones and concrete are old and artistic, and people come from miles around to see it. Maybe include a link to a travel or history page saying how wonderful the gate is. I doubt…
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STAGE 1: Submit categories you think should be documented. Including but not limited to Eligibility Criteria, Acceptance Criteria, Rejection Criteria, and Close Ones that are generally yes (IE trail markers) or generally no (IE residential pools) These are made into an Outline for the Big Document to come. STAGE 2:…
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Sad that people who got no instructions on scanning - now are just banned from scanning, with no warning. Sure, about a year after scanning was introduced, Niantic did make some instructional documents and videos. But they didn't email everyone with a link. They didn't make a pop up next time we tried to scan. I've always…
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I agree that database donor volunteers should have control over the flow of their contributions. However, every time Niantic tried to add a feature, they broke something else. Remember when they added the Hold button - and stranded anything marked "Upgrade Next" in la la land for months? I don't think the ability to…
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It is not a queue. Each nomination is assigned a (semi) random number. In some areas, the number is likely to be lower (faster). In some areas, the number is skewed higher (slower). But there's always a randomness to it. A slow area will have an occasional come thru in a few days, and a fast area will have an occasional…
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For an appeal, the world has changed since the original nomination was reviewed. More current satellite, more recent street view, new Photospheres, additional Supporting Information, criteria changes, and probably other things behind the scene that Niantic sees. Punishing crowd-sourced reviewers, for not having the same…
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@XPGDark-PGO I have an appeal that went into Niantic voting around the same time yours did. It's been there 5 or 6 months. Maybe all appeals pulled into voting that day/week/month went into limbo, and Niantic reviewers have no way of knowing they exist. (Same as regular nominations do sometimes.) My Niantic Voting limbo…
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On Feb 10 I got rejection emails for two "Provisional" wayspots subbmited by the app. They are NOT the common rejection emails. Both said "We determined that this Wayspot was either in an unsafe location, or in a location that is inaccessible to the public." Which is nonsense - both str safe, public places. It was an…
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You get 3 rejection reasons, but the Contributions page only shows a random 2. Hit refresh until you find out the third one. If it's "Other Rejection Criteria" - that means reviewers said it doesn't meet any acceptance criteria: explore, socialize, exercise. Check this page:…
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In settling a U.S. class-action lawsuit, Niantic agreed not to put wayspots on single family residences - or close enough that a crowd gathering there could be a nuisance. The lawsuit originated when PokemonGo was new, and a dozen or two people would meet at a wayspot - chasing Pokemon into people's back yards, looking in…
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Water tanks (cylinders taller than diameter) and cisterns (cylinders with height less than diameter) - generally no. If they have art on them - submit the art. Water towers (on legs) - genenerally yes. Can submit the tower itself even if no art on it. (Trivia: towers and tanks provide storage and water pressure; cisterns…
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App nominations might be in the regular Wayfarer queue. People in fast areas didn't need to bother with the app - only people in very slow areas used it. Would something submitted the old way have completed yet, un-upgraded? It's only been three months. I've reviewed edits made thru the Wayfarer app. I know because it's…
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Niantic assigns some kind of random number ranking to each nom. Some places (cells) are more likely to get long waits, altho maybe 1 in 1000 gets a short wait. I have one In Queue 16 months so far, but I have two from August and one from September that resolved naturally already. (All others I upgraded.) Conversely, some…
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Are we still talking about the Saturn sidewalk sticker from the initial post? With supporting picture of a cinema with lots of stickers on the sidewalk in front of it? Saturn is not on streetview, and the closest photosphere does not have Saturn ? What's not to love??
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Interact with the page. Each image has a magnifying glass to make the picture bigger. Try using that for at least one picture.
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Maybe you could help the rest of us identify stolen pictures better. How can you tell on the ones that don't have the Google logo or arrows?
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Queueing has had issues since the crowd-sourcing reviewing was created, summer 2016. I have no reason to think they'll actually fix the queueing now, after promising to do so for 6.5 years. However, NIantic recently sent emails saying they were speeding up processing unresolved nominations from before December 2021. (I…
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Altho a scan for watermarks should be easy enough, before the nomination is even submitted. Then, new nominations should wait at least a day to go into voting, so the nominator can edit the text. During that day, Niantic could scan its pictures. IOW: the image reverse search doesn't have to be done during the nomination…
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Water towers are iconic structures, often included on town seals and t-shirts, or at least in directions on how to get around the town. Business offices, generally no - even if it's government office workers. You don't take a visitor from out-of-town to see an office building. It's not in a guide book. IOW it's not there…
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HPWU is still part of Niantic's resume', their portfolio. An interested developer might see that, and ask about it, and a lively discussion ensues. Maybe they can use some of the code from HPWU to more easily create something new.
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Crowd-sourced reviewers have asked for clarifications since summer 2016. ALL that time, Niantic has answered that they're working on it. The current promises are the same as the older ones. Occasionally they release a little something, and feel satisfied when we do not. If you had a neighbor or friend who - for six and a…
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Epic case of question dodging! Pools are VERY litigatious in the U.S. Niantic doesn't have as legal team, so they want to stay out of well-known legal minefields like pools. If an gamer leaves the pool gate open, and the police come by and write a ticket to the neighborhood, could the n'hood go after Niantic for bringing…
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I don't think anyone at Niantic knows how to do administrator functions on this site. We complained for a year about so many conversations stickied to the top of the General forum. Each employee would fix it on their own personal ID, not on the greater site, and think they were done. Finally someone tweeted about it, and…
