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Something similar happened to me twice in December, except that mine had been on hold for a couple of weeks. These were submissions in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, US, which is an area that I had understood to be upgrade-only territory (I had been visiting so had had no firsthand information.) Neither was a slam dunk and…
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Oh cool -- thanks! Which one? Speaking of Atlanta and the subject at hand, from all accounts the Atlanta area was very, very slow as well. I submitted a few things downtown (anomaly play box area) while I was there, and put most of them on hold (except one that was infuriatingly rejected by AI before I logged in to put…
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Yeah, big cities and their surrounding suburbs are horribly and intentionally deprioritized. Washington DC, Chicago, LA, etc. are the same. It's incredibly unfair and it's got nothing to do with the number of active reviewers, etc. My home location is smack-dab in the middle of Boston proper and most of what I see from the…
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I had an AI rejection for something I submitted out of town in a place I likely won't be back to any time soon (so not anything I could have ever resubmitted). A week or two later I noticed that the thing I rejected was live in Ingress with two photos, each of which was substantially identical to mine. (I had actually…
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Thus it's possible for the original rejection to be 100% correct and also for the acceptance on appeal to be 100% correct. Fully agree with this, and to add to the point, criteria change. For example, at one point, we were told that trail markers had to have the name of the trail on them. I (correctly) rejected some at the…
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Thanks; that’s terrific that you going to make it up to the reviewers, but do you also have something in mind for the submitters whose submissions are back to square one? It appears that this move is going to tremendously increase the backlog overall — is this something you planned for? This is a huge deal for folks who…
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If a playground is in the photo of a Portal that does not make Pokemon GO and somebody nominates the church park (playground), how do I reject that since the playground may only be in one Wayspot's photo? Is it actually a requirement that a PoI can't be seen in the photo for another wayspot? I've never heard that before…
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The point being, that's what i think they meant in that post about wayfarer ranking meaning you need more positive votes Maybe, but there were two statements there connected with an "and", the first of which I read the same way you did (which has long been the generally understanding of how things work) and the second of…
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This was an interesting comment from the ambassador: "Players with lower ratings may not count as much towards accepting nominations and may require more approvals before their submissions get accepted." (https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/17i398z/comment/k6sp9j8/) The second part was new to me. Is it known…
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I'm 99.99% sure you've got this email, because you've rejected something that was suppose to be accepted and submitter made an appeal and explained why this has to be accepted even though she/he shouldn't have to do that in the first place. With that you've wasted everyone's time - yours, niantic's and you've wasted an…
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My review count is wrong as well. It's actually completely demoralizing and making me disinclined to keep trying to participate (I'm also only seeing reviews from my normal areas at the moment).
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Only solution I can personally think of is, if a waypoint was successfully appealed, then those who voted to reject that submission originally should have their agreement removed and marked as non-agreement for that submission. IDK how feasible that is but in theory if there is chronic rejecters their rating will tank from…
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There are many more reasons why something might be allowed on appeal after a completely good-faith, legitimate rejection. For example, at one point trail markers had to have a trail name on them. This was clearly stated in the criteria. Nobody who rejected a trail marker without a name on it during that time period should…
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I have an example where the wayspot has three photos. Photos A and B have a ton of votes in Ingress and the third, original, photo (C) has many fewer. Photo A has something like 6 votes in PoGo and B and C have none. C still remains the PoGo photo despite all of this. I don't think photos A and B were there two years ago…
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Last time I checked, my acceptance rate for upgraded and non-upgraded submissions was the same within one or two percent. However, I am in the United States, so I don't have to worry about upgraded submissions being sent to areas with different languages and there are no local voting bots or cabals where I primarily…
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If you feel your submission would be helped by more supporting photos, you could always make a collage of two or more photos to use for the supporting photo (not the main one, of course). I know people who have successfully done that for difficult submissions.
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I've had a court like that accepted (took two tries) and generally approve them when I see them.
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I had exactly the same reaction and question about where resubmissions could be autorejected, so would also love some reassuring clarification as to what was actually meant here.
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2. Anger when it’s in my neighborhood. It feels very personal for some reason. There are a ton of wayspots in my area, a high percentage of which I made, so there’s plenty to play with. I have worked very hard to find interesting and often subtle wayspots to add to our embarrassment of riches. Then when a bleeping…
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If you are in Quincy, MA, that's a very, very slow area. I've submitted things in the Blue Hills Reservation, for example, that just sat in the queue until I eventually upgraded them. I suspect you'll need upgrades unless you want Niantic to get to them in a few years. And it is a shame and hugely unfair how less-dense…
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Address is extremely helpful for confirming the location of businesses. For example, if a submission is in a str!p mall with only satellite or outdated street view, correlating the address of the pin with the address for the business's Google listing, for example, can be a helpful way to confirm that the pin has been…
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If you just call it "art" or a "carving" and use the daylight supporting photo, you should be fine. Also, while your original main photo is perfectly fine in my book, by replacing it with a daylight one you might placate pickier reviewers. Good luck!
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This is dreadful. Much worse than the street-view jump, honestly. Problems (caveat: I’m on my phone and haven’t tried it on a computer yet. Maybe that’s a better experience.): * Smaller photos. * No address. * Having to scroll if the description and title are more than four or five lines (this is a ridiculous change and…
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Here are two references from old Ingress AMAs: ------------------------------------------------ Q53: Regarding the policy that you must be able to reach out and touch a wayspot for it to be safe, does this disqualify objects/paintings on the outside of buildings that are too high to reach from the ground? A53: The policy…
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Niantic has even said explicitly that this is acceptable (2-D map), but I've had something on a roof rejected for pedestrian access all the same.
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When there are people around, I sometimes have to zoom much more closely than I'd like into a part or detail of the PoI and then use the supporting photo to show it in its entirety. Not ideal by any stretch, but it has always worked for me.
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It is perfectly understandable that they do not want recognizable faces in wayspot photos. A lot of people (including myself) wouldn't be happy having their faces appear unauthorized and unattributed in a for-profit video game and this could become a legal liability for Niantic, so I can totally understand the guidance for…
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I often work very hard on my own photos, but I am very lenient with those of others when I review and will accept anything that is more-or-less level and shows the PoI clearly, even if it's only 10% of the frame. Pitch-black and blurry photos I'd reject. I have no tolerance whatsoever for tilted photos that make me queasy.…
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My phone produces photos that are significantly high resolution than that and they upload just fine, so I think the problem might be something else. Also, in my experience, if it's not a supported format, the app won't allow the submission to begin with.
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It's probably your camera. I've seen other posts where SLR photo submissions were also summarily rejected upon receipt. I think I've only done one non-camera phone submission and that went through without any trouble, so it does seem to vary.