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@onecino-ING Report 3rd party photos in nominations and existing wayspots via the Help chat. Provide the original sources of the stolen photos. They'll get taken care of. It's really not a question of quality. 3rd party photos are plainly ineligible.
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I used to have a rule of applying every upgrade to my oldest in-queue nominations. I'm much more flexible with my upgrades now, so I wonder what my list would've looked like had I not had that rule in the first place. My current oldest nominations in queue are from mid-2021.
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Nah, just making life easier for me and hopefully saving myself some nomination resubmissions 😉 Although I've actually found myself using it only once so far, to be honest. But then again I have been slowly putting less and less time and effort into Wayfarer...
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If you're using the in-game report options - those reports are often rejected, even really obvious ones. No idea why. Use the Help Chat bubble on this page instead. (Though be warned that it's the weekend and you won't get a reply until Monday at the earliest.)
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I got myself an old, 2nd hand 360 camera for super cheap. It doesn't produce high quality photos and is a bit of a hassle to connect to my phone but it works well enough. Although obviously it's not as convenient as the SV app's photospheres.
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Seeing reports that the app is gone from the Apple app store. I can still see it on Android, for now...
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The Showcase section isn't manually curated by Niantic. So unfortunately it shows coal pretty often.
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In-game reports are rejected the overwhelming majority of the time. Use the Help chat option on the Wayfarer website instead.
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Yes. If a phone game makes such huge impact on your mental health, you should definitely look to invest your time and passion in other hobbies, and/or seek professional help (which I'd recommend anyway, as it can only be helpful in any given situation).
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Factory, Warehouse My only reservation would be if the wayspot is too close to heavy/dangerous machinery.
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I'm sad to say that, at this point, the mere talk about plans doesn't really mean much to me. Only when features and improvements actually get released... if at all. We were promised improvements and new features with vague timelines in the past. We sat, waiting, asking for updates on progress; until eventually, months or…
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I agree with your message, but I'd like to put more emphasis on the "I'm not advocating that Niantic reverse their policy against K-12 nominations" part of your comment. Calling every person who goes on K-12 grounds "creepy" is definitely wrong when it's perfectly legal in many places, and when many K-12 grounds include…
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If you want to understand why some of your submissions turn into Pokestops and some don't, you're going to have to do some research beyond the instructions given to you in the game. People in the thread have been giving you some good basic information. But it's all useless if you're unwilling to learn.
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@NianticTintino-ING @NianticLC @NianticAaron @NianticOtoStar @NianticOren Apologies for the tags - since Giffard was the one who used to communicate on Niantic's behalf on this issue, I'm not sure which one of you is the right person to talk to. It has now been well over a year since my original post. This bug was already…
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Good point. I think, in the supporting information section of such hypothetical nominations, Niantic could explain their special status as imported POIs, and ask reviewers to ignore photos and descriptions for those reviews, and focus on general eligibility and location accuracy. (Titles should definitely be more…
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And what are the near-future and general-future plans for the Ambassadors program?
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As someone who also frequently gets these messages, I also agree. It's definitely ridiculous considering how backlogged the system is in general, and in specific areas in particular.
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While I firmly fall under the "neurodivergent person who's mental health got severely impacted due to being passionate about Wayfarer" umbrella, I don't think Niantic owe us our mental health. It's our individual responsibility to take care of our mental health ourselves, know how to recognize things that harm our mental…
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To report nominations and wayspots, you've got two options - the first is to report them on the Invalid Wayspot Appeals section on this forum; the second is to use the Help Chat on the Wayfarer website (orange chat bubble that pops up when you access the Help section). You will need to provide the wayspots' titles,…
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I'm also having issues with the help chat. The bubble takes a bit to pop up, but then when I open it to check my ticket history, I'm getting an error message - "Something went wrong. Reconnecting..." It's happening both on Chrome and Firefox, FWIW. After trying to open new tabs and even after rebooting my PC. Internet…
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Honest question: do you truly believe someone would have the username "MissShariBelly" with absolutely no reference to the preexisting username "MissShariBerry"? Within the same geographic location too? As for your request to upload evidence from photoshopping detection websites - completely fair. I'll try uploading links…
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I've wrote a detailed reply with screenshots from the photo editing detection tools I've used but despite my best effort (including links instead of photos) it still went to mod approval. In the meantime I invite you to check the original photos on ImageEdited (the most simplified tool) as well as the ELA values…
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Well, that's your promise against at least one photoshopping detection website... your claim should be ridiculously easy to prove, though. Provide a video for the same sign you've photographed showing the school-related text you claim exists there.
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To add more evidence, I've checked the photo posted in the impersonator's post, and imageedited.com marks it as "probably edited", with "Pixels [that] only match software editors". I imagine it's the text on the bottom half of the photo, which seems suspiciously black and flat compared to the other shadows/dark colors…
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The thing is... none of this is new. Nothing. Niantic's communication has been terrible and continues to be terrible. They've been called out for it again and again - by us Wayfarers, by the PoGo userbase - no real change ever occurred, even in the rare instanced when promises were made. At the end of the day, it's Niantic…
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Hello OtoStar, Thank you for the suggestion, I went ahead and did that. This is the reply I got (ticket # 19162987): Hello Explorer, Thank you for submitting a Wayspot nomination! We are unable to provide specific details for each nomination that is ineligible in this thread. If you feel that your rejected nomination…
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Thank you for the reply, but like @flatmatt-PGO, that bug doesn't apply to the current email system. Not to mention that my phone is set to English. From experience shared by other Wayfinders it seems that nominations that were rejected directly by Niantic don't have rejection reasons. Considering it is the Niantic crew…
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@NianticAaron @NianticOtoStar Since Giffard hasn't been active in a while, maybe one of you guys can answer my question? As I said, it's hard for me to know how to approach resubmitting my nominations while Niantic didn't provide the reasons why they rejected my nominations in the first place.