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  • When you’re arguing regional laws you’ve already lost. This topic has been shlepped up one side and down the other hundreds of times in these forums and the people making the acceptance arguments have never gained an inch of ground. The LFL needs to be not in front of a house. If it is in front of a house, it’s a PRP…
  • The (old) guidance from Giffard (who is no longer here) was that trail markers in town should have the name of the trail. With that as the standard, the signs should meet that threshold as long as you can convince reviewers that they are trail markers and not regular street signs. We’ve seen many threads from European…
  • I think the commenter you’re replying to was referring to the OP, not the newer piano. I don’t know what I’d do with the piano in the healing alcove. It is on wheels and the sign looks like it could be easily moved, but there is a sign and that’s something. I don’t much care for the primary image though; seems like the…
  • Niantic is not going to do this. The user experience is not important enough for them to do even something so simple as to communicate clearly. This is not a Wayfarer-only issue, it’s exemplified across their applications, so the company as a whole simply doesn’t think users are worth the effort.
  • There will be a decrease in coal because fewer people will be playing Niantic games.
  • Unfortunately there appears to be a limit on how many users can be ignored. Once upon a time I blocked a couple dozen Bleed Boss accounts, then the ignore feature stopped acknowledging my requests.
  • After what happened the last time you posted your nominations, I don’t blame you for not posting any more. That must have been really embarrassing. I do blame you for posting complaint after complaint, as that runs completely contrary to productive discussion, drives away casual Wayfarers who don’t delve deeper into the…
  • I didn’t know that. It shows up for me, right above your response.
  • So, to sum up: -begins thread with rants about how bad everyone else is, no questions asked, no clarifications called for, no improvement feedback requested -when called out for using 3rd party images, lies about it -pleads ignorance and blames everyone else for not being more supportive. I’ll agree that it’s not very nice…
  • How would you feel if you found out that a child playing Pokémon Go walked into a field and got swarmed by bees because of a nomination you submitted? I would be crushed.
  • I would look for any excuse to approve a glass studio. Put the pin right and keep people and license plates out of your images and you should have an outstanding 5* submission.
  • Your “parks” tell me that you are an unreliable narrator, and I find it not a coincidence that you haven’t posted screenshots of your nominations since, despite thread after thread of rejection complaints. But my comment is not about you specifically, it is about my own experiences in these forums and in Wayfarer. As…
  • I do enjoy that this started as a complaint thread about reviewers and became and thread about ripping ineligible nominations. If only we could get the subject line edited to match the content of the thread. I’m surprised that nobody has mentioned regarding that store with the third party photos: it’s pinned on Google as a…
  • My reaction based on what limited information you have supplied: For the first two, and maybe the 4th, it seems like the nomination did not do the necessary work to prove location. This appears to be a recent development and probably not on Google Maps; when this is the case it is the job of the nominator to find a way to…
  • Last year the ambassador program was tasked with addressing the needs of rural areas. Sadly, nothing has come of that to-date, but it may be some small consolation that Niantic is aware of the gap in their service and the disparity in the gameplay capacity of rural vs urban players (TBH, it should not be any consolation at…
  • Rejection-heavy reviewing is a result of coal-heavy nominating. First educate submitters on how to produce better nominations overall, beginning with more eligible subjects, then also the image and text and presentation from beginning to end. The approvals will follow.
  • Having the rest of the nomination would help, but at first glance it looks like a pedestrian crosswalk in the middle of a street, which would result in a rejection for lack of safe pedestrian access.
  • Yeah, the text needs improvement basically across the board. The second nomination has better description and supporting, but take out the ‘we don’t have many safe options nearby’ kind of sentence. That’s not relevant to Wayfarer or the eligibility of the subject. You got hit for the photo because it was taken at night,…
  • My response is that NianticAaron’s feedback does not contradict those clarifications, because he, in fact, was talking about this nomination, whether you were or not, which specifically does not meet the clarifications cited. Taking his response out of the context of what he was responding to is no way to have an honest…
  • I would expect this to be rejected. I get it, it’s part exercise and part socialize, but most reviewers see a couple of benches and a trash can. This is the kind of situation when a sign would make all the difference.
  • @NvlblNm-PGO According to those clarifications, a natural area without a sign must be some combination of: documented identifiable to someone who has never been there before a named feature with a famous backstory Does this appear to meet those criteria? I don’t see a famous story in the supporting. I don’t see a name at…
  • It’s not necessarily controversial, it’s that we don’t have enough information to make an informed response, so people are filling in the knowledge gaps with their own ideas and experiences. The lack of concrete information in this thread causes me concern, because a film studio is not necessarily immediately eligible like…
  • It’s just one more way Niantic can’t get anything right. They’re trying to reduce whining about rejections by taking action against reviewers while maintaining secrecy about their processes when the real issue is right at the beginning of the entire submission sequence, when they fail to educate and set expectations. Their…
  • This is part of why I won’t sign up for other Niantic games. I already have Ingress and PoGo accounts, no point in exposing my Wayfarer to further risk by adding Pikmin or that silly, doomed NBA game, or Marvel, or whatever’s next.
  • I have seen statuary at gas stations approved (a 5’ tall lighthouse, Sinclair dinosaurs) and I once got a trail sign near a gas station approved, but have not seen art on the wall make it through. I think this is somewhat likely to be rejected. I get the case for it, but I think it’s a hard case to make to reviewers.
  • I see three obstacles to overcome that suggest you’ll really need your supporting information in order. First, many of these images are ineligible. The first one is much too dark, and several more show license plates in the background, which is an automatic rejection. Those will need to be replaced for nomination. The…
  • Are they good places to socialize, exercise, or explore? Are they the kids of places you would take a guest visiting from out of town? Do they have safe pedestrian access? I’m asking, I don’t know; I’ve never been to a film studio before. If you would answer these questions in the affirmative, maybe assemble a nomination…
  • I’m in here farming disagrees like corn in Iowa, but I’m pretty sure I’m the only one trying to give actionable, relevant feedback that actually applies to rejection reasons that have returned after 3 nominations and an appeal. I do agree that the text is great. But reviewers, including Niantic reviewers, are people and…
  • I used to need an upgrade to get anything decisioned in under two years, so once upon a time I had to upgrade everything. I actually used to coordinate my Wayfarer ventures with the time frames I’d get the upgrades I needed (even more important back when upgrades were applied automatically). Some time last year something…
  • Sure, except that I already did. They called it generic because that image looks like a pile of rocks. That’s also why you got rejected three times for “natural feature” and once for “low quality photo” even though you claimed you didn’t get rejected for the image quality. Every rejection you got is because that image does…