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  • Welcome signs for municipalities (towns, cities, etc) generally don’t meet criteria. How is this emblem a great place to exercise or socialize or explore?
  • For all the subject lines in these forums complaining about reviewers, there are an embarrassment of nominators who don’t do their homework and get these kinds of threads all kinds of wrong. Why did it take an out-of-town stranger from the internet to do this research and figure out everything from the nature of this…
  • Pretty sure 99% of reviewers look at this and respond with ‘Bench = 1* other rejection criteria’. An appeal will be your best bet.
  • Isn’t “terrible music” its own rejection criteria? I could have sworn it was here somewhere…
  • A community garden in a public park should be at least a 4 star subject… I’d probably want to give it 5 because I’m really not sure what could meet criteria better, other than major landmarks. But that’s the thing: a nomination is not just the subject. It’s also the pin, the text, and the images. And there are plenty of…
  • If it’s not photoshopped, correctly named, and accurately described, then it simply doesn’t meet criteria. But if the image is edited or falsely presented to reviewers, then it’s abusive.
  • This isn’t going to get approved without an anchor, no matter what the AMA might lead one to believe. You need a solid, unmoving, manmade object to justify the presence of your pin. Also, spelling matters.
  • And yet reviewers rejected most of these correctly. It’s the nominator who needs reeducation.
  • As far as criteria go, you are correct. As far as reviewers go, “person,” “body part,” and “recognizable face” are all rejection reasons that encourage the use of images with no people in them.
  • I mean, chain businesses are usually pretty popular. That’s why they can grow to multiple locations or franchises. That’s very nearly inherent in the nature of a chain business… and yet, if they’re not “locally unique,” or have something unique about them, they’re specifically excluded from the criteria. Not to put too…
  • I vote to approve every LFL at a valid location. If the location is someone’s home, or if the pin is incorrect, I have to 1* it for meeting rejection criteria. But every LFL at a park or a church or a town hall gets a thumbs-up from me.
  • I would appeal only the kind of thing that is a grey area in the criteria but voters tend to reject. I would renominate any time I think my submission meets criteria and I just got a bad shake. I think you’re in the latter category with this one, so I say renominate.
  • Wouldn’t it be great if we could have no clutter in the review queue, and interesting ones could get approved in a reasonable time frame? I feel like people nominate trash on a daily basis for no other reason than “why not?” and it prevents good nominations from making it onto the map.
  • That’s for a trail with no name, it’s not for a non-trail. Like a bridge: one that’s just infrastructure is ineligible, it has to serve the purpose of exploration to meet criteria… so a marker has to designate something more than just permission to cross.
  • 11 of my first 12 nominations were rejected, mostly because I didn’t understand Wayfarer. Wayfarer is not just ‘Pokemon Go, but add new stops.’ It has its own rules, its own goals, its own preferences, and they’re not necessarily what a Pokemon trainer or an Ingress agent intuitively think they are. There is a learning…
  • But it’s not a trail at all. It’s a sidewalk, but across private property. It’s infrastructure, not exploration.
  • It’s a rough photo, kind of takes some work to see the garden because the barn and fence visually pop in the front, and the parking lot dominates the background. Usually Community Garden nominations show a sign, or the arch or gate of the entrance as the primary image. I’m sure that’s what most reviewers are expecting, as…
  • Does not meet criteria. Places such as restaurants and other local businesses require supporting evidence that they are something more than just a common business. If you can’t point to awards they’ve won, or ways they’ve been outstanding in the community, you don’t have an eligible nomination.
  • Rejection reasons don’t translate well from reviewers through Niantic to nominators. In this case, the two rejection reasons are actually the same one: your reviewers are telling you, “Your picture doesn’t look like something special.” And I have to agree that the images here do not do a good job of telling the story of…
  • …but it’s not a trail. It’s a PROW.
  • You post this like you haven’t seen nominations for each goal of a single field, along with the scoreboard and the bleachers.
  • I’d tend to approve this, though I agree that “boardwalk” is not the best word for it, and neither is this the best photo. I’d aim for something more like this, but if it’s possible to get an image from further right of this photographer - more square on - that would be better.
  • Take the picture from the same side as the sun. This one is backlit and makes your subject too dark. Walk back further and zoom in more to reduce the severity of the upward-looking angle. I agree that your text is too much, should be boiled down to its essence, and should not reference game terms or concepts. Both your…
  • This is gonna rack up the disagrees, but here it is anyway: Consider finding something unique to nominate, as opposed to the same thing a second time.
  • There’s only 1 wayfinder in this thread that Niantic needs to take action against.
  • He’s been told dozens of times to stop using @ and he doesn’t feel like stopping. He just feels like coming into these forums and complaining about rejections.
  • Seems like some kind of copy/paste error. I think Niantic is trying to train up more internal reviewers, but they are demonstrating that Wayfarer is not easy to learn. Regardless, I would agree that an emergency services rejection would be correct.
  • The people of this forum have tried to help you over and over again and you have ignored every piece of feedback you have ever gotten and demonstrated a marked aversion to expressing gratitude.
  • Look, reviewing can be an absolute slog, especially when the nominations are an onslaught of LFL on PRP, the same trail marker ten times in a row in ten different spots, somebody’s cat, and open lawns that are supposed to be “athletic field #3 of 7”. Someone posted a poll recently about Wayfarer participation and noted the…
  • So, “not culturally important” isn’t supposed to be a rejection reason; the community understanding is that this rejection reason is a result of mostly getting tagged a duplicate, but not quite enough to get rejected as a duplicate, somehow. Memorial benches aren’t eligible, so “location inappropriate,” while misused in…
    in **** Bingo Comment by X0bai-PGO May 2022