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There’s a difference between “give up” and “find something else to nominate”. Benches are not good subjects. They get nominated a lot and get rejected almost every time, whether in a park or along a trail or it’s a nice picture or a memorial to a local celebrity or anything else. Some will point out this exception or that…
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It’s one Disagree on each of those posts. Who cares? The only relevance it has is the power you give it.
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If the pin location is inaccurate but the correct location is findable, I will move the pin. In my experience, not enough Wayfarers will move the pin to make a difference, but at least I have done my best. If the pin location is inaccurate and the correct location is indiscernible, I will reject for location mismatch. I…
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Is it a great place to socialize, explore, or exercise? If it’s just a farm, then no. If it’s a public event space that hosts groups, offers tours, and serves as a place to go for a special experience, then yes.
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I don’t play Ingress, I’m not in the UK, and the prior approval of marginal subjects does not justify the promotion of additional ones. If coming to 2023 means making a series of incorrect assumptions, then I assure you I will stay when I am.
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Everything about this response is short-sighted and steeped in the deliberate ignorance of ‘I want moar stops and nothing else matters!’ Wanna make a case against the integrity of the map? Make a case against the map entirely. PoGo knock-off games - Jurassic Park was one I played - don’t even use real-world subjects to…
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Weak discussion in general, mostly because it’s about Pokemon Go, and Wayfarer is not Pokemon Go. Wayfarer is about the map; the integrity of the map, the value of the map. Unless and until the case is about the importance and relevance of a particular location to the map, the argument fails to meet Wayfarer criteria.
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“In politics, lies are just facts that haven’t been repeated enough yet, and if you don’t believe that you will soon, because lies are just facts that haven’t been repeated enough yet.” - The Brain
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You get 1 appeal every 30 days
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That’s what we like to call a false dichotomy. Wayfarers can get stops approved, they just have to follow the system, the primary mechanic of which involves not lying.
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Niantic reviewers still can use it for some reason, the community at large cannot. But “Other Rejection Criteria” works well enough.
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I have tried to see this from the Niantic reviewer’s perspective a couple of different ways, but the more I look at this nomination the less I agree with the rejection. This has all the hallmarks of a community park POI, which should approach a guarantee of a five-star review. The most I could say for rejection is that the…
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I applaud you for trying to do your best and do it honestly. That said, any nomination that takes more than about 2-3 minutes is inadequately done and a rejection is perfectly legitimate.
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Danbocat answered this in the podcast, though you might have missed it: ”I would look at some of the comment and think, honestly that’s like a feature that probably we wont spent any time on”
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Niantic reviewers are almost certainly rando interns who may or may not speak the language of the nomination or understand criteria. It’s just one more way they squander the potential of Wayfarer.
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I agree that each house is probably not eligible individually, but I think the development could be accepted as a whole. That said, I did Google this title as instructed - including quotation marks - and did not get a usable result. That’s probably due to some combination of language and geographic location, but this very…
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To address two of the comments above, here is a quick shot of the nomination I submitted that went straight into Niantic voting. I did not know about the keyword at the time, I just used the information on the sign to create a factual summary in the description. And yes, it was approved, as it is overwhelmingly eligible.…
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I do think that this subject, as described, meets criteria as a great place to explore for its historical and artistic relevance, but I can see that it is difficult to explain why/how it meets criteria, particularly if it just looks like a couple of houses. I think the best chance for approval would be a good sign that…
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My longest was just over 2 years. I’m one of the lucky ones, occasionally we get comments in here about nominations that don’t even go into voting for that time.
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Just shut down Poland. They’ve earned it.
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Generally speaking, the sign and the church are the same POI. “Not visually unique” is not a rejection reason, it’s generally believed to be given as a result of some kind of internal glitch related to voting “Duplicate.” I would also tend to vote this as a duplicate. As usual, existing POIs are a poor guide for new POIs.…
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Sounds like you’re nominating local businesses. Businesses are very difficult to get approved, and require thorough convincing in the supporting information. Feel free to post your nomination information (all text, both images, pin location, and rejection reasons) and let’s see if we can’t get you some actionable feedback.…
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Wrong, wrong, and wrong. The chain nature of a business is relevant. The text is clearly unacceptable. This is absolute coal. This should be considered for under half a second and rejected. Maybe you are unfamiliar with Dutch Bros Coffee. I am very familiar, because I used to live in the area where they began. They are to…
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Terrible reply in every way. This chain business with inappropriate text meets criteria in no way whatsoever. I think it’s a stretch to point the finger directly at Niantic, but whoever did approve this, or approve of this in forum comments, should be firmly redirected toward learning the criteria.
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I absolutely would not upgrade anything connected to a local business, especially a restaurant. Anything in/around a park or church, yeah, go ahead and upgrade; the acceptance criteria around these is (more or less) universally understood. But sometimes the significance of a local business is not easily understood by…
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I got one this morning for a practice tee. This kind of nonsense is why I only review casually any more.
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I think every area has some poor images or marginal subjects that don’t make for impressive postcards. That’s where we, as Wayfarers, make improvements to our local maps. Practice taking pictures (get lots of them, and see what works) and upload the images through the app. You can improve the aesthetic of your own area.
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If only current Niantic employees could be as insightful and relatable. A little disappointing she only submitted ten nominations, I would expect the Wayfarer staff to be working and interacting with the system from the user perspective more often than that, but I guess that explains why some of the AMAs and road map items…
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Pogo and Ingress have two different systems of what are called “exclusion rules”: the guidelines that determine how close together points of interest can be and still appear in one game. Pogo uses S2 cells, Ingress uses a minimum distance of 20 meters. So POI that share an S2 cell won’t show in Pogo but might be 20 meters…
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I believe you have a couple of wires crossed here. The rejection reason is “Temporary/seasonal”. Seasonal, to my knowledge, has not been quantified. Temporary is something that is likely to be moved in the next six months. Two different rejection terms, one rejection reason.