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What is considered safe pedestrian access?
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Yea, it's unfortunate that reviewers are able to reject for inaccurate reasons. While there may be exceptions, inside of a building almost always has safe pedestrian access. In some cases, inability to safely access the building can raise question, but those would be infrequent and may still be inaccurate.
@PsychoX23-ING This has happened to me a lot too. I think their rational is that they can't see the access so they can't prove its safe access. Which is not the correct way for people to review, if assumed the access is safe and can't be proven it should at least be a 3*.
Please, let's leave out the game blame.
"Visually distinct locally" has nothing to do with safe pedestrian access.
It's not false information.
Anyone can see it clearly how you manage to derail threads and take things out of context, mix information so it ends up being useless for people that have simple questions.
In another thread someone asked about eligibility of painted poles and you kept on posting over and over again that that's not a valid nomination because it has a license plate, despite the fact that that's not related to the question itself and even if that was a real nomination photo, you can't see the number so all your arguments are baseless.
The outcome is that at this moment it's not useful to point other people to these forums as a useful source of information, everything is a mess and that's really unfortunate.
When people ask a question, if you want to participate in that thread you should stick to that question, don't bring in other topics, don't add unrelated nominations that you want approved, help the people instead of fighting them.
There's an old joke:
There's a man in his car listening to the radio
"We have reports of one car that going the wrong way on 280."
And he claims
"Hell, It's not just one car. It's hundreds of them!"
Surely you can be a great participant if you just breath a little and try to understand that people don't come here to attack you. It's clear by your comments about flagging people that you think so and that's really unfortunate.
An Apiary is not a live animal, are live animals inside? Yes, however the structure itself is not a live animal. That would be like rejecting a Seafood Restaurant that meets criteria because they have a fish tank inside.
Oh, should they be rejected because of live animals and doesn't fit criteria?
You said that it was due to allergies that lead to not being safe access.
You're the one that brought allergies to the thread
The focus is not the live animal but the apiary itself. PER the wayfarer review - reject 1* - Live Animals
Live Animals -
Use for nominations where the photo and the nomination information focuses on a live animal instead of a specific object
An Apiary is a specific object.
As long as the bee is not the primary focus of the shot then the Apiary would not be denied for live animal.
My post from above:
The focus is not the live animal but the apiary itself. PER the wayfarer review - reject 1* - Live Animals
Live Animals -
Use for nominations where the photo and the nomination information focuses on a live animal instead of a specific object
Ok, so now you say that Casey is wrong when (s)he marked this as the accepted answer? https://community.wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/discussion/comment/3558/#Comment_3558
And do you finally agree that allergies have nothing to do at all with eligibility?
I've had a couple of trailmarkers on public footpaths rejected for safe access where there was a rusting 'Bull in Field' sign on the gate - I assume the reviewers had never ventured outside an urban area.
Take a proper supporting picture to clearly prove location is accessible, the ones u take are probably trash @ArcticPir4te-PGO
Lol. Did you read my response right before Farix. No you didn't. I never disagreed. I said signage would be allowed. Gonna pick fights your going to end up not getting answers as a result. It will also get your account banned for constantly not treating others with respect.
This is a complicated question to answer because a lot of what is encompassed by "pedestrian access" could be limited by your local laws. With that said, generally what @gazzas89-PGO and @Hydraulinski-PGO have said is correct.
There doesn't necessarily need to be a sidewalk or path for something to be considered accessible. Can you reach it on foot without putting yourself in physical danger? If no the Wayspot would be ineligible.
Sidewalks or paths are moreso required for things that are near roads, bodies of water, etc., where getting too close to a Wayspot could put your safety at risk.