Request for an Appeal to be looked at again
PkmnTrainerJ-ING
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Usually, I am accepting of Appeal decisions but would like another look taken at this one.
It seems the Appeal reviewer has seen the title, and thinks I’ve nominated a fishing area. However this is just part of the title of the nomination, which is for the named trailmarker on the post.
Can this be looked at again, as a trailmarker, instead of a fishing area?
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Yeah, this definitely should've been accepted rather than rejected by Niantic. Then again, it shouldn't have ever needed to have been appealed in the first place. I'm not sure why reviewers rejected it when it's a trail marker that even has the name on it (so it would've met the less relaxed criteria, let alone the more relaxed ones we've got today).
Oh, now this is live I can tag @NianticGiffard to look into it.
This feeds into my belief that at least some appeals are evaluated just based on a skim of the title by people desperately trying to rush through the backlog.
i presume it was originally rejected by the U.K. reviewers who believe trail marker have no place in the game.
But the appeal is rubbing salt in the wound.
Hi there, @PkmnTrainerJ-ING! Can you share the coordinates of the Wayspot where you have nominated it? It will help us to look into it.
Hi @NianticGiffard can I DM them to you please?
Sure, I'll initiate it right away!
Thanks. Have received and responded.
It was an old one. So I have it on email;
Your nomination is rejected due to the following reason(s):
The real-world location of the nomination could not be confirmed to have an acceptable pedestrian pathway leading up to it, Insufficient evidence that the nomination accurately reflects the submitted real-world location based on comparison of the submitted photo and map views.
There is a sphere that clearly shows it, and you can see the path along the river, so not sure if it just didn’t place the reviewers in the right area or they didn’t like something else about it.
Just got an email to say that this has now been accepted and the decision reversed. Thanks for picking up @NianticGiffard
Cheers!
I feel like I’ve opened a can of worms now.
This type of behavior was happening long before this thread. Actually, almost as long as it's been confirmed that Niantic was reviewing.
To be fair though, most of the ones I've seen posted of appeals being rejected for asinine reasons do get overturned when put into the forums. It's not ideal, but the mote times it happens, the better it will be overall as it should get the niantic reviewers to make sure to do them properly
It is a can of worms but maybe it needs opening 🤔
the advantage of posting them here is that a range of experienced reviewers can look at them and even do some digging around. This then can hopefully be fed back to those doing the appeals to improve things.
Yeah. Then sometimes, a whiner posts a dozen rejected nominations that were all rightfully rejected, the crowd points out why each and every nomination was coal, yet someone from Niantic doesn’t read the thread and sends 40something nasty e-mails to the (correct) rejectors telling them to get their act together. Sometimes.
Yeah that was a dreadful situation