I understand the problem and why this has bothered you. I just don’t think the Niantic employee has added the part about being disrespectful or abusive. It’s an extremely badly phrased standard text that Niantic use whenever abuse is indicated and the phrasing in no way indicates the many possible things that could have been considered abuse.
The “Abuse” rejection narrative can be flagged for a nomination for any of the following reasons:
- The photo is not yours (e.g., taken from streetview, found on another website)
- The photo is fake
- The waypoint is fake
- The text itself is abusive
- The nomination is controversial and likely to be offensive (e.g., a mural of terrorists)
- Another nomination was abusive and all of yours have been flagged as a consequence
- The wayspot location pin is misplaced
- The wayspot is deliberately misrepresented (e.g., on school property but pretending it isn’t)
- (there may be others)
If you compare this to the standard text you got, you will see the problem, which is one that a lot of people come across. There is an AMA requesting that Niantic do something to improve how this is handled by them. Can we split rejection reason “The text or photo contains abuse, ridicule, or harassment of a specific person or group”?.
This was the second-most popular request, after the one for a map. A lot of people on this forum are annoyed by how abuse is described to wayfarers.