That’s probably the worst thing it could do 
learn from the lazy reviewers. Why can’t they learn from the Niantics staff reviews… oh wait never mind.
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There is an option to enter any reason, in Accuracy menu:
But seams it is easier to choose some random reason, then type some custom reason.
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Should this be a wayspot? Yes. Tell the submitter why. No ? Tell the submitter why.
Email - unfortunately your waypoint nomination has been rejected. Please check your nomination management page and see the feedback from reviewers.
A number of boxes then should come up with a few sentences explaining for example - I rejected this because I thought it was temporary. I couldn’t find the location properly on streetview because your supporting photo showed little of the surrounding area and made me think it was in the wrong location. Or your picture was blurry and shows car license plates. Blah blah blah.
None of this one word answers.
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But would that come back as an “other” rejection ? If so where can we read what the reviewer put. Or what the robot thought in this is situation as we’re talking about robots in this thread. As well as rubbish reviewers lol
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AI just accept the yoga studio I submitted yesterday. Downward dog 
I was flicking through some (manual) rejections, and the rejection reasons appear to have changed… often to something like “generic business” when that’s not the sort of thing I ever submit anyway.
Happens to me all the time! The Wayfarer page only displays two rejection reasons, although there may be more that apply. The two that do display are randomly shown, so they may change when the page is refreshed.
I’ve noticed my more historic rejections now have the newer rejection reasons many just “wayfarer criteria” when they used to say other or temporary or low quality photo. Yet they are all now accepted after years of trying for some.
I was under the impression that this is a new thing in the last couple of days?
Previous Emily rejections would show nothing but now there is something. Way off the mark but something at least…
Since we’re on the topic of AI rejections, I’ll share three nominations of mine all rejected by Emily. I also noticed the new rejection reasons. (well, hardly a reason…) I suspect they were rejected because of having “h0locaust” in the texts, but I don’t think it’d be too hard to program for a “Sensitive Location” rejection reason, or something. Still dunno if these are eligible.
I’m afraid Niantic used machine-learning to make Emily mimic all the incorrect acceptance and rejection in the Lightship database. Humans used to abuse ‘generic business’, ‘temporary and indistinct’, etc.
All of our old chickens are now coming home to roost.
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Yes. They mentioned it when I moaned about having a nomination rejected and it also said the community had decided when it was an in house review. Perhaps my moaning works 
Wow that’s just ridiculous. What are they scared of offending someone? And “other” rejection reason. Now for the stuff on the walls whist they are clearly meant to be a permanent display you would probably understand if temporary seasonal display was the rejection reason.
“Wayfarer Criteria” sounds like what should appear if a nomination meets none of the 3 eligibility criteria. If that’s what it means though, it would be better if it was reworded to reflect this, as it’s not immediately obvious.
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Maybe at a push they have been to Edinburgh and seen all the tartan tat shops that now line the Royal Mile and Princes Street?
How about no consensus lol. Now surely there is enough votes for a nomination to be given a reason. And considering it’s almost a neutral reason either way, why is it a rejection
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Who knows. I was told there was a PR nightmare regarding that topic. Something about POGO where a Koffing nest (area where certain Pokemon spawn more frequently) appeared at a H0locaust related wayspot/PokeStop. Now Koffing is a gas/poison type Pokemon so…
Understandable that they don’t want that to happen again but it should be clearly stated in the criteria if those kinds topics are not allowed.
Besides, it seems more offensive to ban all mention of those events, even on this forum. “You can’t use the word hol0caust, it is not allowed.” Seems straight out of a skit lol.
As for the displays it’s a part of the resource center. All of the exhibits/artifacts etc. in that little hallway is directly connected to the resource center and there are links to prove it (which I cannot even put in the supporting info because it contains “h0locaust”…) Plus, there is one historic artifact in that hallway that got passed by the community a week ago.
Oh the old forum some of us were doing this because it makes sense, but were told that we should not be using that “Enter other reason” that way. I am still waiting for them to make it clear how we are supposed to reject.
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Well, they never directed you to any new guidance that explained why the Coach’s Logo wasn’t reject-worthy for being a mass-produced, copyrighted, generic image at a chain or franchise that wasn’t unique to the area.
I rather feel they need to put up or shut up, and you should continue following the guidance they have provided.
They are so slow and inconsistent about closing their loops…
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