I have this vague memory that there was a time when the Gameboards of Pokemon Go and I think Ingress and were showing too many POIs?
Anyone remember the details on that?
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There are times where the inclusion/density rules for each game does get out of line, mainly due to the game(s) not being in sync. It tends to happen around the time of large events in each game, like GO Fest. They typically get fixed within a few days later, instead of the usual 48 hours.
To my knowledge, there hasnt been inclusion issues that have affected the different games that have been related. PoGo itself has not had inclusion rules issues aside from a time that a handful of waypoints were randomly added at once and were later reverted.
I’m trying to remember when that was. Did some Gyms get downgraded to stops or something.
Around Halloween 2021, tons of new stops appeared in occupied level 17 S2 cells, and tons of new gyms appeared in level 14 cells that didn’t meet the threshold. Some people called it “Spooky Sync.” Almost all of these stops and gyms were eventually reverted by Niantic
Then sometime in 2022, the inclusion rules for Ingress broke entirely, so all Wayspots approved during the time appeared in Ingress. These were never removed. These are the only times I can remember the inclusion rules breaking, and they don’t seem to have been related
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Sorry for little off topic pokemon go chatter
It was bugging me, because I had 2 submissions accepted and triggered a new gym. When I went to the new gym I was insta gold on it. Which made me realize it must have been a gym before then downgraded.
Which doesn’t happen per say but I vaguely remembered something happening.
As a side note, if a Gym is removed from game. Then someone resubmits the POI and same spot becomes a gym (as opposed to different) , it starts over and you need to regrind it.
So downgrade - reupgrade to Gym functions differently
Then Removal + Readd
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In my experience, gyms can also be downgraded if the gym itself moves into a different Level 14 cell