In my opinion, the rejection is not valid because the water barrel is publicly accessible, clearly identifiable, and represents a well-defined and valid point of reference.
If you are trying to appeal a rejected nomination, you do that through your contributions page. You have 2 appeals, each with a 20 day counter before you can use them again. If the “Appeal” option is not available to you, you will need to wait.
In the meantime, if you would like to post screenshots of your rejected nomination, including both photos, everything you wrote, and the rejection reasons, we can help advise you on possibly resubmitting this nomination while you wait for an appeal to be available. I usually try a couple of times on a nomination before using an appeal anyway.
Oh you are appealing the appeal decision. Hmm… This does not meet any criteria I know of. How is this a great place of exercise, exploration, or being social?
Hi! Indeed just to clarify the Wayspot Appeals category is for appealing wayspots that were live but are now removed, or removal requests that were rejected. Considering this was rejected, including on appeal I would absolutely recommend getting some second opinions before resubmitting. Good luck!
I however am also not entirely sure that this is a great place to explore, exercise or socialize. This appears to be a piece of infrastructure, and doesn’t seem to be meant to be visited.
It has already been moved to an appropriate category. There is no pathway for appealing an appeal. Although Niantic has said that they do want to know when they got an appeal wrong, I don’t see overwhelming evidence that has happened in this case.
Having an appeal rejected does not mean that you cannot resubmit it if you get feedback here that would improve the nomination. This is not something I would submit or recommend submitting.
You left out your supporting info, which in many cases is the MOST important part. It’s your chance to say why this is a great spot to explore, or gather/social or exercise.
Based on what you showed, do I think it will pass on a resubmission. Nope.
But if I let my imagination wander… if it was a big deal for a local community to make some ancient aquaduct functional, and it got big publicitiy in a newspaper, could it conceivably be explore worthy: Sure. But that’s sort of the whole point… you as the submitter have to make your case. And even then sometimes other people won’t agree.
Usually exercise related submissions are pretty self evident, but when your going for socialize/gather or explore that’s often not the case.
Anyway unless you have a great reason you left off, this won’t pass. But always make your case in Supporting.
