I am writing to appeal the “Malicious location edit” violation notice for my edit to the “Synagogue” wayspot on April 12, 2025 (8:30:30 PM UTC). Tickets 35541883, 35538959. (I received 4 different emails regarding this. Does it mean I have 4 warnings?)
I assure you this incorrect edit was an honest, unintentional mistake, not malicious.
This occurred because I misjudged my location on the map. It was my first visit to this wayspot and neighborhood, and only my second location edit attempt ever. Due to inexperience and the synagogue’s wide appearance, I confused its map footprint with the building next to it, resulting in the inaccurate submission.
Classifying this as “Malicious” seems disproportionate for a genuine error made during only my second edit attempt. My other contributions have been valid, and I am committed to improving my Wayfarer skills. But this warning severely disheartens me. My genuine effort to improve the map results in threats of a potential ban, rather than just rejecting the edit and informing me of this mistake.
I have since reviewed the Player Guidelines and Wayfarer Criteria again for better understanding.
Given this was an honest mistake by an inexperienced contributor, I respectfully request reconsideration and removal of this violation from my record.
Warnings cannot be appealed via the forums, as they are public, and communication about warnings are kept private, between staff and whoever receives the warning. You are welcome to submit an appeal at the link below:
We have completed a thorough review of your account and have concluded that your account has violated Wayfarer criteria.
It was a single location edit, 1 building over. Because of GPS drift I misjudged my location on the map. I though the synagogue was positioned 1 building too far to the north, so I moved it to where I thought I was standing. It was not a malicious edit.
Unfortunately, as I noted, warning appeals are not taken up in the forums since the forums are public, and the warnings are private.
Keep in mind that a warning is just that: a warning to remind you to follow the guidelines and ToS. As long as you stick to them in the future, there shouldn’t be anything to worry about.
Staff do monitor the forums, and they may send you a DM with more info.
Hello and Welcome,
To answer you question when it’s a formal warning it does generate a series of emails, 3, each is different.
But this all relates to 1 warning.
Were you trying to edit the location further than the edit system would allow? And it ended up not at the final position?
If you get that situation it is best to use help chat on the wayfarer website to request the move. You can provide the coordinates and an explanation of the issue and if necessary to explain some photographs too.
If you have had the outcome of the appeal then the best thing to do is accept it. I appreciate that having words like malicious used when your view is that it was a mistake will feel bad. But at this stage having been through appeal there is not much that can be done and frustrating though it may feel accept what has passed. Stay within the rules - you can always ask for advice here if you are unsure of anything.
Based on the look of the synagogue’s front and seeing narrow residential buildings up the street next to it, I got confused and thought that its pin should be over a larger building to the south, what turned out to be an apartment building.
How is mistakenly editing a wayspot location equals to abuse, ridicule, trolling or harassment?!
I did not touch anything regarding the photo, title or description of this wayspot!
I’m being accused of antisemitism?!
This is so unjust!
I will start off by saying I would personally give you the benefit of any doubt here - you seem to have made an honest mistake, and the location edit doesn’t seem to have any potential underlying malicious motives.
That being said, to answer your concerns about the abuse rejection reason, this is there because it is considered wayfarer abuse to attempt to modify a correctly placed location to an inaccurate place. People will sometimes try to do this to make wayspots appear in games when they otherwise shouldn’t do, or to create space for additional wayspots where there shouldn’t be space for them. So it’s possible that reviewers thought you were intentionally trying to misplace the wayspot in order to manipulate one of the in game maps, and that’s why it was marked as abuse. It has absolutely nothing to do with antisemitism or anything like that.
