Hello, our community member is the one nominating stops here in our place.
The images she used in the nomination were provided by us, her fellow community members via Facebook messenger. Since we didn’t understand how to nominate she nominated for us we just provided the place and images. It was our fault because we were insistent, she would not benefit at all on the nominations she made, it was for our benefit.
She received no email about the suspension but surely it was about the nominations she made since she’s not using a third party app and is a legit player since day one. Please just suspend us instead of her. She is unable to play the game because of this and we’re feeling guilty. She worked hard to reach her status in the game and she don’t deserve to be suspended because of our selfishness in making her do all the work in nominating. We learn our lesson already and we would nominate ourselves from now on.
Hello and welcome,
Unforutnately, there isn’t much that can be done without your friend asking for the help. Staff doesn’t disclose any suspensions with those who are not the user. If this is Wayfarer related, she can appeal the decision at the following link:
Keep in mind that all photos taken must be taken by the person submitting the POIs for consideration, not from a 3rd party source. I certainly understand wanting to expand Wayspots in your area and helping your friend, but it would have been best to just provide some basic info on the POIs instead of sharing photos.
Yes, I understand that this maybe not the proper forum and I’m not the user who got suspended but since she’s suspended and has no way to contact and there’s no email so we decided to reach out on behalf. I’m using ‘we’ because our community members intended to sign up and vouch that it was we who sent the pictures and made her do the nominations it shouldn’t be her whose intention was to fulfill our wish to also have a PokeStop in the area that is suspended. We learned our lesson that if we want something we should take the initiative to have it and not make others do the work for us. We are willing to bet our accounts just to uplift her suspension.
It doesn’t work that way; you can’t just “give up” your accounts for hers to be unsuspended. Staff determined that she should receive a suspension on her account and hers only, so that will be the only account affected.
While you provided the info and photos for the Wayspots, you didn’t submit them, so you didn’t actually interact with Wayfarer. If it was you doing this, then your account may have gotten suspended, and she wouldn’t be able to do anything about it.
I did provide the link to contact staff in regards to the suspension. Your friend may also want to check their junk mail folder to see if the email ended up in there. If they ever used a different email address as some point, or use Apple ID and didn’t fully set up a relay email, it could have went somewhere else. Otherwise, the link allows for an appeal to be submitted, which is reviewed by staff, and they will get back in touch with her.
We are truly sorry of our ignorance on many things. We just know playing the Pokemon Go game and not how to do a PokeStop and some is below 37 so unable to nominate yet so we asked her to do it. We didn’t know that wayfarer could also lead to suspensions we thought it’s just submit then wait for the results.
We have seen other people who have recieved suspensions come to the forum to post, so maybe encourage your friend to reach out here directly.
If the thing you asked them to nominate was not a good thing to submit then your friend did have the option to say no, or help find something better, so I wouldn’t feel too bad - you wanted help and they were in a position to do that and made their own choices