When submitting a Wayspot Appeal, make sure to include as much of the following information as possible: Wayspot Title: Octopus - Pirates’ Cove Location (lat/lon): City: Bluewater Shopping Centre, Kent Country: England Screenshot of the Rejection Email (do not include your personal information): A…

What I was asking is if my nomination can go back on hold so that I can add a proper description, as I always do. I had explained my situation. The reason I am getting “uptight” is because I am having to repeat myself after I had already explained my situation once.

I wonder if this is an example of the recently tweaked rejection reasons not reflecting what the reviewers actually marked in review. Marking down for this photo does not make sense. I assume you used upload later, and time spent in upload later does count towards the grace period before something …

That’s not how the system works. Again, you can resubmit or appeal. Staff is unable to move a rejected nomination by ML back into queue. If staff granted this request, then they would have many more people doing so, trying to abuse the system.

[image] AScarlettSabre: if my nomination can go back on hold oh you typed this while i was typing my comment. it cannot be sent back to hold. you can resubmit with the same photos. you don’t even have to go back to the site if you are within remote submit distance.

I was hoping Niantic could resend the rejection so I can add a description. Usually, there is a waiting period before things go into voting. I must confess, I had not nominated something for a few months.

Yes, ML usually makes decisions within 24 hours, but it can be sooner than that. Many photo edits may get accepted right away after submitting by ML, for example.

this doesn’t say “automated process” so was not an ML rejection

ML has started to reject for other reasons than just the auto process reason. I think the auto process reason is being used more now for those that do not meet criteria at all or have multiple issues, whereas if something may meet criteria, it’s giving a more in-depth rejection reason.

Well, I’ve appealed it now. Just seems their automated process is broken. Things obviously work different to how they used to last year and I was unprepared for this change.

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General Discussion

DTrain2002 April 26, 2025, 7:55pm 18

ML has not been auto-accepting nomination since the end of November, and this is a known issue. Beling that Wayfarer was sold to Scopely, we don’t know if ML will be going over to then, or will be going to the new Spatial, which is keeping Ingress.

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