Hello, today I got banned because of my nomination that was rated as “fake nomination” even though it’s real. Nomination name was “Karpik uczeń” and it’s one of 8 sculptures of carp in my town.
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Hello.
There is nothing in that email that says you were banned. Perhaps the reviewer felt some discomfort and raised a report, and as a result, the team found an anomaly in your submission and simply removed it from the community review and rejected it. Perhaps when you launch the game application, you may get a warning screen, but if you press the OK button, you should be able to play the game. If you have any appeals, as indicated in that email, please use the “contact us” link to appeal the submission with no problems.
Its quite a small statue and I imagine it was thought that it could be a fake nomination ie carried around and submitted at different places.
If you wish to appeal this action I would look for how you can prove the validity of this item for example is there some mention in local news of the series of 8 being installed in the city?
That looks way too small to be a statue and a major trip hazard where it is. If I couldn’t confirm it on Street View then I would probably also assume that it was fake, assuming there was no other supporting information.
Hello. I live nearby. I can confirm there are the statues and there were Articles about them, like this one: https://gazetakrakowska.pl/karpie-na-szczescie-stana-w-zatorze-w-roznych-punktach-miasta-rzezby-symbolu-ziemi-zatorskiej-maja-rozne-postacie-zdjecia/ar/c7-18070649 . Here, the third one is the one in question from what i understand.
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Also, other major cities like Kraków or Wrocław have 100’s (Wrocław 1000’s, Kraków 100’s) of these, and almost all of them are wayspots. These are statues, no matter their size.
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Typically good supporting information to include with the nomination.
Even though, I don’t understand yet how permanent those are?
I would gather any evidence like the articles and share that with Niantic then. Anything you can find that shows you didnt just put the statue there yourself to make the nomination will help 
At this point they may decide that you didnt do anything wrong, albeit they may not decide to accept the nomination either due to size/ease of being moved etc
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These are there for 2 years now, and cities like Wrocław have them for 50 years, i think. Maybe 30? They are also attached to the ground.
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I wonder if youre able to show the attachment? That could be good additional evidence
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I also think a video of walking around it should be able to do the trick.
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He got a 30 day suspension.
The local SV photos are from 2022, and the statues were placed in 2023.
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You’re doing a tremendous work helping a local wayfarer out… let’s hope getting his inputs as well 
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I will later send a video
Confirmed. Thank you. Best wishes to you in clearing your suspicion.
Thanks for posting to confirm.
You can follow the appeals process outlined in the emails.
Provide as much evidence as you can to put your case which can then be considered.
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same thing happend to me as well, my pokestop nomination was rejected and i was given a warning for no reason, ( Strike one) and
when i apealed to the decision i was reducled by the Naintic Staff and more ubnoxious charges where brought forth, i was accused of the following
- Low-quality contributions (nominations, edits, etc)
- Fake contributions (nominations, edits, etc)
- Trying to influence reviewers to vote in a specific way
- Bullying and/or harassing others through contributions (nominations, edits, etc)
- Sharing personal identifiable information
- Patterns of incorrect reviewing and/or participating in voting rings
i am new to this game and worked very hard to reach lvl 37 and started my journy to help improve the in game pokestops by providing proper location and images to outdated poke stops in my locality, which was termed as bulling …
i started playing this game in the Nov Month 2024
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