Can anyone tell me why this doesnt meet criteria? Did i take a bad pic? [2633]

As for why it is declined by the ML(AI) filter, we cannot give you a straight answer. We can, however, improve the attempt. Refer to the same resource: [image] Generic/Non-Generic Businesses Criteria Clarification Collection There are many stores, restaurants,…

The photo was very obviously taken from inside a car, which is disqualifying. I can’t be sure if that’s what the ML picked up on, but as a reviewer that’d have been why I’d reject this nomination. [image]

I can 100% say this photo was taken from outside any car. I was standing behind a car to get a photo of the sign and didnt want to be in the middle of the parking lot

What I will do when confronted with the issue of cars in front of the business (or people, etc) is to get low myself and point the camera up at the sign. This one is not the best example, since the curved facade still made the photo hard to take and I wanted to include the hanging sign underneath, b…

I would reccomend cropping the photo so that the photo is more focused, there’s way too much car and sky taking away from the focus of the photo.

Ok thanks for the recommendations. Ill both take and crop the photo to make it more direct. This was also the second attempt because the first you could see the top of a womans head and was declined due to that. This location is already always busy and the only bagel shop in the area.

A close-up of the sign can suffice as the main photo too. Keep in mind that the point of interest is still the business, not the sign.

You can take the photos first just with your phone camera, crop them down to remove cars, people’s heads, and too much sky (square/1:1 works best for looking nice on the pokestop circle as well as not being distorted on gifts), and then when submitting select “use existing picture” That can help av…

Declined by the Automatic Process

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paulingzubat December 26, 2025, 6:15am 2

Good day and welcome to the forum!

I have moved your concern to a separate thread as Criteria Clarification Collection - Discussion is for discussing the resource articles.

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