Erroneous appeal decision on a picnic pavillion

I can’t help but notice that I’ve been getting some…questionable decisions on some of the POIs I’ve been nominating lately, and I think this might just take the cake.

So I’m at a park which had pretty much no POIs in it, and I take it upon myself to build the area up. One of the very first things I see there is a prominent picnic Pavillion smack in the middle of the park, and luckily it’s in a free cell, so I nominate away, thinking nothing too much of it beyond the excitement of adding another POI to the park.

However, a couple of days later and I get a rejection notice for it having “unsafe access”.

That’s odd, because this pavillion is smack in the middle of the park, in probably the most pedestrian-friendly area in the entire immediate region:

So I go to file an appeal like any POI that I know in my bones should be accepted, pointing out how you can tell from satellite view that access to this picnic pavillion is perfectly safe, being in a park and whatnot.

But then, I’m even more befuddled by the response I get from appeals:

Apparently my photo is “too blurry and unclear”, even though you can clearly see the pavillion front and center in broad daylight, and can even make out the benches on said pavillion (although this admittedly isn’t helped by the shadows cast by the harsh sunlight). I’m of the understanding that a photo is low-quality only if you literally can’t tell what the photo is supposed to be of, which you should be able to clearly tell with the photos I took, even if they aren’t my most photogenic disc photos of all time.

I hope this can be resolved quickly and efficiently.

Title: Flat Shoals Park Pavillion
Description: The picnic Pavillion at Flat Shoals Park.
Supporting: Picnic Pavillions are amazing places to socialize!

And here’s the isolated photodisc photo, for a closer look:

Do you have another foto showing the interior?i understand that circumstances doesnt allow you to get the best foto.i believe if you got interior foto, It will help your case. I try to zoom in your main foto but its too dark

Hello,
Thanks for posting.
From what I read here the case has been put together clearly. It is visible on satellite and streetview and although the picture has shadows it is certainly a good enough photo.
I hope the review process can be checked.

This photo is a little dark inside, but when you zoom you can see the picnic tables. This is absolutely a bad appeal decision. I just got a bad appeal decision on my latest one.

This is a head scratcher as to why they may have considered it an “unclear” photo. The pavilion is clear. The interior of the pavilion is dark, but why would that matter? There appears to be graffiti on the columns, but they didn’t reject for vandalism. In the full resolution photo, was there editing done to try to smudge the graffiti that may have caused them to reject for “unclear”?

I see no reason why this should have been rejected but I am not surprised. Good luck getting it approved. Please let me know if anyone who is actually helpful comes along to assist with your appeal.

The only “editing” I did (which isn’t really editing in the photoshop sense) was applying a filter to the photo with my phone’s built-in editor to reduce the glare a bit to make it more clear than the photo fresh from the phone camera, which I do with all my photos.

@NianticAaron What is your take on this?