I’ve been playing a long time, since before pogo, but I haven’t been part of the wayfarer community until recently.
I see a lot of things dropping off the eligibility list, if not the actual database.
Have there been any additions to the eligibility list? Is it actually changing? Or only monotonically shrinking?
Lots of things! Here are some things I wouldn’t have nominated 5-7 years ago, but can work now.
I’ll be brief, and not talk about caveats about each thing. I don’t want to type that much and you don’t want to read that much.
A picnic table can be eligible, if it looks permanent (check the grass under the seats) and like a great place to socialize. (Even tho the table itself is mass produced - a picnic area is a place to be social.)
Neighborhood/apartment amenities (playground, pool, clubhouse, etc)
Park/trail rules signs
Restaurants are easier to get thru
Coffee shops, tea shops, and bakeries seem to sail thru.
Breweries, if you emphasize the social nature (like cornhole) or if they have art
Event venues
Bulletin boards / kiosks with changeable event notices
Any workout gym, even a chain, or in a hotel
A swing or something that’s not a full-fledged playground, but is the only public access play piece around
A generic bench that anchors a trail or viewing spot
You don’t HAVE to have a man-made sign for everything, altho it helps. For example, you can show in a picture that it’s a volleyball court.
If you played since before PoGo, there was one point after Pokemon Go players got the ability to nominate where Niantic decided to drop all clarifications, and move to just the three pillars for acceptance here: Niantic Wayfarer
I can’t find a record of that historic seismic shift, but I can find remnants from the November 2020 AMA answering tons of questions about how to review since the “criteria refresh.”
Since then, we have had clarifications, for which I am grateful. In some cases those clarifications point out that more things are eligible than reviewers were considering. In others, they make more things ineligible.
There is no list of poi which must be accepted. There is a list of ineligible poi which must not be accepted. If it is not on the ineligible list, then it is eligible, but that does not mean it should be accepted. You have to use your own good judgment to decide if it meets one of those three pillars.
For me, being eligible means that it meets at least one eligibility criteria.
I prefer saying if it is not ineligible, it may or may not be eligible. So there exists things that are not eligible but not ineligible.
Even then, an eligible thing may not always be acceptable if all the other acceptance criteria is not met or there are other restrictions via the rejection criteria.
How you explain this topic then?
Since nobody give a normal explanation
Other then every wayspot is based on is own merrits, or we just decided
I can pull more topics that dont even have explore excercise, or Socializing but get accepted or restored.
The first statement on the ineligible list is:
Does not meet eligibility criteria
Does not seem to be a great place of exploration, place for exercise, or place to be social. The object is mass-produced, generic, or not visually unique or interesting.
https://wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/new/criteria/rejection
So that would mean that
It is right there on the list that it must meet eligibility requirements.
That is exactly what I said. “Eligible” does not mean “acceptable.” It means you may consider it.