True, I just never thought of community as also referring to hotels and apartment complexes.
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Are they not communities of people?
I feel like the clarifications do a great job of making it clear that single-family private residential pools are ineligible.
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They are. I just personally always think of Community pools as township, muncipal, etc. because that is how I hear people refer to them, so I personally really expanded the idea to include hotel & apartment complex which is a little narrowed mind for me to do.
They are not. A community is a social group of individuals who share one or more characteristics, or who live in the same place. I’ve spent the past 10 days in a hotel - it is not a community, just a resting place for a bunch of strangers who stop for a moment and move on, mostly remaining strangers.
If we loosely interpret words to make them mean almost anything, they begin to mean nothing at all.
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Just because you’ve chosen to exclude yourself from the community doesn’t make it less of one.
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Many people manage to fit themselves into the community under such circumstances.
Those in an apartment complex can get to know, recognize and feel kinship with their fellows the same ways as those on the same block or in the same enclave or section of a town do.
Try telling the folks who come to Dragon Con they aren’t a community. They converge on Atlanta and stay in multiple hotels. One of those hotels becomes a huge hang out for people cosplaying as mermaids. They host at least one party there over the 4 day weekend, if not more. They stage photoshoots.
My absolute favorite part about traveling when I was a kid was to hit the motel pool. We never stayed in hotels, we were motel people if we weren’t staying with family. I hated having to unload the car because all I wanted to do was change into my bathing suit and crash the pool after being in the car all day.
Pools at hotels/motels are a huge attraction for many people.
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Same for me! I just wanted to go straight to the pool every time
You find people to talk to, kids find other kids to play with. Holidays can make lifelong friends if you talk to people!
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Piscina comunitaria es para aprobar , ya que sí vas a refrescarte también podés girar la pokeparada antes de mojarte
I am talking HOTELS, not apartments. You know, the topic of the thread. Of course apartment complexes can be thriving communities. Hotels simply are not. I know, I travel all the time……
That said, I think hotel pools are perfectly eligible. I think they’re great places to exercise. And as @seaprincesshnb said above, they can be great places to explore. It can be a ton of fun. It’s just that saying that hotels are themselves communities is facetious, and it’s OK that they aren’t.
So am I.
Well, we’ll just have to agree to disagree because having spent literally hundreds of nights in hotels for work, I can see with certainty. They are not communities… not at least as dictionaries defined the term. If you want again to stretch concepts to the extreme in order to have an extra PokéStop OK. But really it’s senseless here because pools can meet other criteria easily.
Ive stayed at hotels on family trips and it fully is a community. Meeting another family at the pool and saying hi everytime you bump into them elsewhere. Asking what their plans are and offering advice to eachither on things to do, where to eat etc.
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Ok — this has now become a problem.
I live in a tourist hub and as such have reviewed many, many, accommodations complex swimming pools.
They should be a slam dunk as you can see the vast majority from satellite. They really should be approved via AI in my opinion. They are eligible via the guidance and easy to spot.
I have nominated five or six myself and only one accepted via appeal — ithat appeal only took 24 hours to come back. The rest of my nominations are in queue or voting.
My feeling is that swimming pools are getting voted down by reviewers unaware of the change in guidance.
My rating h
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My rating has gone from great to good to fair over the last week.
I am thinking it must be due to disagreements about swimming pools.
I now know what others have meant when they posted about being put off reviewing
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It is a difficult nut to crack.
The criteria clarifications should mean reviewers take note, and if necessary alter their reviewing habits.
Even when brought to their attention some people are reluctant to change.
If you appeal then they should be accepted (providing there are no other issues).
Regarding ratings give it a few days to see if more agreements come in and if there is a change.
If you are reviewing pools and they are communal and everything else is ok and you are voting positively then you are doing the right thing.
Thanks for the reply.
Yes – my review processes have not changed at all.
The only thing different is my votes to accept swimming pools. They are definitely eligible under the guidance.
So — my theory is that these are turning into disagreements due to votes – not to accept – by other reviewers.
The coast here is scattered with apartment blocks that are a mix of permanents, air bnb, and holiday rentals. They all have pools. I could nominate hundreds. You can walk past ten or more per kilometre.
I have not submitted enough pools to affect my rating, but I have reviewed heaps.
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Nice to see my son supporting me
Submitting does not impact your rating. The rating you see on your Profile page is only tied to reviewing.
