Of course people can meet and socialize in a hotel, even make new lasting friends. The issue is with redefining a concept that has real meaning. I understand language evolves, but a community is a cohesive group defined by where you live or by socio-cultural characteristics. Not just people who temporarily exist in a place for a short time.
It really doesn’t matter, it’s just frustrating when people try to redefine words in the name of getting a Pokestop or portal.
Why not say generic benches are a great place to exercise, I mean after all you have to use your quadriceps to sit down and get back up again!
You assuming that i believe in that example of a community in the name of getting a waypoint is a bit insulting. As you said pools meet criteria in many different ways, so theres no reason to stretch anything, yet I still have the same belief in communities.
There are still people who vote on things with the old criteria in mind, and if I remember correctly pools were not eligible unless it was like a city pool, with lifeguards. I feel like that was done as a liability issue (pogo player drowns at pool). Please correct me if I’m wrong.
The term “community pool” used by Tintino in the screenshot is fairly vague and could be interpreted many ways. If Niantic is still looking at pools with the old criteria then “community pools” may mean [city name] Public Pool that’s staffed with lifeguards. The context of a sports facility after that would probably have lifeguards too. If there’s a liability issue at play, Niantic may want to intentionally be vague so that the community can accept pools as waypoints with some plausible deniability. Or community could be meant as permanent residents who reside in a building or neighborhood with a private access pool. Or just any publicly accessible pool. Or… Or… Or… Hard to say without clarification.
Anyways, like I said, just some devil’s advocate type thoughts. It’s an imperfect system🤷🏻♂️
Hotels are designed to be social. They can usually contain communal dining areas, communal bars, other communal rooms like library, sitting room, games room, gyms, pools etc
Sure you can choose not to interact with anyone and stay in your room.
On the other hand many have met a spouse or life long friend at a hotel.
The same for apartment blocks, complexes etc.
It seems to me that the swimming pool is now acceptable. The problem is that many reviewers are not accepting them. They are getting voted down. AI puts them out to voting rather than accepting as the guidelines encourage.
In my city hotels are not just for the in-house guests. They opened their pools and beaches, poolplaygrounds and restaurants for the residents and their kids here and sure they have life guards everywhere. So usually weekends you go with family, friends and kids to a hotel for swimming and playing. Thats all make them 100% elegible as places to socialise and make sport and and and. Also I met hundreds of tourists there who asked me for tips for their days here in the city.
I by myself submitted all the pools I went to, and actually Niantic accepted them all.
Oh, ok. So if I submit a wayspot nomination that is accepted then that does not get counted as an agreement.
I have reviewed lots of pools and voted to accept. Say other reviewers vote to not accept and the pools become not accepted. My rating can decline even though the spots should have been accepted according to latest guidelines.
Your wayfinder activity is in 2 distinct pots.
What you do as a nominator/submitter and the rejections and acceptances of those wayspots does not influence your rating as a reviewer.
It is a frustrating situation if you are voting in line with the published criteria and guidelines but find that others are not and as a result you are not getting agreements.
You are doing the right thing and my advice is to stick with that. Those nominating are expecting fellow wayfinders to follow the guidelines.
If it drops try to take a few days off from reviewing to see if more agreements come through and your rating picks up again.