@Gendgi makes some excellent points, and I wanted to add to this discussion.
It’s perfectly acceptable to reach out to your community, be it in person or online, to get assistance with your nominations. Heck, I’ve used suggestions verbatim from people who were standing at a stop with me and came up with a description on the spot that was just too good to pass up.
Some folks who participate in Wayfarer don’t take the best pictures, some struggle to find the right words, and some struggle with the native language of the area they’re Wayfinding in. We shouldn’t be excluding Wayfinders who struggle; we should be lifting them and encouraging them. If that means writing titles and descriptions for them, then that is absolutely what we should be doing.
Nobody is the best at everything; everybody needs help sometimes. If getting assistance makes the map and gameboards better, then we should all be for it; we should encourage it.
John Lennon said it best
… Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends
Ooh, I’m gonna try with a little help from my friends
I’ve helped people out in my local group with titles and descriptions before. They know I’m one of the more experienced wayfarer users in the area and that I’m happy to help out if asked.
Could I have gone and submitted those nominations myself instead? Yes, of course. However, that would be robbing my friends of the satisfaction of getting their own wayspots approved with their own name tag on the picture in the Pokéstop gallery.
Not everyone is good at articulating themselves when it comes to nominations. I don’t think there’s any harm in asking for help from a more experienced wayfarer user who knows the ins and outs of the system.
Oh damn, this topic is really interesting for the timing.
For context: I have been helping people to write Wayspot in the most convincing and formal way possible to improve the quality of the game for the last weeks.
For example(and real case): I have someone who have zero experience posting Wayspot, and seeking for my advice, what should I do?
Taking good picture: I show people example of my good photo image taken, my favorite example of this when I show people is my local coffee shop approved, i told them this all the time:
The main photo: clear, must not show human,license plate,animal and on a good angle.
The support photo: must show the object you want to showcase AND show the road at a 90* Degree.
Description: This part is a little tricky, because there are a lot of way to write this, but for a beginner, I generally guide them like this:
Write the location of the object down: “This coffee/This object located at….”.
Tell one unique thing: If the object is a statue, tell about the special feature. If the object is a coffee shop, tell about the atmosphere, or the location special thing.
For the coffee shop, or something that is split 50/50 and grey area approval, I convince them to write a more longer, historical? social hub location?
The Supporting info:
For the new user that know nothing about Wayfarer, I want them to think one of those three Criteria, it is like this:
This nomination fit with Exploration/Exercise/Socializing Criteria because this offer {a} reason. In addition, this nomination Exploration because it is a good location for {b reason}.
At the end of the Supporting info, i would advice people to give a Google map link, to prove:
The location did exist
The location has positive review(Coffee related)
Additional website that maybe included.
I don’t know if this is a correct way to help people writing guide first, but by having high quality description and convincing Supporting info, the reviewers will likely to approve it, as long as it fit the Criteria.
If you read up to here, really thanks for reading my little thought on this topic <3
Edit: If you do have any suggestion to improve my guiding, I will really appreciate you guys feedback.
I love this so much! Not only is this nice to see on an in game object, it gets reviewers leaning towards “of course this should be a wayspot,” and makes submitters think about whether they should be submitting the point of interest if they can’t come up with anything to say here.
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