Hello to all conscientious Wayfinders!
I apologize for the fact that my text is chaotic and unstructured. I just can’t stand what is happening anymore. This is just a cry from the heart!
For many years now I have been trying to direct the community of my country to a conscientious attitude towards the nominations.However, every time there are factors that hinder me. One of the main factors is the vague nomination rules or their inconsistency with the realities of other countries. For example, in our country (Kazakhstan), practically identical playgrounds are installed in every yard, produced in huge quantities. They don’t have any special features and there are just a lot of them. As a result, the in-game maps of some cities turn into dystopian playgrounds. As a result, a person who thinks that the Niantic game map shows interesting, popular and significant places will encounter the complete opposite. Another example is a cafe. In the central areas of many large cities there may be dozens of different food establishments in one building. And they all have pseudo-unique design and cuisine. This leads to the same thing as with playgrounds. There are too many of them. The problem is that most players simply benefit from a large number of in-game objects. At the same time, they don’t care at all about the quality of the design of these objects. As a result, this majority promotes these low-quality nominations with such fanaticism that their rating increases, while the rating of the honest ones decreases. In addition, the latest events, organized to some extent for Ingress players, have led to the fact that there are excessive editing of nominations that interfere with voting. All for the sake of getting some achievement (I don’t know the name, but I know for sure that it exists). In addition, these unscrupulous players create twinks, complaints about which are useless. As a result, there are even more abusers. And I don’t know how to complain about them and how to fight them. At one time I tried to complain, but I understood that the Niantic team would not deal with the small Russian-language community in a messenger (Telegram) that is unpopular in Europe and the USA. But still, what to do when you have been playing the game for 8 years, and newcomers who have developed very quickly due to the leveling up of friendship, remote raids, etc. And then they ruin the look of the game with their low-quality nominations. Eventually disappear from the game after a few months.
I sit for about 40 minutes evaluating nominations that are obviously bad or violate the rules: location on the territory of schools and kindergartens, dark photographs, blurry photographs, photographs with incorrect orientation of the object, photographs with an unreasonably strongly tilted horizon, nominations mentioning in-game elements of Niantic games and much more. As a result, in these 40 minutes I “accepted” only a couple of nominations, which were playgrounds. And the most important thing is that because I “reject” all these problematic nominations, for which the new generation votes, my rating falls.
With the advent of ML, things only got worse. Now players are starting to take advantage of the fact that their playgrounds, which are nothing special, are being approved so quickly within 24 hours and in such large numbers. And so actively that they accepted children’s and sports playgrounds as the most ideal nominations for potentially 100% approval.
I’m just exhausted by this attitude. I put all of myself into making the game attractive and interesting, while others do a slapdash job and disappear from the game.
It would probably be wonderful if we had a dozen people in our country accredited by Niantic itself. So that people understand that “yes, these people are apparently really doing the right things.” It is possible that these people would have the opportunity to at least temporarily limit the activities of abusers for some time, at least in relation to Wayfarer. I understand that my community is incomparably small compared to developed countries and it is not advisable to pay attention to it. But still, I would like to hope for some kind of gratitude, or trust, or a reaction in support of the players carrying out the mission of Niantic.
