Indoor nominations are hard. Even assuming good faith by the submitter, GPS sucks indoors so positioning can be way off - that applies both to wayspots and anyone making a photosphere.
If you can find a map of the shopping mall (for example on the mall’s own site) then that can be a huge help and something to include in the supporting text. In the supporting photo try to get as much of the surrounding area in as possible, especially if there are big and easy-to-locate chain stores in there. A view out of a window can often help reviewers confirm the location.
I don’t nominate. I review. I’m not simply trying to prove that a nomination doesn’t exist, where it’s placed, but rather I’m trying to show where it actually is, in accordance with the nomination photos.
I never trust photospheres. A professional photographer here submits beautiful photospheres that are just randomly dropped nearby the location. I had so many of my nominations rejected because of his incorrectly placed photospheres that Google would not remove for not being precisely placed. I was thrilled when the review process stopped showing street views first.
A couple of times I have carefully explained in the supporting information how to find the photosphere I created, because there are incorrectly located photospheres getting in the way.
A leisure centre near me has over a hundred photospheres in a space less than 100x100m. This made it very hard to find the photosphere(s) that confirmed the existence of a noticeboard. After two rejections, I appealed (successfully).
Despite this, I find photospheres invaluable for out of the way locations.
The main question remains unanswered. Why isn’t an app that describes the locations of objects inside buildings in more detail and more accurately sufficient evidence? What if there is no way to provide a photo that I could take from that location.
In my country, many people abuse the wayspot feature. As the only one (I’m almost certain) fighting this abuse, I’m sacrificing my rating. I don’t know if the rating makes any difference because it has changed many times and never made any difference to my reviewing experience. So I don’t worry about it.
That is a hard one since it is so old. I did find a reference to it from the December 2021 AMA
It takes a variable number of reviews on a contribution before we decide to take the majority-wins decision, a number of which is dependent on your Wayfinder rating among other things.
I would swear another place refers to it, but I am still looking.
Even if this is true, it won’t change anything. From personal experience, my rating grows if my review of a nomination coincides with the average review of the community. That is, if I accepted a nomination and it was accepted in the end, then my rating increases; if I rejected a nomination and the nomination was rejected in the end, then my rating increases. Obviously, if the majority of the community abuses the system, my rating cannot grow, since in many cases it does not coincide with the opinion of the community. It turns out that the more I try to resist abuse, the less influence my vote has. I have no choice but to write to support if I see nominations with obvious violations. Even bans are no longer a threat to many players. Since the level required to submit nominations has naturally decreased due to rescaling, players can easily create multiple accounts and not worry about their main one.
I know. Rankings aren’t my goal, as you may have noticed. For now, my goal is to keep the community from mindlessly adding whatever they want, wherever they want.
The implication from that post is that reviewers with a higher rating are worth “more” and reviewers with a lower rating are worth “less”. Think of it as a multiplication factor, e.g., x1.3 for great, x0.7 for fair and x0.4 for poor. Niantic will not confirm this any more than they already have, but it makes sense.
