Hello everyone, I come to you today with a question that’s nagging at me. People in my area are submitting notice boards as wayspots, and I know that technically that’s perfectly fine, but in Italy most of these are used exclusively to publish obituaries. I realize they still count as gathering places, but it seems to me in poor taste to add them to the game. I’ve mostly been skipping them, do you think I should get over it or stand my ground?
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The way I view it is as follows:
- If it’s in a cemetary, it’s a no go.
- If there is no pavement or safe pedestrian access, it’s a no go.
- If it doesn’t look like a public noticeboard where the local council posts notices, it’s a no go.
In most other cases, as long as it’s in public, and is provided by the local authority, it should be ok. If you are uncomfortable submitting ones that are for obituaries, it’s best to avoid it.
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Hi @punkrockerRicky
I’d stand by your ground if it were me. Notice boards are falling mostly under exploration and imo these kind of boards looses that point. For me that’s to near to sensitive location.
I would skip them
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What is the difference between a notice board that conveys information about local events to one that conveys information about local deaths?
Are we rejecting/skipping/accepting something on its intrinsic values relating to the criteria or on a vague moral notion?
Niantic certainly don’t adhere to the last one otherwise they wouldn’t allow anything on cemeteries/graveyards.
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Also do they have a visually pleasing aesthetic or are they similar to a lot of the accepted UK ones which are a janky, perspex covered piece of chipboard with pieces of A4 shoved inside in 2023 detailing how to get yoga lessons from Helen or Elisa 's dog walking service.
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I would personally look back to the three eligibility criteria. Of course, notice boards are not great places to exercise, and are probably not great places to gather socially. That leaves is this a great place to explore.
In my opinion, I’m not a big fan of notice boards unless they are really a place where current events are posted as opposed to things like neighborhood boards that post things like don’t forget to pick up after your dog.
So if I were you, I would ask myself. Is this a great place to explore? Are people coming here to learn about events and things that are happening that would lead them to go engage in their community in someway?
I would say if it’s a noticeboard for obituaries, there’s no different than the obituary section of a newspaper, and I don’t see how it meets any of the criteria.
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I’d say a big difference is that local events are happy celebrations, while local deaths are sensitive, delicate things. If I had recently lost a loved one, I wouldn’t want their name and face permanently added to pokemon go in the form of their obituary. The nomination that prompted me to start this topic sported the picture and name of an underage girl. I can’t imagine her family would be happy knowing she might end up in a videogame. I don’t think I shouldn’t raise moral objections just because some objects are technically covered by wayfarer criteria. Portals in cemeteries are allowed for people of importance or “closed” cemeteries, where no more burial sites are being added, and I find that a significant distinction.
For your final point, these are all boring aluminum boards. If they had anything else posted on them I’d promote them and never think about it twice, but this just feels ghoulish.
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Then we are applying our own moral code to reviewing and not basing it on the criteria?
For me if I’m going to reject something in a cemetery on those grounds I’m going to do it whether the person is famous/relevant or not.
If poor Stefano gets run over by a taxi on the streets of Florence would their obituary not create a convocation of people in both the corporeal and spiritual sense?
I guess whether it was a happy occasion or not would depend on poor Stefano.
When you put it like that, then yes. Moral principles shouldn’t be superseded by wayfarer criteria.
It’s an odd notion to apply those moral codes to the wayfarer system that often contradicts those norms and itself.
Unlike Goethe there are plenty of crimes I couldn’t deem myself capable of committing. Like you I would find an obituary for a young girl odious if I saw it in game.
Almost every cemetery in the UK has a WW1/2 memorial in it. Should I reject those too on moral grounds?
Should I submit them?
Don’t submit memorial benches though. Unless they are by the Thames as I’ll get M0ar p0kestopz and items.
“Use your best judgement.”
Gets them every time.
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This is probably a difference in interpretation and not really important, but something that encourages and facilitates peer to peer, community to community, etc communication I consider meeting socializing criteria.
That’s fine if I trusted my own judgement 
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If its just an Obituary board rather than a general notice board then maybe it doesn’t meet any criteria
If it is for notices that are often, but not always obituaries, then maybe that’s different
I think its about best judgement, indeed
What is the point of an obituary board though?
Given the choice I’d go to a funeral than do an hour of yoga with Helen.
No idea, I dont get how theyd be a thing as we don’t have that around here. We do have noticeboards though, and I think they’re a helpful aid to exploring and socialising
The same as a newspaper obituary?
Just seems a LOT of people would need to die regularly to need multiple Obituary only noticeboard spaces 
I blame Helen for that.
Yoga can probably be dangerous!
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Yeah, we don’t use those, so we have notice boards.