I got a 30 day shadow ban due to misplacement and influencing and it’s so wrong

General Discussion
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Punishments can be appealed if there has been a genuine error and the wayfarer team got something wrong. In this case they didn’t get something wrong, hence why your appeal has been rejected. You have quite clearly broken the rules.

Even if they were able to do that (which they’ve already said they can’t), that wouldn’t necessarily do anything to alter the suspension you’ve got for this incident. They have the power to skip steps on the punishment ladder depending on what abuse was committed, so even if you hadn’t have had your first warning, it might well have been the case that what you did to earn this punishment would always have resulted in a 30 day suspension anyway.

I suggest that after your suspension is over, if you feel like you want to continue using wayfarer (I get that a lot of people are cautious after getting a suspension), you make sure that you properly read the rules, and if you’re not sure about anything, you are always welcome to ask questions here and we as a community can try to give you guidance, because we are in fact a nice bunch of people and we like to try to help educate where we can :slight_smile:

I can sympathise that it must be disheartening to miss out on Go Fest, but you did break the rules, so you have to accept that and hopefully learn from what you did.

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I do think you have been rather unlucky. Yes as you say this could have simply been rejected or, even, accepted. I see wayspots all the time that are clearly in entirely the wrong position, presumably to favour someone who lives nearby. So plenty of people are getting away with it every day.

I do try to put them right when I can be bothered but of course equally Niantic won’t move them just on my say-so because it could be me trying to abuse the system so it’s a lot of effort to correct them and provide the necessary standard of evidence.

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I am going to ignore your other points as they are opinion but I think this bit is 100% wrong.

Nobody should be suggesting that mis-located nominations should be accepted.

Just because others have got away with it doesn’t mean it should be the accepted norm. Those that have got away with it should be reported and this can then lead to warnings / suspensions.

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Oh absolutely, they should be corrected, rejected or reported. I’m not in any way suggesting anyone should do this, merely pointing out that people get away with it every day.

I usual correct wrong locations because I don’t know whether it was an error, a technical issue or deliberate abuse.