Inquiry about a temporary 30-day account suspension for accidentally placing a pinpoint

When submitting a Wayspot Appeal, make sure to include as much of the following information as possible:

The email says the policy violated was “misplacement of wayspot submissions”.

Your additional information talks about words not actually being vulgar, but doesn’t address the misplacement.

Vulgar words (whether real or misunderstood) and incorrect placement are completely unconnected issues.

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This email says the violation is “misplacement of wayspot submissions”. Why do you think it is over a “vulgar word”?

Are you asking for someone else? Niantic will not give information to a different account. And if this is an alt account of yours, that is also a violation.

(edit: kawin figured it out. that is how the “abuse” string reads.)

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I’m pretty sure they have the abuse rejection reason showing up, and that text string has all the mentioned stuff listed.

@AgiseN only the reason provided in the email is relevant. It’s good that you’ve sent photos but if I may recommend, these should be taken from.such an angle that they can be easily compared to the satellite view

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This is the location where someone submitted a POI? What is the actual location of the bear statues?

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I have revised the description text.

I have edited the description text, so I am wondering why my account was temporarily suspended for 30 days.

Because of misplacement of a wayspot submission. What is the actual location of the bear statues?

I entered the wrong reason for account suspension. Now I have fixed the description.

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The actual location has been added to the new description. location: 7.6113612, 100.0608953

These two locations are over a Kilometer apart. This is a violation.

Also, one violation doesn’t usually lead to a ban. There must be another violation in the past.

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Unless a location misplacement is especially blatant (despite the distance, this one isn’t seeming that way to me), one error won’t lead to a suspension. What is usually found is that someone has committed previous violations but only mentions the latest one.

Please wait. It is indeed 1 km away from the correct location, but OP says they edited the description. he/she did not mention proposing a Wayspot.
However, I have one question. The correct location is a K-12 location. I understand that they edited the description, but did they perform any other operations on this Wayspot?

OP meant they edited the “description” of their post here, not a Wayspot

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I see, I understand.

Ah, well spotted. That makes the location misplacement more blatant, as it is an attempt to get a POI into the game that cannot be there due to rejection criteria, not just an attempt to get a POI into the game at the wrong location.

@AgiseN This one might be sufficient by itself to cause a suspension. I think you need to accept it and consider what led to it, to avoid a repetition.

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I doubt that. This is still one violation (one submission). I’m almost certain there must have been a warning in the past.

The first time I got my account temporarily suspended because I was accused of offering a fake job, but the location I pinned was real. But after that, I didn’t file a claim.

It is possible to jump the escalation ladder and get a permanent ban for a single issue. It must therefore be possible to get suspended for a single issue. It won’t be common, but it is possible.

This is my first time filing a petition.