- Wayspot Title: Atlantic Blue Marlin
- Location (lat/lon): Ingress Intel Map / 34.20058,-118.482702
- City: Los Angeles, CA
- Country: USA
- Screenshot of the Rejection Email (do not include your personal information):
- Additional Information (if any):
Vallarta Supermarkets uses blue marlin mounts in its Pescaderia (Spanish for “fish market”) departments.
Here’s a Vallarta store on Topanga, miles away form this location, but with the same marlin:
Here’s a Vallarta in Pasadena, also miles away, with a lightly different marlin:
This is from Vallarta website, another marlin:
There are tons of blue marlin mounts on the Internet, and I think this is the one from this particular store, so it would be silly to think that this particular mount is somehow unique. Please remove this wayspot for a mass-produced object.
Thanks for the appeal, @Itsutsume. We took another look at the Wayspot in question and decided that it does not meet our criteria for removal at this time.
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You even noted that these look similar, and I seem them as similar, but not the exact same. Each has differences in color, stripes, fins, mouths, size, etc. These don’t appear to have been mass produced to me, but rather different marlins that may have actually be living at one time.
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If you looked below photos, you’d see the link to the one I believe is exactly the same. And actually the first photo says that it’s the same as the POI.
Also, people here seriously don’t know what sarcasm is.
Because you have acted like it isn’t sarcasm before. You also continue to request removal of things that don’t meet removal criteria.
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I request removal of things because they don’t meet eligibility or acceptance criteria. People who don’t read any guidelines and don’t hang out here (which seems to be the majority of players) learn by the only way available to them - by example. So when such people see little free libraries as wayspots, they start submitting other little free libraries, even those on PRPs. They don’t know about PRPs, but they see LFLs as wayspots and figure out that LFLs are allowed. In the same manner when they see mass-produced objects, or anything else that is not eligible as wayspots, they figure that such objects are allowed and start submitting them. So people here can flag my posts all they want, but what these people and Niantic either fail to understand or outright ignore is this: It’s not my posts that might encourage people to nominate something that is not eligible, it’s Niantic’s unwillingness to remove such wayspots that might encourage people to nominate same ineligible things they already see as accepted. Because if LFLs on PRPs can get removed and removal might make players think, “Did I do something wrong? Are there some rules or guidelines? Should I do some research?”, then by keeping wayspots like this one Niantic says, “You are doing great job, champ, keep doing it!”
Another lesson Niantic teaches here by example, over and over again, is this: If something doesn’t fit eligibility criteria but doesn’t fit removal criteria either, it may not get removed if it gets accepted. So when people here see Niantic’s response, some might go, “Interesting… Let me try to submit something ineligible.” So such ineligible wayspots are not on me. They are on Niantic. And also on everyone who keeps reminding me about removal criteria instead of saying, “OMG, how do these ineligible submission get approved? Niantic, you have to fix it!” because by not explicitly condemning such behavior you are silently condoning it. And what more - you criticize and try to silence someone who is trying to change that bad behavior.
Based on the direction this discussion has taken, we’ll be closing it for further comments. Thank you for your understanding.
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