Im in the process of becoming a CA for my local group. Apparently strikes against my account can hurt my chances of being accepted. I apologize if its listed somewhere but ive searched online and cant find an exact answer.
I received this 1 day warning attempting to slide a pokestop i created into a slightly more correct position. Thanks in advance for any information.
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Hello and welcome @noctuary
This describes the policy.
It sounds as though you received the lowest level.
Have you any grounds to appeal? If you have then you should do so.
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Ive attempted to appeal it, theyâve denied my request. Ive offered to send photos to verify as well. The pokestop never left the building i just attempted to slide it into the seating area. Had i known it could have been an issue at all, id have not even bothered in the first place.
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Moving the current correct wayspot location to another correct location is considered abuse by the criteria. I donât know the full backstory, but this is what might have happened and why you got the warning.
They viewed it as âmaliciousâ intent. Oh well ill just wait a year for a clean slate to try again at my ambassador status.
Thanks!
They use basic terms and I think they use this one for what I have explained. Good luck!
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Yeah. Going foward, ill be avoiding the whole system entirely.
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Where is this criteria?
Yes good luck.
At least you are now clear about this.
If you simply submit things where they are and within guidelines you would be fine.
But yes if you want to avoid any doubt then step back from wayfarer.
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One other thing you can consider is that if you want to submit a move request, you can do it via wayfarer help chat, where you can submit your evidence for the move including as many links and pictures as you like, and then a member of staff checks it and completes the move for you if itâs valid. This method makes it easier to provide appropriate evidence which can help counteract any claims about malicious intent.
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The whole situation soured my experience completely. Its best to avoid any accidental flags against myself as i take my account pretty seriously.
The warning has now potentially set me back another 10months on over a year and a half of hard work, building up my community to even have 10 consistently meeting up.
I have to go through the entire 4 event submission process anyways to even see if it will have any weight on their decision being a minor offense. Possibly making me have to go through the entire process again.
Yes I would try to get some indication if this will affect it and to what extent.
If you really think you havenât done any wrong and itâs gonna set you back a year of work. I would just try to fight it.
Assuming you have been truthful, moving a correct spot to a âmoreâ correct spot sounds like youâre just making that wayspot accurate.
If a mural was inside a restaurant, on its left wall, and its accepted wayspot is in the middle of the restaurant or the entrance, and you move the pin to the left wall, is that abuse? Thatâs moving a correct wayspot to a more correct wayspot.
You said you moved the pin to where the seating was. Niantic does want wayspots to be at point of contact. I donât know what the wayspot was, but is the seating area the main or first point of contact? Then thatâs a valid move.
Malicious intent? How do they determine this? Unless you posted somewhere else online talking about moving it for your own benefit, how can they determine the malicious-ness or the intent?
As I said, I would try fighting it. At worse theyâll just say no again. Theyâre not gonna add to your ban for trying to defend yourself.
Im on my third appeal email so i doubt this is going anywhere
The main CA guy gave me this response âHmm, Iâm not sure how that will affect your account review, so weâll just wait and see what the team has to say when the time comesâ.
So i either do the work and get denied becuase of that or wait a year and have no marks to possibly stop me. Thats why i even made this post in the first place
Send the third, fourth, fifth and however many emails. Thatâs less work than you did to build that community.
Just recently Niantic banned some people for something even more egregious than what you did and Niantic even said with utmost confidence that they had âconclusive evidenceâ yet those same people came here and made their case, it was eventually overturned. Youâre not in an impossible situation.
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It would be easier to support if the location edit in question would be posted, if comfortable with it
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The whole building is the restaurant now. I created the pokestop before they expanded and i thought sliding the stop over to the new seating area made sense from the kitchen. Very minor i know i wish i never did
Your suggestion looks like what I have said. But unfortunately Niantic finds this abuse, if you are moving it from a correct to another correct location.
Could someone maybe quote the statement from the team about this? (I canât find itđ)
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Honestly this seems alright, you moved it from the inaccessible kitchen to the seating area where the public is supposed to be.