I keep getting reviews from someone who is marking their supporting photos with a big circle and arrow when it isn’t at all needed to find the poi in the photo. Latest example:
of course i can’t find it to post it here, but i have had ones where they have drawn a similar circle and arrow around the entire supporting photo
In my opinion, yes I would start to tag these as submitter identifiable.
You have stated that you are seeing this over multiple nominations in the support where the objects being nominated are clearly shown.
There are occasions when I think sketing on a supporting photo could be helpful, such as when identifying a landmark when for satellite photos when street view is not available. But in this case it seems completely unnecessary.
Right, I have pointed out hard to see items in the supporting myself, but this is just suspicious. I did an idk for photos and made a comment on this one. Will gather some evidence and go to help chat.
Setting aside your question, while they went to lengths to convince reviewers of the location, the pin is actually not accurate and wouldn’t you know it, the correct location is within a cell that already has a wayspot.
Hmmm… I have circled the wayspot in the supporting photo myself, but usually only when resubmitting or when the POI is hard to see (e.g. a trail marker half-hidden by vegetation). I don’t see a need for it here, but it’s hard to prove intent..
This is quite the thorny dilemma.
The onus is upon each nominator to efficiently address potential hang-ups for their submissions. If a majority of reviewers don’t recognize how the components go together to make an acceptable submission, they are likely to reject it.
The criteria and guidance say that it is permissible to use a circle and arrow to highlight a pertinent detail that may be overlooked. Any time the nominator loses an agreement they may need to make an appeal, and appeals are time and effort expensive gates on the process.
On the other hand, voting rings and signatures are both prohibited. If you were to specialize in playground nominations and pose a stuffed Pikachu on the slide in every photo, everybody would know the nomination was yours.
One of our ambassadors carries a sack of bocce balls in the car because public bocce pits are not equipped with the expensive and easily stolen moveable parts. So long as they don’t implement a private signature, wayfarers are allowed to curate or stage the scene to make a good photo. You don’t KNOW that the nomination belongs to the ambassador, it could just be a photo taken while a game was in progress.
But on the other other hand, everyone has access to an app that will let them put a red circle and arrow on their support pics. Perhaps we should all try our best to streamline acceptance. Then nobody will have any certainty of the identity of the submitter, and reviewers will be able to speed through the acceptance process with the help of the little arrows.
That thing with the entire supporting photo being circled in red sounds like it should be reported as abuse, though.
yeah i guess i should have mentioned that these are usually coupled with inaccurate pins
red pin is where they submitted it, gray is where it actually is
Now that does sound fishy
Personally i circle my supporting nomination because it was rejected on mismatch location even though its real.
Is it wrong? I dont think so. As long i am not trying to make myself identifiable.
exactly. in your case, i think the circle is justified.
Well in my case is abit unique because the poi is not near street view. I have other jogging marker that rejected because mismatch location. I personally circle all of it because it seems people just cant find it.
This one is in voting.
fwiw, i also dislike collage supporting photos. i can tell a lot more from a single larger photo. i would never use a screenshot from maps because reviewers will see that anyway. but we are getting off my original topic.
Reviewer will see yes. But apparently in my case they cant find it and hit mismatch location. So i am trying to “show” reviewer where is the nomination in supporting photo
My original supporting photo. I have tried single large photo. Both got rejected because mismatch location. So my idea is to use circle to make it clear. Especially because i admit streetview is not exacly super clear.
I disagree here. We’ve told everyone that the submitter is solely responsible for explaining the nomination. I think the collage is a great way to show alternative angles to the location. It’s perfectly fine if you don’t like them, but I find value in them as a submitter and a reviewer.
please make a new topic to discuss a new issue. this one has been solved.
To me “Submitter Identifiable” means in the main photo you can see the person in a reflection, or they have used some sort of code word or something that has nothing to do with the nomination.
This example would not constitute identifiable. You may see a pattern and think to yourself that this is the same person who has submitted PoI X 2 blocks over, but you do not know who it is.
I use the phrase “Residents and guests of the x apartments or neighborhood” in many of my descriptions. A few of my locals have picked up on that and noticed the pattern. Does that mean that now all my nominations are identifiable?
Many of my supporting photos you can typically see my car parked in the background. I never noticed it before until one of my locals who knows what I drive kept seeing it and pointed it out. I typically show in my supporting photos that the pedestrian access is safe by getting behind the object and then showing the path I took to get there.
I am one of the few in my area to use a GPS camera to add location information overlay to prove location accuracucy. Many have pointed out that they typically know it’s me when they run across them.
I think what you really need to look at for submitter identifiable is intent. Is the intent to deceive or inform?
This appears to me to inform. TBH, it’s a better supporting photo than most I have seen recently.
The incorrect pin placement is concerning, possibly making this “influenceing reviewers” I would personally see something like this and move the pin to the correct location.
What I don’t want, is to equate anyone trying to add info to their supporting photo or statement as identifying.
That is exactly what i think is happening with these submissions.
This would definitely be something for someone who can look at an account and see the history of that account. See if they are constantly misplacing locations in order to benefit one game
