Ok hello
In Jewish cities in Israel there are many Pokestops, but there isn’t a single one in Arab cities in Israel I feel like it’s racist because every time I try to place a Pokestop, they reject it every time!!
And I’m an Israeli Arab .
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Welcome to the forum.
I am sorry that you feel attacked. Reviewers have no way to know who the nomination is coming from unless you tell them, so I highly doubt the rejections are racially motivated. Please share screenshots of a nomination you feel was unfairly rejected so we can talk through it.
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It’s quite likely that there was just an issue with some of the nominations rather than anything more sinister going on
Can you share some examples of your nominations and we can see if we can work out what might have happened?
Sometimes a rejection can be as simple as there was a bit of your finger in the picture, someone’s face in the background, or a car license plate showing, which can all be hard to spot at the time of submitting.
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Are your submissions rejected by “our team”, “automated process”, or “reviewers”?
Our team
There wasn’t any faces or License plate or anything the photo has only the thing I want, which was a bench. The bench was unique.
Matter fact, all the nominations I uploaded None of them were accepted they automatically get rejected.
That why I feel that way.
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I would reject a simple bench as well. Can you take a screenshot from your contributions page showing us more information? The rejection reasons will also be there. The contributions page is at https://wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/new/nominations
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The “automated process” is a machine learning model that will reject if it does not detect something it can determine as possibly eligible. This happens around 20-24 hours after submitting if it is going to. The email will say the rejection is from “our team.” These rejections can be appealed for human review, but you only have 2 appeals, each on a 15 day counter before you can use it again. So use them wisely.
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What makes that bench unique?
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The automatic process that rejected it works worldwide and certainly won’t have been programmed with any sort of racial bias, and presumably would be monitored for such things and corrected if anything was not working properly.
When you first posted I thought you meant culturally important things for your region were specifically being rejected to make you feel there was a racial element, but this is just a bench, and it would be rejected anywhere in the world, sadly.
We can try to help suggest some things that would be eligible- have you read the criteria pages that talk about PoIs being a good place to either socialise, exercise or explore?
Actually I have a good and recent example of benches that I submitted! These are 2 benches in a nature reserve, carved and installed by GLOBE, a local wildlife organisation. What’s interesting is that the one with a tiny plaque on it with the carver’s name was put into general voting, while the other with no plaque and degraded carving was rejected by the automated process. I think the ML screens benches and looks for additional characteristics and if it doesn’t find them then it automatically rejects. That’s my theory anyway, hopefully that context and my examples helps you see why yours was also rejected? And maybe makes you feel a bit less singled out?
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Thanks that really helped, maybe your theory is correct
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Do you want some help with ideas for new submissions? If there’s really nothing in your town you could have a lot of fun with wayfarer and build a lot of stuff 
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I just got 4 accepted Thanks to you.
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Oooh congratulations that’s fantastic news
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Another good news, I got a home gym
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Great news hearing your noms are getting in. If you need help with people having a look around the towns/cities you speak of that are looking waypoint weak. Then share them.
There is a wide range of people here who will use the interweb to look into areas of low nominations and go well what about this. What about that.
It is always good to get more waypoints in for all to share 
Good luck nominating more and look forward to hearing of more successes
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I’m so pleased for you, lots of people want a home gym, anyone who can make one is extremely fortunate!! I miss living in an apartment block next to 2 parks, since that had a home gym and lots of stops in range! Most of which I created myself when wayfarer launched. It was incredibly satisfying. I made it a bit of a mission to make those parks as good to play in as the town centre, and was very successful over time! They had lots of things to submit including biking and walking trails, play equipment, picnic areas, viewpoint benches, sports clubs, all sorts of stuff had a lot of fun with it
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