Could you please help me understand.
I have nominated a wayspot. A green trail marker with a dog beneath and a text of how to handle dogs. (photo attached)
The trail marker is placed in a Dog park with public access. The dog park is listed on Google Maps and even has its own small facebook group. On google maps the specific trail marker that I nominated is shown as some of the photos for the dog park. And because of the season with no leaf on the trees the nominated wayspot is visible from the street next to the dog park.
Today I got an email given me a warning. It said my wayspot was:
2025-03-31
The submission is believed to be fake
The text or photo contains abuse, ridicule, or harassment of a specific person or group
There is still at this point a poke stop at that location, but I fear it will be removed since it is now listed as not accepted in my status and I got a warning from niantic.
I have written Niantic saying that there was no way I have tried to cheat. I see a trail marker in a dog park with public access and I nominate it because I honestly believe that a Dog park with public access containing a rute/trail ( actually 3 trails but I only nominated this one) should meet all the criterias. A dog park with public access at a place with beautiful nature is great for exploration, exercise, socializing. The nominated trail marker leads people up in the woods and to a lake with lots of wildlife.
I have not yet heard from Niantic when I wrote them because of the warning. But I see that in the wayfarer there is an option to put up an appeal of this nominated wayspot. I haven’t done so yet since the wayspot is still a poke stop, but not sure if I should do so to set an appeal for it in case it gets removed? I am not interested in further ban.
however I honestly believe it should be approved like it was in the first place but I have also heard from others that their nominated/accepted stuff had been removed lately especially in this area. How is this possible when there is proof that this place actually does exist and it should meet the wayfarer criteria. I fell that a person or group might report everything here to herrasment of the group who is playing in this area. We are quite a lot of people who plays here considering it is in general a very rual area.
I hope you can help me understand.
The coordination for this wayspot is:
The green icon is listed as dog park in my language. If you click on the green icon “Hundeskov” you will see a few photos of the dog park.
The google street view is recorded doing summertime and at that season the trees has leaf and you can’t look inside. But at the season now the trees are still partly naked so it is possible to have a look from the street
Just for info… if you feel more comfortable typing in your native language, please feel free to do so. There is a function on this site that translates what has been said, and generally does a great job.
Take a video of the location and the surrounding area.
If you have the email, you should have a link to appeal it. Appeal it there first, and if that fails, post the image and video to this thread and we will see if the Niantic Staff can help.
Ok, so Wayfarer was trying out some different rejection reasons a few weeks ago, and one that was being used to represent anything rejected for inaccurate photo/title/description/location was getting “The text or photo contains abuse, ridicule, or harassment of a specific person or group.”
The rejection reasons has been updated to say what the actual rejection reason is if rejected for Accuracy, such as blurry photo, inaccurate location, low quality title/description, etc. Most likely, this was voted on first when these rejection reasons were still in place, hence why they were received.
I would be interested to see the supporting info and photo you provided for this, as If it doesn’t show the marker with the surrounding area, just the surrounding area, I could see how some may think this is fake and/or inaccurately located.
Also, staff do monitor the forums and may send you a DM with more info about the warning.
