It’s a translation issue, making the awful phrasing in English even worse when it’s in French. This rejection narrative is dreadful, because it can come up for any of the following:
- The photo is not yours (e.g., taken from streetview, found on another website)
- The photo is fake
- The waypoint is fake
- The text itself is abusive
- The nomination is controversial and likely to be offensive (e.g., a mural of terrorists)
- Another nomination was abusive and all of yours have been flagged as a consequence
- The wayspot location pin is misplaced
- The wayspot is deliberately misrepresented (e..g., on school property but pretending it isn’t)
- (there may be others)
You will notice that most of these are nothing to do with insulting, mocking or harassing people. There’s a slim chance that Niantic will do something about this as one of the most people requests for the current AMA is Can we split rejection reason “The text or photo contains abuse, ridicule, or harassment of a specific person or group”?
When you get this, you have to work out for yourself which of these issues was the problem.
You are right that a second error can lead to a 30-day ban and this does cause some people to hold off from submitting wayspots, because they are scared about losing access to Pokemon Go. This is fair for deliberate abuse, but a little less fair for accidental mistakes. The problem is that Niantic cannot easily tell which it is.