Not saying a stop sign should be an approved stop. Just saying that in some areas people need to have options for stops and these are legitimate. Maybe in your area they are not the best options but for some it maybe the only thing they can try. Sometimes we need to look at it from different perspectives and not just say no automatically.
still gotta meet at least one of the 3 criteria no matter where you are
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“Place marker” doesn’t mean it meets eligibility. In fact I think almost all boundary markers are not eligible - including the boundary to a town, preserve, or neighborhood. Nobody goes to those signs to explore the sign, have a picnic there, ETC.
Often a neighborhood sign is in the middle of the road (unsafe) or on the corner of someone’s yard (private property). If I can’t use either of those, I use “generic business” because it was bult to advertise the neighborhood.
It might be ‘generic’ but it is definitely not a ‘business’ or a ‘generic business’ giving it thumbs down in a few categories should suffice. 
It should, lbvs
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When it comes down to it I do want to get along in this enterprise, at least until I got those 1500 agreements if I remember the Pokemon Go badge correctly. So I’m sorry for shooting my mouth off with assertions I forgot can be annoying. I should remember when I first got exposed to way weirder language than this! My wife says I can blame her, and I do to an extent because she’s been known to teach Cultural Studies at the university level, and I talk to her quite a bit! But I do promise I’m not telling lies and I truly thank you for considering that possible. Meanwhile, I’ma listen to Sound of the Suburbs by The Members which I would recommend to anyone with any opinion about the suburbs.
now they want anarchy 
Like I’ve mentioned in the past, these would be meeting and social points over here. We call them the head of the road. When I was a kid it was where we’d meet friends that lived in these estates. We would normally hang out and chat here or have a kickabout (a lot of them here are close to green areas) until they got called in by their parents. I would see them more as a place to be social.
There is an argument for exploring if you were trying to find a particular estate, but as you mentioned above the street signs do the same thing. Come to think about it trail markers also do the same thing, they all show you what direction to go or where something is. This is just an observation not saying I disagree with your point above.
I do believe the are places to be social though, speaking from experience growing up and even now after a few refreshments we would normally sit on a wall at the head of the road and discuss the nights festivities before needing trail markers to guide us back home.
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It’s not a thing that exists here in Belgium where I am from, but I feel it is a typical American phenomenon, so if I see them in global challenge I do accept them, I feel it is important for the American community!
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Oh, so that’s how those all got through 
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I was not voting for them, maybe that’s part of my rating drop, that and all the american graveyards and benches
When i was a kid, i was allowed to ride my bike away from my house, not see my mother all day, go pretty much anywhere i wanted to, and not return until dinner or maybe even sunset. But times have changed. If a kid is out of their parent’s sight for 15 minutes, the police are called - either by the parents or nosy neighbors who think a kid being alone is child endangerment.
So this freedom you describe of kids meeting up and hanging out at the head of the road does not exist anymore. I’m not going to accept an ineligible POI in memory of the glory days.
That’s just the sad reality of the world we live in today.
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I guess the size should matter as well, of the sign and the neighborhood. 
I just got this to review yesterday with this awesome supporting information.
These are on every corner around here, and one is already a Wayspot: 35.808338,-78.838747
And this was the main photo:
Being big does not make this any more eligible to me.
well that’s the thing about this whole debate that’s not even been mentioned in this thread.
even if you strongly believe that these meet criteria, almost none of the people nominating them make the slightest effort to explain how or why.
the supporting is 50% literally what your screenshot shows and 49% “trying to build the local map” and then a sliver of anything meaningful.
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I used to do the same. I’d go for hours. But I’d wholeheartedly disagree with you the glory days comment.
My own family still meet their friends at the head of the road, as I said I’d still hang out with mates after a night out or if we wanted to meet to go somewhere, drop something to each other or just have a chat. It is definitely a thing here still and happens daily.
When my family were younger their friends from the other estates used to meet at the head of our road or we’d drop them off to the head of there’s. And because they were younger their parents would keep an eye on them and vice versa.
Now that they are older they just go there themselves. Earlier this week they actually brought a few picnic blankets and their Bluetooth speaker and chilled out at one of their friends estates after finishing their state exams. May not be done there but definitely is here.
This TBH.
Much of the CCC mention that the content given by the submitter is taken into account whenever eligibility is questionable. Or whenever the object does not inherently serve to function/provide space for something in line with being eligible. That is the information within the nomination as seen in review.
Is the purpose of the neighborhood sign (or any sign, or object of the same category, in general) in line with activities related to explore, exercise, or socialize? It isn’t universal. So please, details in the submission specifically for the one instance of neighborhood sign to be submitted.
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Right? If there’s something significant about the sign itself, like it’s hand carved by a local artist or is an unique work of art on its own, or if there’s a sculpture or fountain incorporated, or there’s something historically important about the community, like it was designed and planned by a notable architect or something (anything…) then I’d be inclined to at least consider these as valid nominations. I don’t think I’ve ever seen any nominations for subdivision signs that even try to make a case for meeting any of the criteria.
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I’ve only made one of these type of nominations and it was recently. I used every character space to explain the context and background information. It’s like an entire novel explaining why this one is valid. It’s still in voting, so we’ll see what everyone else thinks.
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It seems like there is a huge cultural difference and get why it seems almost laughable that these would not be accepted for you compared to the plethora of them that I saw in the US challenge and looked like generic signs for new build estates.