I just saw like 3 in a row in Florida.
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I keep getting ones like this from San Jose California. But am starting to pay more attention now.
I just got this one to review. Made sure to get a screenshot and reported it. Same title and description, too.
Edit: Hereās the response I got back. Maybe they just needed more than 1 person filing a report? Maybe?
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I didnāt post the supporting photo, but i have it in my review history
I guess taking action did not mean pulling it from review - unless they have submitted it again.
Iām reporting this one, too. Again, they may need more than one example. Iām also going to link to this thread, so they can see the discussion weāve been having about this.
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I just had the same EXACT nomination for a medical plaza pop up THREE times in a rowā¦Im now thinking someone or a group of people are spamming nominations. Cause this is getting ridiculous the number of duplicates lately.
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Agree, it is getting ridiculous, and itās spamming the system.
Iāve gotten all of the examples above.
If these arenāt āhoneypotsā or stagged reviews by Niantic, it really raises a question as to why so many people are seeing them across the region, despite the area not being a selected review location.
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I do have LA as my bonus fwiw.
These were from texas too. Which is FAR out of my home location & bonus locationā¦which is odd unless someone has a stack of upgrades and is trying to burn them by submitting duplicate nominations that are questionable to get an approval one 1ā¦I really hope this isnt the case but there is obviously something going on here. Im just going to start submitting them via the āreport abuseā tbh.
Most of these are in the San Fran Bay area, not near LA at all, and they are about 380 miles apart.
I havenāt gotten any from other places, like TX and GA, just the San Fran Bay area, which is where Niantic is based out ofā¦ 
Iāve gotten a few, maybe a dozen, from north FL (where I have my bonus), and one in KY. Hard to know whatās a coincidence.
But mostly from CA.
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Iāve seen some in Texas and Florida too. Iām far from those states.
A few of the examples in this thread are from the Southern California area (Santa Ana and the LA port area). I think thereās also a reddit thread complaining about the same bridge nomination in Texas being seen 7 times in 30 reviews.
So, they seem to be all over.
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Just an update on the report I filed for this one. I did it as fake nomination and criteria issue instead of photo issue this time.
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I donāt think it is a bug where it is being sent multiple times. Sometimes the words vary, as well as the gps coordinates. My review history compared to the portal.
There is a separate Wayspot for that second one sometimes in review, but it is not a portal, so I canāt check it. The same photos are used for both Wayspots, so I think they are the same poi.
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I actually got a āThank you for your patience while we investigateā follow up which was interesting. Think thats the first one of those Ive gotten. Usually I just get a result email.
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As well as the main and supporting photos, which was the case for the last one I reported.
And yes, I remember one of the pool nominations being āApartmentsā instead of āApartmentā that was the current title.
I think there could be a number of possibilities as to why this is happening, but a bug does seem odd; youād think a bug would affect more users, and weād have reports from around the world. Right now, they seem to only be popping up in the US.
Okay so this was in Ohio. I got these both to review this morning using the same photo.
This one is not an existing Wayspot.
The submitted locations are 39.996659,-83.013372
and 39.996636,-83.013313
Not a bug because the locations and text are different.
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