I’m not sure I’ve seen more than 3 “green walls” in my life. I’m not sure I’d classify them as normal and definitely non-distinct. It’s holds a similar intent as a painted mural while providing greenery to the indoors, basic air purification, and dressing up an otherwise bland wall.
I’ve tried to collect applicable screenshots below.
Appeal text which even included additional map support:
The support photo does a good job showing scale of the living wall - it indeed goes floor to ceiling and along a probably 50” stretch. As noted, the photo shows the Gate location which the map I preemptively linked in the appeal text helps prove. Just for extra measure, I’ve placed a screenshot from my phone gallery of the photo and location.
I get the sense that they copy-paste language like that when they mean to say that they don’t think the type of POI is eligible at all, not that it’s too generic of an example. Reminds me of one I got where they referred to something very unusual as standard, and clearly just copied it in because the grammar doesn’t make sense.
Standard cat windows, which are widespread? Amazing.
I think the appeals team must be given unrealistic targets about how many to resolve per hour, and this maybe causes the wierd rejection reasons because they have this kind of placeholder text to fill in the name of the item like “normal xyxyxyx of no significance”.
It would be nice if they were given time to read the whole nomination, check the links provided, and write a proper appeal decision that makes sense to submitters and helps them in future appeals.
That one bothered me because it was such an unusual attraction that I had difficulty explaining what it was (keep in mind we can’t show animals in pictures), but apparently it was standard. It would be nice if appeals were coherent enough to serve as a way for Niantic to communicate the nuances of what is allowed and what isn’t but the results are too random and the text is about as bad as the rejection reasons submitters get.
