This topic’s purpose is not to point finger at anybody. I am not gonna reveal people nor places. I ask for suggestions how to deal with some situations. So I am not that experienced in reviewing, I barely got 2 upgrades so far. Yet, I read this forum, I try do do my best and to be as fair as I can …

Hello and welcome @Sawpel It is frustrating when you come across situations like this. The best way to report situations like this is via this form Reporting Abuse in Wayfarer — Wayfarer Help Center This article details how you can report Wayspots, nominations, edits that you believe…

Hello and welcome, Just to add to what @elijustrying noted: If you feel that a nomination is fake while reviewing, you can report it as such. There is a Report button in the upper right (for edits, it’s next to the Submit button on the bottom center), and you can choose Fake Nomination and provid…

Hello and welcome, Do use the link which @elijustrying has set in the comment. I feel with your situation, you try so hard yet nothing seems to work out, seeing your work being for nothing. Do try to gather as much evidence (like screenshots of the reviews you have gotten, or geotagged photo’s fr…

[image] Sawpel: Fakes are being accepted and real nominations get bullied all the time. This is not true. If people see fake, many people gonna reject it. There are multiple way that fakes got accepted. I wont go into detail but there are time that emily “auto accept” incorrectly accept inel…

[image] TjoeMi: I wont go into detail but there are time that emily “auto accept” incorrectly accept ineligible nomination. Just to be clear for the OP, the ability of the machine learning model to accept nominations was turned off when this was brought to light, and we have had no notice tha…

The OP is a good question and I think many of us have seen similar things. Firstly, absolutely do report these using the abuse link. I’ve reported multiple related fake wayspots on a single report. All these reports get looked at in my experience. Secondly, it can be useful to post these in the fo…

I feel you OP, the external report abuse form is my friend now. I don’t get so many brazen fake nominations in my part of the world but I’ve seen plenty of S2 cell manipulators nominating wayspots that are in the area but are in wildly inaccurate locations. I ususally give them the benefit of the do…

I don’t agree with the statement that fakes are being accepted all the time, and nominations that may be eligible are always getting rejected. If a reviewer finds a fake while reviewing, there are ways to report it as such while reviewing. If fakes do get approved, there are ways to report them vi…

Notorious fake nominations with existing fake spots

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cyndiepooh November 10, 2025, 10:51am 6

Just to be clear for the OP, the ability of the machine learning model to accept nominations was turned off when this was brought to light, and we have had no notice that ML accepts have been turned back on:

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