Iv submitted one or two successful stops before so I don’t understand why this one got rejected. I work at this particular store but all of the Andy’s locations have similar cone statues that are also spots or gyms, some inside others near the street by the signs or smaller near the benches for kids to see up close. Any help I can get submitting better photos or something would be super helpful!
Is there a rejection reason on your nomination on the Wayfarer website?
Welcome to the forums. Might be worth resubmitting the ice cream shop as a whole with a photo focusing on the sign. For what it’s worth I woulda given this a thumbs up.
Hello,
If this is a feature at all Andy’s locations, it would be considered pretty generic and indistinct. If this is at the Andy’s at the website below, it may not be eligible, since it’s at a chain generic business. Even a web search is showing many locations have a large cone statue.
Yeah but why would all the cones at the surrounding store be accepted and not this one?
Most likely they were accepted before ML, the AI, was put into place and voted on by the community as meeting criteria. I assume your rejection email says “our team,” which means ML rejected it, and the rejection reason in Contribution Management is simply Wayfarer Criteria.
Not commenting on the eligibility of the nomination but giving opinion on the photo 
It isn’t a clean view of the object.
There are all the upright and horizontal frames from the window cutting over the object and breaking it up.
The glass itself is with reflections and possibly just because it’s another layer, reducing the crispness of the object.
So taking the picture from inside would improve the image.
The external looking in is appropriate as a supplementary as it shows the context nicely.
Thanks that’s super helpful, the only problem is from the inside it’s hard to get a good picture of the cone bc it’s so big and only that part of the building has the elevated ceiling to accommodate the cone.
there is also the novelty of the first ones being submitted before people realized it was corporate art
I want to second the importance of what @elijustrying said about the photo. If the ML model rejects for the photo, it can’t get to community voting. And a great photo always makes reviewers - human or ai - lean towards “of course this should be a Wayspot.”
If you decide to try again as art you should do anything you can to emphasize the fun of the big cone instead of talking about the attached business. Or to submit it as a business, emphasize why this particular shop is important to the local community. Maybe events hosted, teams supported, etc. But I do think a great photo is key. And might still be rejected.
