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This portal is located in a residential facility for disabled individuals, where staff use assault alarms in case the residents were to attack them, and it occasionally happens. Therefore, I do not believe that this location is suitable for a portal.
It looks like the POI is a more than a few meters away from the facility right on the gazebo. I personally don’t think someone interacting with the POI would be any danger to the facility or from people inside the facility.
It’s up to Niantic, but I don’t think you have enough evidence for removal.
In theory, I agree. But it belongs to the residence at the address. There are individuals who can attack people at this location. Therefore, I do not think this place is acceptable.
So the employees who work here don’t deserve a place to to sit and gather? Not all wayspots are intended to be used by the general public. If family members of the residents or employees use this gazebo to socialize, maybe even bring calm residents out here to enjoy the fresh air, it is eligible.
Please stop perpetuating the stereotype that disabled individuals need to be locked away and forgotten.
Is not private, is restricted to be used by some people. That’s permitted in the criteria and that’s what we have to follow. You can agree or not, but that’s what we have to follow as the criteria is global.
I agree with you that Niantic could be much clearer instead of just saying “private property”, and I am sure the ambassadors fought to get that wording changed. The tool tip makes clear that SFPRP is what we are supposed to reject, and other kinds of private property can be eligible.
Yeah that tool tip is rather helpful and I can see it’s been argued a lot though it’s still rather vague and a bit American, including military bases and the whole “single family…”. Being their main definition of private
I do wish the whole global community had greater input \ control over this as it’s us that makes the game not the [REDACTED] management
What annoying me most is double standards in this.
For example it’s much easier to get a 4 star hotel then the local hostel or the run down inner city apartments park over the gated community water fountain.
It might not happen in your country but I’ve seen this in a couple
We don’t make this game. This is Niantic’s game that they are attempting to make playable globally. Niantic has been sued over players behaving badly, and some of the things that are not eligible (as well as in game warnings) are probably because of that. We currently have the privilege of helping to review Wayspots for acceptance, rather than having to wait until their staff can get to every submission. I choose to follow the rules Niantic has laid out to the best of my ability in order to keep the game going and growing.
Niantic has acknowledged that it can be difficult to play in areas that don’t already have game locations by importing databases to underserved places at times. These have been both helpful in allowing people to be able to play, and harmful in not always being points of interest that meet Niantic’s criteria for new Wayspots, which causes confusion when these players go to submit items that seem to be similar. You appear to be passionate about Wayfarer, so I hope you will keep checking for advice on what is acceptable and what is not, and why.
It’s argue the opposite it’s easy to make a geo location game and a few more have sprung up since ingress.
But what they don’t have is a passionate community and a db of points. And both of there’s fine from us. Even if they could review everything they’d never be able to add 10% of what the community have added
Yeah I been doing wayfarer since you first could with 12000+ reviews.
We should learn from each other as it seems there’s few here with actual game play experience in much of the world. Though I should make a poll before officially saying that, can this app do polls?
To me this is one of the few games that relies on players for the core of the game
Yes the forum app can do polls. When you are typing a message look for the gear symbol on the top right of the message box. You can select many different format options including a poll.
I think it’ll be interesting to see where folks play from!
Thanks for the appeal, @spangsberg. We took another look at the Wayspot in question and decided that it does not meet our criteria for removal at this time.
