And now even more of these markers have been removed. Positively wonderful to see months of work and appeals go right down the drain.
Tell me something, @NianticAaron .
In October, YOU yourself restored two of these trail markers as can be seen here: Restoration request for two hiking trail markers that were inexplicably removed
Pretty much all of my appeals from the past months have been spent on trail markers like these and all have been approved by the Niantic reviewers. I have had appeals for these trail markers approved by Niantic reviewers as recently as SIX DAYS AGO.
Three weeks ago, I appealed one of these trail markers and the appeal was rejected for a nonsensical reason by the Niantic reviewer. I addressed it here in this topic: Bad appeal decision for one of my trail marker submissions and the appeal decision was overturned and the trail marker approved within SIX MINUTES of posting.
Were ALL of those decisions made by Niantic employees and yourself wrong? Or is the decision you’re making now wrong? Because it can’t be both. Either these trail markers ARE eligible as supported by your decision in October and the multiple decisions of Niantic appeal reviewers over the past months (including up to six days ago), or these trail markers are ineligible as you are now claiming with the flimsiest of excuses, such as:
- Claiming I placed these stickers myself to create wayspots when I’ve shown you the website for the organization responsible for the trails and markers and many of these trail markers can be seen on StreetView photos dated as far back as 2009, more than half a decade before Pokemon Go even existed.
- Claiming these are ineligible because they’re not at “decision points” and then not clarifying what you understand decision points to be when asked, even though the Niantic criteria clarification I’ve quoted in post 31 heavily suggests that a trail marker pointing straight ahead on a straight road can be considered a decision point anyway. Maybe @NianticTintino needs to offer up some clarification here, since he’s the one that made the criteria clarifications in the first place.
When it comes to determining the eligibility of these trail markers, it seems to me that the 12+ decisions in favor of them, made by yourself and plenty of Niantic reviewers in the past months, are far more likely of being correct than the one singular decision against them made by you just now, just purely based on sample size alone.
I hope you can reconsider and do the right thing here.