A wave of review bombing has plagued part of my country recently close to border of Czech Republick and Slovakia. Many valid pokestops like for example a Town Square, a small Park in center of town and etc are being flaged as non pernament, and i cant keep up with appeals as you get 2 per month basicly. Any solutions? Any symiliar situations?
Welcome to the forum @Ketne !
Sorry to hear that many of your nominations are not accepted. People on the forum will likely help you with your nominations if you can share examples (preferably with pictures and both description and supporting texts).
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Well i will wait for my appeals to renew its not a big deal, its more about the review bombing issue and ppls responible for that. But just to make an example.
“A small park in center of town with a fountain and benches to sit. A place to relax and rest”
Flaged as non pernament…
Can you share complete view of your rejection reason and supporting information? Anyway niantic has been struggling to improve system for reviewing submissing for years. Whoever review this nomination probably from your country and/or its surrounding. I assume thats park sign and foto of its surrounding?
Just a smaller thing, Niantic for whatever reason changed the rejection result text, but not the reviewing rejection text, so your Wayspot git rejected for being temporary and/or not being distinct, as those reasons are currently still fused together into one on the reviewing side.
Very likely no one wanted to reject for not being permanent here, that’s the gist of it
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Do you know how riddiculus does that sound? Anything can be throw into both of those cattegorys even an historical building as nothing i pernament or distinct. Anyway i dunno how to link directly to the Nomination so heres a screen of rejection.
A screenshot is what we wanted to see. You can’t link us to your contributions page.
This sign is (or looks like to me) just a regular street sign, not anything significant, so that is why people reviewing marked it not “distinct” - i also wish we could just choose “does not meet criteria.”
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But you do know that an Nomination consist of several screens + descryption, so if you review something you know what you review unleas you just madly click whatever to move through nominations or review bombing them for whatever reasons. Besides how do you show a park its name and existance without evidence of its name and surroundings.
***Mod edit to remove unnecessary disrespectful comment
Generally when I share a nomination here for advice I will screenshot the title, description and main picture, and then also screenshot the support picture and information and share both.
Hello @Ketne
I appreciate you find yourself in a frustrating position and are annoyed by how you perceive your nomination has been reviewed. But please try not to phrase your comments in a way that could be considered disrespectful towards those trying to assist.
Can you please translate what the sign says?
I assume you are using it as an anchor for the park area? Is it the official sign specifically for the park area or a more general sign?
I had a look on street view. I think an issue is that your supplementary does not appear to contain the sign, and the park area looks different. Perhaps a different photo would help demonstrate where this is and how it relates directly to the fact that it is a park.
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Is it possible to get picture of the park along with the sign? I think that would make it look more distinct
I commented on what you chose to show us to let you know what it could look like to reviewers and why they may have chosen that rejection reason. If you want more feedback on this nomination, please show the rest of it.
I see the supporting photo above but not the description or the supporting statement. We can translate with Google Lens, so no worries about that.
Edit: I see some others have found the location so I will leave this to them.
Im sorry for sounding offensive but i feel here like someone who has to defend him self here more than a person in need of resolving and highlighting an issue,As I dont understand how you can not properly review something that meets all criteria with all detailed infos you got(Thats also why neighbouring countrys shouldnt review other countrys nominations) . Its a park with fountain and benches what more you need ? Simple as that, and it seem like its ppls that make this proces difficult and annoying not Niantic its self.
And the absolute inconsitency on approving nominations where one is considered non pernament but the other exactly same type is ok. And then we got results of an absolute nonsenses where nominations meeting the criteria are dissaproved.
Yes the sign is somewhere in the middle(more to left if you watch from street perspective) and yes the park might look diffrent on street view its a small town and google street wasnt updated here for like few years now as the park was renovated like 7y ago or so, but if go to a side road they apparently switch to the new one , and the Poke sign photo witch is the name of that park/square shows the other side of park with a flower garden(at second pic its just on the left just not visible) and without the fountain considered the center of it as it is the main resting and playing side with fountain for kids etc.
Once again im sorry to any of you here that might feel offended but something needs to change in the review proces, that right now is more of an unpleasant experience not the other way around and its not because of Niantic
Hi @Ketne
I’ve edited out your “country saying” as I’m not sure if someone would take it in a wrong way
Have you tried submitting the fountain as a standalone item? Those can be good submissions if theyre interesting, artistic etc.
With the park it may be a case of framing your pictures better - try a different angle maybe? Also any web links that can show the park exists can help added to supporting information, particularly if street view isnt helpful.
I’ve personally struggled with some park submissions even with signs, as reviewers can be very fussy. So I do understand your frustration. Can you share your whole nomination here so we can advise the best way to proceed?
I agree that this looks like a good place to meet up and socialise.
It looks like a very pleasant space.
The complications over what you might see on streetview compared to your photos needs to be in the supplementary information- you need to make life easy for the reviewer.
If the sign is causing an issue is there another distinctive spot in the park where a photo could be taken that will work as an anchor point for the park?
We are happy to work with you.
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I realy appracite all the help and commitment to the case but as i writed earlier this isnt realy the biggest issue but the fact that there is a problem with reviewing and whos doing them and for what reasons.
As i can imagine that someone frustarated over hes nominations dissaproval got on a rage mode and “if i cant have it none will!” I will simply submit it again and it will pass when that peron/s wont be reviewing it just like it was with that case that got dissaproved as non pernament and after 2nd it got a go
Also regarding the fountain this wont pass at all as its an inground fountain of 6 highlighted flows from the ground ( dunno how to describe it) but its an absolute meet up center a rather important place for the town as in winter when the fountain is off we got a christmass tree or other christmas decorations in place of it. So yes its not some kind of usual place or sight like for example half naked woman on a horse in bussines center(sarcasm). Besides the only pic of that fountain working atm is from summer and its with my daughter so i wont share it here.
Those fountains are absolutely eligible and a good anchor for the park. Like you said taking a picture is the hardest part - early morning is best. Is there any way to have a reasonable picture if you crop your daughter out?
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No shes in the center of the pic but i see maybe ill cut the pic in half or something like that
Edit: found something else
Other than that need to wait when it will be warmer and the fountain gets turned on again best at night when the colorfull lights are visible
The option to see it lit up and from the road into the park sounds really appealing.
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