I am a multi-disciplined lawyer, with comparative law credentials, which means I can navigate common law, civil law etc that varies with country. Because of younger cousins, I became interested in pokemons and I travel so I can maybe get some they can’t and trade. Got to level 35 (back then) and thought I’d start review.
I review like a lawyer. I do extensive research for the countries and languages Niantic thinks I can cover, looking up local resources, property ownerships. I am fluent in several cultures so I try to review eligibility based on what would be more normal in this country, compared to others.
I am kinda annoyed I cannot submit a 10 page brief if I reject something, but I guess that would really slow things down.
I read about someone reviewing and viewing wayspots based on their disability, and they said they are more lenient towards certain wayspots than others. I am come from a jurisdiction where for lay people work they expressively DO NOT want lawyers.
I am just being a part of a wider community and adding my cultural, educational, experience so it doesn’t matter if I am basically gathering information enough to take you to Supreme Court?
Hi @jaydee711
Welcome to the forum
Tbh I don’t get what you want to discuss but wanted to welcome you in our community. Maybe you could explain your point a little bit further so that we can have a conversation about it.
Problem is that not all reviewers would be as professional as the OP, nominators will get “un-professional” comments. How many people are going to complain when they get a reason for Rejection as “because its crap” or much worse.
It would then need a whole new process to report “bad feedback” and if that could get people “sanctioned” in any way then people would not give negative feedback in case of complaints.
IMO: Improvements in the responses that can be given in Review and “BIG” improvements in the replies sent by Niantic is a safer option.
I’ve been completely against this idea before because of the risk of bad actors, but I voted for the relevant AMA because it’s one good use I can see for “AI”, to filter/block most of the unhelpful and nasty feedback texts that might get written.
I also find it hard to believe in the disabled reviewer story. I’m disabled myself, and I have not once based my reviewing on my disability, and whether or not a disabled person would be able to access it. Not all Wayspots may be accessible to those that are in wheelchairs, use canes or walkers, are vision impaired, etc.
Also, not every country in the world has protections for those with disabilities like the US has (ADA requires certain things, like ramps and Braille signs, to make certain places accessible to all, even those with disabilities). Wayfarer is a worldwide database map, so there are going to be some Wayspots that not everyone is going to be able to get to, but there will be some that can.
The OP could be thinking about this from the POV of a PoGo player and not an actual Wayfarer reviewer, as there are some issues I take with what they are saying. It would seem that, at times, the criteria isn’t always followed, but instead what the local communities that they visit would approve of being Wayspots. Even during global challenges, I still review based on the criteria, not based on what the local community would approve of.
Last, if this person is a lawyer, like they say, I’d think they’d have studied up on the ToS.
If the OP would like to explain further, they’re more than welcome to. I did see this last night and was somewhat confused as to what the points of the post are.
If you find yourself in Yorkshire, UK we are happy to invite you to the “Old Crippled Men PoGo Club”
We must look a sight on Raid Hour / Day . 3 old geezers with walking sticks sat on a bench where we are able to reach 3 Gyms waiting for the young crowd to arrive so we can jump in to the raids with them…
As for the OP, with video games been so varied as well as disabilities also been vastly varied no game will be able to be played by everybody.
I think your point is powerful, we have to look at things through the lense of the greater wayfarer community. Not of any one specific person or game. Thank you for the reminder of that. I think from time to time we get in our patterns and forget the overall good of Wayfarer.
My point is to follow criteria when reviewing, regardless of the area you are reviewing in. Besides, we know that not all Wayspots need to be access by all, as POIs in gated communities are allowed.
I’m never going to hike up a mountain, but if there is a trail there, those trail markers are going to encourage others to get out and explore the area, as well as get some exercise in, so they may meet criteria. I wouldn’t make it far on an uphill trail whatsoever, but someone will.
The thing with PoGo (as opposed to Ingress) is that you can play the game perfectly well pottering around the Pokestops you can get access to. Ingress encourages you to climb hills, squelch through mud and crawl through undergrowth to compete.
And yes people have looked at me and my wife playing PoGo and said “I don’t think you are the target audience”.
The old system allowed you to at least explain why you were rejecting. If you wanted to. Now you have 150 characters if you can find something in the Accuracy section.
I want to explain why. I want to leave a record of what about this particular nominations I had found an issue with …
So yes @jaydee711 you don’t need to be a lawyer to want to leave a good record of why you felt something should be rejected. I also want to show I have done the work to review it
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