Is there anyway any of y’all can help me submit my pokestop nomination or at least improve it? It’s been in voting about 1.5 of a month since there aren’t many players in my whole country. I live in tehran, Iran
Hello and Welcome,
A: Are you reviewing in your area, this could reduce any queue in the area meaning yours get closer to the front.
B: People could change their bonus location (once every three months) but they are unlikely to if they believe they are not going to get many to review or they are not confident that they could give the nominations the correct response due to different cultures etc.
Good Luck
If you would like help with nominations you plan to make or that have been rejected then I suggest…
- Create a new post in “Nomination Support” and show what you already have. Photos, Title, Description, Supplemental and Location (Long / Lat works best).
If you would like suggestions of suitable nominations again create a post in “Nomination Support” with the general location (DO NOT USE YOUR HOME ADDRESS) and people will scour the map.
People will help but you have to be prepared that the advice may not be what you hoped such as “the nomination does not meet criteria” or “due to the type of location such as Strictly Residential there is nothing to nominate”.
Thank you for your response.
A: yes, I sometimes do for the exact reason
B:then maybe I should try to reach out to people to set their bonus location to my hometown?
Does it help with making a good nomination or do people actually help you in voting?
They help you with making a good nomination.
There’s no way to review certain nominations you want, and if there was a way for it, it would be abused. All nominations are meant to be anonymous and you shouldn’t be identifyable, in order to keep the integrity of the review process.
Not necessarily voting my own nomination. I pretty much think choosing my hometown as the bonus location will help my nomination to be accepted
Not really, the bonus location only means you can review nominations from other places. As far as I know you get to review pending nominations for 3 regions:
- your home location
- your bonus location
- the location where you are currently based.
You will never review your own nominations. It is even dangerous and not allowed to ask your friends to approve your nominations, this is called a review circle, and often the cause for a ban.
I know. I just mean can people set their bonus location to my city to at least review pokestops so the commmunity can grow larger? Of course when they are doing it so, my own nomination(which I definitely am not gonna tell anyone how does it look or what the name of it is)will be reviewed cause there are not so many nominations in my city so if it’s a good nomination, it’ll be accepted. Yet still noone will know it was my nomination.
just clarifying from the get-go if any city names seem off, I am german and I don’t know if some iranian city names are localized
If someone sets their bonus location at Teheran, they will also get submissions from Varamin, Karadsch, Eslamschahr, Saveh, Qazvin etc - possibly even further out. While the bonus review range is smaller than your home/play area review range, the bonus review range is still a lot larger than you might imagine.
It’s still pretty okay. Most of the pokestop nomination in the whole country comes from the exact city of tehran. I’m guessing at least 80%