In last week or so, multiple wayspots and portals in the city of Rovaniemi have vanishes after being first vandalized. None have appeared in Wayfarr for voting. They have just been first vandalized and then deleted in matter or days. First local community reported this happening with just graffitis…

That’s awful. Something similar happened some months ago in the UK, every time a wayspot was created in a certain area it would be destroyed a few days later and then reported as being not there. In that case these were trail markers, so of less value. I have to say that I don’t think the Wayfarer …

Lots of them have also been removed but as I wrote, none have appeared in Wayfarer voting. They have just been vandalized and then they vanish within few days. This makes is obvious that the person who is vandalizing them is also asking them to be removed. At least to our knowledge, the only way to …

Could you please share a few examples of Wayspots that were removed as a result of this vandalism?

You have provided pictures above. I suspect it would help if you could provide the locations (and the names, if you can get these from Ingress Intel, as they might not have been removed there).

The following wayspots that have been removed after local community noticed they were vandalized. They still show in Campfire. Coordinates are rough, not exact. Used website to get them as close as possible to their location. Mielipiteensä vanki Valtatie 4, 96300 Rovaniemi, Finland Latitude: 66.4…

Actually Urkki and RGM mural gyms have been deleted during the night.

Oh jeez. That’s awful. Community groups and artists sometimes spend so much time, energy and money making themselves things and some is doing this just to be petty. But also why bother? It’s a stupid waste of time and energy. This person needs help.

[IMG20250910134114] [IMG20250910132909] [IMG20250910133015] Went thru city center. Two were just paintings done by the near by art School of children. But one (all blacked over one) was historical photo how the place looked like before war :sob: Four gyms have vanished during the night in the…

Its ridiculous. Hopefully staf can revert some of it. Otherwise it will justify him/her to keep vandalising

Someone in Rovaniemi is vandalizing wayspots in order to get them removed

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elijustrying September 10, 2025, 10:15am 12

Not to stray off topic…..
But the case in U.K it took time but in wayfarer was satisfactorily resolved with the help of the team.

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Someone in Rovaniemi is vandalizing wayspots in order to get them removed

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