Just now I have received an email:
So I am banned from wayfarer and Niantic games because of Review circle participation. This has to be a mistake. I haven’t reviewed in ages so there is no way I can partake in a review circle. The only wayfarer related things I have done in the past weeks: Submit wayspots, do some location edits of incorrectly paced wayspots. I have been a wayfarer for a while and I always adhere to the criteria (so no submissions on PRP, no cell abuse etc).
The email says to check previous emails from noreply@nianticlabs.com. I haven’t received any emails from this adress before. To receive an outright permanent ban without any prior warnings or communication is disheartening to say the least. I’m hoping the staff can review my situation as soon as possible!
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Please check all the possible E-mails. If you haven’t received anything, staff will usually give you a DM and sort it out with you. Please wait patiently until they respond and good luck.
I already checked before posting, I also made doube sure to check my spam 
No emails, warnings or anything anywhere. I will wait for the staff to contact me
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At the bottom of this page, there is a link to appeal a suspension, if you did not get the email containing the link:
I see that we have already responded to your appeal. Let us know in the same thread if we can assist you any further. Thanks,
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Hi Aaron,
Can you share this conclusive evidence? Never once have I taken part in a voting ring to create any abuse anywhere. The way I am active on wayfarer is by traveling all around our region just to find new things to nominate and I do not review outside of challenges (sorry my fellow wayfarers ). I also don’t try to abuse the system by creating more wayspots in the area I play in, since I ran out of stuff to nominate years ago. So the only thing that I can imagine is that the group I play and wayfare with is incorrectly flagged as voting ring. This is highly unlikely because this group consists of my husband, kids and me. Far from a group that is large enough to have any impact on voting. And the other members of my family haven’t said anything about being banned so I’m unclear on what the “all your accounts” in your email refers to.
Can you share more detailled information on the reason I am being banned because I genuinely don’t understand.
Edit: 8 minutes after my post I told my family to check their accounts and it seems like one of our kids has also been banned. My husband that is super active on wayfarer has not received a ban
I’m not staff or an ambassador, so they can correct me if I’m wrong here, but just because you haven’t reviewed in ages, that doesn’t mean your older reviews may not have been abusive and that it’s simply taken a while for them to be brought to the attention of the team.
As far as I can recall the only reviews I have done this year are +/- 50 reviews during the last challenge while watching endless balloons.
Again, it might be stuff that’s older than this year that’s been flagged.
Hey,
We looked into our investigation again and based on the additional context provided, we decided to restore the account.
We apologize for any inconvenience caused.
Best,
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The situation has been resolved. Thank you @NianticAaron for fixing things so swiftly!
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