The Bot is rejecting everything

Hey there, i made a few submissions in the last few day and this was one of them:

Imo this POI is perfectly fine and eligible, but the Bot did reject it. This is only one rejection out of 5 today, where i am 100% sure that they are valid wayspots.

Why does the bot reject everything? I can’t even appeal cuz i already used two appeals on other nominations, so what should i do?

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There could be any number of reasons the bot rejected your nominations. Without seeing the other 4 there’s no way we can give you advice on what to do with those, so if you feel comfortable sharing them I’m sure there’s any number of folks here who would be happy to help.

As for the one you did share, What is the building that artwork is on used for?
If I had to guess it’s because the main photo had too much of the surrounding wall. If you could get a closer shot of the PoI you might have better luck.

Or you can wait until the cooldown ends on one of your appeals and use an appeal on it.

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This Lion Head Emblem was also rejected by the bot

I believe the lion is correctly rejected as just a business logo, but the first one surprises me. I am not sure that I can suggest a different way to frame the main photo to make it appear more like “art” rather than graffiti or signage. If you get too close, I am afraid that it will lose the context of being a defined art piece. maybe crop the photo to square to try to get rid of some of the white wall that may be confusing the ML model, as @Glawhantojar suggested.


This doesn’t appear to be single family private residential property to me from all those mailboxes - I think. And the art jumps out much better with in the sunshine on Street View, so maybe a photo taken on a sunny day would help.

I do kind of hope you will appeal this rejection when you have one available. It could benefit the “machine learning” process.

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Regarding the first one, the supporting photo from the angle @cyndiepooh provided is better than the one used, because it shows this is a multi-residential building. From directly in-front of the building, this isn’t obvious.

As to why it was rejected, it is also possible that the ML system couldn’t tell that this was a piece of art on the outside of a building and that taking a closer cropped photo would make this problem worse. If it looks just like an artwork which could be anywhere, including inside an art gallery with a hundred other pieces of art, I imagine this would be a reason for rejection.

I’d be tempted to try two submissions, once with a closer-cropped photo and one with a bit of the window frame, a bit of the roof and a bit of the side-wall. That’s assuming you have spare submission slots :slight_smile:

The second one is just a company logo.

Hey there i’m back, i made a second submission and this time they got both accepted
Weird behavior of that bot, i got some more valid submissions which i have to redo

i guess it didn’t like my short titles and descriptions, the new ones are longer and i added the extra info that this is not a private residential or a single family house

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Happy to hear you’ve gotten some stuff through, congrats!

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Thanks for update and congrats.

Doing wayfarer is a constant learning process. It sounds as though you are e a tly the right thing - reflecting on your submissions seeking advice and improving :smiling_face_with_sunglasses:

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