I had kept in contact with a player. We were always cordial.
Well now they’ve increased it to include specifically targeting portals in my town for REMOVAL. And this player admitted it to me on Telegram.
What can be done about this other than hopefully reporting them as abusive removals only for Niantic or this forum to do nothing about it and let them get away with it? Supposedly abusive removals can get someone’s account banned, but has that ever actually been done? What’s the best method here?
Because I’m about at the point where I think that if Niantic doesn’t do anything about it, then we should just stoop to the other team’s level and do the same thing.
I have screen shots of this opposing player admitting that they mass reported my portals to get them removed and it was a legit baseball field. They’ve also now removed 2 portals on a synagogue around the corner from my house because they know I live there (yes, they’ve personally stalked me too).
It’s just REALLY REALLY bad in my area and I feel like Niantic (and this forum) never do anything about it and these narcissistic power hungry cheaters just keep getting away with it.
Well, this forum no longer has any power over portals in Ingress. Please reach out to the team at Niantic Spatial, a completely new and different company.
Other than that, as said above, due to the split between Wayfarer and Ingress, indeed “this forum” and anyone from the team who reads this forum can’t help you here.
Unfortunately, there’s nothing that can be done in regards to anything Ingress related here anymore. Due to the sale to Scopely, Ingress has stayed with the new Spatial, and has split from Wayfarer. There is a new Ingress Recon site in the works for the Ingress map, but it’s not fully up and running yet; can be found at Recon | Niantic Spatial, Inc.. At this time, we don’t fully know what the Recon site will offer, nor do we know if there will be a way other than the links previously provided to report portals and/or abuse.
I myself have reported several portals for removal, as they don’t meet what we currently believe to be criteria, but I can’t appeal them, so I’m hanging on the emails in case I can appeal the rejections.
For more info about the sale and split, please see the following threads:
It is a very frustrating situation that you have outlined.
Ingress players that had a wayfarer account can still use wayfarer to review and therefore still part of the wayfarer community. However that activity in wayfarer now only impacts on scopely games. So this forum has still a purpose for those players and around those issues.
For anything that is about portals and malicious behaviour relating to portal edits and removals now has to go to Recon as they are totally separate entities.
I hope that using the processes others have directed you to proves fruitful as it is clearly a frustrating situation.
I am ingress player so i kinda feel whats happening.
First of all, please record all wayspot near your location. So you have data to appeal if needed.
Second, some wayspot(s) are incorrectly accepted in the past. If this got removed, there is nothing you can do. Move on.
Third, if legitimate wayspot got removed by somehow abusing information, you can appeal it in recon but its not up yet. Next you can report whoever report it for removal for abusive behaviour.
I have seen removal-restore war where some wayspot got repeatedly removed and restored, i am expecting niantic / or maybe also scopely to be able to do something about this in the future.