This is what happens when you say we will give rewards for doing text edits.
I’ve had text edits on my own submitted stops now of people wanting to unnecessarily change the wording i worked hard to make interesting and factual.
Even others changing unique titles to generic boring (location object ) titles this is wrong.
Hello and welcome,
You are more than welcome to use the Report button in the upper right hand corner to report these edits. Otherwise, you can also report tgem at the libk below:
Right now, there’s no edit challenge happening, as it ended on November 13th. Some may add a period more for how they may play Ingress, and it isn’t something that’s not allowed. PoGo doesn’t really have any game play mechanics based on titles and descriptions, nor is there a badge for submitting Wayspots and/or edits, just reviewing.
In the end, we don’t know who submitted the edits and through which game, so the best course of action is to report them if you belive there is abuse and/or spam taking place.
Yes there is no challenge active now but the backlog of trash edits is still here.
I have edits (legitimate changes of poi) that are still in voting from months ago
So all of the challenge edits are still floating around.
It’s annoying.
I hope we will get our backlog sorted out as many submissions in queue now
These are definitely not abuse edits.
The problem is ML not picking these up to automate them.
The backlog has nothing to do with the edits from this…they are separate issues.
I actually only have 1 edit still in voting from the challenge, and it’s a description edit. It really depends on your area and the number of submissions that get submitted. Since edits aren’t that hard to submit, some may prefer them a certain way than others.
Also, keep in mind that when you get an edit to review, you see the current text along with the suggested edits. So, even if you are simply correcting grammar, such as changing “Basketball hoop @ city park” to “Basketball Hoop at City Park,” both will be shown in review.
I don’t think it’s right to assume people’s motivation for edits. Some people are very attuned to grammar. That period makes their skin crawl, or stomach turn. If they see that wayspot on a regular basis, it might be a constant irritation that they would rather not live with.
They were adding the period.
A title doesn’t need a full stop.
That would be infuriating to see a well-crafted, thoughtful description dumbed down.
It is sad that people thought that titles should have periods, but I think this is ignorance instead of abuse.
I have 85 description/title edits from the challenge undecided: 64 in voting, 21 still in queue, none in Niantic review. I agree it is going to take a while for these to get through the system since ML did not decide them.
Most of mine could be considered “unnecessary” as well, but were mostly capitalization and spelling legitimate corrections. I loved the idea of a Wayspot cleanup, but I don’t think it worked like Niantic would have hoped.
Yes what makes it worse is too many similar titles adds confusion since long titles and descriptions get cut off on the Pokéstop initial interaction landing screen.
So we have gyms with location - object titles that all say location … which can make raid coordination difficult
Oh, and Ingress players need the nearby Wayspot names to all start with the location for keeping portal keys together and finding them in their storage. I understand the problem for PoGo, though! We have tons of Wayspots starting with “White Oak Creek Greenway…”
I tried submitting edits ages ago to change them all to “WOCG …” but that didn’t get very far and I only got a couple accepted before giving up. I do use the abbreviation when I submit new.
I’m going to say a few nitpicky sounding things, but first I really agree overall with you. I’ve reviewed a bunch of edits that did nothing to actually add value. I liked the idea of the challenge, but I think people felt encouraged to make meaningless edits to hit goals.
You said this (or at least some of the ones you saw) were your own contributions. Otherwise, keep in mind that current and proposed edits show up in a randomized order - unless you know that Wayspot personally (which, if you do, great) the average reviewer wouldn’t know if the full stop is being added or removed. (Reviewers with access to Lightship or Ingress tools could look it up, but even that isn’t always reliable.) There are also bugs that show up here from time to time where edits are approved but fail to sync properly.
There are times when a full stop should be used. A few local area murals to me have unusual grammar, punctuation, and/or title case that make them stand out, but it’s how the artist chose to name their work. I agree that a plaque with the words “The Ugarapul People” on the title without a full stop should not include the “.” mark.
If you’d like to collect more edits you think are abusive, you could keep sharing them here and we can ask staff to take a look, or you can use the Help Chat to report them.
The bug where you get your own edits still persists. It never was solved during the edits challenge, and being there were some who were for being able to vote on our own edits and others (like myself) to not vote on them it’s still happening. Almost every text or location edit I do I get in review still.
I think there needs to be an additon to the “report” options for edits to include an “abuse” option for spam edits ot edits trying to move the wayspot focus from one item or another. I find it odd that isnt already an option. Keep running into examples of this. Literally JUST did an edit review where someone submitted the same 3 photos 3 times each… 
In Ingress, there generally isn’t an advantage to how titles or descriptions end - I don’t think adding a “.” would do anything. There are strategic differences in the beginning - such as “Wildflower Park,” “Wildflower Park Playground,” “Wildflower Park Little Free Library,” “Wildflower Park…” being a way to have “Portal Keys” sorted alphabetically vs as @cyndiepooh noted it may mean Gyms or Stops in PoGO having the unique part of the title cut off on the game screen.
This isn’t meant to nitpick - just let you know a bit more since I know you don’t play.
Lucky you 
I think this is pretty uncommon from what I’m hearing from other contributors.
Maybe because (and I know what was said elsewhere) it really isn’t a bug or one they think needs “fixed.”
It’s a bug to me, as I’m in the cons, which I noted… 
And I don’t need the Ingress game play explained. I know there are Ingress players that add unneeded punctuation in titles, which can make it hard for some.
I know there are Wayfarer contributors that add unneeded punctuation in titles, which can make it hard for some.
FTFY
I have no idea what that means…
I’m done here…I don’t like to be picked on like this.
it means that also Pokemon go players do it, we strive to be game agnostic around here
I said I’m done…That means everyone…
