Warning issued from activity from a few years ago? Looking for some help with this

General Discussion
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I got a email earlier this week, as have a few others here seemed to have about a warning being issued to their account for “violated one or more of our policies”. I have no idea what it could mean because the only details given in the email were “You have violated the following policies: Low quality/Identical reviews”.
I checked my email for a follow up email and saw nothing giving me more information about what this warning is about or for.
I submitted an appeal and got a seemingly automated response a day later stating that I have
"- low quality contributions (nominations, edits, etc)

  • fake contributions (nominations, edits, etc)

  • trying to influence reviewers to vote in a specific way

  • bullying and/or harassing others through contributions (nominations, edits, etc)

  • sharing personal identifiable information

  • Patterns of incorrect reviewing and/or participating in voting rings"

I’m gonna say that I have not done much with wayfarer in about 2 years trying to add stops to my local mall that has now grown and thrived thanks to the contributions that I and a few others have made, but im not doing that currently or recently aside from playing pokemon go here and there.
Is there a way to fix this or get in contact with someone to look deeper into this? I know that there would be videos on youtube covering these ban waves or crack down from niantic on harmful activity but they would also end up hitting legitimate players who would get caught in the crossfire.
I have 0 intentions of contributing to wayfarer in the future if it means I risk losing my pokemon go account after this. It doesn’t make sense how I can suddenly be getting punished for something I have not used in years.

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Are you sure that you havent reviewed lately and that no one has access to your account?

3

Hello and welcome,

Yes, this is what you noted about the 1st email you received:

It seems that whoever looked at your account could have missed this, and instead used the “low quality contributions” reason by mistake. However, they did include some issues with reviewing that could be an issue, such as incorrect voting/voting rings.

Wayfarer is both submitting new Wayspots and edits, as well as reviewing nominations and edits. Therefore, I’m also wondering if this is more in regards to reviewing than submitting.

4

Nope, I haven’t submitted or reviewed anything since 2023

5

That might be the case. My current rating on my profile is good but I think i remember reviewing the process of using wayfarer or being promoted to. I’m not certain what it was exactly but this was years ago