Wayfarer isn’t fair, Niantic has to leave someone else in charge for nominations.
I’m from Romania and I leave in a small city with 2-3 Pokestops at first was 1 I worked hard to make the level to make nominations, I was thinking that after it’s gonna be better but noon, I started to make nominations with good criteria and from like 100 of nominations I have 3 accepted and one of them it’s not on Pokemon Go.
So you have like one chance in 50 nominations and after you have to pray that they will add on your game, no offense I don’t have a problem with the other games but the players from them should do the work.
In my opinion we should do a protest so Niantic will listen to us not only to the sounds of money.
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Welcome to the forum @Obitus and I hope we can help you feel less frustrated.
First, every nomination I make these days is accepted within 24 hours by the ML (machine learning ai) model. So it isn’t that Niantic doesn’t accept them. If you would like to share a rejected nomination, we can try to help you see why it was rejected and if it can be improved to be resubmitted.
I know the prompt tells you that you are submitting a “Pokestop” but you are actually submitting a Wayspot to the Lightship database, which can only become a Pokestop or gym if it is alone in a level 17 S2 cell. This is a good article about how S2 cells and PoGo: https://pokemongohub.net/post/article/comprehensive-guide-s2-cells-pokemon-go/
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Hello @Obitus,
I understand your frustration. It can be a challenge to refine your nominations so they are voted on positively.
I highly recommend sharing some of your future nominations in the Nomination Support area.
An additional note is that currently 2 Niantic games encourage experienced players to nominate wayspots (Ingress and Pokemon Go). If accepted these wayspots go into a mapping database - Lightship. Once in the Lightship database each current Niantic game (Ingress, Pokemon Go, Pikmin Bloom, Peridot, and Monster Hunter Now) evaluate the map based on their inclusion rules. So an accepted wayspot can be populated in one, many, or none of the Niantic games.
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