What to change when re submiting a wayspot?

[kr3ith]

Hello, i recently stared to submit stuff again and i have got several nominations rejected, rather quicly and i just notice thati think niantics is using AI or some sort of automatic system. On the emails it says:

This decision could be because of the title, description, location, photo, or a combination of criteria. For future nominations

And in the wayfare platform:

Niantic’s automated process for not adhering to Wayfarer criteria.

So i trying to figure out what im doing wrong i attach some examples. Any advise is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance

[cyndiepooh]

They do not hide the fact that there is an “automated process” checking nominations. Here is what I think is the most recent post about it:

ML Auto-Decision Issue

Hello Explorers, We have identified an issue impacting eMiLy, our Machine Learning system, that was causing some incorrect auto-accept and auto-reject decisions. To prevent any further disruptions, we temporarily disabled both auto-accept and auto-reject features while we investigated the issue. We have since re-enabled the auto-reject feature. However, the fix for the auto-accept issue will take some time to develop and deploy. In the meantime, all nominations and edits that are not automati…

The community has found that if it is going to reject your nomination, it tends to act about 24 hours after submitting.

[cyndiepooh]

I don’t do well addressing multiple nominations, but will try. The first two look like generic businesses. The third one looks like it may be on the side of a house, which we call SFPRP (single family private residential property) and that would make it ineligible if that is correct. I can’t see the supplemental for the fourth one (too small) but it may have the same issue. The photo for the fifth one is very grainy - it may have rejected for photo quality.

This is just a quick look at what may be the issue. We don’t know exactly what the Machine Learning model is checking, but I would start there. If you want to discuss any of these nominations individually, the community will be happy to try to help.

[kr3ith]

Wait so they remove the auto reject/accept but only put back the auto reject? Lol thats wild so basically just hope the first few people that review have good sense?

[SpindaHuntr]

Could be a photo quality issue. If you have time take several photos before nominating so you can pick the best one. Try to make the thing your nominating fill the screen (but not too full if you want it to look good in a particular game) and that it’s well lit and not blurry.

[RoIi112]

Primero que nada, tienes que cambiar que las fotos sean propias, no puedes robar fotos del internet o de Google maps.

[salixsorbus]

Those first two are just company logos. Not art, not worth exploring, nothing to be social at. The third one looks like SFPRP, as does the last one. Fairly easy for the ML system to reject these.

The auto-accept was accepting things it shouldn’t. That was a harder problem to solve than making the auto-reject correctly reject things it should.

[SlimboyFat71]

@kr3ith

Wait so they remove the auto reject/accept but only put back the auto reject?

IMO: ML approvals should never return. ML is always going to make mistakes.

• Rejected in error can be appealed.
• Accepted in error and it’s in the game.