What Wayfarer Communities are you a part of?

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I am a member of the Wayfarer Discussion Discord and two Facebook groups ( Niantic Wayfarer Reviewers and Nominators and Wayfarer Global Reviewers). I do not like Reddit, so I am not apart of that sub-reddit.

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Nowhere.
Due to the nature of the Wayfarer system, I don’t want to be suspected of colluding with other Wayfinders, so I don’t discuss pre-nomination candidates with local Wayfinders or talk about eligibility criteria, nor do I feel any particular need to join.
That has been consistently the case from the time of the nomination and Niantic’s review since 2014 to the present.
So while I may praise other people’s good wayspots on social media, I don’t talk further with them.
So it’s just here.
Well, I have stopped reviewing and will shortly no longer need to look here either.

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Corrected the title. “apart of” literally means the exact opposite of “a part of.” It’s a common mistake.

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I understand your feelings on this, but for me, I feel Wayfarer would not be enjoyable without the community aspect. While collaboration could be frowned on by some Wayfarers, I like collaborating with other Wayfarers. We are all trying to work towards a similar goals to make the Niantic games better.

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Here and the Wayfarer subreddit. I do have Discord but I don’t really use it much, so I’ve not joined the wayfarer Discord.

I also chat with a couple of locals about wayfarer stuff.

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I joined way too many groups across the world to get in touch with Wayfinders :sweat_smile:

Mostly active, you’ll find me on the Wayfarer Discussion Discord, on Wayfarer DACH (German speaking areas), and also nationwide groups on Telegram and Facebook like Italy, Spain, Taiwan, and a few more.

I’m also on the Wayfarer Subreddit, and reply a bit on Twitter and the forums here.

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Only here and the LDS WhatsApp channel.

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This is my original community :sunglasses:
I am also on Reddit but being an Ambo has left me little time for that……
And there is of course the small specialised Ambassador wayfarer community.
I will talk Wayfarer to anyone who is interested.

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Could you please tell them to reconsider their stance on city names?

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I’ll run it by the big boss :latin_cross:

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I’m a member of the Discord and I follow the subreddit. I recently joined two Facebook groups too. I would love to find a local community to work with but I’m not sure if one exists or not yet.

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Where are you from again? Maybe I can see if I have something in my group collection

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I live in Milano, Italy. I get reviews for most of Italy, along with Switzerland, and sometimes France, Slovenia and Austria. Thank you for reaching out, by the way! I really appreciate it!

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I’m in my local one that has been active from the start of OPR, I’m in the Wayfarer Discussion discord, the Wayspotters discord, reddit, Facebook X2 and a few small telegram channels for bonus locations I’ve been.

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With clean people I can talk about all sorts of things about Wayfarer and form some community, though.
Still, I never talk about the POIs I submit.
I don’t like the act of myself or others influencing reviews.
If I talk about it, it is only about the general criteria.

Also, unfortunately, in my area, the majority of players of a specific game have alt accounts.
And some of them are unfortunately Wayfinders.
I don’t see how forming a local community with such people and associating with people who can’t even abide by the game’s terms of service and whose morals are so tacitly condoned by them is going to have any positive impact on my real life.
That is one of the reasons I am so negative about the community on Wayfarer, especially the local community.
To me that is more important than having more wayspots.

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I use the other site . Campfire

Edit of contact material

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Here (of course).
Wayfarer Discussion Discord (mainly for tools and “coal”)
Campfire (was rarely used but used a few times recently to arrange Remote Raids.

I am also a member of a Local Whatsapp group but this used more to arrange Raid days etc. It does have a “Wayfarer” channel but it extremely under-used.

Seen to many “But on Reddit it says…” and “Reddit says that if you do “abc” then you get banned” on here to be bothered wading through that…

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The actual Wayfarer subreddit is pretty good. It’s the general subs dedicated to Pokemon GO that spread all the misinformation about Wayfarer.

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Two of my local Campfire groups have Wayfarer sections within them. We generally don’t discuss specific nominations (because of the collusion thing), mainly it’s general strategy/ideas, or announcement/discussion of local stops post-approval.

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I am just a member here and find that’s enough for me if I need advice, Help or on occasion to be shown the light or error of my ways.:grin:

Personally I think collaboration is a good thing as nobody is infallible and people make mistakes, sometimes it takes others to point those out or give advice on how to improve something or leave it alone altogether.

I would love to have help from the local community with wayspots because the time it takes to research some of them can be a factor.

Once the rules are followed and there is no malicious intent I have no issues with people discussing or planning submissions. If you have a lot of perspective poi in a large area it can be beneficial to spread the work amongst a group of people so that no single person has to do it all themselves.

Once there is no collusion on voting practices and the wayspot submission are legitimate and accurate it can only help everyone in the long run.

1 word of caution though, I have seen examples of bad actors that will go out of there way to try to cause issues with perspective submissions so I prefer to only share possible submissions with people I trust.

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