I think reviewers may have marked it as abuse because you’re trying to get them to accept a photo that has visible faces in it.
Whilst it’s true that there’s some leniency for having people in photos when something is a big tourist attraction where it’s basically impossible to get the photo without people in it, in this case you likely could’ve taken a photo without people in it if you’d been patient or gone at a different time of day.
It would have also been possible to crop.
Are you referring to the faces at the far bottom left? Zoomed in all the way, all I see is blurry head shapes!
@Passofelpato2 it’s also possible reviewers chose this because the picture itself has faces in it, which it obviously has to.
As @SlimboyFat71 said, crop out the edges and resubmit.
I think on the original photo it will be very clear.
Oh, yes. dolp
At least there’s an easy image-crop available.
Oh ok. Btw now i resubmitted it with the cropped image
It’s not always easy to spot these things. It’s happened to most of us at some point. As long as you can learn from it, that’s the main thing. Hopefully your resubmission will nail it.
The artwork itself isn’t the issue, there’s people in background at lower left.
It’s literally the context photo, not the one used for the pokestop
Sorry i thought it was another discussion here.
Nope! The main photo does also.
I know
Now i cropped the photo and it got accepted
Yay! I’m very pleased it worked out okay in the end
The only thing i regret i submitted too late and now the gym is near some condominium that probably doesn’t have much Pokemon GO/Pikmin Bloom/etc. players nearby.
Next time I go there i’ll try to submit the noticeboard near the cross to make the church become a gym (i noticed that playgrounds and church seems to have more possibilities to become gyms if there is a tie)
How much do you know about gym creation? We know some things, although there is a random element to it as well. I don’t think we’ve seen any evidence to suggest churches or playgrounds are prioritised particularly though.
It’s not weighted based on what the stop represents, as best I can tell. If at all, it’s all technical things like various types of interaction (extra pictures, likes, age of stop, number of spins?).
For example, I’ve done a lot of really low population grids. Adding stop #2 usually (on a rough count, seven out of nine grids that I found with only one stop, and one where I submitted every stop) has made stop #1 into a gym - I’ve only seen #2 spawn as a gym twice. In one case #1 was ineligible (showcase), and in the other I don’t know but it might be also (and #1 had about eight extra pictures). If it was really randomized, I would not expect 80 percent plus to all go to the older stop.
I know that it all depends on the votes and the photos of the wayspot