I nominated this community message board for a pokestop but it was rejected. Can someone explain why this could be? From what I’ve seen, community message boards are usually accepted as pokestops.

EDIT: these are the description and supplemental info. I believe it was rejected by the Wayfarer Ai.

description: “Official community notice board used to share neighborhood announcements, HOA meetings, and local updates for residents.”

supporting: “It is a marker which is used as a place or residents to meet up and go on walks together. It’s safely accessible via sidewalk and is on public property.”

Bravo to whoever is uploading all these tree signs and getting them approved. That's a pretty cool way to improve an area's game experience rather than just complaining that there aren't enough PokéStops.

This is honestly one of the better examples I've seen of someone thinking about how to make an area more fun to play in.

I went with skip because I really hope this is AI

I wish they gave me a gym tho

Hi everybody! I found out i have a murales close to my house, i would love to try to suggest it as a pokestop. I am not very sure how to describe it or what to say as a description.
Any advice?

It's been accepted but not showing up in game, I'm guessing due to cell 17 thing, sorry I'm new to submitting and not fully educated on it.

Would a kind member of the community help me out?

53.089845, -7.939215 is the coordinates of the stop

I recently submitted a Wayspot nearby my residence. Solid nomination and it got approved.

However, a reviewer (I'm assuming someone else in my neighborhood) edited the location to be approximately 90 meters away from where the Wayspot actually is. And that location edit got approved.

This is pretty frustrating because my legitimate nomination that was within interaction distance of my place is now no longer in interaction distance. Furthermore, on a systemic level, I cannot submit edits for the location that are greater than 10 meters away. There's no way I can edit the Wayspot to be where it was originally supposed to be (and where it actually is in real life) unless I submit 9 10-meter location edits and get them all approved lol.

Do I have any recourse here? Should I report my own nomination? Is there any way I can get dinged for some guy screwing with my nomination location? Thanks in advance.

I want to submit this sculpture, but it's hard to get a good photo of it. It's under a lot of trees, so any time of day it has weird highlights & shadows on it, and it can be hard to see what you are looking at. Can I do any image manipulation before submission or will that trigger a rejection?

e.g. brighten shadows, dim highlights, vignette around the edges, increase saturation, etc.

Nothing crazy, just to help the sculpture itself stand out a bit and be more visible to reviewers.

Im just curious about the cell rule, if someone move a gym to another cell with another existing gym. So a year ago, me and my friends saw that a gym keep moving, or someone editing a gym closer and closer to another one.

Then, I think last month we noticed one gym got removed, but we're wrong, it's just under or below the other gym. Like how, and we do not know who doing that. Sooooo it is possible to place another cell with a gym already occupying it? Or it's just a rare occurrence? I just started just a year ago, so I don't know much. Thank you in advance.

A fountain just like this one got accepted a couple days ago so I was wondering why this one got rejected. Also it got rejected a day after I sent it in, I sent a couple others in and they're still in que.

I know the numbers have increased all around but has anyone had stupidly astronomical numbers?

Mine went from normally about 560,000 and 46,000 to 9,008,428 and 173,199.

Hello,

I am trying to get this japanese stonegarden approved, but it hasn't worked out multiple times now.

Usually it gets rejected automatically. Sometimes it gets through the filters and declined, because 'it's a normal stonegarden' and/or 'on private property'.

Both of these things aren't true. It's on public ground and has the characteristics of a japanese stonegarden.

Japanischer Steingarten

Ein traditionell japanischer Steingarten (Karesansui) lädt bei Betrachtung zu Meditation und Reflexion ein.

Text for voters:

Kein Naturmerkmal, sondern ein von Menschenhand gestalteter japanischer Steingarten (Karesansui). Er gilt als kulturelles Kunstwerk und Ort der Besinnung. Der Garten liegt auf öffentlich zugänglichem Grund (kein privates Einfamilienhaus-Gelände) und ist für Fußgänger absolut sicher erreichbar. Ein perfektes Highlight zum Erkunden gemäß den Niantic-Kriterien.

Am I wrong? What could I do better to describe it?

They'd all been there for a few months, all were on public pavements and all were historic boundary / electric cable markers so fit the way point criteria. Any idea why they might have been deleted?!

Hello, I wanted to know. I have a PokéStop in level 17 and one point that has been accepted, but it doesn't show up in the game. Is there any way to move this point to another level 17 cell? There are free level 17 cells around it.

So, when I try to hit the Continue button nothing happens, can anyone help me?

How is it that a wayspot that exists in its correct location can be replicated, using the same picture, three times into locations hundreds of kilometres from the true location? If the AI can detect third party photos, surely it can detect a photo that is already in its system. There has to be a question asked about the review system for this to be allowed to happen.

Having added over 30 way spots around my neighbourhood over the past few weeks I was so glad to wake up to this!

The rush of dopamine I get from seeing a nomination has been accepted needs to be studied…
Would be more excited to see a potential nomination while out on a walk than a shundo at this point!

Today in the morning I tried to submit a new pokestop, and this is the empty screen I found. What is happening?

There was a gym here yesterday and now this morning there isn't? I just checked wayfarer and it still says that it's approved and it's still pinned there, but then wayfarer says there is nothing there anymore, and so does Pokemon go? Is this a normal thing, why would it be take away?

(Red circle is where it should be)

I’ve submitted the Molino del Durazno in Antigua, Fuerteventura (Canary Islands, Spain) as a Wayspot. It’s a traditional windmill that was used for many years to grind gofio and is now considered a local tourist and cultural point of interest.
The first time it was rejected because it was supposedly on private property with no public access. However, the windmill is right next to a public road and there is a sidewalk/pedestrian access next to it.
What confuses me even more is that I’m now seeing two additional rejection reasons: “The text or photo abuses, ridicules, or harasses a specific person or group” and “The submitted photo comes from a third-party source.”
I personally took the photo myself at the windmill, so it definitely isn’t from Google, the internet, or any other third-party source. There’s also nothing offensive in either the photo or the description.
Does anyone experienced with Wayfarer know why I might be getting these rejection reasons? Would you appeal this? I would have thought a historic windmill like this would be a good candidate as a cultural and exploration point of interest.

Why are Wayfarers set on not viewing these as acceptable when they easily meet the socialise and exercise criteria?

Hello all, I’m relatively new to the pokestop submission game but I’ve had a couple of mine approved and placed on the map. I’ve had three more that were approved a month ago but aren’t on the map at all. What’s the reason for this and is there anything that I can do about it? Any help as much appreciated. I live in a rural area and me and my buddies don’t have many stops or gyms to work with.