They were approving me today plenty of missions today from the previous IFS banner, but many weren't reviewed. I'm happy, it seems they are trying to catch up, so I'm fine with it.
There was a comment made during a Q&A that it would be looked into. But in true Niantic fashion, silence... Ya know, don’t wanna work with the community you’re hoping will keep paying your bills...
Finally got an answer, after 76 days (banner was submitted on 08.08.2020), and it was rejected :(
It's not my first rejected banner, but I still don't understand why they are rejecting valid missions and banners.
The reasons for this banner stated in the mail are:
Mission Image, description, and/or title are unrelated to the Waypoints chosen
A lack of a clear and informative description and/or title
This is the banner I submitted:
And this is the description:
Saint John at Kaneo is an Orthodox church situated on the cliff over Kaneo overlooking Lake Ohrid. This banner takes you on two laps around the city, with a few stops along the way to enjoy the view.
The church is a portal, and it is a waypoint in the 7th mission.
During this period of 76 days parts 6 and 17 got approved with the same description, I guess by luck.
It's really disapointing to see banners with abstract art and vague descriptions getting aproved, and something like this not.
Btw, anyone to share an opinion about this banner?
that is sad, looks like a valid banner to me, what was the title of the banner ? i would try change the description to add some historical references etc maybe it lacks some extra info if they look that...
ok Kaneo might a bit short just one word as title. Best is to use something like "Historic walk through Kaneo 2020" maybe or similar ? It could be rejected just on the title alone so i would try add something more then just city for title.
Finally got a review on 5 out of a 6 banner mission. One approved and 4 rejected with following issues:
A lack of a clear and informative description and/or title
Mission Image, description, and/or title are unrelated to the Waypoints chosen
All missions have the exact same title and description, except for the counting part e.g. 1/6, 2/6, 3/6, etc. The first mission (the one that got approved) has an image of a map connected to the banner (the city part in which I live). The other missions have the same map, but in different colors and a letter on each mission that will spell out the area, which also happen to be in the title as well.
This has me somewhat confused. I mean, none of the issues above seems valid. Should I just retry sending them in as-is again?
Sounds like we need an update on if things have changed or are being enforced differently. I've definitely seen my fair share of banner missions that have absolutely nothing to do with anything.
Can someone from Niantic give us some insight please?
I've read several times that single letter images are rejected (presumably to stop people spelling out rude words) and you should have at least 2 letters per image.
Received all approvals this morning for a 6 tile banner submitted in mid August. Hoping for similar results for six 6-tile Halloween banners submitted around the same time. Also pending review is an 18-tile BannerRuck mission submitted in mid September.
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2020.8.4 , still waiting.
They were approving me today plenty of missions today from the previous IFS banner, but many weren't reviewed. I'm happy, it seems they are trying to catch up, so I'm fine with it.
I wanted to know if the mission validation team is multilingual, and if not, should I offer my French missions in English? thank you !!
I got a bunch of reviews done this night, but it was all from recent edits. There's still reviews over a year in th system with no response.
46 days on mine. Hoping Soon™
64 days and still nothing 🤨
Same here, worldwide problem and i haven't seen a word from Niantic about it (but i could have missed that).
Soon halloween i wonder how many banners wil not be accepted in time ??
Plenty missions rejected, 1-2 accepted. Thanks for reviewing, though. 😂😂😂
Joking, thank you for reviewing the missions.
There was a comment made during a Q&A that it would be looked into. But in true Niantic fashion, silence... Ya know, don’t wanna work with the community you’re hoping will keep paying your bills...
Finally got an answer, after 76 days (banner was submitted on 08.08.2020), and it was rejected :(
It's not my first rejected banner, but I still don't understand why they are rejecting valid missions and banners.
The reasons for this banner stated in the mail are:
This is the banner I submitted:
And this is the description:
Saint John at Kaneo is an Orthodox church situated on the cliff over Kaneo overlooking Lake Ohrid. This banner takes you on two laps around the city, with a few stops along the way to enjoy the view.
The church is a portal, and it is a waypoint in the 7th mission.
During this period of 76 days parts 6 and 17 got approved with the same description, I guess by luck.
It's really disapointing to see banners with abstract art and vague descriptions getting aproved, and something like this not.
Btw, anyone to share an opinion about this banner?
Also received 1 review with mail today 👍 r jected, same reasons as the post above.
The recent session of BannerRuck almost ends, my submission of BannerRuck mission banner is however still not processed.
My missions (17) were finally approved after 75 days.
Hope that everyone gets their missions approved soon (TM) as well.
suddenly all the remaining missions got approved today (Brussels)
that is sad, looks like a valid banner to me, what was the title of the banner ? i would try change the description to add some historical references etc maybe it lacks some extra info if they look that...
The title of the banner is "Kaneo". The description is 199 characters, so I can't add more info (descriptions are limited to 200 characters).
ok Kaneo might a bit short just one word as title. Best is to use something like "Historic walk through Kaneo 2020" maybe or similar ? It could be rejected just on the title alone so i would try add something more then just city for title.
Kaneo is the name of the cliff on which the church is built. The name of the city is Ohrid.
I have an approved banner with a single word in the title, it's called "Школка" (it means seashell) (https://ingressmosaic.com/mosaic/54024).
And another one with a short name called "City of Skopje" (https://ingressmosaic.com/mosaic/53549).
The problem with changing the name of this banner is that 2 of the missions are already approved, so I'll have to edit their titles or delete them.
ok keep trying goodluck.
All except one got approved yesterday.
I got an edit approval broadly two and a half months after submitting it this morning.
That's one hell of a handeling time to get a relocated portal removed from your banner.
I get that this maybe has less of a priority what with the covid and all but there's still people out there doing these.
53 days on mine. Hoping Soon™
Finally got a review on 5 out of a 6 banner mission. One approved and 4 rejected with following issues:
All missions have the exact same title and description, except for the counting part e.g. 1/6, 2/6, 3/6, etc. The first mission (the one that got approved) has an image of a map connected to the banner (the city part in which I live). The other missions have the same map, but in different colors and a letter on each mission that will spell out the area, which also happen to be in the title as well.
This has me somewhat confused. I mean, none of the issues above seems valid. Should I just retry sending them in as-is again?
Sounds like we need an update on if things have changed or are being enforced differently. I've definitely seen my fair share of banner missions that have absolutely nothing to do with anything.
Can someone from Niantic give us some insight please?
I've read several times that single letter images are rejected (presumably to stop people spelling out rude words) and you should have at least 2 letters per image.
After almost 3 months, 12 missions were approved. Another 54 rejected. All at the same time (in bulk at once).
Someone needed to "fulfill the plan" so put all missions reject?
Received all approvals this morning for a 6 tile banner submitted in mid August. Hoping for similar results for six 6-tile Halloween banners submitted around the same time. Also pending review is an 18-tile BannerRuck mission submitted in mid September.
My 24 mission series was rejected about an hour ago, all 24. Similar email as everyone else.