Mysterious Mission Rejections - any insight?

This Mission banner has been rejected now twice. The banner takes you all through the tourist town of Kemah, TX and no waypoints are repeated.

So this is my mission title: "Save the Mermaids X/12" where X is the number of each of the 12 different missions. 

And here is my description, "Help the Unicorn search for all the Mermaids among all the nautical themed portals here in Kemah, Texas . Explore this tourist town while you find all the mermaid portals around the area."

The image features a mermaid and a unicorn. Pretty clearly. It is a derivative work of my own. I know it's not about the image, I didn't get that email.

All the waypoints are the portals in the Kemah, Texas area, a nautical themed tourist town where all the portals have nautical themed names and imagery.  

Here is the rejection criteria I received for this 12 mission banner:  

A lack of a clear and informative description and/or title

Mission Image, description, and/or title are unrelated to the Waypoints chosen

So tell me why they may think that, or, if this isn't the real reason, what is? @NianticBrian @NianticThia


Comments

  • Try making your description more boring. "Search these nautical-themed portals, to earn this nautical map badge." (Niantic reviewers don't consider banners. Some of the pieces look a little like a map. Replace w unicorn, etc.)

    Once missions are in place, it's easier to edit the description. Altho it might take a while.


    See also https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/20147/rejected-missions-reason#latest

  • I've replied to that thread already btw. And I've had other people tell me in other chats to make it more interesting or more detailed. Really seems like everyone is throwing stuff at a wall and seeing what sticks. I don't think anyone has any ideas as to why this happens.

  • Mission reviewers are probably minimum wage contractors, average tenure a few months, never heard of Ingress before, with a 1-page list of what to look for. Their training was probably how to log onto the system, pull up missions, push a button to pass/fail, find the next mission. I love clever missions, but they probably don't want to think that much.

  • If we had that list, it would be a large help. The list we do have clearly isn't what they are looking for in missions or this process would be a lot less opaque.

  • Brit0martisBrit0martis ✭✭✭
    edited November 2022

    As an update, I deleted all the missions and resubmitted them with a few reworded descriptions and several of them have already passed within hours of submitting. This process is very hit or miss and random.

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