Feature Request: Black Portals
In my area we have a church with a set of statues of the twelve Apostles which were removed as portals because Ingress players were being disruptive and disrespectful.
We have a public park with historical decorated buildings, educational signs about a shameful part of history, and a monument to earthquake victims who died here, which were removed as portals because... Well, we don't know why.
There are places where playing AR games is rightfully seen as disrespectful to the gravity of the location, such as the sites of Nazi **** camps.
We are seeing new players who do not know game history submit these places as portals, and in some cases they are being accepted. This seems wrong.
It would be helpful if these removed POI remained in the game as black portals which cannot be interacted with in any way, as a reminder of game and human history, and as a partial replacement for Field trip.
Comments
This is a good idea. My only concern is by making the portals visible again, would it not draw the same crowd of disruptive and disrespectful players trying to find out why the portal is unhackable and/or there at all.
It is a shame that people cannot be nice and just treat everywhere outside of their home with a form of general kindness, unless told otherwise.