Benches, Bus Stops and other trash Portals
Oh, please. Niantic. Stop it.
Since OPR has become Wayfarer and some Pokemon players are allowed to rate, portals of very low quality appear here. They are simple town signs, bus stops, benches and so on. All without meaning. I think the thought of many Pokemon players here is, 'I want one more Pokestoo' or 'I want one more arena'.
There are also a lot of portals that were made with a fake camera and Photoshop.
It's a shame that the quality suffers so much.
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If you actually followed the old rating system of opr you would remember that most things can be approved if a good reasoning behind it.
I am currently trying to get a bench in that was dedicated and painted differently and has a plaque on it dedicated too a local Paralympian who won bronze.
The old system said something along the lines of reject unless it was for a notable/influential person in the community.
I agree people need to do there homework on there submissions but it's not just black and white as you are making it out to be.
The standards have changed somewhat. Read the information available in Wayfarer and read the up-coming AMA.
If there are portals that were created with fake pictures, then report them individually to get removed as the object no longer exists.
You're sure the benches aren't from original Seer submissions? My bigger issue is allowing those to be grandfathered when "better" (I add quotations because the original submissions weren't added due to malicious behavior) nominations are nearby.
If 10 PoGo players approve a random bench or buss stop and you reject it guess what. You just will get -1 to your success rate. :)
This makes no sense anymore