How to stop a player from abusing portal submissions?
Hello,
a player from my local community is severely abusing portal submissions. He's taking pictures of great candidates and submits them several times in places that give him/his friends unfair advantages. There's around 30 fake portals around that are reported regularly. However, if we get rid of some of them, new ones are placed immediately.
I'm frustrated. I hate to see that all the hard work my community put in to find good candidates is devalued by one single player who just can't stop abusing the system.
What can I do? Is there a way to revoke a player's ability to participate in wayfarer if definite proof is provided?
Thanks in advance
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You’re just going to have to continue to report the invalid portals.
There's a player whom does the same thing, here. Pictures of old portals (graffiti) miles away, he uses to any wall in the street that he lives.
There's numerous players whom submit candidate just by Printscreen from Googlemaps, and others kind of cheating... Niantic really care about it? I think the answer is no, because the "fault" is from the reviewing players.
Take picture of all fake portal he submitted, make a ticket to niantic support and provide them all info what town etc player name and they hopefully can ban him,.
Report one and dozen of tickets with photos, street view and actual photos of the places to support reporting this fake portals, always with the agent name who submit those.
https://ingress.com/support
There is nothing you can do as a player, except cross your fingers and hope they get reported by enough people for abuse.
what u mean,? u can make a ticket to niantic and report and let them investigate ?
You can also sing it from a mountain top. It’s likely to get the same response.
not sure if u are trying to be funny? with your logic nothing would be possible only singing on some mountain so goodluck in life with your thing..
Take photospheres at the portals so people can verify that they aren't there.
Make photospheres on top of each fake location, then submit an invalid portal.
I'm afraid this sounds like too much effort for a punishment that will never come.
Even if it does, getting a new account for subs is just too easy.
I would let it be. Try to correct those that prevent you from requesting some other legal portals and just ignore the rest.
You can let it be and earn 0 reward or get frustrated and earn 0 reward.