Hashtags in Nominations
Hi. Lately I am seeing on average about 4 out of 10 nominations in Wayfarer with hashtags in the complementary information (supporting information).
In principle, I know that the complementary information will not be published in the games. But as I understand it, they put the hashtags to mark them and approve them en masse.
This has been seen before with OPR. I have seen submits that used #OPR2018, #OPR2019 in the portal description, and I never understood why they did it. So now there are now hundreds of portals that have #OPR20XX as description.
With the appearance of the nominations and Wayfarer, the good thing is that they added the complementary information. Now they put the hashtags there. But ... is this legal? I think not, because as I said before they are marks for their friends to recognize and give their positive feedback, influenced.
With Wayfarer and nominations from Pokémon GO, WhatsApp groups emerged with many users, who agreed to place these hashtags: #PPW2020 #Jirachi or some other Pokémon, keyword or even the username directly.
How should we rate this?
For now, I was giving 1 star to the most obvious, since in many cases they also clarify in the complementary information that we do not modify the location by the s2 cells. I directly reject those for inaccurate location.
I try not to be bad, I know that hashtags may be "harmless", but I also know that they do it to get more positive votes from their friends.





Comments
If the hashtags are in the title or description, reject the nomination. If they are in the supporting text, ignore the hashtag unless it contains personally identifiable inforation, such as an IGN. In those cases, report the nomination through the support form.
I just saw that in the "Wayfarer Abuse" form there is the option to report by influencing reviewers.