Massive portal relocation
For a long time i play Ingress in my city, it's not a big city, but we have a population arround of 450k of people.
So, since the age 2nd of Ingress i've been playnig in hard mode, in beginning we had 5 portals, i playing alone more than 3 months, other players rise and we had a good game. I had recruit friends and family to Resistance.
Playing Ingress in my city ever been like the seasons of year, even had a flourishment of new player and fall of many others. We ever lost agents for many kind of issue work, study, disinterest and etc..
I've been a active agent until i had to move to work in other city, but i never was stop use the scanner, many times the scanner was my GPS, i discover many kind of beautiful local, with amazing history, breathtaking florestal parks.
I've been IFS organizator in my town, because i was belive that Niantic need this type of help to rise the number of agents. Me and others fight to have see day that Niantic will bring more portals to our city, making operations, participating of Anomalys... Well, Pokemon Go born and was good in it's essence, a lost my Soujorner medal at the day 568 because i'm palying Pokémon Go. I had use Pokemon Go to bring more agents e relevance for our city and since do age 2nd of Ingress, before Pokémon Go we finally got our saint graal, the portals, many and many portals, to moment we have 1059 portals and i was happy.
But, i can´t blind myself to what the Wayfarer bring to us, the players now are relocating portals as thay will, pushing portal to they homes, moving portals 1km of a local to another just because in other locate don't have much portals than other place. And, you will ask, why the people, the appraiser of wayfarer don´t reject this request? I will answer, beacuse they are friends, they moving e relocating as will and us that had work to have this right, this power of appraise for the good portal, the correct indication, we has being depreciated how wayfarer appraiser, because the right evaluate it's not concordate with the great will of the bad appraisers.
What we can do to this stop?
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It won't stop, before and after Wayfarer that situation already exist, no punishment.
But now they are winning. Don't have have nothing what we can do?
We have just crounch in fetal position and cry? Is it?!
Look that request:
I Will translate the yellow marked text:
"Dear Mister appraiser, aprove the right location that finding in interior of park (Parque Municipal), the community be grateful."
What is the point, they are marking this Parque municipal how the right place for the portal, but is'nt, the portal it's in the right place.
I will mark in right location, but my pontuation will be depreciated.
Screenshot fake moves and report them through the help bot. They will usually be removed from Wayfarer and whoever submitted the fake edit may get a strike.
Where i can report this? Can you help me, i don't find a correct application to report this.
There's no place to report that behavior because you don't know who they are.
Yes, you can report it on the support site, under scanner/map/Opr issues
@Azhreia Can you send me a link? I don't finding.
You'll need to add the portal name and link (if you have it) and screenshot of the location edit on Wayfarer to the ticket
But Niantic does.
I believe that one of the ways to solve the issue, is to show the agent name that submits the relocation request.
Except showing agent names may lead to bias against agents
I agree with @LizardKing430, it would be best if there was an option on the relocation review to say that the “relocation request is being abused as it’s in the correct location”.
As far as I know, the final decision of portal relocation is not always the right one --- Sometimes it is just about how many colleagues you have.
And also, in China, our portal location is correct on Google Satellite, but not on the right address on Google Map due to another layer of map data encyption applying to all electronic maps available in Mainland China --- which lead to some relocations that put the portals on the right location on Google Map -- yet way off the actual location, which would take so long to verify and approve --- most of out attempts (to move them back) are rejected because NIA could not confirm -- I was wondering if they WERE confirming at both ends.
Niantic doesn't confirm location edits. That's up to the players on Wayfarer.
And it comes another question: How can we determine if Wayfarer analyses are correct, or intentionally misleading?
Also it is very labour and time consuming to submit the evidences to move them back to correct places if they were moved to the wrong location.
I think there should be some better ways to improve this rather than posting in the community, writing a lot of words, submitting several real-time pics with EXIF info etc waiting for an answer.