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Dear Wayfarer Support Team,
I am submitting a formal appeal regarding a 30-day account suspension resulting from the nomination “Graffiti Relámpago Violeta” (Submitted on 9/7/26), which was incorrectly flagged as a Fake Submission.
This artwork physically exists at the location. In fact, this exact artwork is currently active on the map as a live Wayspot under the name “Graffiti Letras violetas Eléctricas”. (See attached screenshot of the active Wayspot).
What occurred:
I submitted “Graffiti Relámpago Violeta”, which remained pending in the voting queue.
While pending, another nomination for the exact same physical artwork was accepted, creating the active Wayspot “Graffiti Letras violetas Eléctricas”.
When my pending submission was finally evaluated, reviewers incorrectly marked it as a “Fake Submission” instead of properly classifying it as a “Duplicate”.
The active Wayspot in the game proves that the physical object and location are legitimate. I kindly request a manual review to correct the classification error (from Fake Submission to Duplicate) and lift the suspension from my player account (Javier Shnurov).
Thank you for your assistance.
There is something about that image that looks peculiar. The way that the paint / marker pen(?) draws across the two different surfaces doesn’t look entirely right, and with the amount of AI fakes that have been subbed, I wouldn’t be surprised if that what reviewers thought was the case here. (To be clear I’m not saying that that is the case!)
Did you submit good supporting photos? Often AI image subs come with supporting images that either don’t include the POI subject, or are the same picture with different cropping. A couple of fresh angles that have the POI in shot helps to avoid suspicion.
It can be a frustrating additional thing to have to do to show to reviewers that you aren’t gaming the system, but I guess it’s the times we are living in.
This is strictly my own view based solely on visual inspection. I believe this image was created using some editing technique on a Google Street View screenshot to add graffiti that does not exist in reality. Furthermore, even if the graffiti actually exists, it is still ineligible. Please consider it from the perspective of the wall owner who had their property graffitied. How much of their own money would they have to waste to repair that damage? It is not worthy of exploration.
I used a different service to check the nearby Graffiti Urbano at -34.817917, -58.288805 and that is potentially AI generated as well, can you check it to see if Gemini agrees?
Even if it does actually exist though, it’s still just vandalism, and it’s definitely incorrectly located (the picture shows it on a wall, whilst the pin is in the middle of a roof).
Hi @ScopelyExpAaron,
Please close or withdraw this appeal thread. I won’t be able to provide the requested video at this time and I prefer to serve the 30-day suspension instead. Thank you for your time.
If you use Google’s generative AI to edit something yes. If you just take a photo and add a filter and crop or something no, that just uses content credentials.
