This is map of the municipality of Goirle, highlighting several important locations. I understand this sign is somewhat overwhelmed with ads, and that this image might have looked like an advertisement sign, or possibly confused as being part of the bus stop due to it’s close location to it. I however do not see a reason for this to be marked as location abuse or abuse, harassment, ridiculing a person/ group of people.
I double checked the location through OpenStreetMap, which is ±10 meters off. The red marker being where the submission is, the yellow circle where it would be. As you can see the trees on Google Maps make it tough to pinpoint. So I’ll say it’s not the most accurate location, but abuse seems far fetched.
If not eligible for a wayspot due to the majority of the sign being taken up by ads, fine. Then I would love to have an explaination as to why this is harassment and abuse.
Whilst satellite view does have tree cover obscuring it, street view does quite clearly show the object and could’ve been used as a way to make sure you were setting the pin correctly.
As the submitter, the onus is on you to make sure your submission is accurate before it enters the voting system.
This has been flagged for the incorrect location, which has been deemed to be an abusive mislocation. The resulting text is extremely misleading and means nothing, so what matters is “does not exist at the nominated location”.
Deliberately mislocating submissions, for example pushing them over a cell boundary into an empty cell in order to get a pokestop, is considered abuse and risks both your wayfarer and game accounts.
While this may not have been deliberate, you aren’t going to be able to prove that, and you must be able to see how this would look to an outside observer.
In your position, I would be very glad that I hadn’t been sanctioned for this, as I’ve seen it happen to people for similar situations.
It is a shame you misplaced it, as the existing wayspot at 51.529522,5.063073, should be removed for being at private property, if placed at the correct location, your nomination would show in the game (as soon as “De Zaaier” is removed)
Thank you all for welcoming me, replying and informing me, especially on the riduculing/ abuse to a certain group just being a general text that is included within the category as @salixsorbus said. Weird on their end, because it makes it seem more extreme than it is.
Seeing as there is no real consequence for this particular abuse warning, since it’s the first one; Is there any reason to appeal it? As @00witsd mentioned, there is no real way for me to prove this.
If they did not send you a formal email warning about this with a link to contact them to appeal, then there is nothing to appeal. It is just a rejected nomination for the reason of misplacement. Just be more careful going forward.
Its 1st strike from abuse ladder system then.
Next strike might be 30days suspension. Since you admit your submission got missplaced, appeal probably wont change anything.
You have 1 year redemption period where this strike will be gone after 1 year of clean record. So i suggest you to recheck your nomination going forward
Yeah, as I say, there’s no way to prove it was an accident, and it was definitely misplaced, so I would take the warning as a warning, and be more careful going forward.
As others have said, in a year this will be cleared from your record, so it shouldn’t be anything to worry about so long as it doesn’t happen again before that!
