I have been reviewing and rejecting a lot of individual holes for golf and frisbee golf because I thought I saw guidance that for safety reasons we did not want Pokemon Go players with their eyes on their phones to be wandering around golf courses with flying round projectiles in the air. Not joking that there may be a liability thing here. This week I got another one to review and I saw two recently approved neighboring individual holes approved as wayspots. I reported them in the official way and got this in reply: Thank you for your location report for Stoneybrook Golf Course (Dilemna - Hole #3) on Oct 14, 2026. Niantic has decided that your report will be rejected. Any changes based on reports take up to 48 hours to be reflected in Niantic products that use this location. Note that not all available locations are used across all Niantic games. Your friends, The Wayfarer Team SO, I guess I have been wrong all along and individual holes are OK. I will start approving these going forward. The lack of consistency in guidance, rejections and approvals is staggering. Maybe it’s time to re-write the guidance with a lot more specific examples. I am sure there are a bunch of new reviewers all the time that are Pokemon Go players just trying to get 1500 agreements done so they can get a platinum medal needed in the game - why don’t we clear-up the guidance so new players can learn quickly and so we can all be more consistent.

You are not wrong. That rejection was wrong.

Thanks for that quick reply - but now this speaks even louder regarding the consistency problem.

For proof, each hole is considered a “point of play” on a golf course the same way each base is a point of play on a baseball field. Sports Fields - Criteria Clarification Collection - Scopely Explore Wayfarer Community

The staff who handle appeals are human. Sometimes they make human errors. You report might have even been accepted but they pasted the wrong text response (happens all too often!) This forum is a good place for requesting reviews of such situations, so we shall see what the staff say.

[image] Scoot43016: SO, I guess I have been wrong all along and individual holes are OK. I will start approving these going forward. I’m sure that this is frustration and sarcasm talking, but for the record, the results of reviews and appeals have been specifically stated as ‘non-binding’. I.e., we should never make assumptions that something is eligible (or ineligible) based on them. Only official Niantic / Scopely statements should be taken as guidance.

No - honestly - I took the rejected report as meaning that individual holes are actually allowed. I have read the “point of play” comment above and cannot decide it that means individual holes are - or are not - allowed. I appreciate the “non-binding” and “human error” comments - both valid. Point being that consistency is lacking in guidance, approvals, and even in reviews. Now it’s on me to accept that it is what it is… but - I just got another one for hole #9 on a frisbee golf course and I can see that basket #8 was already approved - what to do?

[image] Wayfarer Abuse Ladder Changes - Discussion General Discussion Wait did you individually report all of those from the map?? I started listing disc golf courses in a spreadsheet because I ran out of reports reporting a bunch of duplicate imported wayspots…

[image] Scoot43016: what to do? Report them. If there are multiple, use the ‘report abuse’ form. It’s a moderately efficient process. [image] Scoot43016: Point being that consistency is lacking in guidance, approvals, and even in reviews. The guidance is pretty solid, to be fair, although there is always a qualitative aspect to submissions, so there is never a clear “always this”, and rarely even a clear “never this”. Reviews will always be wildly inconsistent, because the people doing them have wildly different priorities. Some (like most people here) want to keep the map in a good state. Some want MOAR STOPS and approve everything. Some want the wayfarer medal ASAP so for them it’s all about quantity. As for the appeals staff… I can’t say I know, but I wouldn’t be surprised if that role had been somewhat outsourced to staff who aren’t necessarily on the same wage as those managing the map.

I did use the map - it was just two of them and the first time I reported individual holes. I like your idea if I run into a bunch at a time.

Thank you - well said and understood.

Individual Holes On Golf Courses

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LetsRollGirl October 15, 2026, 11:30pm 15

Just for folks following along there is a specific clarification about Golf courses (including Disc golf) here:

Additionally I moved this to the General thread as Challenge is for discussion of Global Review/Edit challenges.

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