Rejected Submission and Appeal

Wayspot Appeals
1

When submitting a Wayspot Appeal, make sure to include as much of the following information as possible:

  • Wayspot Title: フライ様

  • Location (lat/lon): (31.6196179, 130.5799945)

  • City: Kagoshima

  • Country: Japan

  • Screenshot of the Rejection Email (do not include your personal information):

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  • Additional Information (if any):
    Both the submission and the appeal were rejected for the stated reason— photos were considered to be third-party resources.
    That made me so confused cause I took those pictures myself with my own camera and my own phone. The original pictures were all in my personal devices. If it’s okay, I would like to know what kind of proofs the reviewers or the decision makers had and provided to the system to judge that my photos were third-party resources. Thank you.

And at this point I’m not sure whether I should submit it again or not? It’s kind of inconsistent and discouraging when the submitters do provide information and make an effort to introduce a new wayspot, sharing their pictures and passions, but then some reviewers can easily just decide it’s third-party resources by reporting without a single proof?

I’m sorry for questioning this, but as far as I know, it doesn’t only happen to me, it also happens to other players. If there’s a clear proof provided with some of the rejections, it would be so much better and less frustrating.

Thank you for this amazing game and all the effort the team put in. I love this game a lot.

2

Welcome to the forum @ClaudMonett

Would you be willing to share the pictures that you used for your nomination?

Also, have you uploaded those photos anywhere else on the internet?

3

Absolutely do not resubmit with the same photos.

If you uploaded them to another site, staff have no way to tell whose photos they were originally. Any photos available on a third party site will be flagged.

4

Reviewers can flag a submission for using a third-party photo, but you would only get a warning after Scopely Explore staff have checked this themselves. That is not even what happened here - you appealed and the appeal reviewer (Scopely Explore) saw the photo as third-party, which they would not have done without evidence of this.

As @cyndiepooh said, do not resubmit without resolving this.

(Scopely Explore will not include the evidence in their rejections as this makes it too easy for abusive submitters to work out how to bypass the rejection when resubmitting.)