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Wayspot Title: River Dove Bridge
Location (lat/lon):52.264713, 1.010146
City:Bacton, Suffolk
Country: England
Screenshot of the Rejection Email (do not include your personal information):
Additional Information (if any):Please, why has my main pokestop been removed, this was connected to all of my routes now all my progress is gone. This is a totally safe and permanent landmark which connects to many walks.
I cannot see an obvious explanation for this removal.
As it happens, I would not have accepted it, because it doesn’t create a link to connect different areas, as you can just walk round it, and I don’t think every footbridge should be a wayspot.
That should not be enough for it to get removed, since it is not definitely ineligible. It exists, it is safely accessible and is potentially eligible.
It is just a massive shame as I am a more rural player, and I managed to build up my village a bit with pokestops using the very limited options I had, it is demotivating now seeing them get removed. Also considering the fact this has lost all of my route progress, and all of my city friends have 100s of pokestops by them, and I struggle to maintain a few.
Have other wayspots been removed or just this one?
You may not get a response from Scopely Explore. While waiting (and if this never comes back) you have easy potential for more wayspots (pokestops and gyms), since you have a lot of public footpaths.
Any public rights of way markers along these paths (red - footpath, purple - bridleway) will be eligible as these are all proper footpaths not just little bits between houses.
When the marker is visible on streetview, that’s easy to prove. When it isn’t, take extra photos and add links to both rowmaps.com and openstreetmap.org in your supporting text to prove the PROW goes there (and in the case of OSM, it shows stiles etc).
You’ve also got an allotment south of the primary school, which might produce a couple of wayspots - entrance sign and noticeboard if they are far enough apart. Again, extra photos to prove location.
Unfortunately, it’s not just this one. Several other PokéStops have been removed too, including the bee area, which is perfectly safe and has walking trails, as well as 3 other stops along the public footpaths you mentioned. I also submitted the allotment, but that was rejected.
Honestly, it’s getting really demotivating. I’m putting effort into improving the local area for players, only to see perfectly legitimate stops removed and new submissions rejected.
On top of that, I’ve had people pulling up in their cars and harassing me when I’m just trying to take local gyms. I’ve even spent £3 on 3 premium raid passes recently, and all 3 catch encounters bugged out.
The game is bringing me far more negativity than positivity at this point. I’m seriously considering giving up altogether. Unless I can get this one reinstated today, I’m done. There comes a point where there’s just no reason to keep trying anymore.
Please post the details of the other removed wayspots. If the removed wayspots were PROW markers, something’s off.
The allotment being rejected is depressingly common. Resubmit (don’t appeal, as Scopely Explore don’t understand them), checking that you haven’t made any errors in your submission.
Yes something is off, a local player who has an issue with me, is obviously mass reporting new pokestops I add to get at me. He has multiple accounts and makes it impossible to take gyms.
That latter point is a frustrating pogo problem which can’t be dealt with here.
I had an area near me with a bunch of gyms which I could never stay in more than a couple of hours as they would be routinely replaced by the same accounts. I ended up just avoiding those gyms completely, but at least had others to use.
A single player cannot get wayspots removed. This is done by Scopely Explore, but it is of course possible to provide fake evidence.
Please post the details of what the removed wayspots were.
Both PokéStops are located along popular public walking routes in the village of Bacon. One is on the back walk near Clay Lane, and the other is by the allotment walking trails.
Both locations are genuine public footpaths that are regularly used by local residents and walkers.
I have attached photographs of each location, including the original objects, their surrounding areas.
The first of these two, was accepted and then removed a week later. While the second one was rejected all together, I can understand these two a bit more but these are still fully public walking areas safe to the public with walking trails also.
Hello and welcome @connorhpz
First I understand that form your perspective this feels personal and is tied up with game play.
Your appeal here needs to focus on the actual wayspot and the facts around it.
We often see posters feel that a specific individual is behind removals.
The most likely scenario is that if you have been submitting some reviewers have whilst looking at the review seen other wayspots nearby and reported them. This could easily have been anyone in the UK.
To the wayspots in question
The initial one, is something I don’t think I would voted towards accepting - pretty much as Salix has expressed.
For the ones like the allotment that haven’t been approved can you make a post in Nomination Support - have had good success with allotments and don’t recognise any issues on appeal.
For the footpath markers if you submitted these can you provide a screen shot that shows the coordinates of submission eg
So we can check.
Same with the bee sign which I can see on streetview. I have to say I would have rejected the fields sign as it is mainly a simple layout of the houses and warning about the SuDs area.
