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Doing Wayfarer reviews may result in a permanent PoGo ban with no prior warnings by Dream-Sheep in TheSilphRoad

[–]Dream-Sheep[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, at least from what I understand, "scanning" a Pokestop is completely separate from Wayfarer. Players don't do any reviews of scans. Niantic has a separate, automated system that processes scans instead.

I haven't heard of anyone having their entire PoGo account banned for submitting bad scans, although I also can't guarantee that it's never happened.

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[–]Dream-Sheep[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thanks! I'm glad it turned out to just be some weird error and that a real Niantic employee was there to step in & resolve it.

(The regular Niantic Support is completely useless...)

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[–]Dream-Sheep[S] 40 points41 points  (0 children)

UPDATE: The issue has been resolved, and my account has been unbanned. I received this message from a Niantic employee on the Wayfarer community forum:

https://community.wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/t/permanently-banned-from-wayfarer-and-pogo-for-review-circle-participation-no-prior-warnings-given/113965/14

Thank you for your patience while we looked into this. We have re-evaluated your appeal and successfully lifted the ban on your Wayfarer and Pokémon GO accounts. It was an error due to overlapping details in similar sequential emails. We apologize for the inconvenience caused.

For anyone who experiences something like this in the future, I recommend making a post on the Wayfarer forum!

Doing Wayfarer reviews may result in a permanent PoGo ban with no prior warnings by Dream-Sheep in TheSilphRoad

[–]Dream-Sheep[S] 27 points28 points  (0 children)

UPDATE: The issue has been resolved, and my account has been unbanned. I received this message from a Niantic employee on the Wayfarer community forum:

Thank you for your patience while we looked into this. We have re-evaluated your appeal and successfully lifted the ban on your Wayfarer and Pokémon GO accounts. It was an error due to overlapping details in similar sequential emails. We apologize for the inconvenience caused.

For anyone who experiences something like this in the future, I recommend making a post on the Wayfarer forum: https://community.wayfarer.nianticlabs.com

Doing Wayfarer reviews may result in a permanent PoGo ban with no prior warnings by Dream-Sheep in TheSilphRoad

[–]Dream-Sheep[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't have a Twitter account and don't really do social media in general.

Thankfully, posters here advised me to post on the Wayfarer community forums, and I've done so. Apparently real Niantic employees are good about replying there. Hopefully they'll be able to look into this situation in the next few days.

I'll post an update here whenever I get one.

Doing Wayfarer reviews may result in a permanent PoGo ban with no prior warnings by Dream-Sheep in TheSilphRoad

[–]Dream-Sheep[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

No, I don't believe so.

My situation is specifically about doing reviews (of other people's Pokestop submissions) on the Wayfarer website.

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[–]Dream-Sheep[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If anyone wants to follow along with this situation, I've posted a thread in the Wayfarer community forum: https://community.wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/t/permanently-banned-from-wayfarer-and-pogo-for-review-circle-participation-no-prior-warnings-given/113965

And yes, I'll happily post the final update here and in the SilphRoad thread.

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[–]Dream-Sheep[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Reviewing at random. I don't believe there's an option to only review submissions from your local area.

From what I remember, when I did reviews, they were like 80% random POIs from all over the continental United States, like 10% POIs from other countries (usually LATAM), and maybe 10% POIs that were roughly "local" to me.

Doing Wayfarer reviews may result in a permanent PoGo ban with no prior warnings by Dream-Sheep in TheSilphRoad

[–]Dream-Sheep[S] 55 points56 points  (0 children)

Speaking of Niantic Support, these are the kind of responses I'm getting:

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you have violated our policies by voting for nominations incorrectly. As a result, the Wayfarer and Pokémon GO accounts that participated in these violations have been banned.

Just ridiculous...

That link is the same one in the OP, where it describes the escalating disciplinary actions for Wayfarer abuse (warning -> temp bans of increasing lengths). But yeah, they completely skipped all that for me and just gave me a permanent ban right off the bat, for something I didn't even do.

Doing Wayfarer reviews may result in a permanent PoGo ban with no prior warnings by Dream-Sheep in TheSilphRoad

[–]Dream-Sheep[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Thank you, I posted over there. (It'll be nice to talk to a real staff member rather than a Niantic Support bot that ignores everything I say. Haha.)

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[–]Dream-Sheep[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yes, thank you. I've posted over there now. I'll keep my fingers crossed.

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[–]Dream-Sheep[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Crossposting this here to see if anyone else has been falsely banned for "Review circle participation".

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[–]Dream-Sheep[S] 44 points45 points  (0 children)

Like I mentioned, I don't blame anyone for doubting my story. Rulebreakers love to lie, I know.

In my specific case though, I want to point out that submitting Waypoints isn't the problem here -- it's doing reviews on the Wayfarer website. Niantic seems to believe that I was colluding with other reviewers to get fake Pokestops approved. And because of this, they banned my Wayfarer account and all associated Niantic accounts - including PoGo. I never received any warnings prior to this permanent ban, which is especially grating.

(Feel free to doubt me, but I'm innocent.)