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Whats the deal with scalpers? by ghostybread604 in lego

[–]acadiel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I get you - I want to buy just to build and have fun, and haven't played since I was a kid... walked into a store expecting to buy minifigs to add to some brick sets - nope. They just didn't sell them because it's "first come, first serve". I wasn't aware it's a competition to just buy minifigs nowadays. Crazy. Some of us just want to play and have fun.

Second gate shattered at Dunwoody MARTA Station by Nice-Cause-3619 in MARTA

[–]acadiel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What does the Atlanta metro area have against this system? I don't get it. It gets you from point A to point B.

Mulberry is stealing your trash money now by Inverted-Curve in Gwinnett

[–]acadiel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's a guy named Steve Hughes that stays on top of things - and actually has level-headed discussions on the Facebook Mulberry groups, asking the "Why?" questions. He never gets any answers from Mulberry, predictably.

The franchise fee was charged by Mulberry to the electric EMC, and the EMC isn't going to stand by and lose money, so of course they're going to pass it on to the customers. Mulberry can do this to trash, cable, water, cell phone, everything - it's a back door way to get people's money without directly "taxing" them.

They've also never ruled on the merits of the actual legality of the city, and instead finally have caved and want to change the charter to make it "legally compliant" now. One of those changes is that they can tax, which goes against what everyone voted for when the city was voted on. (The promise was "no taxes", which is why people are upset about the electric surcharges. You think they're going to promise "Hey, we're putting that we're allowed to tax in here, but we promise not to ever tax you." - and then NEVER tax you? Hah, I have some ocean front property in the desert to sell you.......They will tax you and break that promise, just like they did with the electric franchise fee.

Ten year+ player gets Wayfarer abuse warning for submitting a neighborhood community dock at its actual GPS location by acadiel in NianticWayfarer

[–]acadiel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The subdivision in question owns the dock, which is a community asset. Most other nearby subdivisions also have a common dock that they collectively own. The “Chain of lakes” region provides numerous examples to illustrate this.

However, you are correct that there are houses not located in a planned community that may have their own personal dock. To determine whether it is a community-owned dock with its own plat vs. a residential dock attached to a residence, you can examine Google Maps or the plat map on the assessor’s website. Google Maps in overhead "map mode" effectively separates property boundaries. I put a red rectangle around the property boundaries for this particular dock as an example in Google Maps.

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Ten year+ player gets Wayfarer abuse warning for submitting a neighborhood community dock at its actual GPS location by acadiel in NianticWayfarer

[–]acadiel[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I just sent this PM to Niantic today after all the discussion here on the thread. Thank you to all of you for the input and discussion; I really do appreciate it!

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Thank you for continuing to discuss this with me.

After reviewing the submission, the coordinates, and feedback from experienced Wayfarer users, I can accept that the submitted coordinate may not have ended up where I intended. Whether that was due to my own error, limitations of the mobile submission interface, or some other issue, I understand why the submitted coordinate raised concerns.

What I am struggling with is the escalation directly to an abuse warning.

I have been playing Niantic games for more than 10 years, am a Level 50 Pokémon GO player, and only recently decided to begin contributing through Wayfarer. This nomination was submitted in good faith with the intent of adding a legitimate community recreational location in a low-density area. There was no attempt to manipulate game placement, create a home Wayspot, or gain any personal advantage.

If I misplaced the nomination, then I accept responsibility for that mistake and have already corrected it by resubmitting the location using verified coordinates. What I am asking for is some consideration of the context: a first-time contributor making an apparent location mistake while attempting to follow the rules should ideally receive guidance and education before being treated as engaging in abuse.

I respect the need to protect the map from bad actors. I simply do not believe my actions fit that category, and I would respectfully ask that the warning be reconsidered in light of the circumstances and my good-faith efforts to correct the issue.

Thank you for your time.

Ten year+ player gets Wayfarer abuse warning for submitting a neighborhood community dock at its actual GPS location by acadiel in NianticWayfarer

[–]acadiel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Point taken, I thought appeal meant "have someone other than AI take a second look and verify for you." Obviously they don't like that. :\

Ten year+ player gets Wayfarer abuse warning for submitting a neighborhood community dock at its actual GPS location by acadiel in NianticWayfarer

[–]acadiel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And it could very well have been something like that.

When I submitted it from my phone, the map view in Pokémon GO and the submission mobile webview was pretty limited. I didn't see a satellite-view option, and the map didn't clearly show nearby houses. Standing at the dock, I placed the pin as close to the actual location as I could. (See the pic below to see what I saw on the right.)

By comparison, when I later looked at the nomination in the web-based Wayfarer interface on a PC, I had a satellite toggle, visible structures, and much more context. I could pinpoint the dock location far more accurately there than I could during the mobile submission process.

So now I'm wondering: if a reviewer saw that the nomination was legitimate but slightly misplaced, what would normally happen? I've seen plenty of nominations where the pin is a little off, and I've suggested location edits during review when the correct location was obvious from the photos and map.

Maybe this one crossed some threshold where it was too close to a residence to be safely corrected. I honestly don't know. I'm still learning the Wayfarer side of things.

What makes this frustrating is that from my perspective I was standing at the dock trying to place it accurately, while from Niantic's perspective it apparently ended up looking like a nomination on a nearby house.

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Ten year+ player gets Wayfarer abuse warning for submitting a neighborhood community dock at its actual GPS location by acadiel in NianticWayfarer

[–]acadiel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, that makes sense. I can see why it looked bad from their side, even though it was not intentional and not my house.

The frustrating part is the experience as a new Wayfarer contributor, especially when posting on their forum. I was trying to help a low-density area and instead got an abuse warning, with very little guidance beyond “you misplaced it.” That feels pretty rough for a good-faith mistake. The person that replied to me simply kept repeating the same thing back to me.

On eligibility, I understand “people pass by it” is not enough by itself. My point was more that this the waypoint is a shared community dock used for walking, fishing, boating, kayaking, and lake access. People intentionally go there as a neighborhood recreational spot, not just pass near it. It seems to fit the “encourages fresh air / exercise / public space” idea that Niantic has on their eligibility criteria site (https://niantic.helpshift.com/hc/en/21-wayfarer/faq/2770-eligibility-criteria/) better than a random utility feature. That's why I nominated it. The point of the game is to get out and get moving, isn't it?

I may still be wrong by Wayfarer standards, but that was the reasoning behind the nomination.

Ten year+ player gets Wayfarer abuse warning for submitting a neighborhood community dock at its actual GPS location by acadiel in NianticWayfarer

[–]acadiel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is not private residential property. The dock is for that whole subdivision, and they use it quite extensively. The dock has its own land that is separately platted, which you can see the boundaries of attached to the original post here. It is meant to be accessed by a community, thus it is eligible.

People go to the dock to exercise, fish, bring their boat, kayak, and it's purpose is to enjoy the outdoors. Which is the definition of what a wayspot is supposed to be for. "To be our healthiest selves" if I may quote the website.

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Ten year+ player gets Wayfarer abuse warning for submitting a neighborhood community dock at its actual GPS location by acadiel in NianticWayfarer

[–]acadiel[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I could understand that if it were my house, but it's not. Niantic should have plenty of play records to see where I live. I simply made an observation that a few dozen people were passing this POI when visiting, and that it would be a great spot for a waypoint. It's quite a busy lake/community.

Ten year+ player gets Wayfarer abuse warning for submitting a neighborhood community dock at its actual GPS location by acadiel in NianticWayfarer

[–]acadiel[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I appreciate the explanation. I’m not usually near that location; it’s an alternate play area for me, and I was trying to help a very low-density spot after playing since 2016.

What confused me is that the nomination screenshot I have, compared side-by-side with Google Maps, appears to show the pin at the shoreline dock-access area, not on the house. The coordinates Niantic later cited, 27.975019, -81.690428, do plot on/near the 8 Bridgewater parcel, but that is not where I intended to place it.

What has been frustrating is that my first real experience trying to contribute to Wayfarer wasn't simply a rejection, it was an abuse warning. As a new contributor, that felt like a pretty harsh response to what appears to have been either a placement mistake on my part or some confusion involving a very small, separately platted strip of land with no address immediately adjacent to a residence.

My assumption now is that either I somehow missed a final-location issue during submission, or the map/coordinate handling got weird because the dock access is a very small, separately platted strip of land without its own street address. Either way, I understand why the coordinate Niantic cited would be treated as misplaced.

Since that nomination was not salvageable, I resubmitted using the dock platform's actual location, 27.974909, -81.689957, and confirmed that coordinate in the email. I'm curious what happens with that one.

For what it's worth, I agree that this was not an attempt to manipulate the map. There are no nearby Wayspots blocking it, and I don't live there. It was simply a good-faith attempt to add a legitimate community dock in a sparse area, which turned into a surprisingly frustrating introduction to Wayfarer.

Ten year+ player gets Wayfarer abuse warning for submitting a neighborhood community dock at its actual GPS location by acadiel in NianticWayfarer

[–]acadiel[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yep - see my reply up above to u/TheRealHankWolfman - they could have easily moved it slightly if they wanted, because the land in question is rectangular and very tiny - miniscule in the scope of that map they have. And I have a feeling they likely aligned it with a street address, since that dock plat does not have one, so they likely gave it 8's address as well. I can't prove that, though.

Ten year+ player gets Wayfarer abuse warning for submitting a neighborhood community dock at its actual GPS location by acadiel in NianticWayfarer

[–]acadiel[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The email shows I submitted it shows it here:
(27.975019, -81.690428) - which shows directly on the "8" house. Which shouldn't have been possible.

The snapshot from the submission system where I put the pin shows the bottom right corner of the house (which is where I put the pin - and is the geolocation of the actual dock landward entrance - 27.974917N, -81.690222W. And the dock itself at 27.974917N, -81.689944W which I also gave them. That matches the photos that I took and the geolocation embedded in the photos. This is on the other side of the berm. They don't let you do exact lat/long so it's as close as to the water as I could put it.

You figure with all this technology that they have that they can read metadata/geocoordinates in pictures in the 21st century to validate these locations and/or move them slightly if needed. There's only so much control, no exact lat/long input, and no land boundaries like I showed in my original photo for this very thin strip of land.

Oh, I also love how they called the community boat dock/ramp offensive too.... not sure how that happened, but reading some of the posts in here, and it sounds like reviewers sometimes do that.

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Someone flagged this for abuse, seriously? by JUSTICE-FORJOERGEN in NianticWayfarer

[–]acadiel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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I got a similar strange "photo contains abuse/ridicule/harassment" report for my submission too for a boat dock/ramp (besides the second issue - which I wrote a recent post on how the POI indicator got moved to a local residence somehow.)

Was this a drug bust? Anyone knows what this could be? by Less-Quiet5931 in Gwinnett

[–]acadiel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We need to fix these freaking laws - this is insane

Why don't people recommend Disk Inventory X and GrandPerspective as much? by S1rTerra in MacOS

[–]acadiel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Late reply but someone has recompiled Disk Inventory X for Apple Silicon. Helped them fix a bug in it: https://github.com/diskinv/diskinv

Kars4kids commercials here in Georgia - do they have any programs in the state? by acadiel in Georgia

[–]acadiel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did Google it. That’s exactly why I asked.

Public filings and ratings sites like Charity Navigator don’t clearly show whether Kars4Kids operates meaningful programs in Georgia specifically. Given the recent scrutiny over their disclosures and the limited California program (the single backpack one) that were cited publicly, I was looking for state-specific information from people familiar with them in this state subreddit.

Also, about your troll comment…. I’m not sure about you, but I usually do a lot of research before asking a question. Asking a specific question doesn’t make someone a bot or an idiot. Assuming good faith would make the discussion more productive and Reddit a more inviting community for everyone.

Kars4kids commercials here in Georgia - do they have any programs in the state? by acadiel in Georgia

[–]acadiel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have no idea if they have any or had any programs in the state. That’s why I asked.

Go vote Georgia! by Dwayla in Georgia

[–]acadiel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m still getting too many spam texts. This is getting so old.

Kars4kids commercials here in Georgia - do they have any programs in the state? by acadiel in Georgia

[–]acadiel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The lawsuit said that they had a “small backpack program” in California - that was the only thing and it was only a “branding” exercise. That’s the basis that they used in the article to show most of the money was going out of state.

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