Pogo players submitting "dupes" because they don't realize they're already portals.
MayaTheSiren
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I've noticed with the influx of pogo submitters that there's a great increase with duplicate submissions that are already portals, but not stops/gyms due to the spacing. Would niantic consider just dumping the entire database into pogo just to make our (opr... Sorry wayfarer approvers) lives betters? It's bad enough when ingress players submit dupes, they should know better. (yeah I know they're probably both stuck in the queue at the same time). But pogo folks don't know and it's annoying for us.
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Well, that's actually unfair to pogo submitters too, since they're wasting a nomination in a valid portal that already exists but they can't see it. And, no. Making the install ingress just to see it isn't good for anybody.
I agree it should be 1:1 ratio. There's a lot of creative ways to do that, like making extra poi became berry piles, apricorn trees, nest, etc. Just something so everyone will know that it already exists and will improve gameplay and avoid that enormous amount of location edits...
Or maybe add a notification letting them know that the duplicate has already been submitted
i also play the other game that can’t be named and I do think that the apricorn idea is a good one.
Im happy the dupes are easy opr agreements..
I had a friend suggest that the map that comes up for nomination should be the ingress map showing all the portals to let pokemon go players know they already exist. We play both as well.
The problem with this is the location isn't always exactly the same, the photo isn't, and neither is the name. So it'd be really difficult for AI to determine they're submitting something that was already submitted.
This issue could be foreseen since more than a year.
Other actual issue related:
"Fun" fact: Harry Potter also shares the portal network and dont have the PkGo's S2 Cell restriction. It uses the same 20m rule like Ingress.
That and more are current issues due to bad Niantic decisions. Everyone of these issues can be solved removing the S2 17 cell restrition to pokestops/gyms in PkGo.
There are reports as well of pogo players gaming the system by actively adding more photos so that a PoI becomes a gym, and I reckon from the OP that this may be another way that pgo players are gaming the system.
@NianticCasey any chance to disable pogo players from using Wayfarer and nominations until the multiple issues of pogo players gaming the system are actively resolved.
I have raised tickets on this, but get generic answers, and problems just continue
The photoadding to be sure that place becomes a gym is positive in my opinion.... where i live they select the places with least problems for neighbours, safest location to gather....