I copped a 30-day ban on September 21st (as seen in image 1) because they apparently found some of my wayspots unsatisfactory. All well and good, but that ban expired on October 21st. So when I tried to log into Wayfarer on the 22nd, I was expecting to get in. But the site said I was still suspended. I contacted support and then I got the email in the second image.
Apparently I’m banned for **90 DAYS** instead of 30 and the original email contained **A TYPO**. What absolute nonsense is this? A typo in what looks like a bog-standard copypasted email they automatically send to everyone that gets banned? I find that very far to believe.
They also claim I’m not able to log into Pokemon Go for 90 days but I’m able to log in and play just fine since the 21st, so that’s complete nonsense too.
I swear, this company just gets worse and worse as time goes on.
by General_Secura92
38 Comments
Many people in the Netherlands seem to be striked by Niantic. A good friend of mine (very active player) is also banned for the same vague reason. Best advice for now is to not submit new routes and waypoints for a while
WELP I was looking forward to submitting more PokeStops for my community after hitting level 37 recently. Not taking that risk now
Imagine being banned for trying to add content for their game free of charge. Why would anyone take the risk then?
How many Wayspots were rejected? I’ve been rejected twice and I’m still good.
LOOOOL how did you even pass the criteria test hahahhahaa
To get Banned for nominating stops which do not meet the criteria seems very sussy to me, I can imagine someone was fooling around with the nominations, or else why wouldn’t they just get declined and move on?
Being banned from pokemon go because of pokestop submissions is so stupid. Unless you were using nsfw images you shouldn’t be banned. Their reviewing system is horrible and I’ve had good stops rejected for no reason before. I could understand them suspending your wayfarer account for having a poor rating but banning people on go is so stupid.
Yeah i stopped submitting spot for a year ago since my nomination always got rejected eventho its clearly eligible spot (library, gate, signage), with a ridiculous reason (nature, low quality photo, k12/school area). Theres so many ppl who vote randomly
I live in a small village where we have 2 stops and a gym, and i actually don’t want to nominate anything now, because i’ve just seen way too many people get banned for seemingly dumb reasons
I got banned 30 days moved to where I live now I have a post up showing I live in the middle of nowhere now and seeing “huh no routes near here” sent in 3 got a 1 year ban im just done now not playing again
I got this email today as well. Still don’t understand this, if something is not a good waypoint then it doesn’t get added. Why do we also need time outs and bans? We are trying, remember that word, TRYING, to make your game more enjoyable Niantic. And what do we get back for trying? 90 day ban 🔨
See and someone told me I was wrong and they were only handing out bans for 3rd party apps that guarantees your nominations to be approved! I knew I wasn’t crazy!
Tell us about what you submitted. The ban may be warranted.
A reminder, the only people copping bans for this are abusing wayfarer. A normal player making submissions will never reach this point. Its perfectly safe to make nominations, just don’t try nominate whatever you can find around your house.
For anyone seeing this and that is surprised don’t be, Niantic is quite literally predatory when it comes to this nonsense, had 2 friends who’ve gotten the same soft ban for 30 days, I’ve contributed at least 50 stops before they started doing this and not a single one since, not worth the risk when they can just pull this BS. Nobody better than Niantic for killing their own game.
For anyone seeing this and that is surprised don’t be, Niantic is quite literally predatory when it comes to this nonsense, had 2 friends who’ve gotten the same soft ban for 30 days, I’ve contributed at least 50 stops before they started doing this and not a single one since, not worth the risk when they can just pull this BS. Nobody better than Niantic for killing their own game.
Let’s say what they say is 100% true: I have no idea why the ban isn’t purely for Wayspot – removing your ability to submit further. Banning your Go account makes no sense.
Meanwhile there is spoofers all around destroying the fragile little gym ecosystem that has developed of years of playing together.
I use to nominate loads of stops and spend hours everyday on wayfarer reviewing nominations in the hope of getting upgrades but i have stopped now after seeing people getting both their wayfarer and pokemon go accounts either banned or suspended. I have a score of over 15,000 on the wayfarer pokemon go medal and have added over 200 stops to the game but i’ve stopped doing anything related to new submissions for the last few months as i dont want to risk losing my pokemon go account
Any kind of ‘punishment’ by a game company is just totally inappropriate imo. They aren’t our parents or law enforcement.
I guess additions/edits are best done on a disposable 2nd account 🤷🏻♂️
I don’t even use Wayfarer, nominate anything, or have even done so much as used a third-party app, but I’m still convinced my account or the game entirely could just vanish one day with no recourse at all. Definitely taking advantage of my free 5 shinies transferred to Home each week, it’s like a slow-motion evacuation to save them from Niantic at this point.
Pokémon Go accounts SHOULD NOT be suspended due to issues with Wayfarer submissions. Period. It’s ridiculous that it’s happening. Suspend Wayfarer maybe, but not a separate app.
“Punishment period” 🙄
Don’t you know? You’re actually submitting for your account to be banned. Not for extra pokestops.
ive completly stopped to nominate anything for niantic games. canceled all nominations and routes.
Niantic has one of the greatest intellectual properties in the gaming world and continue to fumble it month after month.
How on earth can you justify suspending players for submitting these routes while simultaneously encouraging them to do so?
“Ohh if we like it we’ll incorporate it! If we don’t – you’re banned.” What kind of logic is this? I would love someone else to buy PoGo from Niantic and actually run it like a reasonably responsible company would.
Wait…your Pokemon go account gets banned if they don’t like your submissions on wayfarer???
This is exactly why I don’t submit routes or stops, many such cases!
Op probably wanted the poke stop at a live land mine location. Or at a gun range.
I don’t like the idea of people getting banned for submitting spots.
But I also don’t think I can judge the fault the Niantic here unless I see all the submissions that has been lead to get banned. I’ve got 5 submissions rejected and get the appeal rejected too, but I’ve been totally fine. No warnings, no bans. Some mistakes have obviously been “forgiven.”
All I’m saying is that I need more info to say what’s wrong here. I’ll upvote to see what other people think.
As a reviewer I understand why they are doing this but it sucks a lot for legit players.
I’ve had to grade the same fake nominations several times since the increased the cap from 7 to 30 per account. And all I see is ‘bot like’ submissions of a single nomination over and over again.
This is their dumb way of dealing with a problem they created.
I got banned for no reason, it was a temporary band for 30 days then once the 30 days was up Niantic told me it was a permanent ban. Now I lost my 2016 account and no way to get it back.
FUCK NIANTIC
LOL im cheating by spoofing and VPNing through Turkey to get extremely cheap coins that are 10x cheaper and haven’t even got a first strike 7-day suspension.
You try to add content to their game and participate in a positive way and they remove you from their platform.
What were the locations you were trying to add? 👀
This is a sincere reminder for everyone to just stop contributing to Pokemon Go unless you want to risk getting banned. Not banned because you actually did anything bad, but just at random because their AI told them so.
So, stop contributing until they regain some sanity.
Personally I don’t think OP should have their PokemonGo account suspended; but considering the quality of their wayspot submissions I’m not really bothered by their Wayfarer account being suspended.
https://community.wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/discussion/46666/request-for-restoration-of-multiple-falsely-removed-trail-markers/p1
Little context for people who don’t know: OP is from the Netherlands where *literally everything* is/was being auto-approved due to illegal bots screwing with the wayfarer approval system. OP, knowingly or unknowingly, took advantage of the situation and got some ineligible wayspots approved. Niantic has now been going scorched Earth on every single account that submitted an ineligible wayspot in the Netherlands and OP’s accounts are now caught in the mass-purge.
Why hand out bans when they can just reject the entry?
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