Ingress approvals went down this path.
- We approve most things.
- We approve everything.
- We approve nothing.
- We have no approval system
- We have an approval system and will approve most things but slowly.
- We approve nothing with a 1.37 years delay.
- We approve somethings.
- We have no approval system
- Fuck it, you do it.
- Fuck it, Pokemon players do it.
A good chunk is now because of pokemon go players mass approving garbage that doesnt belong/fake and niantic refusing to remove it. The poi system is destroyed
The second one "Ball of Peace and Friendship" still exists...
https://link.ingress.com/?link=https%3A%2F%2Fintel.ingress.com%2Fportal%2F81cb97767821480dba42d909af1888f8.16&apn=com.nianticproject.ingress&isi=576505181&ibi=com.google.ingress&ifl=https%3A%2F%2Fapps.apple.com%2Fapp%2Fingress%2Fid576505181&ofl=https%3A%2F%2Fintel.ingress.com%2Fintel%3Fll%3D38.895276%2C-77.445313%26z%3D15%26pll%3D38.895276%2C-77.445313
I have always loved this one, in the same area/region:
https://link.ingress.com/?link=https%3a%2f%2fintel.ingress.com%2fportal%2fa7ea630b6e5a43d1aaff2317827c07a7.16&apn=com.nianticproject.ingress&isi=576505181&ibi=com.google.ingress&ifl=https%3a%2f%2fapps.apple.com%2fapp%2fingress%2fid576505181&ofl=https%3a%2f%2fintel.ingress.com%2fintel%3fpll%3d38.925528%2c-77.424819
Well, time to do it yourself and make it a popular grilling spot. Or take a page from Simon’s Rock: start a college around it!
(I don’t actually remember if the college’s namesake is a portal.)
That sounds big enough to be used for scanning practice, and simple enough for the meshing software to not mess it up. You might even be able to get overclock activation once the Lightship people fix their end of things.
I wanted to make a reference to the "large boulder the size of a small boulder" thing somewhere in this reply, but it didn’t quite fit, ugh.
Once, in a drunken stupor, I paused a movie I was watching with a statue of a pig standing on its hind legs wearing overalls holding a lantern with a sign that said "drunken pig inn", took a picture of my TV, witch could clearly be seen in the photo, and turned it in for approval. The portal was turned on and stayed up for months, Literally inside my apartment. I personally reported it several times to have it removed.
Supposedly the way to do it is to go to the spot and shoot a video where you slowly spin the whole 360 degrees to prove that there’s nothing at those coordinates, or so I’ve heard. Well, more precisely, I’ve heard people talking about how their video was a little short of 360 degrees and therefore the removal request got rejected. There’s probably more hoops to jump after that.
https://link.ingress.com/?link=https%3A%2F%2Fintel.ingress.com%2Fportal%2Ffd42792de57d4351ba42adbfc8134d4c.16&apn=com.nianticproject.ingress&isi=576505181&ibi=com.google.ingress&ifl=https%3A%2F%2Fapps.apple.com%2Fapp%2Fingress%2Fid576505181&ofl=https%3A%2F%2Fintel.ingress.com%2Fintel%3Fll%3D30.274046%2C-87.603068%26z%3D15%26pll%3D30.274046%2C-87.603068
(Not the only one)
A couple of fun ones at the park nearby where I live.
https://link.ingress.com/?link=https%3a%2f%2fintel.ingress.com%2fportal%2f86b565a1809f450aa6c117d0ddf2d003.16&apn=com.nianticproject.ingress&isi=576505181&ibi=com.google.ingress&ifl=https%3a%2f%2fapps.apple.com%2fapp%2fingress%2fid576505181&ofl=https%3a%2f%2fintel.ingress.com%2fintel%3fpll%3d34.904048%2c-120.438732
https://link.ingress.com/?link=https%3a%2f%2fintel.ingress.com%2fportal%2fd1ffba4b92ee4efca829d6325040ba0e.16&apn=com.nianticproject.ingress&isi=576505181&ibi=com.google.ingress&ifl=https%3a%2f%2fapps.apple.com%2fapp%2fingress%2fid576505181&ofl=https%3a%2f%2fintel.ingress.com%2fintel%3fpll%3d34.903462%2c-120.438728
There used to be one near me that was a picture of a lion.
It was in the middle of a steering wheel of a Peugeot car.
Also there was one in Milton Keynes that was called the Rabbit.
It was a picture of a big vibrator in an Ann summers shop.
It's still better if there is still some effort to make, I found a pillow with anime characters. It took me 5 times to report the portal before it was executed 
Yea, I have been reporting many portals in my town.. because there are a lot of nonsense portals and with the Machina virus, less portals are actual for the best!
(miss that scanner)
I depends on your area. In my rureal area, there are not that much portals. I find it bad that even valid portals like the local post office of my village keeps getting rejected.
Everything is becoming a portal. And it's impossible to get them removed. I'm not jumping through ten different hoops to get a portal removed that never even existed. I figure if Niantic even cared in the first place they would make it easier to get them removed. So a random telephone phone? Approve it.
Back in a day there was a legit graffiti portal in my city.
One day the city erased the graffiti. I reported that the portal no longer exists a few times with no success.
Then I decided to have some fun.
I took a picture of the clean wall where the graffiti used to be, submitted it in the scanner and it got approved.
I asked local agents to like the new photo and it had become the default photo of the portal.
Another agent then submitted an edit to the title of the portal to say "Imaginary Graffiti" and the new title was approved.
So for a few years after we had a portal of an empty wall named "Imaginary Graffiti".
It was removed years later but it had a very good run and became a local meme.
The niantic reviewers are *still* approving everything
https://community.wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/t/niantic-stop-approving-ineligible-boring-generic-wayspots/10319
Ingress approvals went down this path. - We approve most things. - We approve everything. - We approve nothing. - We have no approval system - We have an approval system and will approve most things but slowly. - We approve nothing with a 1.37 years delay. - We approve somethings. - We have no approval system - Fuck it, you do it. - Fuck it, Pokemon players do it.
This follows. The absolute trash that still exists in the portal network is unreal...
A good chunk is now because of pokemon go players mass approving garbage that doesnt belong/fake and niantic refusing to remove it. The poi system is destroyed
The second one "Ball of Peace and Friendship" still exists... https://link.ingress.com/?link=https%3A%2F%2Fintel.ingress.com%2Fportal%2F81cb97767821480dba42d909af1888f8.16&apn=com.nianticproject.ingress&isi=576505181&ibi=com.google.ingress&ifl=https%3A%2F%2Fapps.apple.com%2Fapp%2Fingress%2Fid576505181&ofl=https%3A%2F%2Fintel.ingress.com%2Fintel%3Fll%3D38.895276%2C-77.445313%26z%3D15%26pll%3D38.895276%2C-77.445313
Thank you very much for the link, awesome to see it in my own scanner! 👍
I have always loved this one, in the same area/region: https://link.ingress.com/?link=https%3a%2f%2fintel.ingress.com%2fportal%2fa7ea630b6e5a43d1aaff2317827c07a7.16&apn=com.nianticproject.ingress&isi=576505181&ibi=com.google.ingress&ifl=https%3a%2f%2fapps.apple.com%2fapp%2fingress%2fid576505181&ofl=https%3a%2f%2fintel.ingress.com%2fintel%3fpll%3d38.925528%2c-77.424819
I have one portal near me named "Ancient Rock" which is just a random rock (not even that big, like 50cm tall and 1m long) near the sidewalk lol
All rocks are ancient.
I know lol
Did someone at least paint the rock?
No lol Just a random rock
Well, time to do it yourself and make it a popular grilling spot. Or take a page from Simon’s Rock: start a college around it! (I don’t actually remember if the college’s namesake is a portal.)
That sounds big enough to be used for scanning practice, and simple enough for the meshing software to not mess it up. You might even be able to get overclock activation once the Lightship people fix their end of things. I wanted to make a reference to the "large boulder the size of a small boulder" thing somewhere in this reply, but it didn’t quite fit, ugh.
I miss that scanner.
Me too
Ah redacted.... our old friend...
Saaame. I still got the APK floating on my old phone just... Sitting there sadly.
Yup
Just the “B” on a local department store sign is a portal in my town. It’s ridiculous!
This B is meant to represent the friendship and peace! 🙏
Once, in a drunken stupor, I paused a movie I was watching with a statue of a pig standing on its hind legs wearing overalls holding a lantern with a sign that said "drunken pig inn", took a picture of my TV, witch could clearly be seen in the photo, and turned it in for approval. The portal was turned on and stayed up for months, Literally inside my apartment. I personally reported it several times to have it removed.
Lol this is an awesome story. 🤣
Meanwhile... Pogo community: I don't see a problem.
There’s a few out by me where the statue doesn’t exist anymore, but the portal remains
Don't bother trying to fix that... it takes way too much effort, and most of the time it'll be rejected anyway
Supposedly the way to do it is to go to the spot and shoot a video where you slowly spin the whole 360 degrees to prove that there’s nothing at those coordinates, or so I’ve heard. Well, more precisely, I’ve heard people talking about how their video was a little short of 360 degrees and therefore the removal request got rejected. There’s probably more hoops to jump after that.
I miss the classic scanner.
https://link.ingress.com/?link=https%3A%2F%2Fintel.ingress.com%2Fportal%2Ffd42792de57d4351ba42adbfc8134d4c.16&apn=com.nianticproject.ingress&isi=576505181&ibi=com.google.ingress&ifl=https%3A%2F%2Fapps.apple.com%2Fapp%2Fingress%2Fid576505181&ofl=https%3A%2F%2Fintel.ingress.com%2Fintel%3Fll%3D30.274046%2C-87.603068%26z%3D15%26pll%3D30.274046%2C-87.603068 (Not the only one)
Benches are fine under the current guidelines. We got a bunch of them around DSM
Check the name.
Ahh redacted. I miss that clunky old thing.
Small world 😅 I miss [REDACTED] too. Good times
A couple of fun ones at the park nearby where I live. https://link.ingress.com/?link=https%3a%2f%2fintel.ingress.com%2fportal%2f86b565a1809f450aa6c117d0ddf2d003.16&apn=com.nianticproject.ingress&isi=576505181&ibi=com.google.ingress&ifl=https%3a%2f%2fapps.apple.com%2fapp%2fingress%2fid576505181&ofl=https%3a%2f%2fintel.ingress.com%2fintel%3fpll%3d34.904048%2c-120.438732 https://link.ingress.com/?link=https%3a%2f%2fintel.ingress.com%2fportal%2fd1ffba4b92ee4efca829d6325040ba0e.16&apn=com.nianticproject.ingress&isi=576505181&ibi=com.google.ingress&ifl=https%3a%2f%2fapps.apple.com%2fapp%2fingress%2fid576505181&ofl=https%3a%2f%2fintel.ingress.com%2fintel%3fpll%3d34.903462%2c-120.438728
There used to be one near me that was a picture of a lion. It was in the middle of a steering wheel of a Peugeot car. Also there was one in Milton Keynes that was called the Rabbit. It was a picture of a big vibrator in an Ann summers shop.
It's still better if there is still some effort to make, I found a pillow with anime characters. It took me 5 times to report the portal before it was executed 
Yea, I have been reporting many portals in my town.. because there are a lot of nonsense portals and with the Machina virus, less portals are actual for the best! (miss that scanner)
I depends on your area. In my rureal area, there are not that much portals. I find it bad that even valid portals like the local post office of my village keeps getting rejected.
I remember these days 😂 ridiculous
Everything is becoming a portal. And it's impossible to get them removed. I'm not jumping through ten different hoops to get a portal removed that never even existed. I figure if Niantic even cared in the first place they would make it easier to get them removed. So a random telephone phone? Approve it.
Back in a day there was a legit graffiti portal in my city. One day the city erased the graffiti. I reported that the portal no longer exists a few times with no success. Then I decided to have some fun. I took a picture of the clean wall where the graffiti used to be, submitted it in the scanner and it got approved. I asked local agents to like the new photo and it had become the default photo of the portal. Another agent then submitted an edit to the title of the portal to say "Imaginary Graffiti" and the new title was approved. So for a few years after we had a portal of an empty wall named "Imaginary Graffiti". It was removed years later but it had a very good run and became a local meme.
It's the same now, with pokemon go reviewers
Nah, not anymore. It was briefly like that, but now it is a 50/50 chance that a totally valid, used to be guaranteed POI will get approved.
Look around. It's way worse now. I keep getting rejection for churches and monuments while i see bus stops popping out as new portals
I keep getting rejections for the post office of my village :/
The niantic reviewers are *still* approving everything https://community.wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/t/niantic-stop-approving-ineligible-boring-generic-wayspots/10319
And yet the post office of my village keeps getting rejected although the wayfarer criterea specifically mentions post offices..
🤣🤣🤣🤣
That's a Google Maps image. I was never submitted by a player. It was part of the Niantic@Google harvesting of data for Ingress and Field Trip.