If you play Pokémon Go and attend the now-standard community meetups, you might see and recognize that recently, wherever they meet, they have extra waypoints (as PokéStops, Gyms, and even Power Spots) with the name "Community Ambassador Campsite" followed by a word label of some sort. It's an intriguing approach for these waypoints, so I thought I'd cover them somehow on this blog for what they are worth.
Now, these labels are certainly intended to help point out at which "Campsite" Trainers are to gather, battle, and/or socialize, which is why there are indeed many of these labels. In fact, I had planned to try to cover all of them, but it doesn't seem right to try and do that with the multitude that they offer. That is why the title of this post contains "the best of", as I've decided to pick out the most interesting ones of the collection.
Some of these labels seem to represent what qualities a Community Ambassador should really possess. Out of the multitude, I pick out "Positive", "Accepting", "Engaging", "Friendly", and "Dedicated" as the most representative (as well as currently relevant) labels. These qualities are what I would consider to be part of a consummate Community Ambassador, for which the process of registering as one should have been able to reflect.
Of course, Community Ambassadors also need to interact with other Trainers, so some of the qualities can and should describe that process too. For that, I've chosen the "Encouraging", "Helpful", "Creative", and "Innovative" labels, again as the representative and currently relevant ones. These qualities ought to be evident for both Community Ambassadors and Trainers, and that would also say something about their relevant processes.
Although most of the labels are adjectival, there are also three nominal labels - "Opportunity", "Energy", and "Integrity" - that seem out of place (the adjectival forms would have to be "opportunistic", "energetic", and "integritous") yet are in fact there. Given the representation that the labels convey, they could be regarded as places where the spirits presented by the nouns might manifest themselves the strongest at a meetup.
The presence of these labels - as well as the waypoints themselves - is a new one (at the least, it might be for some who have dealt with the dynamics of "ambassadorship" in some regions). What's not new is the fact that labels of all kinds can carry (or be imbued with) some power of representation with them and their application, and if anything, these labels applied to these waypoints might just hint at their collective power.
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