Annotation Abuse?

[felicia54513]

@tiwane

You have to flag on the website. Note that voting something as “captive/cultiveted” is *not* the same as flagging. Flagging is for inappropriate content (like an insult, or intentionally falsified data). Marking something as captive/cultivated is just [using the Data Quality Assessment]( https://help.inaturalist.org/en/support/solutions/articles/151000169936 ).

If you send me examples a [help@inaturalist.org](mailto:help@inaturalist.org) I can take a look, and you can share usernames, etc in that email.

If you think someone is possibly overdoing it and there is little reason for certain annotations, you can flag it as “inappropriate” I’m starting to do that now. Just be mindful. In some cases the mistake can be simple enough, but in other cases, it’s hard to justify. I haven’t flagged all the mis-annotations I’ve been seeing, only the ones where it’s hard to justify with beginner mistakes or misunderstandings, like looking at a picture of an adult bird and marking both organism and egg when there is no egg.