There have been a bunch of recent flags regarding IDs applied to photos of human beings. I’ve been hiding the IDs which are obviously deliberately false (identifying someone as a cow, a rat, a mushroom, etc), but there have also been a number of flags on broad but not incorrect IDs (Animalia, Mamma…

[image] supertiger: im sure it could vary by case, but putting a broad but correct id is rather akin to calling your classmate an animal or a monkey, just saying… But we are! It seems weird to pretend we’re somehow exempt from the taxonomic tree? But my main point is that it seems unfair to …

[image] graysquirrel: My assumption was that, since they’re usually kids, it’s a case of learning about classifications - they’ve just learned humans are mammals I would always wish and hope that this was the case, but I think this is not a very safe assumption, especially when it comes to ki…

I personally think it’s much ado about nothing, like a lot of flags we get. Ideas of what is and isn’t inappropriate vary between individuals. I just ID as human and move on. If someone else wants to make it into a bigger deal then go ahead. In my opinion the labelling as human or ape, particularly…

https://www.inaturalist.org/flags/378758 No human obs in future since they are irrelevant to iNat’s Engaging with Nature (see the Help article for - but why not?! rocks and litter. A Human Help article we can link to in comments. But why not?!

[image] graysquirrel: (Animalia, Mammalia, Primates, Simiiformes, Homo, etc) Assuming that these were deliberately applied rather than by the CV, coming from children or teenagers, I would have to agree that it seems more likely to be mean-spirited than not. New users, especially at that age,…

[image] upupa-epops: A comment is unlikely to get a response and so is counterproductive if your goal is to erase evidence of the insult. Besides, in my experience these are almost always duress users who will never again visit the platform.

I will note that almost all of the “Homo” genus level IDs that I have seen for Humans (which sometimes get flagged) have the CV symbol on them. I think it would be unfair (and potentially turn off new users) to delete/reprimand/assume bad faith for these IDs that are suggested by the system. I would…

[image] cthawley: I think it would be unfair (and potentially turn off new users) to delete/reprimand/assume bad faith for these IDs that are suggested by the system. I agree that it would be unfair to reprimand and assume bad faith for all these IDs. However, I disagree that it would be unfa…

If this approach (hiding all higher level IDs of Humans) is needed, then it needs to be addressed systematically, not by flagging and hiding by curators. The iNat platform currently suggests “Homo” as an ID on up to hundreds/thousands of observations/day of which it is selected by IDers for some pro…

[image] cthawley: it needs to be addressed systematically, not by flagging and hiding by curators I agree. But “no action is needed” is different from calling for a change that eliminates genus-level Homo suggestions by the CV. Additionally, I think flagging is the way to handle IDs such as …

Appropriate identifications for humans?

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Appropriate identifications for humans?

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