Seems as though bioblitz season is beginning. Are there any established strategies for dealing with the torrent of IDs that will come? Is it every identifier for themselves, or a divide-and-conquor, or rapid response scanning for multi-photo/multi-species observations and sending splitting request…

The best strategy is patience and understanding :) And only do what you are comfortable doing. Support each other and diffuse tensions when you see them, but above all else, keep it fun for everyone :)

And 2016? Not sure what you mean there…

well, the city nature challenge is starting soon, so expect the site to have a huge surge of bioblitzers soon. On the plus side it’s so huge it really does generate a lot of interest in iNat and nets us a significant number of longer term users each time.

Has the City Nature Challenge been announced on iNat? I expected it to be, but the only notices I seemed to get this year were on a journal post made by a local in my area, and from joining the project included in that journal post. Just curious . . .

I created a saved query for Unknown observations starting with Jun 2015. Occasionally, mostly when I’m feeling masochistic, I take a crack at a few pages and mark them as Reviewed. I’ve made it up to the bioblitz in May 2016. I know this because many of the user IDs have “bioblitz” in them. I do…

Are there strategies for dealing with bioblitzes?

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KitKestrel April 23, 2019, 2:52am 6

Well, look at that! So there are :-)

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