Hi @dendroleon, I hope you are doing well and thank you for your comments.
this is true for any camera.
I do not understand your reasoning here.
If cropping so many images is too tedious, crop less of them - or don’t bother cropping.
Completely agree that nobody is forcing nobody to do anything on iNaturalist, unless one is getting paid maybe! The goal of the current forum post is to ask for a way to auto-crop, for example animals. If one would like to question cropping alltogether, there are many other posts on that topic, for example: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/a-plea-to-crop-your-photos/35251 But let us try to keep the current post for auto-cropping, thus not to be anti-cropping.
If people comment asking for a host plant ID and you have a separate observation for the plant, you should respond with a link to the observation of the relevant plant.
Yes, I agree with you, that seems to be in line with the official policies. That sort of linking is what I aim to do, for the 2 or 3 or so observations of my 4700+ observations where someone asked for the host plant / the plant the arthropod is resting on. If I don’t have the observation, I aim to create / duplicate the observation for the identification of the plant, see e.g. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/324867586 → https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/325672838 .