This just occurred to me as I was going through the Needs ID and ran across a few schoolchildren’s ‘observations’ of each other, but we should probably automatically obscure the location on ‘human’ observations, since kids have zero clues about it being a bad idea to post pics of each other that are…

The only comment I have is tied into this discussions : https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/geoprivacy-obscuring-and-auto-obscure-discussion/457/19 Human is in about the top 30 most reported species on the site, it will make a mess of maps in some cases. Personally I’ve never understood why they are n…

one could consider a flag for ‘likely underage individual in photo’ that would obscure or hide the photo. I’m not sure how serious an issue this is given how the entire internet and social media in general is already saturated with pictures of kids, etc. Though it isn’t the sort of content the site …

[image] cmcheatle: Human is in about the top 30 most reported species on the site, it will make a mess of maps in some cases. Hm, good point, I hadn’t thought of that.

[image] cmcheatle: Human is in about the top 30 most reported species on the site, it will make a mess of maps in some cases. Do we care if maps of Homo sapiens are messed up? Or does it affect maps of other taxa in some way I am not comprehending? Edit: hmmm, higher parent taxa, I suppose… …

[image] cmcheatle: Personally I’ve never understood why they are not simply deleted. I would vote for that.

Personally I’ve never understood why they are not simply deleted. The fact that they are not really taken seriously means they are a fun way to document the “human” aspects of bioblitzes and iNat-centered get-togethers. Here are just two examples. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/1067455…

[image] nanofishology: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/11024832 (that’s tiwane peeking in from the right) Great visual example of a shared observation !

This one is simple, just change the status of the homo-sapien taxa to endangered, which they certainly are - the most likely thing that will wipe out mankind is not a comet or plague, but mankind (peoplekind?) themselves ;-)

Humans are automatically marked as casual, so it shouldn’t mess up the map unless you are actively looking for casual grade observations.

[image] charlie: one could consider a flag for ‘likely underage individual in photo’ that would obscure or hide the photo. The annotations would have to be correct, and lots of people (both the uploaders and subsequent identifiers) don’t bother to annotate Humans.

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jdmore March 15, 2019, 1:20am 8

Great visual example of a shared observation!

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