From trespassing to taking pictures of your camera’s photo, what attribute of naturalists annoys you the most?

[image] marina_gorbunova: I saw a couple with a boy who caught a toad, put it in a jar and started throwing around, I asked them to stop it and they said it’s just a toad, how would you call that? On a scale from ignorant to malicious: uninformed, immature, selfish, self-centred, callous, cr…

[image] marina_gorbunova: Holding things you shouldn’t touch, and especially doing it wrong, painful way for an animal. I happened to be scrolling thru some observations looking for something to identify and I found a guy holding a garter snake by its neck! :rage: And it’s not the first time …

[image] octobertraveler: I guess I just feel a little out of my depth, but I often do have a good sense of what I’m observing, even if not at the species level (so many hours spent on iNat & elsewhere . . .). I’ll try to get over my nervousness and give it a shot next time, though I think I’ll …

Good points–you’ve talked me into trying at any rate. :)

My biggest pet peeve I think is the people that are obviously naturalists, but won’t try iNaturalist! There are so many people that have an interest in nature watching and take good photos, but limit themselves to posting them on Facebook, Instagram, or gardening forums to ask for identification hel…

[image] molanic: Uploading tons of photos of the same thing as multiple observations. Often seen with photo dumps from camera traps. If a deer triggered the camera 25 times in the span of five minutes, they all don’t need to be separate observations Actually according to inaturalist rules tha…

I agree with multiple observations of the same object at the same time done by a person who leaves the website after that or after a couple more obs. It’s ok when newbies do mistakes, but it’s frustrating when you can’t delete 4 additional observations of the exact same moose done at the same minute…

Thanks for that. I haven’t held a garter snake in 40 years, but I did not know that. I WILL remember it!

[image] birdwhisperer: I happened to be scrolling thru some observations looking for something to identify and I found a guy holding a garter snake by its neck! :rage: I did herp outreach for about six years. These kind of instances can be frustrating, but I think they’re a good opening for a…

I do have some overlap between Facebook groups and iNat. People who really want an ID, will come and explore iNat.

Biggest peeve among naturalist

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Biggest peeve among naturalist

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