Hello everyone, I was just blocked today by a local Inatter over what I suspect is a single misidentification. I received no email or message that I was being blocked, just saw I was blocked. Another (new) user was also blocked by this same user even though they made zero misidentifications on any …

Yes, people are permitted to block other users for any reason. https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/some-updates-to-blocking-and-muting/39866

Why wouldn’t this be allowed?

Yikes! That’s never happened to me, but it sounds really frustrating.

Is this similar to your reply in? User Blocked Me for Unknown Reasons, Which Interferes with Curation

Congrats to you! Profoundly offending the occasional person can be an indication you’re doing something right. My blocks are badges to me.

It is allowed. May be disagreement, or misunderstanding, or just because. I was blocked, for years, then suddenly and mysteriously UNblocked and now we iNat together. Getting blocked is part of being an active iNatter . Better if we can agree to disagree and work around each other - but sometimes th…

It’s happened to me too - sometimes there’s a ‘reason’ (usually, I corrected their IDs and they got offended, or I moderated them and they wanted to stop me from being able to flag their stuff). But there are a few I’ve run across that I have no idea why - my only IDs for them were agreeing or impro…

[image] yayemaster: I was just blocked today by a local Inatter How can one tell if one has been blocked?

When you go to the offending / offensive obs there is a banner up top … you have been blocked. [image] When you try to ID an observation from a user who has blocked you, you get a message incorrectly instructing you to "try again later" This has been fixed. You’ll see a banner on any observation…

:waving_hand: Got blocked, with no interaction other than submitting an ID. No conversation, no explanation, just banhammered. You have my sympathies. As @DianaStuder said, it would be lovely if everyone would agree to try and work things out first. I really wish that they would. (And, if I’m goin…

Blocked by user for no reason at all

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vreinkymov August 15, 2025, 3:23am 5

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