This feature really has no reason to exist. iNaturalist exists as a social network where people can post and identify living organisms. This feature is frustrating because it allows users to upload completely wrong identifications, and it doesn’t change when you disagree with it. This is only adding…

I’ve never been tempted to use “opt out.” In real life, I’m an expert in certain plants. In fact, there have been times when maybe only 2 or 3 other people in the world were better at IDing a given species that I was and they weren’t on iNaturalist. (It’s no longer true; more and more people lear…

[image] nathanaaron: This is especially concerning to me knowing that many such “power-identifiers” primarily rely on the Computer Vision. Is this the - I can typing, I can spell Leucospermum hyophyllocarpodendron hypophyllocarpodendron - argument against an ID that ‘used CV’ ? Lots of prev…

[image] opisska: nobody is gonna get their feelings hurt by my search excluding their observations, since they aren’t gonna know about it. For most purposes it seems methodologically bizarre to me, to exclude RG data points from a dataset not because they are erroneous (as can be the obs by o…

So it is a users choice to opt out of a community ID for whatever reason but not an IDers choice to not invest time on such users? That is weird… Applying a filter setting that makes it easier to avoid opt outs does not forbit opting out but allows to better coexist on the webite without those anno…

[image] ajott: So it is a users choice to opt out of a community ID for whatever reason but not an IDers choice to not invest time on such users? There’s never any reason to give for not identifying or rejecting others’ id or refusing engagement. If it is a site-wide policy enforced to preven…

Call me crazy. But i think the more ways to filter, exclude, include, observations while searching is better. Being able to sort by geomodel score, RG, needs ID, casual, location, date uploaded, updated, observed, etc is all great. You can even search by photo copyright. So i see no reason we shoul…

I notice there seems to be a few comments about not wanting to see opt-outs at all. The only opt-outs that bother me are the ones where the community id disagrees with the observer’s id and the observer has passed away. I understand there is no effective means for iNat to declare someone dead, so …

I dont believe so, but there are like over 30 different URL conditions if not double that or even more. I have not looked through them all. I have only looked at what i deem useful for myself in IDing Chironomids. One example isnt even a filter, but per_page=200 is a god send in the identfy tab. Ei…

I’m personally not against filtering for observations where the observer has opted out of community ID, but identifying them doesn’t bother me in the slightest. I understand my perspective is different from most peoples’ in that I’m a paid staff member so using and contibuting to iNaturalist is part…

Concerns over opting out of community taxon

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Ajott April 2, 2025, 1:22pm 47

Well.. with casuals it is the same situation actually. They are allowed to upload.. however, one can exclude them from ones identify set.

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Concerns over opting out of community taxon

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