A situation has come up that doesn’t sit well with me, so I’ll bring it up here. A regular user mistook something about an observation and entered a wrong ID on someone else’s observation. Aside from being wrong there was no sign that this was malicious in any sense. The observer, who is also a cur…

I understand the thought process that lead to it being hidden, but don’t think it was necessary. A better solution, and one that most all other users (curators included) typically take is tagging other users to provide an agreeing ID. Hiding seems like a last resort, and less severe actions should …

I think consulting other curators would’ve been useful. I myself would be nervous to hide an ID like this on my own observations for the reason that this post was even made : I think I’d get some people who disagree with me. If others see it as unfair, I don’t want to be the one making an unfair dec…

I had a somewhat similar situation, in which a user had made a number of very inaccurate IDs due to relying on CV. After they were suspended by staff for this, I asked about hiding their IDs where necessary, and was told directly by staff not to.

The forum is not meant for specific cases, so I will only talk about the general principle here I think it is important that curators can remove harassment, insults and other malicious content on their own observation, for example if someone decides to add an intentionally wrong ID on a curator’s o…

I wrote my thoughts on the flag. More broadly, I think a lot of it is situational. If someone writes hate speech, makes a hateful/racist/sexist ID, or posts something pornographic on a curator’s observation, that curator is likely to be the first person to know about it and I think it’s fine to hid…

People get suspended for misconduct that is unrelated to the accuracy of their IDs, for example someone who is knowledgeable about a taxon but gets into fights with others

I understand that half - but I am still left with no way to evaluate their ID.

[image] botaflo: In my point of view, when there is place for contradictory and constructive discussion on concrete identifying features, To be clear, we aren’t talking about a case like this. By the current rules, we are unquestionably not allowed to hide an ID that is unintentionally wrong,…

thank you for this clarification. I think that conversation goes far beyond what I had expected. Without experience in such cases, I won’t say any more in that subject. But it’s nice to see such debates going on here : it’s a good sign of responsible and transparent management of the site and the c…

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DianaStuder November 14, 2024, 7:09pm 11

I struggle with that logic. When I want to check their profile - where are you, what taxa are you interested in, how do I evaluate your ID - I get this User is Suspended.
But their IDs and annotations remain. For ever.

User Questagame has added a duplicate observation to mine

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