Hey. Viewpoint from arthropods - there’s a continual stream of often simplistic flags “please add this taxon” and deafening silence from the vast majority who have curator permissions, what gives?

Maybe they are, but I don’t usually look at insect flags. I was just referring to the ungrafted taxon widget.

I see that the vast majority of flags are resolved by a surprisingly small number of people. Will try and chip in this weekend :) I can’t see myself / total flags resolved on the curators list…does that only show people who are most recently active? How many curators actually exist on iNat? How …

My other question would be whether there are actually observations of the species that need to be ID’d or if people are asking to be completionist. Just looking at the recent flags asking for new species, several of them are just because the species was recently described.

[image] sbushes: How many have resolved over 1000 flags like OP? I count 14

That does not always stop people from posting new requests for taxa without observations. But I do usually ask if that is needed for ID of an observation if it looks like a request in order to have complete taxa. Could we perhaps have a required field for the flagger to link to an observation.

[image] sbushes: You can tag people in if you want something asap… If that reply was towards me as the OP, then your offer then of direct support was great, something that i would hope that frustrated user would have welcomed to hear. However, as a fellow frustrated curator, well… :) It is h…

[image] tiwane: Are people still not providing links/citations with their flags for insects? Moving on, it was nice to see tiwane asking this. On a new flag request, it currently says [Comment] “Add an optional comment to this flag that further explains why you are adding it and provides lin…

[image] sjl197: at very least i’d also like to know how dear alberto_colatore is listed as having “12147 flags resolved” but at backend it looks like just about 1050 flags ;) He’s still a welcome member of the 1K+ club, and i eat my words if i got that count badly wrong! he’s listed as having…

[image] thebeachcomber: <a href="https://www.inaturalist.org/flags?commit=Filter&deleted=any&flaggable_type=all&flagger_name=&flagger_type=any&flagger_user_id=&flags%5B%5D=spam&flags%5B%5D=copyright+infringement&flags%5B%5D=artificially+generated+content&flags%5B%5D=inappropriate&flags%5B%5D=other&page=1&reason_query=&resolved=yes&resolver_name=alberto_colatore&resolver_user_id=alberto_colatore&taxon_id=&taxon_name=&user_id=&user_name=&utf8=%E2%9C%93" rel="noopener nofollow ugc">https://www.inaturalist.org/flags?commit=Filter&deleted=any&flaggable_type=all&flagger_name=&flagger_type=any&flagger_user_id=&flags[]=spam&flags[]=copyright+infringement&flags[]=artificially+generated+content&flags[]=inappropriate&flags[]=other&page=1&reason_query=&resol…

Curators, would some more of you at least add some requested taxa?

Curators

thomaseverest March 13, 2026, 7:35pm 12

That’s a known bug. FWIW I can see you on the list.

https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/im-missing-from-the-curator-section-of-the-people-page/11392

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Curators, would some more of you at least add some requested taxa?

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