This weekend is the City Nature Challenge 2019 (CNC), a bioblitz in urban areas around the world. With over 160 cities participating this year, iNat is about to explode with a flurry of activity. The observation period is this Friday, April 26th through Monday, April 29th. [image] Graph of observa…

It might be a good idea to copy the info on how to do it on both, though, since there are people that use both.

yeah, I use the app for most of my data collection but use the website for most of my actual looking at my observations or those of others. So my observations will indicate that I use the app, but if i am viewing the observation page it’s with the website. Though hopefully i’m not adding low quality…

@bouteloua That’s a super helpful post. Thanks!

Great post @bouteloua ! Thank you for the suggestions.

While I don’t have a canned response for this, it’s typically something like: “Use caution with iNat’s suggested IDs. It’s easily confused!” Example: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/22681608#identification-50563235 The observer thanked me for this comment on a corrected ID, so I feel oka…

I think something along the idea of “it’s really good with a lot of species, but not so good on others… This seems to be one of those it struggles with. It’s a good idea to take the AI suggestions as possibilities to be considered”

[image] kiwifergus: “it’s really good with a lot of species, but not so good on others… This seems to be one of those it struggles with. It’s a good idea to take the AI suggestions as possibilities to be considered” Nice! I added a variation of this to the frequent responses .

Trolls on iNat? Unheard of :o If there are any trolls, I have first dibs on them. You heard it here first :)

I find the AI seems to pick a couple of “species of the day” One day it was mule deer and red squirrels - they came up for everything it didn’t know, and another day it was monarchs and poppies. Quite amusing.

I hadn’t noticed it, but I’m going to pay a lot more attention to the suggestions now!

Dealing with low quality observations and inappropriate content on iNaturalist

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mftasp June 25, 2019, 10:38pm 43

Does iNat have a policy on photos exhibiting nudity?

I’m having trouble finding one either on the terms of service or the help pages, or using a search engine.

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Dealing with low quality observations and inappropriate content on iNaturalist

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