Dealing with low quality observations and inappropriate content on iNaturalist

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Thank you.

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Good luck everyone!!

And thank you @bouteloua and the other mods for being so patient with everyone who uses this site.

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The cities are listed on here https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2019 and if you click on a specific city it takes you to their project where you can see who has joined it, if that helps.

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thank you. I have already done

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This is awesome, @bouteloua! Iā€™d been working on something similar and you beat me to it! (Not the first time and probably not the last either!) Iā€™ve linked to this from the blog post I just added, and itā€™s linked from the dashboard now as well (I think I configured it so that everyone on iNaturalist and the iNaturalist network sites can see it as long as their account settings locale is set to English).

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This is awesomely useful, especially the list of common replies :-) I noticed there were variations for web and mobile users. This is probably a really dumb question, but how can we tell which is which? Iā€™ve searched around in a couple of observations and donā€™t see device info. Thanks!

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Assuming you are talking about the web client where you are looking, towards the bottom right below the copyright info it will indicate which app it came from like here https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/22946815

If there is no info there, it was done via the web client

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Thanks! I must have been looking only at camera photos.

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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.

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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 itā€™s with the website. Though hopefully iā€™m not adding low quality observationsā€¦ most of the time :)

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@bouteloua Thatā€™s a super helpful post. Thanks!

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Great post @bouteloua! Thank you for the suggestions.

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While I donā€™t have a canned response for this, itā€™s typically something like:

ā€œUse caution with iNatā€™s suggested IDs. Itā€™s easily confused!ā€

Example: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/22681608#identification-50563235

The observer thanked me for this comment on a corrected ID, so I feel okay about it!

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I think something along the idea of ā€œitā€™s really good with a lot of species, but not so good on othersā€¦ This seems to be one of those it struggles with. Itā€™s a good idea to take the AI suggestions as possibilities to be consideredā€

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Nice! I added a variation of this to the frequent responses.

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

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I find the AI seems to pick a couple of ā€œspecies of the dayā€ One day it was mule deer and red squirrels - they came up for everything it didnā€™t know, and another day it was monarchs and poppies. Quite amusing.

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I hadnā€™t noticed it, but Iā€™m going to pay a lot more attention to the suggestions now!

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Iā€™ll be interested to hear if you experience the same thing!

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voting for this feature request may help:
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/add-10-new-hot-keys-to-the-identify-page-to-speed-reviewers-efforts-improve-data-quality/3122