Is there any chance that we can please have a way that curators can mark observers that have died, so that it shows on their profile (a simple cross would be OK)? We have quite a few in our southern African community, and I suspect that they are getting messages, in addition to the requests on thei…

[image] jwidness: “When placed immediately before or after a person’s name, the dagger indicates that the person is deceased.” That article also says “The dagger should not be confused with the Unicode characters “ Latin cross ” ( :latin_cross: , U+271D), …” if that makes any difference to this d…

dagger and double-dagger are literary marks, in a similar way to how postscripting works…?

[image] jdmore: You will probably also need to figure out where you stand if an heir should come along and assert ownership over the old account. Sometimes people give a list of their social media and other passwords to the person designated to take care of their affairs after death, with ins…

[image] charlie: would rather not use a cross, unless we specifically know that person wanted it I think a symbol based on either religion or culture is a bad idea. [image] upupa-epops: I don’t see an issue with having (deceased) or something like that instead though, I much prefer th…

[image] saturnring: Sometimes people give a list of their social media and other passwords to the person designated to take care of their affairs after death, with instructions to end their online presence at that time to keep their accounts from being misused. I’m just bringing this up because …

Flickr recently introduced an “In Memoriam” account type, posting here for reference. https://flickr.kustomer.help/in-memoriam-flickr-accounts-HJA_AcTL4

do they delete dead people’s photos if they don’t posthumously pay for ‘pro’?

From the link Tony posted: In memoriam accounts will preserve all public content in a deceased member’s account, even if their Pro subscription lapses

Deceased observers - and a deceased symbol on their icon

Feature Requests

mira_l_b March 10, 2019, 11:33pm 16

@KitKestrel, I think this is covered somewhere in here:
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/dealing-with-account-deletion/93/8

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Deceased observers - and a deceased symbol on their icon

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