I’m a keen iNat user, mainly for plants, and I’m also on a few useful and helpful Facebook groups about botany, wildflowers, etc. Once in a while I post an observation and get a comment such as ‘is that an app name?’ and I realise that Plants Of the World Online has a different scientific or common …

[image] quillipede: I’m actually not sure at what level taxon obscuring kicks in automatically. Is it endangered? I think in most cases it’s decided manually on a case-by-case basis by curators (a process anyone can initiate by flagging the species page), rather than automatically by conserva…

[image] JaneBP: clubs are not on every corner or even in every town. I actually looked into mycological societies, knowing that mushroom field guides are inadequate. The nearest NAMA-affiliated group is nearly three hours’ drive. Or, on Meetup, there is a non-NAMA affiliated group two hours’ …

Yes, there are taxa that are obscured even without a status level that would lead to automatic obscuration. Users start a conversation by flagging the taxon, laying out their reasoning for obscuration, and, ideally, linking to some sources. This happens reasonably frequently. In some cases, taxa are…

[image] egordon88: https://academic.oup.com/aesa/article/117/4/220/7706383 Bee study comparing traditional methods and iNat that was recently published by https://www.inaturalist.org/people/nashuagoats That’s really interesting – thanks for sharing!

TIME will fix this. You can’t persuade reluctant people, but over time, they will either age out or come to see the advantages of iNat. This is something that will have to emerge as iNat continues to proves its utility and as the community adjusts to its advantages and disadvantages. Much of the n…

There is no conflict in loving iNat and good FB or other prudent groups. Rather, in some aspects (say count), I felt that it would hv beeen better if they were here also. In few aspects I diifer with the guidelines also as every aspects are not be dealt equally all over the world in all situation (m…

[image] jheiser: criticism scientific infrastructure I don’t know what that means. Can you explain? [image] Print and Digital Field Guides - Pros and Cons Paper field guides will never be obsolete as long as… Or if you get motion sickness from scrolling. If anything is out of date in m…

Criticism = mistype of critical, from context

[image] jheiser: TIME will fix this. You can’t persuade reluctant people, but over time, they will either age out or come to see the advantages of iNat . . . iNaturalist has actually gained significance extremely rapidly . . . Ultimately, the Network Effect, the concept that the utility of a ser…

[image] upupa-epops: repeatedly getting into ID or taxonomy disagreements with less-experienced people; I view this one as a feature, not a bug. :) In the end, iNat (or something like it) will be inextricably linked to new processes that displace old ones. The experts here now are very comm…

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I re-opened an existing topic about printed vs. digital field guides and moved posted related to that there as best I could, although there are still some fragments here.

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