# Discussion about a hidden post **URL:** \ **Category:** Forum Feedback\ **Created:** [August 5, 2025, 2:15pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/discussion-about-a-hidden-post/68539 "2025-08-05T14:15:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lakekoshare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@lakekoshare](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/lakekoshare)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2025, 2:05pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/discussion-about-a-hidden-post/68539/1 "2025-08-05T14:05:20Z")
Thanks you for clarifying between flagged and deleted. I am still concerned that an AI LLM model is making decisions to flag comments however. ---
**Author:** ![pisum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/91b2a8/32.png) [@pisum](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/pisum)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2025, 2:15pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/discussion-about-a-hidden-post/68539/2 "2025-08-05T14:15:24Z")
> [@lakekoshare](#): > > I am still concerned that an AI LLM model is making decisions to flag comments the post of yours that was hidden says it was flagged by the community, not by an automated process. this means that other forum members – people, not AI – likely found something in your post to violate the community guidelines. i _believe_ that if you go in and change your post to be less objectionable, then moderators have the ability to unhide the message. > [@What is this - iNaturalist and generative AI?](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/what-is-this-inaturalist-and-generative-ai/66140/879): > > whoever is deleting so many posts in this forum there have been 800+ posts about this whole thing scattered across several threads, and only a tiny fraction of the posts have been deleted by the authors themselves or hidden due to moderation. i’ve had some posts of my own get hidden for whatever reason, and i just moved on. there was nothing so important in the post(s) that it was worth getting upset about. maybe you should just move on, too. ---
**Author:** ![lakekoshare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@lakekoshare](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/lakekoshare)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2025, 8:22pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/discussion-about-a-hidden-post/68539/3 "2025-08-05T20:22:56Z")
> [@On another topic](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/68475/1): > > Your post was flagged as **off-topic** : the community feels it is not a good fit for the topic, as currently defined by the title and the first post. > > This post was hidden due to flags from the community, so please consider how you might revise your post to reflect their feedback. **You can edit your post after 10 minutes, and it will be automatically unhidden.** This does not seem like a person responding ---
**Author:** ![pisum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/91b2a8/32.png) [@pisum](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/pisum)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2025, 8:36pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/discussion-about-a-hidden-post/68539/4 "2025-08-05T20:36:00Z")
it’s an automated message, and you got it because a person flagged your post for being off topic. the person who flagged your post even explained in another thread exactly why they flagged it. the automated message is not generated by AI. we’ve had automated messages long before the widespread adoption of AI. if you want to complain about automated messages, i suppose that’s your choice, even if that won’t lead anywhere except to maybe more flags for being off-topic. to me, it seems like the most productive thing would be to move on and get back on topic. ---
**Author:** ![lakekoshare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@lakekoshare](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/lakekoshare)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2025, 8:41pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/discussion-about-a-hidden-post/68539/5 "2025-08-05T20:41:04Z")
I think someone said my post had to do with Google maps and not AI on iNaturalist. My concern was if Google is not willing to handle geographical data responsibly, maybe they should not be handling iNat data. Not sure how I feel about free mental health advice. Is this because I have a neurodiverse label on my profile? I hope not. ---
**Author:** ![pisum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/91b2a8/32.png) [@pisum](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/pisum)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2025, 8:50pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/discussion-about-a-hidden-post/68539/6 "2025-08-05T20:50:26Z")
> [@lakekoshare](#): > > I have a neurodiverse label on my profile i’m looking at your profile on the forum and on the main site, and i don’t see anything that looks like what you’re describing. all my comments to you up to the point you self-identified have been delivered without consideration of neurodiversity. i’m going to get back on topic now. ---
**Author:** ![tiwane](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/tiwane/32/54612_2.png) [@tiwane](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/tiwane)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2025, 9:07pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/discussion-about-a-hidden-post/68539/7 "2025-08-05T21:07:55Z")
I moved the above posts from [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/what-is-this-inaturalist-and-generative-ai/66140](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/what-is-this-inaturalist-and-generative-ai/66140) @lakekoshare if you have a question about a moderation decision, it’s best to ask it in #Forum Feedback or email forum\_moderators. I explained why I hid your post [here](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/post-criticizing-inat-google-deal-mysteriously-taken-down/68494/14), and that you can edit it if you want to and it will be visible again. If you have questions you can ask here or message me if you want. ---
**Author:** ![jasonhernandez74](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/jasonhernandez74/32/33615_2.png) [@jasonhernandez74](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/jasonhernandez74)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 8:46pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/discussion-about-a-hidden-post/68539/8 "2025-08-06T20:46:50Z")
> [@pisum](#): > > i’ve had some posts of my own get hidden for whatever reason, and i just moved on. there was nothing so important in the post(s) that it was worth getting upset about. maybe you should just move on, too. Was this the unsolicited mental health advice? Because it comes across as dismissive. Only the writer of a post can decide whether its contents are worth getting upset about. ---
**Author:** ![jnstuart](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/jnstuart/32/1623_2.png) [@jnstuart](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/jnstuart)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 9:39pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/discussion-about-a-hidden-post/68539/9 "2025-08-06T21:39:38Z")
I think I’ve had one post hidden in last 5 years or so. It was deservedly so, I was off topic and probably too cranky in my verbiage. ---
**Author:** ![Thunderhead](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/thunderhead/32/62294_2.png) [@Thunderhead](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/Thunderhead)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 9:51pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/discussion-about-a-hidden-post/68539/10 "2025-08-06T21:51:14Z")
That was me, too. ---
**Author:** ![jnstuart](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/jnstuart/32/1623_2.png) [@jnstuart](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/jnstuart)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 10:02pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/discussion-about-a-hidden-post/68539/11 "2025-08-06T22:02:31Z")
We should get a badge for that. ---
**Author:** ![DianaStuder](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/dianastuder/32/43358_2.png) [@DianaStuder](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/DianaStuder)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 10:07pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/discussion-about-a-hidden-post/68539/12 "2025-08-06T22:07:41Z")
Some of my flagged comments I defanged and declawed. And some, I stand by what I said. If it is hidden, it is. ---
**Author:** ![papernautilus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@papernautilus](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/papernautilus)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 10:16pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/discussion-about-a-hidden-post/68539/13 "2025-08-06T22:16:08Z")
Ditto. ---
**Author:** ![Thunderhead](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/thunderhead/32/62294_2.png) [@Thunderhead](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/Thunderhead)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 10:39pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/discussion-about-a-hidden-post/68539/14 "2025-08-06T22:39:02Z")
I was a little proud… it took quite awhile to earn that! ---
**Author:** ![papernautilus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@papernautilus](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/papernautilus)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 10:47pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/discussion-about-a-hidden-post/68539/15 "2025-08-06T22:47:22Z")
It’s a shame that they show the badges but not the demerits. ---
**Author:** ![lakekoshare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@lakekoshare](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/lakekoshare)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2025, 11:06pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/discussion-about-a-hidden-post/68539/16 "2025-08-09T23:06:02Z")
On my project list it shows up.