I just flagged a dozen or so photos from a user that were taken from the internet. Just wondering, will this get noticed by anyone? Will this user get banned or be sent a message to dissuade them from continuing this behavior. Or do I have to manually report this user to iNaturalist?

I flagged one record last week for same reason and it was dealt with very quickly.

Of course your flags are seen by moderators.

Curators can see flags for images. If I see that someone has gotten multiple flags I will contact the user. Sometimes they are willing to change their behaviour. If needed, I’ll ban the account, but it’s pretty rare that I have to – most of these users don’t stick around for long any way.

There are also a few of us curators who periodically run through flags for copyright. I’ve frankly found that the majority of users don’t respond to warnings, but I still give 24 hours to respond appropriately as suggested by staff. Users do get suspended fairly frequently for copyright issues, so I…

Does flagging copyright infringement alert iNaturalist?

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Does flagging copyright infringement alert iNaturalist?

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