Thinking about all of the new and existing feature requests, the recent huge project in Malaysia, and the continued issues with students being assigned to use iNaturalist, I thought it might be helpful to have a broader discussion here. In my definition: Duress Users are users who are assigned to …

[image] fluffyinca: I don’t even own a phone (I told you I was weird). I take it your peers do have smart phones? I’m old enough to remember a time without cell phones, but not old enough to have children your age, so it seems crazy to me that people still in a life stage involving “recess” c…

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Old topic, but I agree with the designation of “duress” users especially. I am a student (and only an undergraduate, at that), albeit nontraditional, and had to use iNaturalist in 2020 for a school project. My peers had a difficult time with it and most did not continue to use it after the project w…

[image] fluffyinca: Second, I am a bit of a loner at school. Nobody really likes me, and my closest friends are the teachers. I’m also the only kid who brings a camera to school and photographs birds during recess. I wanted to reply to this at the time, but it’s taken me this long to find the…

Solution is teachers who care, this year we had some very successful projects considering observation value, all observations were checked by the teacher, if it wouldn’t happen it’d be as in other projects, were students search photos from Internet and so on. Young people need a lot of guidance if t…

[image] arboretum_amy: I take it your peers do have smart phones? Oh yes, most if not all of the kids in my class have smartphones, and the girls especially spend all the break times watching silly videos and giggling about them. @cmcheatle You’re right that the majority of people on the plan…

To be fair, I am 30 and I’m always watching silly videos and memes on my smart phone. I just also make time for biodiversity :)

Bah, I wouldn’t be so hard on yourself. I started finding groups of people based on interested at about your age. While smartphones weren’t a thing then, I did have the internet. While the forum strays older users, we have a pretty populated Discord server that makes me feel like I’m an ancient bei…

Honestly, I haven’t tried the Discord server much since I don’t really understand it. Online communication is not my forte. Part of the reason I like this forum so much is that it’s primarily older users who don’t expect me to know about the latest technology, and who accept me as part of their comm…

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