That’s why I declined to use the pseudonym “master_IDer” for myself. Joking of course…
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I can recognise the 3 I have grown in my garden. But then the restio family, come in male and female plants - three times as difficult - I can’t.
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It doesn’t help that some formerly easily-identified genera have been sunk into difficult genera. I know Kyllingia when I see it; but since iNat treats it as a synonym of Cyperus, I can’t help. I haven’t found any taxon that means what used to be Kyllingia and only that.
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I try to do a handful of @'s each day, because I feel I’m bothering people doing more than 10. I think people just have to use common sense.
Blocking or muting is pretty rude, and a message to that person to “please go easy on the @ because I have a lot of notifications and I might miss them” is much better. If someone blocked or muted me, I would feel bad/insulted and probably hesitate to ever mention them again. This would suck if they were a major taxon authority that was closed off to me because of an unpleasant encounter.
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Some people think indiscriminate @ ing is pretty rude. I’d say blocking and muting are quite proportional responses. Better than an online argument!
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I assume the blocked/muted person isn’t notified. It probably just seems like the tagged user is not responding.
I think as with most things, it’s best to first just talk to the person and explain to them why you don’t want to be tagged too often and explain how it can be hindering things on iNat. If they keep doing it to you, then perhaps you should block them. Note that blocking is not supposed to happen until you have tried to work things out through dialogue. Which, yes, is different than on many other platforms, but iNat’s not like many other platforms.
If someone is blocked, they don’t get immediately notified but they’ll know when they try to interact with you on iNat.
If someone is muted, they’re never told they’ve been muted by you.
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Maybe worth adding something to Frequently Used Responses to address this issue, maybe:
Thank you for your enthusiasm. I noticed that you’ve been tagging me/many users for non-specific help with observations. This makes it harder for me to effectively and fairly help everyone else on the platform, so can you please be more judicious with your tagging?
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I’m not a good IDer myself (yet) and I do tag some people sometimes.
But I never tag them just after I post my observation. This is what I do:
- I post my observation and find an as-good-as-possible ID myself
- I wait atleast a month (by this time, about a half of my observation will have been identified)
- I pick out some unidentified observations that I personally find interesting or that I think might add value to the iNat database (for example rare animals).
- I find relevant people to tag for this observation and give their profile’s description a quick view to check if they are currently even online or if they prefer not to be tagged.
Please give feedback on this…
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Wait a week would be fine? What doesn’t get seen in the first few days may languish for a while.
That sounds like a good way to approach tagging. Personally, I try to limit my tagging to 1) people I’ve interacted with previously, and 2) if there is some sort of ID conflict or other question to resolve, or a follow-up on a previous discussion (e.g. new pictures/observation for something they said was inconclusive). If it’s a continuation of an ongoing discussion, I usually don’t tag assuming that people involved in the discussion are still following the page. Tagging in that case means they get two notifications instead of one.
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