I’ve recently realized that my habit of combining multiple photos of individual plants in a variable population is technically against iNat policy: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/observing-populations-not-just-individuals/6353 This makes me very sad because I think it is useful to document variat…

[image] ddennism: another user of this site is beginning to systematically disagree with identifications on the grounds that they contain too many individuals If all of the individuals visible are of the same taxon, I am curious what this user’s disagreeing ID taxon is, and what their justifi…

I think they are technically correct, but I wouldn’t worry about splitting up old observations. Even if you did, it wouldn’t change the considerable number of other observations (by myself included) that are of that nature. We still have observations in the system from absentee and duress users that…

[image] kiwifergus: We still have observations in the system from absentee and duress users that show different taxa between photos, let alone individuals of the same taxa. Yep! To my mind, that’s a far bigger issue than different individuals of the same taxa being in a single observation.

I’m with the others here, as long as they are from the same day, and reasonably close geographically (I’m not really interested in a debate on what is ‘reasonable’) then leave them. When almost all users of the site ‘technically’ break the rules, it tells me more that there is an issue with the rul…

[image] iNaturalist 2019 Team Retreat Follow-Up Create a tool to help users split and merge their observations An improved way to do this was on the 2019 agenda but my suspicion is that updates to the notification system might be taking priority, but for now the steps you list seem right. The …

[image] cmcheatle: I’m with the others here, as long as they are from the same day, and reasonably close geographically (I’m not really interested in a debate on what is ‘reasonable’) then leave them. When almost all users of the site ‘technically’ break the rules, it tells me more that there i…

Thanks - and especially thanks for the reminder to check the location accuracy radius.

They typically point out a single individual that, if pictured alone, would be more difficult than the others pictured (or maybe impossible) to identify to species-level, and then offer a genus or higher identification. Sometimes with disagreement, sometimes not. For example, a single plant with an…

Ok, I guess they are not really intentionally misidentifying anything in that scenario, just being a bother. And I suppose replying that you had a different individual in mind probably wouldn’t have much effect? At least they only have one vote… I have definitely become more aware of sticking to …

If someone insisted, I think I would probably just block them. :)

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Yep! To my mind, that’s a far bigger issue than different individuals of the same taxa being in a single observation.

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Fastest way to split observations of more than one individual

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