# Filter preferences

**URL:** <https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/filter-preferences/59137>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [December 7, 2024, 1:44am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/filter-preferences/59137 "2024-12-07T01:44:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![ItsMeLucy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/49beb7/32.png) [@ItsMeLucy](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/ItsMeLucy)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2024, 8:52am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/filter-preferences/59137/39 "2024-12-08T08:52:42Z")

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> [@epiphyte78](#):
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> this is the problem with tyranny of the majority.

> [@Optimal recruitment](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/optimal-recruitment/58721/34):
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> right now inat is in a market, but it’s not a market. so how our limited resources, like time and attention, are distributed among all the different plants and animals _is wrong_, **really wrong**.

Respectfully, you do not appear to be enjoying the site. The topics you have started each explore your complaints with iNaturalist and broad changes you think it needs.

And now you are criticizing it at a fundamental level. Tyranny? No. It is just not what _you_ want. You think. Again, you are a very new user.

Again I suggest you spend more time than three weeks familiarizing yourself, and now I am going to make a specific suggestion, which is to read the [Forum Guidelines](https://forum.inaturalist.org/guidelines). Please take them in and sit with them and please resist the urge to propose changes to them as well.

In particular, pay attention to the section bolded **A few more things** , which contains this:

> Don’t come here to denigrate iNaturalist. If you have suggestions or critiques, please make them. But if your sole purpose is just to express how much you dislike iNat, we’ll ask you to find another platform.

I truly think if you give iNaturalist a chance and take time to fully explore, utiziling the Forum to ask questions to find features, tools, and aspects, you will find it works better than three weeks of poking around might indicate.

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