I don’t always feel comfortable calling out other users and would appreciate the ability to flag a user for curator attention. For example, I recently noticed someone had posted over 40 observations that were photos of photos with incorrect metadata on every single image. Or another example brough…

When I first saw all the photos of surveillance cameras, my first thought was to mark them as “no evidence of organism.” But there are so many observations of meaningless inanimate objects on iNaturalist that get corrected to “Human” that I couldn’t figure out why these wouldn’t be “Human” as well–o…

From a curator’s view, I wonder whether this would result in a lot of flag traffic for relatively innocuous issues that are usually dealt with by other means. Or whether it might facilitate flag wars between users. I would be curious to know from @tiwane how much this might alleviate the current h…

I’ve been noticing more and more flags by users who have flagged without making any effort to draw the issue to the flagged user’s attention. Perhaps it isn’t the job of each and every user to help other users or correct other user’s mistakes, but I feel that we all need to engage with other users t…

Encouraging flaggers to find ways to engage directly with the user to resolve issues is a great way to spread the load and I try to do that as much as possible when I resolve flags. At the same time, yeah, not everyone is interested in resolving these types of issues themselves, and sometimes as a …

In my opinion, if a user is doing something consistently across their records that violates iNat rules, then it warrants a flag. If the user is simply screwing up on some of their records, perhaps due to inexperience, then add a comment to their “bad” records and/or use the DQA at the bottom of the …

[image] jnstuart: If the user is simply screwing up on some of their records, perhaps due to inexperience, then add a comment to their “bad” records and/or use the DQA at the bottom of the record and move on. Yes, and my concern is that adding a user flagging option will make it easier to avo…

Trail cameras provide invaluable data making I NAT a documented research source and not just another pretty picture compilation and should be accorded the same level of respect. Now horrible cell phone photos should be disallowed as identification is most often impossible and thus just taking up val…

There’s no photo “quality” requirement and a photo that seems impossible to one person may be an easy ID for another. Please refrain from “photo shaming”. If you are certain (and I mean really certain) no id is possible flag it “no further ID needed” Remember we are here to connect with nature and …

Hey @charlie , quick question. So if I understand correctly, if the photo is obviously just a grey blur or something like that, a smear of colour, a photo that lacks any subject or definition, we can flag it in the way you describe? And to do so, would that mean flagging it as “other” and then writ…

Sorry for the confusion, I didn’t mean that type of flag, rather that you would check the “no further id needed” checkbox on the observation. You can also add a coarse id though perhaps best not to disagree unless you think the id is wrong (that etiquette gets sticky)

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Feature Requests

Topic		Replies	Views
Observations too-hastily marked as inappropriate - How do you deal with them? Curators	30	2380	October 15, 2023
Concern About Internet-Sourced Images on iNaturalist General question , curation	18	565	April 16, 2025
Create a flag category for duplicate observations Feature Requests curation	43	4663	May 11, 2022
Hide or obscure flagger name on flags page for normal users Feature Requests under-review	36	870	December 10, 2024
Curators, would some more of you at least add some requested taxa? Curators	28	834	April 1, 2026

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