Glossary (iNatForum)

[schoenitz]

In another thread, @kueda wrote this:

Specific to “jargon” I generally think jargon is bad, and tends to devolve into insider / outsider signaling that dissuades newbies from joining the tribe. “DQA” and “RG” are useful shorthands for subjects that are pretty specific to iNat, but it’s a slippery slope. I’d hate to get into a situation where people routinely leave comments like, “BP, MT, please split” meaning “blurry photo, multiple taxa, please split these photos into multiple observations,” but which would probably be interpreted as “people here speak weirdly and might be asking me to leave, I don’t feel welcome.”

So while this effort here isn’t wrong per se, it may not be such a good idea either.

Some of the terms on your list are specific to iNaturalist, others are general internet slang. The former may change over time (I hope “RG” does), and there is a redundancy of lists for the latter a google search away.