Handling obs by users with lots of suspect obvs?

Hi - recently flagged a few observations from a user who posted screenshots of social media (containing images of organisms). This user has had a lot of observations removed for use of copyrighted media. They also have a number of observations are that RG, and not obviously suspect.

How do curators handle a situation like this? Because of the number of bad observations this user has posted, I’d be inclined not to trust any of their observations to be true. Curious about iNat’s policies for handling these kinds of situations.

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Generally they get a warning and if they continue then their account gets suspended. See https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/community+guidelines

Add accurate content and take community feedback into account. Any account that adds content we believe decreases the accuracy of iNaturalist data may be suspended, particularly if that account behaves like a machine, e.g. adds a lot of content very quickly and does not respond to comments and messages.

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Thank you!

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