Rant incoming Frankly I have a particular user in mind whose observations slow my identification flow. They have systematically opted out of community ID, which wouldn’t bother me too much if the majority of their observations weren’t of wide landscape shots whose identification requires much zoomi…

my bad, that string is only if you already have some filters on, otherwise use ‘?’ instead of ‘&’. You can use this link: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?not_user_id=jonsense and replace my user name with the one you don’t want to see.

add &not_user_id= to the url with the user name. There’s a stickied post on the tutorial page with other helpful search strings. edit: I meant the ‘Tutorials’ category in this forum, not anything on the website

Awesome thank you! I’ll be using this a lot :sweat_smile:

That only prevents them from identifying and commenting on my observations if I recall correctly. I could ask them politely to block me, with an explanation of course, but I’m not sure it would hide their observations on the Identify page, instead maybe just preventing me from interacting with them

I thought it went both ways, but I could be mistaken. It seems that you’ve found a more certain solution, though, so that’s good.

Indeed I have found a decent solution. I wish there existed an integrated feature for hiding observations from users that have opted out of community ID, but oh well…

Blocking works to hide observations from a certain user.

[Screenshot 2024-10-31 133221] Unsure how to interpret “It also removes their observations from your search results and removes your observations from their search results. However, it does not make you invisible to them. They can still find your observations and view your profile, they just can’t…

Yes, I unironically used this method to hide somebodies observations for the first time a few days ago as a last resort for some similar reasons in your above post. But it does go both ways.

Alright then, I will block them. Should I message them about it first? I have no qualms with their behaviour on iNaturalist. Their observations are just too much too handle

Hiding a particular user's observations in Identify

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pirarucu October 31, 2024, 5:21pm 3

You could choose to block the user (Account Settings > Relationships).

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Hiding a particular user's observations in Identify

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