This evening I stumbled upon a class project which has uploaded over 3,000 observations, almost none of which have been identified using the CV but do have identifications- most of which are wrong. The vast majority have been identified to just four species. For example, so far 525 observations have…

[image] spiphany: The number of observations and IDs is not a very good measure of how well a user understands iNat. There are plenty of users with hundreds of observations who still seem to struggle with some of the basic functions You are right saying that there are some of such users. Anyw…

[image] Italopithecus: Anyway, here we are focusing on those users who have joined iNat not to add observations but just to create projects for the students, usually without caring for the results. Of course, preventing them to create such projects would not totally ensure that they will not org…

[image] spiphany: But a mechanism that would restrict functions for these users based merely on number of observations/IDs would also do so for users who have taken time to explore iNat but merely have not entered much content. Yes. Anyway, I think that the perfect solution could not exist an…

Some of my comments in this thread may have been less than kind, as I let off some steam about the absurd repetition of observations, but at least the ones that I reviewed for Maclura were correct. So I can say that, by one measure, I had a productive IdentiWednesday and IdentiThursday, last week. …

Is that ‘sincere user’ still with us? Can we retain the goodwill of that one?

Terrible idea. People will be able to do so much damage by creating projects and adding observations to them/defining their criteria to include observations to make those observations casual. And remember that this one was a collection project, not a traditional project. The truth is, students neve…

[image] cyanfox: Terrible idea. People will be able to do so much damage by creating projects and adding observations to them/defining their criteria to include observations to make those observations casual. I’m left to assume that you didn’t read the thread, since I originally said that I’…

[image] neylon: Why? Because people can do it to other projects besides the kind you have in mind.

And those projects that have active managers would get unflagged.

How to correct thousands of misidentified observations uploaded by a class?

General

sedgequeen December 10, 2024, 3:13pm 72

That person just did a lot of ID’s, as of December 8. I wasn’t on iNaturalist much Dec. 9, but I have sent a thank you.

Topic		Replies	Views
Classes uploading large quantities of poor observations General	87	4283	March 30, 2023
Upcoming Limits on Making Projects, Places, and Messages News and Updates	58	8824	May 16, 2019
Penang Intersecondary School City Nature Challenge Project General	50	4917	March 18, 2019
Create Separate Accounts for Students Assigned to Use iNaturalist Feature Requests	61	6258	March 19, 2019
IDs for college class assignments? General	24	2920	October 25, 2019

How to correct thousands of misidentified observations uploaded by a class?

Related topics