I have seen a substantial number of human obs that are clearly posted by one schoolchild of another, sometimes the subject of the photo is looking up at the photographer confused why their picture is being taken, many of these are posted with derogatory comments like “dork” or claims that the person…

@anon83178471 The argument I am making is that when the notes are inappropriate, and the photo is of a person, that makes the photo also inappropriate, because it may be being used for harassment I do not think we can tell reliably what is an innocent joke and what is harassment without knowing mor…

Why would CC0 be inappropriate for inat?

Posting wikipedia page cover photos is inappropriate for inat even thought they are CC0 is what I mean

Right, but that is becasue the location and date are inaccurate and they are not yours, not becasue they are CC0. I thought you were saying that if I take a picture and make it CC0 instead of my usual CC-BY-NC I can’t put it on inat

No I just meant that if the original owner waived copyright by making it CC0 then, literally, there is no copyright to infringe on. But it should still be flagged as ‘copyright infringement’ for inat purposes.

[image] DianaStuder: We now have 3 long threads running in parallel. What threads are you referring to? I am not aware of other long threads related to this

It sounds like the flags themselves need an overhaul, because to me, there’s no reason why flags should just sit unresolved. That’s so much clutter and probably taking up a lot of space. I really like the idea of having a flag to immediately remove photos that could be interpreted as bullying, but …

About bullying and moderation of https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/lgbtqia-and-inaturalist/23565 https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/moderation-decisions-about-several-posts-in-the-lgbtqia-thread/42122/80

[image] bluebellprince: I do not agree with auto-hiding images in human observations. I don’t think that is necessary, even if the observations are usually clutter. I think there is such a large gray area when it comes to what might be considered harassment or bullying, or non-consentual phot…

Human obs used for cyberbullying

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Turns out there is an open feature request for obscuring locations on all human observations https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/automatically-obscure-observations-marked-as-human/501

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