Just got out of a meeting where we discussed this (yesterday was a US holiday).
Since functionality that allows curators to hide media is needed anyway, we’re going to work on that approach and see how it works for cases of bullying/potential bullying. So in that case, someone could flag a photo, sound, or observation as inappropriate and a curator could hide it like they can currently do with comments. This could be used for other situations like maybe a hateful image that’s not of a human. We’ll also look into solutions that make the media more inaccessible as well. This will take some thoughtful policies and guidelines.
If you find anything that’s needs to be hidden right away, it’s OK to use the copyright violation flag, but please use it for clear-cut cases. If you think something should be deleted, please email help@inaturalist.org and we’ll take a look.
Thanks for the construcive conversation, everyone.