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…

[image] wildskyflower: Cats are very commonly feral or quasi-feral all over the world and a huge issue to track ecologically, well in line with inat’s purpose. Dogs are rarely feral in most of the US, but more often elsewhere. I was talking only about ones marked “captive”, most of those are …

I don’t see how the removal of extinct humans is an improvement, it makes the taxonomy odd without stopping bullying, I would personally think “homo” is more likely to be a bullying ID than “neanderthal”, and in certain contexts non human primates or other animals are probably more offensive things …

I agree with you, and with @igor117 . If people are trying to bully, removing extinct humans won’t stop them. Think of all the other words used to insult people-- and we don’t want to remove other animals (cow, rat, dog, etc) just bc some people compare fellow humans to those animals. Personally, I …

[image] giannamaria: we should bring the extinct human species back Hold on… Shouldn’t we try and resurrect the woolly mammoth first?

Oh no… I worded that the wrong way, haha! I will edit it for clarification

I doubt iNaturalist’s inclusion or removal of extinct hominids will have any significant effect on creationists or questioning possible creationists.

[image] igor117: all extinct taxa should be removed and the curator guide should be rewritten, so everything would be consistent and in order. Don’t tempt them! [image] igor117: how this inconsistency can be seen by many I deleted the part of my original post responding to the young e…

I’ll stay on my opinion that how it may look in context of some marginal theories is an important thing that can impact views of some people, even if only few. There are many kids and people with only basic knowledge in natural sciences who may only start to form their opinions on such things. What …

I think the fact that humans are nested in under primates is probably good enough to combat that particular issue - we also don’t include the vast majority of ancestral species of other taxa that are known from the fossil record. Personally I’d be fine with removing any species that is only known f…

It’s obviously not a scientifically accurate compendium of all fossil taxa, but it’s closer in status to a popular science book that covers fossil biodiversity. In such a book you don’t have to mention every fossil species we know, but some best-known and most important ones are must have, you just …

Human obs used for cyberbullying

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Human obs used for cyberbullying

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