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…

Your wife’s picture of you shared to mutual friends - is not the issue we are concerned about here. You wouldn’t be stalked or bullied because of her picture. But iNat itself. And these Forum posts are public.

PS how do I find my flags? If I can flag that photo for Copyright and hide it - I will.

[image] DianaStuder: how do I find my flags? Since we don’t link to inappropriate content on the forum, I’ll send you a direct message on how to find content you’ve flagged. [image] DianaStuder: If I can flag that photo for Copyright and hide it - I will. If you think a photo should b…

Let me rephrase that - how do we find our flags. I couldn’t find ‘flags’ via the Forum, or iNat Search. As a workaround, I will use the Copyright flag to force a picture out of sight.

[image] DianaStuder: Let me rephrase that - how do we find our flags. I sent you a direct message with the link to content you flagged.

If humans were hidden you could still do this, but the photo would be hidden once IDed as human

inaturalist.org/flags gets you to the list of all flags, and then there are search filters where you can filter by flagger

The google street view blurring AI has a failure rate that would be unacceptable for inat, often blurring people’s butt instead of their face, if a butt looks like a face to the AI, imagine how many animal faces would be hidden I would oppose any AI based moderation, becasue the tech just isn’t at …

That would stop something from being moved out of human, too, though. Which is a huge downside and I think would be a terrible situation to be in. Somebody marks something falsely as human when there is an organism to be IDed, and now it’s lost. Obviously it depends on how it would be implemented an…

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DianaStuder June 14, 2023, 4:05pm 86

Yes - thank you.
But generally. Other people may also be interested in finding their flags again for other issues. It would be useful to have a link on our profile page.

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