I think having iNaturalist blur photos on observations that have been annotated as “Dead” would help bring in new users, and prevent some users from leaving, or using their talents to identify other observations. The topic of posting dead animals, and gore have been discussed before here and other …

I am in favor of an optional annotation and filter for gory and other possibly disturbing images (although I’ve seldom run into anything). I agree that is not practical to require input for that before you can post the observation, but it seems reasonable to have annotation available for “potentiall…

Until today, I never thought that posting dead animals would be a big deal. During my time on iNat I’ve seen a lot of insects with needles through their bodies, roadkill and snakes that have been killed because humans fear them. I even do have observations of roadkill and killed snakes myself. Now,…

Agree with @bonesigh . The problem is that many users don’t actually fill out the annotations at all. And sometimes animals look dead but aren’t, which means it’s ultimately the observer’s responsibility to annotate correctly, otherwise the community may not be able to accurately tell whether it’s al…

I disagree that [image] SockyNoob: it’s ultimately the observer’s responsibility to annotate correctly Adding annotations has never been a requirement for uploading observations. Heck, adding an initial identification isn’t a requirement! (though there are many times I have wished that it we…

Yes, it’s not a requirement, but sometimes only the observer has the knowledge to know what the annotations are (like alive/dead for bugs) and if they didn’t mark them, they will never be. If you can’t tell the difference from just a picture, then it behooves you as the observer to mark them. Other…

Exactly @bonesigh . That’s why I think ultimately the best option would be to allow both the observer and an identifier to mark an image as potentially graphic and not rely on the dead or alive tags, that way it’s not in any way messing with data or encouraging people to assume things that only the o…

[image] SockyNoob: And sometimes animals look dead but aren’t, which means it’s ultimately the observer’s responsibility to annotate correctly, otherwise the community may not be able to accurately tell whether it’s alive or dead. A good middle ground would be an “injured” or “unknown” annotatio…

So we discussed this have decided not move forward with a specific way of handling observations of dead organisms or observations that include gory images. What we want to focus on instead is making better filters, including exclusion filters, in the user interface on Explore and Identify. Unfortuna…

Would it be possible to add a standard “Warning: This observation may be graphic” photo that we can use in our own observations as the 1st photo in something like @bouteloua ’s frequently used responses ?

[image] csonafrank: “Oh, isn’t that the platform with all the photos of dead animals and stuff”, which is unfortunate, and not representative of the site as a whole. [image] zdanko: If someone is adverse to dead animals they can sort to show observations WITHOUT the annotation of Dead. …

Implement Photo Blur on observations annotated as "Dead"

Feature Requests

Topic		Replies	Views
Photos of dead animals General	43	11728	August 26, 2019
Is a photo of entrails too offensive for iNaturalist? General question	123	6858	November 26, 2019
No ability to report disturbing images General ios-classic-app	87	2913	April 9, 2024
Allow for "blocking" of observations(/photos?) of a particular taxa Feature Requests	17	1813	August 17, 2020
Dead Animals vs Live Ones General	82	1334	July 27, 2026

Implement Photo Blur on observations annotated as "Dead"

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