I am sorry if I repeat something that is already said herein the forums, but I am a bit exasperated. I do not know what to do with ID’s which may be termed as intentionally wrong. There is one user who is uploading photos of lichens, many of them belonging to the groups that cannot be identif…

If the person seems unresponsive to polite guidance on making accurate/reasonable identifications , and these are their own observations, I would probably lean toward tagging in or privately messaging other users who can help and let the situation get resolved through the community identification sys…

You can also email URLs of examples to help@inaturalist.org if you don’t want to publicly discuss the specific user and we can take a look.

Thank you both, @bouteloua and @tiwane for the advice. The person in question is misidentifying his own observations (as far as I know, because I only check lichen OB’s in certain territories where I know lichens well or at least have fragmentary knowledge, and he is travelling extensively). I will …

Depending on where in the world this is, also worth checking if the observer actually speaks English.

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saturnring September 10, 2019, 7:35pm 7

@jurga_li Just thought that this thread, especially @jdmore’s comment, might be of interest to people reading this post: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/ability-for-curators-to-delete-other-users-comments-vs-hide/548

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