Irregularities in Competition Projects

In some projects, for example:
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Users take photos of the same plants over and over again to compete and come first, do not mark cultivated plants, and sometimes re-upload each other’s photos.,

And in some cases, i suspect they are intentionally misID for increase species stats. Such as:
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What should be done in this case?
Any idea?
I am tired of marking as cultivated each observation.

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Contact the project admin.

One of the CNC projects was flagged for bad behaviour.

What should I say? Everything is wrong :)

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@salix-babylonica please do not use the forum to link to specific examples of user-related issues. I removed the two links in your post.

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I’ve been in touch with the project owner, she’s been very responsive and asked that we keep tagging her on issues, so I recommend tagging her. She’s working with users to hopefully take down their problematic content.

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Disappointing to see fresh problems - but relieved that the problems are being caught.

We still have 2 busy threads for the same issues around CNC. Where the winner is ‘sad and disappointing’

https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/regarding-inat-during-the-city-nature-challenge-i-think-its-fun/64710/40

https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/large-numbers-of-falsified-observations-for-this-years-city-nature-challenge/64547

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