In some projects, for example: [link removed by moderator] 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 specie…

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.

Contact the project admin. One of the CNC projects was flagged for bad behaviour.

@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.

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 h…

Irregularities in Competition Projects

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salix-babylonica May 8, 2025, 9:43pm 3

What should I say? Everything is wrong :)

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