Under “things that are OK” the community guidelines lists: >Images of dead or dismembered animals. While we do not endorse killing or fatally injuring animals just for the sake of contributing to iNaturalist, as naturalists we all encounter such scenes in our explorations, for example in the form o…

Not sure I have anything to add to what @cthawley said, but I guess I’ll reiterate it. Photos of animals killed by people are not prohibited. If they were prohibited, that would be explicitly stated. What we don’t want to do is encourage people to kill animals with the motivation of making observati…

My interpretation is “You can post photos of dead or dismembered animals (however they got that way). Also, we don’t want you kill or dismember them to post on iNaturalist (but we can’t monitor that, so making that a rule would be foolish).”

This has always been my interpretation too, but sometimes people challenge it and it is hard for me to definitively say the guidelines prove me right

Is this after the closed thread about ‘gleefully killing a protected fox sp’ ? Deliberately killing a protected sp is / should be against guidelines ?

There has been a lot of discussion in other threads about how to handle observations of poaching and the conclusions have been that iNat cannot keep track of laws in each jurisdiction but anyone who comes across something they know to be illegal can report it to the relevant law enforcement. When t…

I personally don’t think the guidelines are unclear. Saying “we don’t endorse thing A” is definitely not equal to “Thing A is not permitted,” and it requires some serious contortions of reasoning to get there in my opinion. To endorse is to make a public statement of your approval or support for s…

Maybe a curator could explain that there is a vast treasure trove of scientific data provided by human harvesting, e.g. wet markets in tropical countries. We don’t want to lose this data. So whether we are philosophically opposed or not, we do want to be open to capturing important observations, r…

I would suggest to iNatters like me - block those iNatters whose images disturb you. And ask tiwane to let us block more than 3, if our taxon / location has a hunting / poaching issue ?

Lack of clarity in community guidelines around animals killed by people

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Lack of clarity in community guidelines around animals killed by people

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