Since we’re all on an organasmic color kick around here lately, let’s bust it open and move along to a bigger Crayola box.
Limerick? I just thought the timing was right to pick this hue.
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To be honest I think there are enough threads with enough colors already, they end up being photo based leading to visual noise and hard to enjoy.
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Ah, does that mean I can’t use my Puce collection?
To be honest, this post was meant to be a tongue-in-colourful-cheek response to the colour madness as I agree with you, and I would not be adverse to giving it a rest.
(Hmm. Maybe I wasn’t quite sarcastic enough? That’s a tough one to get in without triggering the insensitive label.)
Not to mentuion playing fast and loose with the color names. Not everything posted to the “yellow” thread is really yellow, not everying in the “orange” thread is really orange. If we were to start a thread for this color you call “Limerick,” the ensuing photo gallery would include organisms colored everything from chartreuse to kelly.
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Excuse me, I now have to say
That I learned a new meaning today
Of a word that I thought
Meant a poem, and not
Yellowish-green. Does that make sense? No way!
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I’ve been waiting patiently for the green one to come round. I’ve got several pictures of leaves.
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but you have ‘name that green’ first ;~))
Personally I enjoy those threads for showing me astonishing organisms in taxa that I will never encounter, just as I enjoy seeing them in the perennially popular “what’s your best photo?” and “what’s your favorite lifer?” topics.
It’s easy enough to dismiss a new topic that doesn’t interest me, or to mute one that I no longer wish to see. There are plenty of threads that have devolved into various forms of noise that some people still enjoy, even if I don’t.
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Fair enough. The voice of moderation is one that should be heard more often. But not… too often, I guess?
I found the color run fun; it came at great timing. It really helped with the (maybe close to) end of winter. The tough time when the snow is unsafe to walk on. Now the maple sap is running (and not, it’s all dicey temps now) and there’s enough snow gone to get around better… weather permitting; today is windy in the forest!
As to Limerick, I recognized it as that particular shade made when the sun shines through certain leaves mostly in full spring. Nice to be able to name it. “Close to fire engine chartreuse” just doesn’t cut it.
Just to clarify, I meant that it is easy to use the “dismiss” button and the “mute” button for topics of no interest, and didn’t mean to suggest that I thought anyone was being dismissive!
While I also enjoy the other threads that share an “astonishing organism” I disagree with the proliferation of individual color threads.
What’s your favorite lifer is often accompanied by some text explain why it is the user’s favorite or what is unique about the lifer.
Where as the colors usually are just a collage of vaguely similar color organisms.
I was fine with the first one, blue, since (true)blue is an uncommon color in nature, especially in plants. But when you have a thread for each color it becomes something better suited for a project on inat itself.
And yes, it is easy to dismiss and mute topics I am not interested in, and I do, but I can still share why I do not enjoy them.
(edit: could a mod move this discussion here)
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For those of you discussing wether or not these color threads are a good idea, you may want to take a look at this thread and maybe move your discussion there.
Vaguely similar is right. That was what I was trying to say earlier. Many of the organisms in the “orange” thread are clearly brown, I have seen a number of blue organisms in the “purple” thread, and “red” seems to encompass anything even slightly ruddy.
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It seems people use it as an excuse to share their pictures, which is only natural humans like to share, but it isn’t what the forum is for(I think?)
Maybe I am being hypocritical since I have previously posted in the blue topic, but I think I showed more restrain.
Sampling the average blues in my post post:
I think I would call these all blue
I might also be biased against mainly picture sharing topics as my internet is very slow and I have to wait for each one to load?
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This being the case, I’m going to close this one, and encourage y’all to…
- participate in the Forum Feedback discussion about the color threads that isopodguy noted, if you have those kinds of concerns, or
- participate in the color thread(s) of your choice if they interest you.
Or both!
And yes, as Danly noted, consider unfollowing or muting topics that bother you rather than disrupting them (not saying anyone here has…). Discourse provides those tools for good reasons.
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