Good evening, I have been using inaturalist for about 4-5 months, I am starting with botany subjects and I am still a novice, I try to go through my entire area with the camera, I upload the photographs and when I get home I try to apply the dichotomous keys for each one of them. But after days, w…

[image] pfau_tarleton: I’d encourage you get to know the other iNaturalist users in your region (using the tools within iNat), help them identify things, and start friendships or working relationships with them. If you’re not using the social networking side of iNaturalist, I think this will hel…

you can freely identify, interact with and comment on anyone’s observations, exchange messages, mark your favourite observations, join projects, write and read personal or project journals, and more. That’s not something you can do on eg GBIF or WoRMS… and that’s just a start plus the forum is defi…

[image] inspector_crow: seem to have overlooked this … a “social networking side”? Where would I find that please? In addition to what trh_blue said, you can “follow” people who’s observations and journal posts that you’d like to see: If you go to someone else’s profile you will see Message a…

All I will add to that is that the top identifier(s) may not always be the best people to tag. I’m top identifier in a number of Canadian moth species, but it does not mean I am completely familiar with the species. I’ll sometimes do a whole bunch of ID’s for one species, and six months later will h…

iNat is social media first. iNat intends to encourage ‘social’ to observe nature. From that arise the issues biologists can have with data quality. And observers who feel this obs is MINE you may NOT add an ID or leave a comment. Again - iNat says be kind, presume people mean well.

I have developed relationships (online) with a fair number of people I would like to get to know better. People also help each other out when they can - I got some very informative feedback from a person who is more familiar with dragonflies than me this morning. I’ve been involved with collegial de…

There is rarely a flame war and as good as no conspiracy theories, so how can it be social??? :wink:

Are you sure about conspiracy? :alien:

Well, no observations yet of Walckenaeria extraterrestris??? That can’t be coincidence, someone is hiding them from us. But that’s not a theory of mine of course, it’s just a plain conspiracy!

I love this idea and generally pay it forward in life wherever I can. I have 201 observations and have made 5,153 IDs. I get nothing on even the most basic fungi and plants and bugs. Are unidentified observations used for anything? I will say most of my IDs are for birds (my best area), and I rarely…

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