This is actually about the same user which made me create this thread about devaluing observations. While, thankfully, they no longer do this so much. Recently what they did made me question everything again and I’m not certain how to proceed.
I caught them out making audio observations recording the sound clip from the eBird page for said bird. It was very obvious basing it upon the quality of sound/photos they usually make, as well as it being a match with the background bird sounds from the featured audio clip. Since making a comment and reporting they deleted it all. It was also because they bird was rather rare, likely not singing in the observed location and it being well beyond the apparent skill level to record such audio.
It’s worrying because I didn’t document it and they have plenty of observations which they may have done this before. It would be incredibly fortunate if I had just caught them out as soon as they tried to make fraudulent audio observations…
Their behaviour in the past nearly got them banned, after I followed up to support but now it arguable took a worse turn than simply agreeing to wrong IDs. Thoughts?