Looking for interesting organisms in Japan

[AdamWargon]

Hi @sundialga,

I’ll share something Tony said 6 years ago:

@tiwane

I’ve had a pretty good success rate reaching out to users in places where I plan on traveling, although that could be confounded by the fact that I’m an iNat staff and am more likely to get a response. But most people are on iNat because they want to share nature with others, so they’re usually pretty nice.

Two things that can’t hurt:

• be a regular iNat user so that you’re more known among the community.
• make sure you’re clear that you’re not looking to poach anything, as this is a touchy subject and a lot of people are distrustful of strangers online.

With regard to “be a regular iNat user so that you’re more known among the community”, the ID-a-thon is coming up, and this could be a good opportunity for you to hit what I call “The Studer Ratio”:

• A number of IDs for others that is at least 1.25 your number of observations
• A number of annotations that is at least 1.25 your number of IDs

https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/id-a-thon