Today when going through my cicada IDs, several people had 2-3 observations of the same specimen, rather than combining the multiple photos into one observation. Maybe it’s just a fluke, but I wonder if there’s something new in the interface that’s causing this to happen. I haven’t seen it too muc…

You mean one person having 3 photos in separate observations? Nope, nothing new then, there’re thousands of thousands of duplicates. https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/what-is-the-appropriate-response-action-for-a-user-uploading-multiple-duplicate-images-organisms/3041 If you mean separate users post …

The first option you list. Yes, I know it happened before, but just seems much more frequent today.

It may be a school or student project going on, or something else that’s resulting in many new inexperienced users.

I’m marking this as solved given, as @marina_gorbunova explained, this is unrelated to any iNat functionality/the interface, and is driven by something external

How do you know it’s not related to some change in the interface that might make this more likely to happen?

which interface? the web? the iOS app? the Android app? Seek?

If it’s clear nothing has changed in any of the upload interfaces that would resolve things. To clarify, the whole point of my post is the increased frequency of this happening. Not that it’s something new. I’m aware of how this could have always happened by notice users.

I will look into this if it continues.

It could be more often for the group you look in, but it’s something we see each day in great numbers, you say you saw several people, sorry, it just doesn’t sound like a lot of people, please tell if it’s not so, but that doesn’t sound as a separate problem from the regular one, if you look up who …

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marina_gorbunova August 2, 2021, 8:03am 9

But nothing changed in upload interface, people just don’t know they can and/or should post photos together.

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Multiple observations of same specimen

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