At the end of a long week of bs, I was presented with picture of a human penis to ID.
I could mark it as inappropriate and wait for a moderator to see it and decide, or mark it copyright infringement and take it down faster but leave no note for the moderator.
How do you want these handled? Do you think maybe inappropriate should have photo hidden until review?
Not a prude, but not expecting flashers here.
Definitely get it out of sight as soon as possible. Maybe I am a prude, but this just is not the place for human genitalia. You can also report it to help@inaturalist.com as I expect this is some kind of violation of the TOS.
Totally okay with genitalia, in theory - theyâre a part of nature. But agree that such photos are generally counterproductive on this site. Our primary mission is to encourage folks to interact with nature, no matter their backgrounds, ages, etc. So being able to eliminate this sort of photo quickly seems helpful.
I suspect that thereâs some legit interest, potentially, in cv being able to distinguish species by genitalia. (In primatology, thereâs a âlock-and-keyâ hypothesis of speciation floating around, or at least there was 20 years ago when I was in school.) But even in this case, weâd want something like the âaliveâ/âdeadâ demarcation to protect folksâ sensibilities.
And as @peakaytea notes, this instance wasnât intended as informative. We want to make iNat a safe place.
[Iâve edited to better match my intent â I didnât mean to seem dismissive.]
we have kids on here!
Yeah, donât allow them get satisfaction they seek, flag it the way thatâll hide the photo from regular users.
Not a âhuman nude.â Not a piece of scientific documentation.
Iâm a frustrated that you seem to have missed the point as evidenced by your discussing irrelevant cases and scientific theories.
SorryâŚmessage or email whom? Thanks.
By your description this appears to be a case of an attention-seeking loser seeking to cause upset and give offense. Flag the observation and notify staff. Irate, shrill, angry or other sorts of commentary that feeds the observerâs need for attention just gives him what heâs looking for.
@peakaytea Maybe do an edit on the topic in an effort to raise the tone of the conversation, being as how there are kids on this forum?
Sexually explicit content (meaning, of humans) is one of the four kinds of content that are listed as Any of these behaviors are grounds for immediate suspension without warning in the iNaturalist Community Guidelines. Any Curator who becomes aware of such content should be taking that action immediately.
For non-curators, the quickest way to hide a photograph is to flag it as a Copyright Violation. Not the best use for that kind of flag, but probably justified in this circumstance until a curator/staff member can be notified. Which you should then do asap.
there should probably be an explicit content flag that behaves the same way to instantly hide it.
(I changed the topicâs title because it was appearing on the dashboard Forum widget)
Please flag the photo as copyright infringement and email help@inaturalist.org as soon as possible. Weâll take a look and delete it if itâs obscene. I donât think itâs worth engaging in any sort of comment or message to the user that posted the photo, itâs just giving them the attention they desire.
in clear cases of inappropriate photos, iâve seen that the users who posted those photos get suspended, and the photos get hidden. those actions seem to be be fairly consistent. but then it seems less consistent when it comes to whether the photos actually get deleted from the system. is it just that the process there is looser â it seems like youâre indicating that an e-mail must be sent, too, beyond flagging a photo as inappropriate â so itâs harder to keep track of photos that need deleting, or is it considered acceptable that these photos just remain hidden indefinitely without actually being deleted? (most people arenât going to look at the hidden photos, but technically theyâre still viewable.)
yes. it seems odd to me that an inappropriate flag wouldnât trigger immediate hiding of photos if a a copyright infringement flag does.
Yes, we need to be notified about it so it can be manually deleted, if need be. There currently isnât a flag that strictly covers something that should be deleted becuase itâs obscene or racist, although I do think we should add one, and probably make it automatically hide the image. Then we could easily search for those flags and decide whether or not to delete them.
The âinappropriateâ flag isnât well defined and itâs been interepreted in multiple ways - for example, Iâve seen it be used for photos of toys and such when those observations should just be IDed as human. I agree there needs to be some tweaking to this system.
Also canât flag from the android app
on the âpeopleâ page* you can see recent activity. message one of those people who is a Curator â there will always be a few online at any time.
*https://www.inaturalist.org/people
alternatively, you can check the recent comments page*, which is at a slower rate but might be more likely to include âpower usersâ and thus curators.
*https://www.inaturalist.org/home?tab=comments
Thanks, thatâs helpful
The people who post thing like that are not necessarily âPsychopathsâ. As a former psych nurse, that is a clinical diagnosis that takes a long time to understand. Neither is it likely that the poster is abusing animals. The point about children is well taken.
Iâm not diminishing the offence, just suggesting that you have jumped to a lot of conclusions with little evidence. Most likely it is some kid wanting to shock people. And termination methods have been suggested.
I hear you.
If itâs a kidâs genital picture, there is a legal exposure.
If it isnât a kid, there may be some other issue of concern.
I believe this person is a high school senior.
Kids donât have the prurient thoughts grownups try to shield them from. The main reason they think such pictures are hilarious is because grownups freak out about them.