quick question, would you happen to know the nature preferences of donors to inat? i’m guessing that they care most about birds. but maybe i’m wrong.
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You continue to ignore my bad actor concerns. Its a system ripe for abuse.
let me try to put it as simply as possible. with my proposal, we’d have the option to know which organisms inat donors were most interested in.
As far as I can tell, you seem to believe more money equals a more valuable opinion. I don’t think that “organism random people were willing to throw the most money at” is a valuable category to spend time and dev hours on. It is also fundamentally antithetical to the beliefs behind citizen science
Before this thread is locked, my last statement on the matter: I just don’t think we should implement a system that could be taken word-for-word from a NYTimes parody article
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the irony is that the “best” ny times articles are all behind paywalls. my proposal here would eliminate the need for paywalls entirely. no more scientific papers behind paywalls. no more botanic gardens or zoos or public aquariums behind paywalls.
I don’t think a typical grad student, no matter how skilled they are at identifying given taxa, would have much spare cash to spend on competitive iNat donations. Besides, they’re already worried about how they’re going to get money to fund their research…
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As I noted in another thread, I am an iNaturalist donor. I have been so for some years, let us say longer than the time that the OP has been on iNaturalist; per his profile he joined 8 February 2022 but as has been noted only became active during the last three weeks.
I retain all correspondence from organizations to which I donate, which I have reviewed. At no point during the time that I have been a donor has iNaturalist solicited my input on “nature preferences”, which species I favor, or which have interest in over others, especially to impact algorithms or site administration nor should they.
My position remains:
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right now the search default is to hide observations of captive/cultivated organisms. if this changed, would this have any impact on your donations to inat?
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