pisum
June 25, 2019, 11:02pm
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not sure why you think this should be a topic of conversation. unless something has fundamentally changed since the post below, seems like you really should be working directly with iNaturalist staff to troubleshoot and address the real issue. until you make some headway on that, seems like everything else is just a distraction.
On 2018-07-05 they stopped creating dummy accounts and created the Questagame group account.
In March of this year we checked in with Questagame on their progress and reiterated our wish that as soon as possible they (a) stop posting to the Questagame group account and (b) take the iNaturalist username and password form off of the Questagame app (a slightly separate issue but one which is a security risk analogous to the iNat app asking for your Facebook or Gmail password) and asked for a concrete timeline. They agreed to stop doing this by the end of April and reiterated their interest in (c ) building functionality to let people use Questagame to create normal iNat accounts and post to these accounts (something we’re agnostic to but is allowed under our Terms of Service).
We were just notified on May 12, 2019 by Questagame that for unspecified reasons they are unable to (a) stop posting to the Questagame account or (b) take the iNaturalist password form off of their app or (c ) build functionality to let people create normal iNat accounts and post to these from Questagame, that they missed the April timeline we agreed to, and that they can’t give us a date at which time they can do (a) & (b). Though they did mention that they will “reduced the number of sightings coming to the QG group account” and it does look like thats been the case:
We’re currently consulting internally to determine what to do about this issue. We would like for Questagame to stop posting to the Questagame group account but for this account to be left on the site for posterity since it represents the work of 2,547 iNat identifiers
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