Option to Automatically Withdraw IDs on Observations

[fffffffff]

I saw a new account going through observations and adding random ids, likely such accounts are banned pretty quickly, but ids stay.

[mamestraconfigurata]

Thank you. I just don’t understand the behaviour.

[dianastuder]

Maybe treating iNat as just one more social media, computer game, shiny new must have, next. Without knowing or caring the trail of damage they leave for us.

[optilete]

@dianastuder

Have 39 notifications since an hour ago. I will check each one.

Is somewhere an overview of notifications? If I have many I cannot find all back?

[fffffffff]

Well, your dashboard has all of them, but yes, it’s much easier to open them from notifiation tab.

[dianastuder]

I work back down my dashboard. 97 waiting now … I’m off to work.

[sgene]

@lbyrley

I usually go out of my way to withdraw an ID when someone disagrees but I go long periods without internet and these messages often get buried.

I would suggest trying these two things first:

(1) set your account settings so that you get notifications of refinements and disagreements only; and

(2) use @pisum’s notification creation so that your notifications don’t disappear until you want them to: https://jumear.github.io/stirfry/iNat_observations_updates.html

[Star3]

@mamestraconfigurata

Do either of you (or anyone else) know of instances where legitimate observations and identifications are deliberately erroneously identified by the same person?

Not that I can remember. The closest scenario to that I can think of is students doing it to each other (usually in the same school project), or the same 2 - 3 people.

[lbyrley]

I’m afraid I don’t understand your argument of how having the option of doing this would cut into other people’s time? If it’s something I’m confident of then I could say so or set it up so, and if I’m not then I wouldn’t.

I’m only able to use internet once a month during my regular job, not to say my time is more valuable than yours or anyone else’s, it’s certainly not, but I get a few impatient individuals in my notifications. If anything it would save time.

[dianastuder]

Those impatient notifications, might be people like me, on iNat every day. You will have a very different workflow on Nat to me. I was guilty of blissfully ignoring all notifications on iNat for the first year or so … till I realised I needed to look for comments and questions there.