Hey folks, just letting you know I reached out to the creator of https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/penang-intersecondary-school-city-nature-challenge-2019 and asked them to tell their participants to refrain from making observations of food and such. So no need to reach out to them yourself. How…

this comment on the Penang project page: Comments [Thumb] @lingeshwarry what a nightmare, as useful and needed for iNaturalist community as two broken legs! I wished you got the meaning why, still won’t try to explain further. Posted by erwin_pteridophilos about 11 hours ago I have messaged him …

[image] saturnring: I think the system is working as designed, but is producing results that are considered unsatisfactory I agree. When we all joined we were one person learning the ropes, and there were dozens of helpers to guide us. This is 1400 joining, and still only the dozens of helper…

The problem is 95% or more of these folks will never open the app again once the Nature Challenge is over. Just look at how many observations came in from Malaysia today after it was over.

[image] cmcheatle: The problem is 95% or more of these folks will never open the app again once the Nature Challenge is over. All the more reason to get them schooled up on being a good observer BEFORE they start!

Unfortunately their motivation is not to be good observers, it is to record as much as possible as quickly as possible given the timeframe of the Nature Challenge.

I’m kind of dreading the City Nature Challenge after this debacle. I don’t mind newbies throwing in a few cultivars when starting out, but it’s usually just a few! I’m almost thinking we need some kind of barrier to entry before allowing users full site use - something like successfully IDing X num…

[image] graysquirrel: I’m kind of dreading the City Nature Challenge after this debacle. I felt that way after last year’s City Nature Challenge. But this year for the first time my area has one, so I will participate. [image] graysquirrel: I’m almost thinking we need some kind of barrie…

It has occurred to me that perhaps a simple solution to this kind of mess would be to simply disable the auto-suggest ID for regions that have limited numbers of observations (until there is a critical mass of observations for it to work with, whatever number that may be). It seems like it’s rarely …

[image] graysquirrel: It has occurred to me that perhaps a simple solution to this kind of mess would be to simply disable the auto-suggest ID for regions that have limited numbers of observations (until there is a critical mass of observations for it to work with, whatever number that may be). …

The pinnacle of bad student IDs: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/5890862 (Anyone feel free to help, if I did the math right we still need 8 more IDs to override all the students.)

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