Proposal to hide observations of harmfull animals

[mikenoren]

There are species which are preserved in captivity but the entire natural distribution has been destroyed, e.g. some mexican live bearers where the whole river they originally lived in is now used as either a sewer or for irrigation.
The number of such species grows every year, e.g. Hypancistrus zebra who used to live where the Altamira hydropower station now is. Arguably the familiar Axolotl belongs in this group too, as the lake where it once lived is now too polluted to support axolotls.

[ItsMeLucy]

@mikenoren

Arguably the familiar Axolotl belongs in this group too, as the lake where it once lived is now too polluted to support axolotls.

@ItsMeLucy

Here is MOJA. and here is the Xochimilco project.

Here is SDSN, which thankfully has not categorically given up on any region; here is SDSN Americas.

Here is SDSNMexico. and here is the SDSN Xochimilco project.

Well-researched habitat restoration by multiple orgs to assist the ajolote is underway.

[tiwane]

Hid the above post because it had nothing to do with this topic and was about reactions to a different topic he started.

[zoology123]

If inaturalist still allows observations of humans, and even edge cases, like photos of the homeless, or photos with IDs and other random information. Why would they limit observations for cats or whatever?

[insectobserver123]

Photos of the homeless are often flagged as offensive and I usually hide them under the new human flags policy

[zoology123]

Depending on how new, i must have missed that update. But i remember homeless observations, and being somewhat annoyed there was technically no violation.

[insectobserver123]

https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/curator+guide#spam

August 29, 2023: Because observations of humans are tolerated on iNaturalist but are not important to the site, flagged photos depicting humans should be hidden. We will re-evaluate this policy moving forward, if it results in abuse of the flagging/hiding system or becomes overwhelming for curators.

In practice this is supposed to be used for cases like you describe where a human obs has something problematic that isn’t actually a violation, basically any time someone has a reasonable complaint about a specific human obs

It is not meant allow people to have obs removed based on a general personal view that human obs in general are useless

[cthawley]

As the original topic has been thoroughly addressed, and the topic has continued to generate a fair amount of flags, we’ve closed it.