That sounds like a very not good thing. There is a similar issue with what folks here have called “users under duress,” where students are forced to use iNat as part of a course. The resulting observations vary wildly in quality. Some discussion here
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/duress-and-contest-users-discussion-thread/422
and here
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/create-separate-accounts-for-students-assigned-to-use-inaturalist/83
and I’m sure many others back in the google groups days.
Not sure a solution has been IDed tho…
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