I don’t know, everybody - I’m seeing a lot of comments expressing various levels of frustration. The copyright violations, sock-puppetry, falsified data and bad-faith users, failure to mark specimens as cultivated, newer users who don’t know how to do things, random weird stuff, etc. And don’t get …

[image] comradejon: necessarily sustainable year-round Oh but you can - do it all again - for the Great Southern Bioblitz - cannot find the date - September for 2025? PS I have been deliberately focusing on ‘my preferred way’ to ID first. Catching placeholders. Considering Geomodel anomali…

[image] comradejon: iNat was even mentioned during that murder trial this week Wait, what’s this story? I’m out of the loop on that one!

For your reading pleasure: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/inat-alledged-as-source-of-deadly-mushrooms-in-australian-triple-murder-trial/64622

I had no prior knowledge of these events, and was surprised when my dashboard was filled with observations of species I was following. At first, I was actually happy, I said inaturalist is becoming widespread. But then I was discouraged when I saw that the observations in the “unknown” status had d…

Hear, hear, to those who can’t dredge up a positive outlook from the inundated depths of the results of this City Nature Challenge. I especially sympathise with @graysquirrel in that iNaturalist is so often a sanctuary for me, but CNC-related fraud and ignorance manage to puncture the peace like a c…

We have had 4 days of wildfire on our mountain. About 3000 hectares burnt. Yesterday I drove home across Silvermine. Saw a raptor perched on a rock … waiting for mice. And the Silver Mine for which it is named is exposed now the surrounding shrubs have burnt away. Sad to look at obs from only days …

I tried to log off for a few days/weeks in previous years. I maybe should have logged off this year, but instead I flagged over a dozen pages of copyright infringement. And plenty of other people, including you, flagged another 80 pages of copyright flags. And each page is 50 flags, so we are talki…

(since this conversation is not specific to Curator activities, I’ve moved it to the General category)

Thanks @jdmore - I was so close to starting it in the general category; couldn’t make up my mind :-)

Regarding iNat During the City Nature Challenge: I Think it's Fun

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AdamWargon May 3, 2025, 11:53am 13

I am impressed by the number of water references in your post

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Regarding iNat During the City Nature Challenge: I Think it's Fun

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