Hello everyone, Just a reminder to go through now and then and check your “casual” observations - I found I had a bunch of stuff that other users and/or the automatic iNat system, had marked as cultivated when they were not. I caught a couple of my old observations that were somehow missing locatio…

Just checked them. I’ve uploaded more cultivated plants than I thought. But a few were marked “not wild” incorrectly. Understandable why people would mark some of the garden escapes that way, but frustrating when I left notes about their origin.

Thank you for the link, iNat just lost some my pictures out of nowhere even thought they were uploaded (and stayed there for some time for sure). [image]

I know, I have a lot of observations I think I’ve quite clearly described are not cultivated, and yet they still get marked cultivated anyway. Sigh. It’s particularly annoying when I’m trying to document potential new invasives spreading into the wild. Feel free to tag me anytime you need an extra …

Thanks - mine really are ‘planted in my garden’

New notification system is on its way.

And has apparently been “on its way” since 2019… I don’t trust that it will be released within any reasonable time frame.

Well, it’s not an easy task and it just was started back then, it depends on what you call reasonable.

I feel silly asking, but how do I change an obs that someone marked casual if I don’t think it is casual? Ie: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/98762245 Thanks! :)

Oops, figured it out. Had to scroll allllll the way to the bottom of the page and upvote “organism is wild.” Thanks!

Reminder to check your Casual observations!

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So you don’t get notified if someone changes your observation? That really is not acceptable.

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Reminder to check your Casual observations!

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