Am i allowed to be annoyed when some guy decides to endlessly flood the explore near me observations with pictures of obviously not wild vegetation that they probably are just finding in the city and arent even identifying.
Im trying to track salamanders and rare birds and everytime i have to scroll through so many of these. Im gonna try to find a way to avoid specific users im sorry.
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Check out how to exclude users here:
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-use-inaturalists-search-urls-wiki-part-2-of-2/18792
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We all are human with emotions and feelings. I dont think its wrong to sometimes get annoyed over other users. Its a fact if life. Just be careful how you express that annoyance. ie, not be super rude or hostile in comments to said user.
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Youāre allowed to be annoyed, but what they are doing doesnāt violate the guidelines.
In addition to what has been said, Iād write them a polite comment or message about marking observations as cultivated/captive if you havenāt done so already. Most users generally respond kindly to that and change their behaviour. The casual observations should then not appear in your search results, unless you have āverifiableā unchecked.
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It might be helpful for you to filter the observations you see in Explore to vertebrates?
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I use phone app and it resets everytime so it would get tiring to filter , plus i dont mind the plants observations i just get annoyed when its like 7 pictures as separare observations of the same tree down the street
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People have different processes.
Some people upload and then later add identifications, some people do not upload until they are sure to species what they are uploading, and some people upload with a general ID and then review and refine at a later point.
Depending on my connectivity / data left on plan, battery remaining and/or space left on device, and what I am trying to observe, I may do any of the three.
It seems like you are describing something happening in the moment so you may wish to give some patience to another user as not everyone uses iNaturalist the same way, especially at the moment of uploading Observations.
(This is to say you are welcome to feel as you do but it is likely not very useful.)
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On iNat when you start to recognise a name, for not good reasons. Annoying! Then mute is a good option.
https://help.inaturalist.org/en/support/solutions/articles/151000173516-what-are-muting-and-blocking-how-do-i-block-or-mute-another-account-
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First of all I thank you for sharing the link, because that page is very interesting and will be pretty helpful for me in the future. However, excluding users using URLs is unfortunately a bit tedious, especially for multiple users, and to do in your daily routine.
When you go to someoneās profile, you have a āMuteā button. It is bonkers to me that this button (it could be another button too) does not exclude that personās observations from your Explore/Identify page.
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You can block up to 3 people - if you recognise āhabitual offendersā
Or if the obs come in annoying batches - you can filter for - that observer on that day - then Mark as Reviewed for the batch. Done. Blocking is extreme, if you donāt need to.
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When I work on Unknowns, I want to filter out a number of people who upload dozens of observations at Unknown till they can get to them later. I found and used the filter URL, added some user names to it, then bookmarked that url. As I encounter new people to filter out (if someone has 957 observations, they donāt need me marking their Unknowns to something finer), I just manually do that (itās easy when you get the method) and make a new bookmark.
Perhaps this easier on a desktop than on a phone. I canāt manage to effectively type a simple text on a phone with my fat fingers and I sure wouldnāt want to monkey with a URL on a phone.
Iām fairly easily annoyed by lots of things. But I work on remembering that, if someone has the right to do what theyāre doing, then my annoyance only hurts me and changes nothing. I just find ways to either let go of the annoyance or find a work around.
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You would be right to be annoyed if this was the result of some do-gooding scheme to spread interest in nature to people who are simply not interested. Frankly it is one of my main fears for iNat that it ruins itself with such endevours.