I strongly suggest not to close the previous discussion too early and furthermore, also not to hide my theme. In the meantime I got into contact with the curator who has been hiding my observation. If I understand it correctly some person whom I never will get to know did not like my observations…

Did the human being give you permission to take their photo? Did you ask?

As mentioned in the pervious thread, this topic is really hard to discuss without knowing the specific details of the flag. Such details are not appropriate to share here on the forum per the forum guidelines. Curators are people and volunteers, and thus can make mistakes. If you truly believe that…

[image] petzenbeer: I strongly suggest that curators discuss among themselves if this rule should not be changed. Curators enforce rules, but cannot make or change rules, only staff can do that However, anyone can request that staff make changes to iNaturalsit at https://forum.inaturalist.or…

The pictures showed a person standing in the beautiful Caribbean Sea and was intense speaking into a mobile phone which I found something between absurd and funny. Of course I did not ask the person if she wanted to be pictured by me! The picture itself is of not importance for iNaturalist.org . Tha…

If I hang posters up in your living room and you take them down, that’s not censorship, because it’s your house and you decide what gets hung up there. If you post a photo to iNat’s website and iNat takes it down, that’s not censorship either, because it’s their website. You can make your own websit…

[image] petzenbeer: which I found something between absurd and funny. What I find absurd, but not particularly funny, is posting multiple forum threads complaining about a curator adhering to the guidelines on an observation that was frankly kinda weird and not at all in accordance to how iNa…

Discussing or attempting to arbitrate specific curatorial decisions on iNaturalist.org , which this thread has quickly turned to, is not appropriate for the forum as has been discussed elsewhere. As such, I’ve closed and unlisted this thread. If someone has a complaint about potential misconduct by a…

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insectobserver123 October 17, 2024, 1:00pm 8

As the curator who removed this picture I would like to clarify that this is not entirely true, there is actually no rule saying you must get permission to post a picture of someone, but if someone objects to a photo of a person then the photo is supposed to be hidden

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