Thoughts on "Low quality photos"

[luotz]

I think there’s some pressure of achieving a Species ID and Research Grade. That somehow, that’s the only valuable status of an observation. But we already have a tool that’s underused. I think we need to start using this little guy, and get some of the bad and blurry at Unknown or Kingdom Plantae or whatever out of the “Needs ID”:

https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/why-does-based-on-the-evidence-can-the-community-taxon-still-be-confirmed-or-improved-exist-on-the-data-quality-assessment/59936

https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/protocol-for-can-community-taxon-still-be-confirmed-or-improved/25595