Two users are each posting absolutely the same photos. They have accumulated 190 duplicate observations. What should we do about this? By the rules, we have to flag half of them as copyright infringement? But which half? If this is allowed, next thing we could have a whole university post the same …

Those are website rules and nothing about posting the same specimens goes against citizen science, there’s no such thing as useful observation and not useful, those words should really be forgotten in that contetx as they’re part of elite scientific view on what people should do, if something is pos…

I need a break so I’m off for a while and won’t be answering (yeah, I hear the applause)

If it’s citizen science, participating people should also learn what is useful for science and what is not. How to do things properly. Otherwise it’s not citizen science. It’s turning into social media Sorry, but your complaint really doesn’t have anything to do with the science aspect of this. I…

It’s fine for multiple people to post their own photos of the same organism - iNat records encounters, and each one of those is a separate encounter. Anyone using iNat data should understand its issues when it comes to abundance. If two people encounter the same organism and only one gets a photo, …

It’s fine for multiple people to post their own photos of the same organism - iNat records encounters, and each one of those is a separate encounter. Anyone using iNat data should understand its issues when it comes to abundance. I hope I didn’t come across as meaning that multiple observations o…

[image] polylepis: I hope I didn’t come across as meaning that multiple observations of the same individual organism by different people shouldn’t be allowed, You didn’t, I just wanted to make a statement about that as a staff member, it wasn’t a direct response to any particular post here.

But iNat is social media first. It is intended to encourage NON-scientists to become aware of nature. That is its stated pupose.

I agree that a few double-posts are not too concerning, but that this approach should be discouraged for two reasons that I haven’t seen mentioned yet. Double-posting effectively doubles the work of identifiers. For a few posts here and there, this isn’t a big deal. However, for 190 posts, this i…

I would like to see these points in the help page on making observations. I agree with all your points, but I don’t like being in the position of telling people they can’t do something when it’s not in the help pages for making observations. At least, I could not find anything that says the photo ha…

I don’t think that there’s anything in the Help per se, but the Terms of Service do say: “You represent and warrant that (a) You own and control all of the rights to the Content that You post or You otherwise have the right to post such Content to the Site” That says pretty clearly that an observe…

Two users with 190 duplicate observations (same photos)

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DianaStuder June 26, 2022, 11:02am 32

I have a set of copypasta - please delete duplicate (trying for good intentions) - if it comes up in my notifications again - bump to Life and DQA good as it can be. Gone. Also Unfollow to Unsee that.

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Two users with 190 duplicate observations (same photos)

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