I have a question- would it be good to make projects just for certain useful casual observations? First of all, I understand that iNaturalist is primarily for wild organisms- but I’m not sure how much we can go outside the box. For example, there are thousands of observations of fossils posted on …

I share your frustration. There’s no good way to prevent the problems, though. We just have to deal with them, hopefully not tearing out too much hair.

It would be great if there was a star-type rating system for observations, something like: Falls outside guidelines (multiple organisms, etc.) or are unidentifiable (blurry, poor lighting, etc.) Barely identifiable Sufficient for identification ??? Exceptional, with multiple diagnostic features an…

I’d like to see us split up the multiple organism observations, at least after a certain time. And I theoretically like to be able to label observations as “not identifiable” although sometimes I may not know enough to do that, and anyway we do have a way to say that, by clicking “no, it’s as good …

There’s a problm with no knowledge of where the photos were taken.

You mean with the multiple organisms observations?

Yup, even if we could split them, they could be from different places and who knows if original place is correct too.

[image] sedgequeen: see us split up the multiple organism observations I would like to do that too. But then, what about the location? We, don’t know where each obs was - so how could we split it. (Sorry - for repeating Marina) Also wary of saying can’t improve the ID. Had one yesterday wher…

[image] sopacexplorer: I for one wish there was a way to grade (or limit) observers. You could just underline that those observations are badly made, providing also suggestions on how to make a “good observation”. It is possible that some of these “inaccurate” users would just stop posting be…

It seems to me that often the photos are all from one place and time. Especially if they’re student photos. I suppose sometimes that wouldn’t be true.

I believe that the Captive/Cultivated observations are not used to train the AI behind ID suggestions. Making a project of them won’t change that. I personally would like verifiable Captive/Cultivated observations at least shown to identifiers by default so new users who don’t know how to different…

Useful casual observations being hidden by other low-grade casual observations

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jbecky November 9, 2022, 2:13am 30

Sadly, they won’t let me vote again :-(

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Useful casual observations being hidden by other low-grade casual observations

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