Is there any way to stop people from doing this? Someone with zero observations is going around marking all my correctly IDed species of grasses back to family level.

The images are worth a good deal re the occurrence, spread over time, and die out, but not for purposes of species identification. Yes, its wild of course, sorry, I forgot to unmarked it as Captive. To date that has been the only way I could remove such observations from the Idenify pool during upl…

I appreciate your comments charlie, but fwiw I also appreciate stephen helping me understand the discomfort such observations can cause to some members. I’ve been a member of the community for long enough now to understand that its members are diverse and have diverse ways of communicating…and I c…

Thanks ck2az, I have had similar comments, eg “You already have an obs of this species from this area” :) That made me chuckle. It makes me think of the Jodi Mitchell song - “they wanna take all the trees, and put 'em in a tree-museum so the people can come and pay a dollar and a half just to see…

[image] stephen_thorpe: This may be the side effect I alluded to above? I seem to remember that putting some things in as “as good as it can be” makes the obs casual in some cases (so drops off maps of wild ones). I need to look into that further. I think what happens is that if it is genus o…

Certainly needs investigating at some stage.

[image] treegrow: I think it would be good if new users had to look at a bunch of training slides or view a video before they get identification privileges. This is important for the CNC. The user is also changing the intended Kingdom on observations, kicking them into “State of Matter Life” …

wow, very frustrating that this person isn’t responding to @s or messages at all. That DOES seem like a problem, though i don’t know whether it technically violates any rules. I kind of feel like IDs should be nullifiable if someone does that though maybe that’s another huge can of worms

[image] charlie: That DOES seem like a problem, though i don’t know whether it technically violates any rules. On Unknowns also, where one identifier has picked an organism in the photo from one Kingdom, she follows along and adds something from a different Kingdom, again kicking it into “Sta…

my guess based on all of this is she is using the app to ID stuff or something else like that where she isn’t getting messages nor is actually seeing responses to her IDs. Maybe we should disable ID in the app until we can get it working well enough to solve these problems. Seems unlikely to happen …

[image] charlie: my guess based on all of this is she is using the app to ID stuff or something else like that where she isn’t getting messages nor is actually seeing responses to her IDs I didn’t know that on the app one doesn’t get messages or see responses to their IDs. Is one also unable …

User downgrading my IDs unnecessarily

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User downgrading my IDs unnecessarily

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