Users disrupting species identifications

Welcome T. Misheff from me.

I have had the same problem with a small minority of iNat users treating identifications like click bait plants’ and animals’ photographs’ pornography.

I have removed all 916, except 1 example, of my own iNat observations and all of their several thousand photographs. Keep them for my social network – iNaturalost.
A substantial minority (ca. 20+) of these species,
my observation was the first in iNat
and some of the few or only photographs available anywhere on the internet.
(All, I deliberately after months of consideration, have recently deleted, expect the one example left – please look at this one, including the identifications, from great fellow botanist Karen L. Wilson and I, our comments, its tiny size and the great care I had to use to make these three very close up ground level photographs while myself lying down as flat close down on the vegetation as possible. All the other hundreds of observations from that RMGC botanical survey I have deleted now).


https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/overzealous-identification/5975

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