Hi, While learning how to better identify species I’ve found it helpful to browse through other experts’ IDs to review for matches and comments of rationale. Recently I found a small number of users suspended from iNat and now it seems I can’t see their historic Identifications. Is there a way to…

using https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?ident_user_id=graysquirrel (replace with their user ID) should still work.

I wouldn’t have thought so either, but as far as I can see the users were providing generally good Id’s and they certainly at least weren’t joke ‘way off’ Id’s. One had been here quite a while. I don’t know the reasons and I won’t pry into them, I just wanted to be able to see their Id’s for refer…

[image] neylon: I sincerely doubt there will be much in the way expertise with suspended users There is at least one instance (thinking of herpetofauna specifically) where a prominent user/amateur expert who contributed 100,000+ IDs has been suspended (permanently, I think).

There’s a user who creates multiple accounts, adds normal, as you describe ids, valuable in fact, but also talks down to everyone, adds sexist comments and feels like he’s the boss of it, so he’s banned, guess knowledge in systematics doesn’t make you a decent human. And as you’re into parasitoid wa…

It always annoys me so much when people with valuable knowledge get themselves banned for being jerks… it’s really not that hard to be polite, but they would rather be rude than be a part of the community.

When someone is banned their existing IDs and observations are not removed unless they request it. Which does sometimes happen. It’s unfortunate when it happens but I feel like it takes a lot to get banned permanently from inat and I personally don’t believe that any persons contribution to science…

[image] neylon: I sincerely doubt there will be much in the way expertise with suspended users There are exceptions, as with any rule in biology… Not sure if this is the example @marina_gorbunova was alluding to, but a few weeks ago I saw a huge flareup on the taxacom listserv because an ins…

This user isn’t from New Zealand, in that case they did everything to be banned, but IMO there’re more problems with deleting accounts than banning, at least ids stay. I think people in permaban always can talk their way out with staff.

[image] marina_gorbunova: I think people in permaban always can talk their way out with staff. Call me cynical, but my experience on the web generally – and the world generally – is that that appeal procedures are just there to let you dissipate your anger and feel like something might change…

I say it after talking with staff, if this person wanted to change, actually, he’d be welcomed back, thing is rarely people change without help, plus it’s kind of toxic behaviour you’d expect from some professors who really think everyone else is dirt under their nails and call them blind children, …

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headsoup January 8, 2022, 10:42pm 10

Thanks, fair enough. As graysquirrel said it is really disappointing when someone can’t be civil and respectful and we lose their otherwise useful expertise.

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