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.

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…

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.

[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.

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, …

[image] tristanmcknight: 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 insect systematist from New Zealand with tens of thousands of observations a…

We don’t want or need to know the details behind an iNat permaban. I hope the iNatters on the other side (be kind) are still with us and active.

[image] charlie: There’s a lot more to that story than what you will hear when the banned person goes on other websites to give their side. The only thing discipline ever taught me was parallax. The same holds true in situations like this.

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jasonhernandez74 January 9, 2022, 2:49am 13

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 dunno, maybe iNat is different…

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