Okay, so as soon as the metadata to my photos load, my observations are automatically IDed as Equus asinus (donkey or… jackass). I assume I left a logged in account open at work and one of my co-workers thought it funny (so do I,) but I can’t seem to fix it. It becomes tiresome to have to go back through every uploaded observation to re-ID. Anyone know how to fix this?
Any chance the photo names contain in them any of the common names associated with E. asinus on this page (taxonomy tab) : https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/148030-Equus-asinus
I had no idea iNat took the file name as species (is this a new feature?)… um, yes, though 30, my maturity is nill, and since I can edit my file names in camera to be any 3 letters (it is usually DSC) I changed them all to be “ASS.” So, I have thwarted myself hahahaha.
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Yes a new feature. Congrats you are the latest person to encounter issues with it. Details here
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/add-observation-automatically-tagged-my-observations-with-incorrect-names-based-on-photo-filenames/8203/22
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And the lesson of course is never, ever underestimate the number of ways users can make a mockery, intentional or otherwise of your design and computer code.
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Programming is easy, predicting the behaviour of users is the hard part
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thanks for the laugh 
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Hilarious!
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