This morning I have four jiggling circles and a white stripe across my little picture in top right corner of the forum. Is this a Christmas celebration or something more personal to my account?

[image] jhbratton: … four jiggling circles … Upon noting their motion, I nearly posted them as a whirligig beetle observation. :grin: Here’s a still life screen capture of them: [Rewind]

Oh I’m sure, far too many syllables! I got 61 out of 100, which I’m guessing might actually be high compared to those who discuss taxonomy more on the forum. The amusing thing was, I’ve only ever seen readability metrics applied to children’s literature and paired with a grade level, where less re…

Sometimes the people here hurt my brain. Not a complaint, I like it here just fine.

Taxonomy is a new language to learn. Homo sapiens, Not Wild ;~)

Unfortunately, after I looked at my Forum year in review once, the link (twirling balls) disappeared from my icon and I can find no link or bookmark to it. Is there a way to revisit that summary?

You can also navigate to it with https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/{username}/activity/rewind If anyone wants to permanently disable it, you can go to https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/{username}/preferences/rewind

Underwhelmed by what the Forum chooses to review and evaluate. Twice is twice too often to read neon colours flickering on black. Readability 68/100 = Agatha Christie = Plain English, as I intended for people who are kindly using MY English as their second or third language. Instead of forum posts…

I thought at first I had been hacked.

Apparently you are my Forum Best Friend.

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