A user is repeatedly uploading the <a href="https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/ilinark?captive=&created_on=&d1=&d2=&day=&filter_spam=true&filters_open=true&hrank=&identifications=any&list_id=&lrank=&month=&nelat=&nelng=&order=desc&order_by=observations.id&page=1&place_id=&q=&quality_grade=any&rank=&reviewed=&search_on=&site=&swlat=&swlng=&taxon_id=48867&taxon_ids%5B%5D=&taxon_name=Arecaceae&tdate=&user_id=1693451&utf8=%E2%9C%93&view=map&viewer=1577733&year=" rel="nofollow noopener">same image* as separate observations and appears to also be uploading the same organism as multiple observations. Comments are being made on this behavior, but the user does not appear to be responding. In the week since they joined iNaturalist they have uploaded 5…

As an addition, that project itself is probably taking a record for flagged observations (copyright*, intentionally misidentifying multiple photos of the same species as vastly different species**, and not just duplicates but up to at least septuplicates). I would certainly go so far as to say that …

Just an update, Carrie and I will be reaching out to the project organizers to see what might have contributed to this and how we can best move forward.

This is happening even during ordinary inat days, I just came across another user who has multiple separate observations of the same organism. One way I could think of addressing the issue is to have an option “flag as duplicate observation”, and then inputting the links which lead to such duplicat…

[image] robotpie: Make admins have the power to delete the duplicate observations? NEVER! Observations are the “property of the observer”, and who knows if/when they are coming back to finish what they started. DQA’s to make them easily filterable out of queries is all that is needed. I would…

No ill-feelings over your suggestion, just trying to express strongly enough my alarm at the possibility!

my apologies, I did mis-read the comment! Looking at the whole paragraph I see the context now… :)

INat has always been really good about not doing that stuff, compared with certain other sites, which is part of why I chose it.

Sorry for responding to an old topic, but I felt it was better than starting a new topic. There is a particular user who, throughout the years, has duplicated many observations. The highest I’ve seen this user duplicate an individual is 13 times (and counting). I have left many comments on their ob…

Very strange. Yes, please send us some examples at help@inaturalist.org .

What is the appropriate response/action for a user uploading multiple duplicate images, organisms?

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robotpie May 11, 2019, 5:22am 10

The last sentence to my post was actually my response to that thought…so essentially I even am in agreeance with your “NEVER!” I definitely wouldn’t want that to happen.

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What is the appropriate response/action for a user uploading multiple duplicate images, organisms?

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