Within a few minutes, several acounts with very similar screen names have each made an observation of a photo of some living stone plants on a computer screen. I am suspecting the acounts of being duplicates.
What should I do?
They appear to be students in a poorly organized class in Hong Kong. Probably the best approach would be to try to find their teacher and ask that person to read and adopt the iNaturalist Educator’s Guide.
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One of the accounts has been on iNat a long time. I guessed this may be the teacher and sent them a message with a link to the Educator’s Guide.
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Thank you!
I was wrong about the teacher…
But I do think these weird semi-anonymous accounts were created for a badly conceived school project.
Unless they start posting a lot more observations, I probably would just ignore them.
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For future reference, if you think that some accounts are sockpuppets of other accounts, please submit a ticket: https://inaturalist.freshdesk.com/en/support/tickets/new Staff can investigate.
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what is this supposed to link to? link is broken?
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Apologies, it’s fixed.