I’ve searched the forum and while the topic of observations of Homo sapiens has been brought up here several times, it is still unclear to me what to do if I see an observation of a human in the course of IDng. Should I report it? Or should I go ahead and ID it as a Homo sapiens?
This is the observation in question:
I have the same question. And also when it’s clearly kids messing around - I’d like to make it clear to them that there are people behind the app who get annoyed 
As I understand it, as long as the observation is marked Casual (not Needs ID or Research Grade), the observation is fine.
It’s also best to ID as ‘human’ when its something like a toy, or trash, or other manmade thing. Normally iNat will automatically change the data quality to casual when it is marked human.
Thanks! I went ahead and marked it as Casual and IDd it as “Human”.
Observations identified as Human automatically get marked Casual, so there’s no need to do anything in the DQA to make them Casual. Just add your ID of Human and move on. If you mark them not wild then they clog up the Not Wild ID queue and make it really annoying for people who ID captive observations.
If it is adult and they look OK with their photo being taken - this man is only startled - and that is okay.
But if a child (I had one with his name too), or a teacher trying to eat her lunch in peace, or someone who is hiding their face, looking angry / sad - then you can flag for the photo to be hidden by a curator.
I also flag joke IDs to be hidden, on human obs. That can drift to online harassment. Also not happy with the identifier who casually says it is quicker to ID as Homo, without the sapiens. But that is my own problem!
I agree 99% of the time - just mark as ‘human’ and move on.
The exception to me is if the observation is obviously posted with the intent of bullying - in the comments and/or id and/or photos of the person, especially children (for example - a pic of a child with an obvious disability and a comment or ID referencing some kind of animal). In these cases, fortunately rare, you can flag the photo as inappropriate. It will be reviewed and removed from the site as staff deem approp.
I think we were typing simultaneously with our thoughts. Glad to see extra examples in yours which I agree with as well. Thanks.
and a longer previous discussion
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/human-obs-used-for-cyberbullying/42458/222