Why do some people get bent-out-of-shape about duplicates?

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@jagerwin

Surely there’s a way to create an algorithm to cut these off at the upload.

@jdmore

A notification would be a great idea I think

@fffffffff

It’d be hard to make website to recognize the photos, but maybe the same file name+date could trigger the system?

@annkatrinrose

It would be nice to see something similar when trying to upload a picture that is already on iNaturalist.

There’s an open feature request for this here - https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/duplicate-prevention-notify-observers-if-their-image-checksums-match-others-on-the-site/258