How to be good at iNaturalist

(all of this is satire, please don't do any of these things)

1. Never zoom or crop your photos. Identifiers actually hate IDing things and would much rather be playing Where's Waldo finding one tiny ant in your wide lens photo of your whole garden.
2. Save time by uploading multiple species per observation. This is absolutely how the website was designed to be used, muddies no data and confuses no one.
3. When people ask you which of the species in your post the observation is meant to be for, be as rude as possible to them. I mean, trying to identify things that are posted on a website based around identifying things, show up in Identify, and are labeled as Needs ID? Who even does that? Nobody you want to be associated with.
4. Never put broad categories like "Plants" on your observations. They're much more helpful and more likely to be seen if they are languishing in the wasteland of Unknown for months or years.
5. If you didn't get an ID the first time you posted an observation, try posting the exact same picture multiple times. Bonus points if you do it across multiple observations.

Julkaistu heinäkuu 24, 2023 01:28 AP. käyttäjältä clockwood