[Taxacom] iNaturalist and the dangers of community ID sites!

[Peter A Rauch]

Stephen,
I'm not clear on what the problem is, nor what you expect to accomplish by
reporting selectively about it on Taxacom...

Without access to a full, unedited transcription of the entire sequence of
communications, I doubt that any opinions expressed on Taxacom, about the
situation, can be of much assistance.

Please, either provide links to the actual --and complete-- iNaturalist
conversation(s), or provide a full transcript (exact copy) of those
conversations.

Peter R.

On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 3:59 PM Stephen Thorpe <stephen_thorpe at yahoo.co.nz>
wrote:

> Things on iNat have taken a sinister turn. I'm suspended again (though my
> contributions remain visible). I think I'm suspended for continuing to
> (politely) defend myself against ridiculously exaggerated accusations
> relating the the Hegg incident, where I have now been publicly accused of a
> "heinous abuse of power"! We seem to have a kangaroo court in session.
> Someone else chipped in with the insidious comment that the proper thing
> for me to have done would have been to try to talk to Hegg first, before
> suspending him. As if I hadn't tried that!!! Unfortunately, before I had
> chance to reply to that and politely point out that I had done so, but to
> no avail, a staff member tried to cut off further discussion by advising
> against anyone continuing to try to have the final word. So, I think I'm
> now suspended for trying to have the final word, although to not do so
> would have left the final word with the above insidious comment, implying
> that I suspended Hegg before trying to reason with him, which is plainly
> not true!
>
> Stephen
>
> ...cut, cut...
>