deborah

Rationalism meets iNaturalist: ficus all

https://awful.systems/post/3074840

Rationalism meets iNaturalist: ficus all - awful.systems

This is worth delurking for. A ficus-lover on the forums for iNaturalist (where people crowdsource identifications of nature pics) is clearly brain-poisoned by LW or their ilk, and perforce doesn’t understand why the bug-loving iNat crew don’t agree that > inaturalist should be a market, so that our preferences, as revealed through our donations, directly influence the supply of observations and ids. Personally, I have spent enough time on iNat that I can identify a Rat when I see one. I can’t capture the glory of this in a few pull quotations; you’ll have to go there to see the batshit [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/227844906]. (h/t hawkpartys @ tumblr [https://hawkpartys.tumblr.com/post/769544372694007808/like-i-cant-convey-how-unbelievably-batshit-this])

Dec 17, 2024 at 5:25amWeb
Show threadMr_BlottDec 17, 2024

I just stumbled on this post on my “all” feed. I don’t know which is more confusing and deranged, your post or the mentally ill person with the broken shift key you linked to

What the fuck are you talking about and why are you bothered about it?

Show threadMiiDec 17, 2024
You lost, buddy? Points at the sidebar.
Show threadSoyweiserDec 17, 2024

I just stumbled on this post on my “all” feed.

You are the problem here.

Show threadselfDec 17, 2024
fuck along now
Show threadselfDec 17, 2024
also, could you imagine being this fucking embarrassing? “a post I didn’t immediately understand appeared on my screen so instead of looking any of the words up I decided to be a gigantic fucking asshole instead” did you expect applause for coming in here and shitting on the carpet?
Show threadfroztbyteDec 17, 2024
I swear all those fuckers are like “I was 4 rooms over but just heard the word ‘paprika’ being screamed from someone over this way. time for you to hear all about my bowel issues, in detail! you wouldn’t believe what happens if I smell onions”, but at a conference as a lightning talk to the main hall
Show threadSoyweiserDec 17, 2024
This is what happen to that woman who got her phd, got phd, shitheads didnt get the technical terms on the title of her paper, didnt understand it what it was about so they threw it into the rightwing sexism culture war machine. So she got a lot of harassment (at least this also broke harassment containment so later she also got a lot of positive reactions). All feeds/weak bubble social media is a mistake.
Show threadsc_griffithDec 17, 2024
I really don’t get it. they see something they don’t understand and immediately just start writhing on their keyboard in rage. “what the FUCK is THIS”
Show threadistewartDec 17, 2024
Mr. Blott is what Mr. Bean became when all his old movies started paying streaming royalties
Show threadfroztbyteDec 17, 2024

I actually had to doublecheck context on this but rofldamn this is savage

brava

Show threadflaviaDec 18, 2024

an expert by the name of D [name withheld for privacy]

One paragraph later…

and send it to hodel

One google later…

Donald Hodel, environmental horticulture advisor

facepalm

Show threaddeborahDec 19, 2024
oof.
Show threadAmoeba_GirlDec 19, 2024

Hi Deborah what’s up wait so what the fuck, am I getting this right: this person found a new ficus, potentially, and is in contact with a ficus expert who’ll get back to them in a few weeks. The person can’t accept this insignificant delay because??? (is there a lot of pressing demand for advances in ficus taxonomy?) so they write this bizarre screed about … about huh … how the invisible hand of the market should drive ficus research? You know, like bees, or Batman? For some reason?

Someone’s on a lot of adderall.

Show threaddeborahDec 19, 2024

hi hi and also yesterday I read their complete contributions to the iNat forums and apparently they turned up a few weeks ago out of nowhere and started demanding iNat change their entire UI in order to uprank ficus. Also to make it easier to downvote incorrectly identified ficus. Also change the forum policy to allow them to link to specific bad identications of ficus so they can mock bad ficus-identifiers.

But even though a few weeks is being left to drown:

“d” asked me to send him pics and i was like “nope”. when he finally sees the tree in person it’s going to blow his scholarly socks off. he’s gonna really regret not seeing it sooner. and i’d be surprised if he didn’t write an article about it

I mean, don’t get me wrong, I love me a single-minded gardener, but even when I am obsessively uploading pictures of the lifecycle of the swallowtail caterpillar eating my parsley, I’m not trying to turn a citizen science site into Polymarket.