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Ok, this is kind of odd

Bruce just frassed all the images again. Please stop frassing the images without a reason!
Edit: He literally frassed all of cloejreid’s recent images without reason, not just the longhorn beetles, but all of them. Unless I’m mistaken, this is NOT how bugguide works!

I made another forum topic about this
These where high quality images (not mine), some of rare species, that where frassed do to “animal cruelty”. Please resort to the other topic for info

This is a longstanding discussion
This is just my opinion: Bugguide seems to be focused more on quality. iNaturalist seems to be more interested in observations for locations. I tend to spend more time on iNaturalist these days, because my photos aren't that good in quality, and I tend not to frass any photos of tree crickets here on BugGuide ;)

Frassing
Usually images are Frassed if they aren’t needed or are very blurry/poor quality. For common species like Monarch butterflies, for example, there are probably a lot of frassed posts because there is a lot known about them and many great pictures.

Granted, I don’t know your situation, but I hope that helps.

 
Agree
I would not take it personally, as most of us here done know each other in real life...Uber common species, blurry or distant images, or images of squashed or otherwise damaged individuals get my signal to frass, but I do leave my reason why in every case...I would use it as an opportunity to attempt to ID things on your own (species with boatloads of images and comments available for comparison) and only when you have exhausted your ID attempts, use it as an opportunity to improve your photography and post images that folks can use to help you hang a name on. From what I have seen. Coming from a systematics side of things, some of your images would prove difficult to help you get an ID. Many amateurs don't understand that MANY insects are literally impossible to ID from Images, and can be quite difficult with the specimen in front of you and all the available keys at your disposal. Blurry and/or distant pictures of specimens can frustrate both the contributor in not getting anyone to help them and getting frassed, and to the person attempting an ID in not being able to help. I've posted perfectly clear, high resolution images of unknowns and only find out that the image is useless for ID. As an example, the weevil genus Listronotus has many images here to only the genus level and may never be able to be further identified unless the photographer was able to dissect the genitalia and take a picture of the parts. Are these pictures valuable to keep or should they be discarded? Some are very nice images but are useless for ID, which the contributor most likely wanted. Again, I think you should use your experiences as learning tools, but I certainly agree with you in that whoever is frassing should leave a message on at least a few as to why.

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