The community averages less than 1 post per day; it's not like it's being overrun with animal identification requests, and there's certainly not enough to warrant a separate community. Maybe just ask for spoiler tags on spiders instead?
It would be better to just call the community "What is this Noun?" because it's not like Lemmy is super big enough to warrant splitting similar things apart.
Interesting idea.
I don’t want to see spiders in my feed
I personally have no problem with spiders, but can understand how they could be a problem.
One solution would be to try and promote !whatsthisbug@sopuli.xyz, which is an existing but dormant community.
To truly eliminate spiders from this community, an active moderator would be needed to remove posts and direct users to !whatsthisbug@sopuli.xyz. It would also be necessary to convince all those subscribed to this community who are fine with seeing bugs to subscribe to both communities.
Tagging moderators @mykl@lemmy.world and @hesburger@sopuli.xyz for their thoughts, but they seem to have been dormant for a few months.
This is an interesting idea, but I'm not sure how practical or feasible it is.
Let us help you identify that mysterious object you’ve found.
Currently in CHALLENGE mode: If you've got something obscure knocking about, post a picture, and let's see how we do. Please prefix such posts with "CHALLENGE:" so we know we've got a fighting chance.