Description of need: Currently when you post 200 observations a person who knows IDs is equally likely to look at any one of them. And me, who does ID things can click through 200 observations that are blurry blobs and one observation that is in focus and is very interesting to me, but if I don’t kn…

So do you intend that this button would only be used by identifiers?

Tag one person at a time. Wait a while. If no response tag the next one. (Been going thru blurry blobs left over from CNC – enough for today ;~) But I did find 2 in focus, which I could ID. It is also worth adding a broad ID, if you can. I have learnt (painfully) that dicot does get a response … of…

I might be too complex but what if you earn ID tags by doing ID somehow. So 10 good ideas and you can flag one thing. And people would need to seek it out “see ID requests” so no one can feel bad about it bothering them?

All users, or maybe all users with accounts greater than 1 month old would get a limited number of “please ID” requests. Can be on their own observations or anyone else’s.

I’ve had to deal with the fallout from users putting in a lot of incorrect identifications before. Maybe they did it just to get on the leaderboard (granted, this can only be speculation on my part). I’d rather encourage users to help identify observations because they want to help not because the…

Tagging fellow identifiers is always an option. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t, either way it’s still an option. An alternative approach was conceived by @lynnharper . It’s called Cooperative Plant Identifying in New England and New York . It’s especially useful for those observations that r…

Adding my voice as an identifier. I think @ing some one is far better than using some sort of system to sort by “requested ids” Generalists and specialists will eventually find it if it is of sufficient quality.

I completely oppose this. All uploads to iNat are automatically ‘please ID’, that’s a large part of the point of the site and a major the reason for uploading. I recommend patience. Also making IDs for others and joining relevant projects are good ways to get others to look at your uploads and as…

Honestly, instead of this I’d prefer to see people encouraged to be a bit more ready to declare something unidentifiable and moved to Casual. Because there are just so many blurry blobs that can never seriously be identified…

When everyone will start pressing the button, it will turn into a bad situation. It will naturally be over- and mis- used. The identifiers would be happier to respond to a tag than watch a hundred “pls. id” observations. I have no problem with being tagged. And I do not think it is a problem for oth…

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tiwane July 14, 2026, 7:47pm 17

Apologies, I forgot that this is the duplicate of a previous request, which we declined. I’m going to do so here as well, and set this to close in four hours.

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Re-implement limited "ID Please" flags for observations Feature Requests search	10	1503	May 11, 2019
"Request ID Help" button Feature Requests	33	2119	March 12, 2022
What would make it easier for you to do more identifying? General	26	2997	May 28, 2020
Add a ‘Identifiers’ button on observations that take users from Leaderboard Identifiers Feature Requests declined	13	609	December 17, 2024
Requesting IDs For Posts General	15	1079	August 9, 2024

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