# Add ability to search for "controversial" observations **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Requests\ **Created:** [March 6, 2019, 10:29pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/add-ability-to-search-for-controversial-observations/566 "2019-03-06T22:29:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![graysquirrel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/graysquirrel/32/127_2.png) [@graysquirrel](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/graysquirrel)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2019, 10:29pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/add-ability-to-search-for-controversial-observations/566/1 "2019-03-06T22:29:52Z")
I’d like the ability to search out observations that have multiple, wildly different, IDs applied to them. They usually are the result of someone mis-typing an ID and neglecting to return and correct it, and often means the observation just lost in a sea of “stateofmatter Life” observations. It’d be nice to have an easy way to find them, without going through a thousand blurry “unknown” observations of unidentifiable algae slime. ---
**Author:** ![cmcheatle](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/cmcheatle/32/37_2.png) [@cmcheatle](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/cmcheatle)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2019, 10:32pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/add-ability-to-search-for-controversial-observations/566/2 "2019-03-06T22:32:48Z")
Unfortunately, I think you would get far more things where students are being ‘funny’ by calling their classmates a primate or canine etc. ---
**Author:** ![upupa-epops](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/upupa-epops/32/1972_2.png) [@upupa-epops](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/upupa-epops)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2019, 10:54pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/add-ability-to-search-for-controversial-observations/566/3 "2019-03-06T22:54:40Z")
Another way to sort for “controversial” observations would be by the number of comments, as lots of comments would usually indicate some disagreement or discussion. ---
**Author:** ![jwidness](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9d8465/32.png) [@jwidness](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/jwidness)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2019, 11:11pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/add-ability-to-search-for-controversial-observations/566/4 "2019-03-06T23:11:02Z")
You can search for maverick IDs, e.g. [https://www.inaturalist.org/identifications?category=maverick&taxon\_id=46259](https://www.inaturalist.org/identifications?category=maverick&taxon_id=46259). There’s also something about searching for observations where most agree, some agree, most disagree, but it doesn’t seem to work quite the way I expect it to. Maybe someone knows how it works? You can find it built into the search function for a single user’s observations, but I think it’s also possible to stick it in the identify URL, e.g. [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?identifications=most\_disagree](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?identifications=most_disagree). ![agree](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/1X/f4b1f41d4002b12f1df97aeb0eeecfb86ff03e13.png) ---
**Author:** ![cmcheatle](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/cmcheatle/32/37_2.png) [@cmcheatle](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/cmcheatle)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2019, 11:12pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/add-ability-to-search-for-controversial-observations/566/5 "2019-03-06T23:12:56Z")
The 2nd option on the old search page of most agree, most disagree etc does not work anymore. All options return the same result set. I submitted it as a bug, I think back on the google group though, not here. ---
**Author:** ![jwidness](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9d8465/32.png) [@jwidness](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/jwidness)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2019, 11:17pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/add-ability-to-search-for-controversial-observations/566/6 "2019-03-06T23:17:54Z")
Hm, I don’t see the same results for [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?identifications=most\_disagree](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?identifications=most_disagree) and [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?identifications=most\_agree](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?identifications=most_agree). ---
**Author:** ![reuvenm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/reuvenm/32/65_2.png) [@reuvenm](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/reuvenm)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2019, 4:24pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/add-ability-to-search-for-controversial-observations/566/7 "2019-03-08T16:24:26Z")
Oddly, those options seem to work in identify mode, but do not in the normal observations page. ---
**Author:** ![bouteloua](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/bouteloua/32/1180_2.png) [@bouteloua](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/bouteloua)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2019, 1:33pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/add-ability-to-search-for-controversial-observations/566/8 "2019-03-22T13:33:29Z")
@graysquirrel, does something like: [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?identifications=most\_disagree&lrank=order](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?identifications=most_disagree&lrank=order) meet your original request? ---
**Author:** ![graysquirrel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/graysquirrel/32/127_2.png) [@graysquirrel](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/graysquirrel)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2019, 1:38am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/add-ability-to-search-for-controversial-observations/566/9 "2019-03-23T01:38:06Z")
That is very helpful, thank you! Although it does seem to show all the cases where the observer added a wrong ID and corrected it, “disagreeing” with themselves. I can work with it though. :) ---
**Author:** ![tiwane](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/tiwane/32/54612_2.png) [@tiwane](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/tiwane)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2019, 10:11pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/add-ability-to-search-for-controversial-observations/566/10 "2019-03-26T22:11:49Z")
Do you want to keep this request open? ---
**Author:** ![bouteloua](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/bouteloua/32/1180_2.png) [@bouteloua](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/bouteloua)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2019, 10:59pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/add-ability-to-search-for-controversial-observations/566/11 "2019-03-31T22:59:16Z")
Gonna go ahead and close this. Feel free to send me a message if you want to re-open this to add further thoughts. ---
**Author:** ![bouteloua](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/bouteloua/32/1180_2.png) [@bouteloua](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/bouteloua)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2019, 10:59pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/add-ability-to-search-for-controversial-observations/566/12 "2019-03-31T22:59:20Z")