I would also like to add that more detailed tutorials and explanations would be very helpful for what the different annotations mean, especially with regards to plants. One common source of argument is that there is no annotation for a plant that has perfect flowers, aka it can produce both pollen and fruit. I annotate them as female, because they can produce fruit which I assume is helpful information for researchers looking to collect seeds, but others argue that they shouldn’t be classed as either, since they can do both. But since iNaturalist doesn’t give us the option to mark a plant as a hermaphrodite/perfect flowers, that’s not really an option.
I think I read somewhere that new annotation statuses won’t be added anytime soon, so I would at least like a better explanation for what the site considers classifies a plant as “female” and what classifys it as “male”.
I’ve been assuming that regardless of other abilities, if it is capable of producing fruit, it is classified as female, but I don’t actually know for sure, because when you hover over the male and female annotations, no further information is given.
A lot of people are intimidated by annotations because they aren’t sure what they mean, and since annotations are just “first come first serve” sort of thing where no one else can correct it except to downvote it, they don’t want to make the wrong one. Making annotations more easily accesible is a start but we also need to make them easier to understand.