I’ve always felt a bit guilty for doing that, but I often make a guess I know could very well be wrong because if I leave it at family/genus level it often stays there. I still would never deliberately misidentify anything but sometimes I’ll go with the CV if the suggestion seems to strongly resemble what I’m posting. I definitely have wondered if it’s disrespectful to people’s time for me to not put in more effort to make sure I have the right species ID, or if it doesn’t get corrected and stays at the wrong ID if it could impact the usefulness of data generated from the site, but I don’t really know if it bothers people
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