# "Agree" button missing for observation with only one identification - lacking "Leading" label before reindexing **URL:** \ **Category:** Bug Reports\ **Created:** [July 18, 2020, 12:46pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/agree-button-missing-for-observation-with-only-one-identification-lacking-leading-label-before-reindexing/14555 "2020-07-18T12:46:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![wdvanhem](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/wdvanhem/32/1635_2.png) [@wdvanhem](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/wdvanhem)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2020, 12:46pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/agree-button-missing-for-observation-with-only-one-identification-lacking-leading-label-before-reindexing/14555/1 "2020-07-18T12:46:18Z")
**Platform** : website **Browser** : Chrome **URL** : [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/53432458](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/53432458) **Screenshots** : ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/2X/5/5fadee7929cfab2534795a512c28bf88281fc7b9.jpeg) ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/2X/2/24dff92c2b954bf98aa5ece3aee5c57830ce1632.jpeg) **Description of problem** : The “Agree” button is missing for this observation which has only one identification. This is the only observation that seems to have this bug. I know about the intentional removal of the “agree” button from observations with community consensus, but this doesn’t have community consensus yet. ---
**Author:** ![mamestraconfigurata](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/mamestraconfigurata/32/10149_2.png) [@mamestraconfigurata](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/mamestraconfigurata)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2020, 1:10pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/agree-button-missing-for-observation-with-only-one-identification-lacking-leading-label-before-reindexing/14555/5 "2020-07-18T13:10:33Z")
I noticed that too. I don’t know if it is to prevent ‘reflex’ id’s or not, but it does add a bit of work. ---
**Author:** ![wolfgang\_wuster](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/wolfgang_wuster/32/11025_2.png) [@wolfgang\_wuster](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/wolfgang_wuster)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2020, 1:40pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/agree-button-missing-for-observation-with-only-one-identification-lacking-leading-label-before-reindexing/14555/6 "2020-07-18T13:40:25Z")
Same here ---
**Author:** ![mayessj](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/mayessj/32/8163_2.png) [@mayessj](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/mayessj)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2020, 2:10pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/agree-button-missing-for-observation-with-only-one-identification-lacking-leading-label-before-reindexing/14555/7 "2020-07-18T14:10:26Z")
There is a notice posted on iNat that the “Agree” button has been removed with an explanation. _**First, we’ve removed the “Agree?” buttons on the website when 1) the observation is Research Grade and 2) the identification you’re agreeing with isn’t "leading."**_ However, even my observations (all of them) where my ID is the “leading” identification and is the only identification, there still is no “Agree” button. ---
**Author:** ![mayessj](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/mayessj/32/8163_2.png) [@mayessj](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/mayessj)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2020, 2:11pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/agree-button-missing-for-observation-with-only-one-identification-lacking-leading-label-before-reindexing/14555/8 "2020-07-18T14:11:45Z")
Here is the link to the whole announcement from iNat [https://www.inaturalist.org/blog/38475-less-agreeable-observations-more-agreeable-text-formatting](https://www.inaturalist.org/blog/38475-less-agreeable-observations-more-agreeable-text-formatting) ---
**Author:** ![wdvanhem](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/wdvanhem/32/1635_2.png) [@wdvanhem](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/wdvanhem)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2020, 3:31pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/agree-button-missing-for-observation-with-only-one-identification-lacking-leading-label-before-reindexing/14555/9 "2020-07-18T15:31:16Z")
Shouldn’t the user’s initial ID be “leading” in this case? ---
**Author:** ![nomolosx](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/nomolosx/32/10885_2.png) [@nomolosx](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/nomolosx)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2020, 6:20pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/agree-button-missing-for-observation-with-only-one-identification-lacking-leading-label-before-reindexing/14555/10 "2020-07-18T18:20:37Z")
I’ve been seeing this frequently as well. not sure if it’s an intentional part of the change or not. ---
**Author:** ![benkendrick](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/benkendrick/32/7856_2.png) [@benkendrick](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/benkendrick)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2020, 7:04pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/agree-button-missing-for-observation-with-only-one-identification-lacking-leading-label-before-reindexing/14555/11 "2020-07-18T19:04:42Z")
I believe it’s intentional. ---
**Author:** ![pisum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/91b2a8/32.png) [@pisum](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/pisum)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2020, 7:05pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/agree-button-missing-for-observation-with-only-one-identification-lacking-leading-label-before-reindexing/14555/12 "2020-07-18T19:05:45Z")
> [@wdvanhem](#): > > Shouldn’t the user’s initial ID be “leading” in this case? i’m looking at it now, and it _is_ leading: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/2X/2/20a8c96bc57e958b97f304eb87e2beed3da31e28.jpeg) it’s interesting because based on the information that i’m seeing returned from the API (below), it doesn’t look like there have been any changes to that observation since upload. so i’m not sure why it looks different now than earlier when the screenshot was taken in the original post. does anyone have other examples of such cases? based on my vague recollections, i suspect there has always been a little strangeness with leading, improving, etc., but it never really mattered before, since it never really drove any functionality… > iNaturalist URL: [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/53432458](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/53432458) > Observer: rogger [[44060](https://www.inaturalist.org/users/44060)] / Rebecca Rogge > Observation License: cc-by-nc > Observed: 2020-07-11 07:02:00 (-04:00) > Created: 2020-07-17 22:22:11 (-04:00) > Last Updated: 2020-07-17 22:22:11 (-04:00) > Taxon: (species) Leymus mollis [[61067](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/61067)] / American dune grass (native) > Observation / Taxon Geoprivacy: [open] / [open] > Location: Thunder Bay District, ON, Canada > > - Latitude: 48.793167 > - Longitude: -86.622658 > - Accuracy: [unknown] > - Country: Canada [[6712](https://www.inaturalist.org/places/6712)] > - State: Ontario [[6883](https://www.inaturalist.org/places/6883)] > - County: Thunder Bay [[27606](https://www.inaturalist.org/places/27606)] > > Description: [not provided] > Tags: [none] > > Projects: 1 > > - Grasses of Ontario (Poaceae) [[15694](https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/15694)] > > Identifications + Comments: 1 + 0 > > - 2020-07-17 21:22:11 (-05:00) Identification #117825418 by rogger [[44060](https://www.inaturalist.org/users/44060)] / Rebecca Rogge > - (species) Leymus mollis [[61067](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/61067)] / American dune grass (leading) (computer vision assisted) ---
**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:** [July 19, 2020, 10:44pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/agree-button-missing-for-observation-with-only-one-identification-lacking-leading-label-before-reindexing/14555/13 "2020-07-19T22:44:19Z")
Same issue with no leading ID label until the observation was reindexed, though this obs with 2 IDs: before: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/2X/4/48d9dd7131a70acc4776f7404247ce2a8ae64275.png) after voted/unvoted something in the DQA: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/2X/1/16a2b7db696bf8fbbf38e53070ed8afe50d5a598.png) [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/33763668](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/33763668) ---
**Author:** ![pisum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/91b2a8/32.png) [@pisum](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/pisum)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2020, 1:23am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/agree-button-missing-for-observation-with-only-one-identification-lacking-leading-label-before-reindexing/14555/14 "2020-07-20T01:23:27Z")
oh interesting… i thought if you flipped the DQA flags, that would trigger an update of the update date stored on the observation itself, but i guess not. ---
**Author:** ![mayessj](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/mayessj/32/8163_2.png) [@mayessj](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/mayessj)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2020, 4:39pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/agree-button-missing-for-observation-with-only-one-identification-lacking-leading-label-before-reindexing/14555/15 "2020-07-20T16:39:32Z")
Just wondering why others’ observations with only one leading ID - to species level - provided by the original poster - has an “Agree” button, but none of my observations which I’ve provided a leading ID to species level have an agree button. Do others looking at my observations see an “Agree button” but I don’t? ![Screenshot_2020-07-20 Morrison's Pero Moth (Pero morrisonaria)](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/2X/4/4a2cbb11caa3cbb80b7b0122b11fe2e9d73983f6.png) ---
**Author:** ![saturnring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@saturnring](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/saturnring)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2020, 4:50pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/agree-button-missing-for-observation-with-only-one-identification-lacking-leading-label-before-reindexing/14555/16 "2020-07-20T16:50:37Z")
No, I just see a “Compare” button. ---
**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:** [July 20, 2020, 4:53pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/agree-button-missing-for-observation-with-only-one-identification-lacking-leading-label-before-reindexing/14555/17 "2020-07-20T16:53:20Z")
Not sure if someone already modified the observation in some way (fave/unfave or vote/unvote), but I see the Agree button for that observation: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/2X/3/3874ee5240501ef5a359f9642cb9530c33557050.png) ---
**Author:** ![saturnring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@saturnring](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/saturnring)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2020, 4:57pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/agree-button-missing-for-observation-with-only-one-identification-lacking-leading-label-before-reindexing/14555/18 "2020-07-20T16:57:28Z")
If someone did, it wasn’t me. ---
**Author:** ![mayessj](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/mayessj/32/8163_2.png) [@mayessj](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/mayessj)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2020, 6:25pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/agree-button-missing-for-observation-with-only-one-identification-lacking-leading-label-before-reindexing/14555/19 "2020-07-20T18:25:08Z")
I just looked again, and still no “Agree” button…looks like none of my observations have an “Agree” button. Here’s another screenshot for a different observation of mine…[Screenshot\_2020-07-20 Queen Anne’s Lace (Daucus carota)|644x500](https://forum.inaturalist.org/uploads/short-url/irOpQ5r8Fu7FIn4a3mEVi7C3VEq.png) ---
**Author:** ![pisum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/91b2a8/32.png) [@pisum](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/pisum)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2020, 6:31pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/agree-button-missing-for-observation-with-only-one-identification-lacking-leading-label-before-reindexing/14555/20 "2020-07-20T18:31:03Z")
> [@mayessj](#): > > but none of my observations which I’ve provided a leading ID to species level have an agree button. why do you need an agree button for your own ID? do you want to agree with yourself? ---
**Author:** ![mayessj](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/mayessj/32/8163_2.png) [@mayessj](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/mayessj)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2020, 6:35pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/agree-button-missing-for-observation-with-only-one-identification-lacking-leading-label-before-reindexing/14555/21 "2020-07-20T18:35:06Z")
No, I don’t want to agree with myself. I just wonder why other iNat users have the Agree button on their observations and I don’t. ---
**Author:** ![pisum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/91b2a8/32.png) [@pisum](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/pisum)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2020, 6:41pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/agree-button-missing-for-observation-with-only-one-identification-lacking-leading-label-before-reindexing/14555/22 "2020-07-20T18:41:26Z")
you won’t have the agree button on your own IDs. but if someone makes a leading ID on your observation, you should then see an agree button. for example, below are a couple of my own observations. in the first case, someone made an ID that I can agree to. in the second case, no one has made an ID but me. so there’s no need to agree with myself. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/2X/b/b7f53f360262dc80ee353a1540ca306935c9a5d1.jpeg) ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/2X/f/fbd2b14ebcc3b369806695b762163d25fffda0af.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![mayessj](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/mayessj/32/8163_2.png) [@mayessj](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/mayessj)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2020, 6:44pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/agree-button-missing-for-observation-with-only-one-identification-lacking-leading-label-before-reindexing/14555/23 "2020-07-20T18:44:27Z")
Okay, that explains it ~ thank you. [Next page](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/agree-button-missing-for-observation-with-only-one-identification-lacking-leading-label-before-reindexing/14555.md?page=2)