Or, a dramatic fix to the problem could be to disable agreements from the thumbnails! Once I realized I could miss potentially critical info on any given obs, I’ve never touched the thumbnail buttons unless by accident. The fewer accidents the better?

As of right now, they don’t show agree buttons. Just View, Identify, and Show more.

Yes, you’re right. I should have checked them myself before asking. So I agree–not a big problem.

[image] saturnring: I just noticed that my dashboard notifications have “agree” buttons for Research Grade observations, but not for “needs ID.” Is that relevant to this discussion?" Perhaps this is a yet another topic. But, on my dashboard notifications there are “agree” buttons for observat…

[image] Add a link to Identify on taxon pages hearing more about your identification workflow, I first also had that problem. I thought that the page was about agreeing to the thumbnails, rather than clicking on the thumbnail and opening the identify programme. For a beginner it is not intui…

It’s kind of both, Tony. If the first image is detailed enough in the thumbnail, you can agree to the ID without having to go in and look at the identify panel. It is advantageous for those that know taxa well enough and ID large volumes, but problematic in that you don’t see the additional photos a…

[image] Add a link to Identify on taxon pages For a beginner it is not intuitive that this is just a summary page and that the identifying tool must still be opened. All the thumbnails have the agree option and this throws beginners. 100% true! Took me a couple of years (while still new and r…

[image] arbor167: Perhaps only staff, curators, and maybe high volume IDers with low error rates could have the thumbnail agree button? A version of this idea came up in another discussion too: make the “Agree” buttons unavailable to new users until they’ve been on the site for some time (a m…

It looks like a lot of people want the Agree button on the thumbnail page removed at least sometimes. Is there an open feature request for it?

I don’t think there is, if you want to make one?

Done – now I just have to scrounge up a vote from somewhere…

Agree button on Identify thumbnails

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jdmore October 9, 2019, 5:55am 43

https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/remove-agree-button-on-identify-thumbnails-in-certain-cases/3040

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Agree button on Identify thumbnails

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