What do you consider best practice in conflict situations when verifying a taxon? Case: I find a frog, post photos from all sides and identify it as R. dalmatina. This based on previous experience and case experience when hunting-down the little devil. There is a neighboring taxon R. temporaria whi…

iNat is based on the principle that anyone can add an ID to any observation. Most of the time this works reasonably well – the vast majority of people add IDs conscientiously with at least some knowledge. Occasionally it happens that an over-enthusiastic user will start adding IDs without sufficien…

You can also ask the reviewer why they think it’s R. temporaria. In situations like yours, I say something like, “Hello! Thanks for your ID. I use (the color of the inside of the back legs, the ridge or lack of ridge down the back, whatever you do use) to tell temporaria from dalmatina. This frog sh…

I had thousands of disagreements, resolved by dialog or agreed to disagree. Even when I was wrong, I learned something. There was one like yours: a rare find someone identified as a common species. I tried to engage, listed some features. After 3 weeks of no replies I just deleted the observation …

[image] DianaStuder: You can @mention a local taxon specialist. Strongly recommended, imo. This avoids conflict altogether.

[image] vbjanos: There was one like yours: a rare find someone identified as a common species. I tried to engage, listed some features. In such a case it might be helpful to describe the basis of your ID in your initial post, rather than presenting reasons after someone has given a different …

[image] DianaStuder: You can also opt out of CID for that one obs. CID = “Consider it done”? I still struggle a bit with the jargon. Do you mean the little flag field visible in the review section of observations in the web version? I just recently came across it because I mostly worked fr…

[image] vbjanos: I tried to engage, listed some features. After 3 weeks of no replies I just deleted the observation and loaded the photos again. I considered that also but so far found it not really managing the situation. But what about my other observation of finding that amorphous mass …

[image] jimmoore: describe the basis of your ID in your initial post I don’t have an ID in my initial post all the time. Preparing 100 photos for 20-30 observations takes time. Loading photos to iNat, checking times and locations, adding notes takes up the rest of the night. I leave them on …

Rather not - minced wild boar. It is other identifiers who will be the unhappy target of your social experiment. Plenty of experimental obs on iNat already ;~)) Is the roadkill within range of that frog sp? Warning - dead toads - probably lots of potentially doubtful pictures there. But we have t…

My comment concerned the one observation you mentioned–a rare find similar to a common species. Not all your observations. Everybody should have time to add comments to a single observation. The OP clearly recognized his situation regarding his frog before he posted. So he could have done the sa…

Best practice conflict management with identification

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lappelbaum July 6, 2025, 2:09pm 8

CID is Community Identification

Edit to add:
This is the Community ID. You can opt out where it says “Reject?”

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Best practice conflict management with identification

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