I keep seeing cases like this where an observation doesn’t make RG even with 5 or 6 IDs because the original user (usually a beginner) clicked that the taxon can be improved. I suspect some of them think that if they don’t click that, it won’t be shown to the other site users or something because th…

I can see a use for observers that ID to subspecies, as often they have someone then ID to species and it removes it from the “Needs ID” pool. A blurb about the effects would be nice though.

To be honest, it seems like the system worked as intended - you were able to restore “research grade”-ability status with a single counteracting vote. I agree that a blurb would be nice.

Multiple reasons people might put on a yes vote before any no votes discussed here

Actually there’s plenty of such cases. I’ve had to do so myself. There was one case in which I disagreed with a duck ID but it wasn’t enough to push it to RG. Then some other people came along and RGed it to the species I was disagreeing with. It was obviously an incorrect community ID, so I put…

[image] abersbird: disagreed with a duck ID but it wasn’t enough to push it to RG I think a disagreement is going to head it “away” from RG, not push it towards it? [image] abersbird: other people came along and RGed it to the species I was disagreeing Others can ID, they can’t RG… …

I always vote that first if I need subspecies id or if someone new agreed to my id and I’m sure they know nothing about that taxon, so I need more help from an expert.

In that case, I’d at least like it to have a “newbie, be careful” thing, because I’m pretty sure it still gets used wrongly more often than correctly :)

[image] kiwifergus: by definition no community ID can be incorrect. I’m confused about this. The organism in the photo is objectively either one species or another (ignoring the arbitrary definition of species). If the community ID is not that species, then it’s wrong. Our ability to identify…

The community id is not saying what the organism in the photo is. It is saying what the community thinks it is. If three people say it is A and one says B, then the formula for community id assesses A to be representative of the communities understanding of what the organism is. iNat community id mo…

Block adding Yes to "can the Community Taxon be improved" as first vote (or ask for confirmation)

Feature Requests

iorek April 17, 2020, 10:54pm 4

Indeed - I just had made a similar observation over on this related feature:
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/say-what-the-community-taxon-is-in-the-dqa/8836/3

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Block adding Yes to "can the Community Taxon be improved" as first vote (or ask for confirmation)

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