Certainty and uncertainty in identification

Check what effect your ID has on the CID, and also on the display ID up top. Are both results what you expected? Follow your notifications.

Species A (wrong)
Disagree to Plants
Species B
and a second species B
feels as if iNat should = species B, but it doesn’t.

I wish iNat would let us say - it’s not Species A, without insisting that we HAVE to default to it is Something Else.

We struggle with this
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/ancestor-disagreement-persists-after-disputed-id-is-withdrawn/15552
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/inat-doesnt-seem-to-update-community-id-the-one-displayed-for-an-observation-properly-in-certain-cases/31179/6
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/change-wording-used-by-the-system-when-downgrading-an-observation-to-an-higher-level-taxa/3862/60

https://www.inaturalist.org/blog/25514-clarifying-ancestor-disagreements

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