Interesting.
I’d be curious to see any stats for how this impacted, for example… number of observations of Diptera that were previously at the level of order and then changed rank following the change to a lower level.
Was the impact on the dataset recorded/ are the historical numbers accessible ?
This change would seem to impact ( help with) a significant number of the observations I come across trapped at higher levels.
Great this was finally implemented anyhow.
In general I think use of “leading disagreement” over "branch disagreement"makes a lot more sense.
Be amazing to also see support for an algorithm tweak in situations where you have 5 people in agreement the original ID of a wasp is actually a fly, but you still have to counter the erroneous initial ID with three specialist IDs at each finer level… this is another prime suspect when it comes to iNat functionality which traps things illogically at coarser levels.