One great things with iNaturlaist is ID help, especially if you make an error when entering or an actual ID mistake, but it is frustraing when reviewers change the ID from a specific species to the taxa - I fail to understand why - if you cannot make a positive ID from that of the original observer …

@clamsdell The problem here is that it can actually be pretty hard to get to “research grade”, especially with poorly known taxa. Let me give you some numbers. Within sect. Anisophyllum (the group I study), there are currently 22,995 observations IDed to species. Out of these, 21,081 are research…

[image] clamsdell: I have had people changeign things because they do not agree 100% what it is but cannot say what it is, yet that species is the only one that occurs there - I think my point is unless you know excalty what it is or are abolsutely 100% sure it is not and explain that, just goin…

Hmm. I agree that some things can’t reach species and unfortunately at the current time, you can’t tag something as not needing species ID to ‘request’ agreement with genus or higher ID. otherwise, with two genus level IDs and checking the ‘no, it’s good as it can be’ ID box at the bottom of the pag…

Sort of. I also wonder if it would be useful to be able to turn off identifications altogether (making the observation casual). That way, users could still use them for there lists and personal data, but not have it come into conflict with the other iNaturalist data. Also, I’ve sometimes wanted t…

[image] nathantaylor: Also, I’ve sometimes wanted to change one of my observations to casual without messing without doing it in a roundabout way Would a combination of making Geoprivacy “Private” and opting out of Community ID get close to what you are trying to do?

I’ve thought before that it might be nice to be able to have private observations, just because the database and interface are so wonderful, and I do sometimes come across either questionable data or data i can’t share for other reasons (but not so secret I can’t have it online). However, as I under…

That’s close to what I’m thinking about. The difficulty of opting out of Community ID is that it applies to all your observations. This is actually something that, for somewhat unrelated reasons, I think would be useful to change too. I would really enjoy being able to opt out of community ID for…

[image] charlie: This would still be eligible for research grade, right? I was thinking not, but just experimented with one of my own RG observations, and Private geoprivacy did not change its RG status.

[image] charlie: However, as I understand it the vision and direction for iNat is to be a community of naturalists, so while obscuring and a few other ‘privacy’ or ‘solo’ features do exist, they aren’t likely to be developed much further. Good to know. That’s a little sad to hear as I think …

[image] nathantaylor: The difficulty of opting out of Community ID is that it applies to all your observations Pretty sure you can do it for a single observation by clicking “Reject” at the top right of the Community Taxon box on the observation detail page. I think that is only available wh…

Changing of ID from specific species to higher taxa

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nathantaylor December 18, 2019, 5:21am 26

Hmm. I don’t see it when it’s on Needs ID status.

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Changing of ID from specific species to higher taxa

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