I’ve had a situation where a number of US-based observers, all new to iNaturalist, upload similar or identical photos of a mistletoe and identify it as an Australian mistletoe that it doesn’t resemble. This happens near the beginning of the academic year and seems to occur every year. I read this as a class exercise where the “answer” is being passed down from a previous cohort (who didn’t read the comments on their observations). It seems that the educator doesn’t assess the observations either.
This isn’t a problem really—I can clean up the small number of observations, though I don’t feel much inclined to tell them the likely correct ID—but I’m interested to hear from others whether they come across parallel situations and how they respond.