Why is the community ID here not the subspecies I selected: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/11547337 . Seems like a bug to me.

Subspecies IDs don’t move the Observation Taxon forward like a species ID does. In your first case , if you IDed to species, the Observation Taxon (what is displayed at the top of the page) would be Faxonius palmeri, but the Community Taxon (on the right side of the page), would still be Astacidea. …

Here’s another observation with a bad community ID: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/1747849

I believe because, while the taxon you’ve suggested is within the higher level taxon, it’s not the community consensus. From the about section on Community ID: “For example, if you think its a snake (suborder Serpentes) and I think it’s a kingsnake (genus Lampropeltis ) the observation taxon will…

If you click What’s this? at the Community taxon, I am impressed that iNat spells out for every single observation how and what they are counting! You need two votes to agree for Community ID. Both your examples are staying at the higher level agreement.

Here’s another one that seems buggy somehow and involves a subspecies id https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/16193558

I ran into this issue again today. The link you give says the issue was closed because its already on their radar, but that was February. Has it fallen off the radar. Pardon my frustration, but this seems crazy bug that needs to be fixed now. This is not a feature request, its a bug affecting a …

I agree that it needs to be addressed. But, it’s a small team and they’ve got a lot to work on with 3 apps and a website.

Here’s another crazy one. Someone IDs to genus. Then I give a subspecies ID, he withdraws the genus ID and agrees with my subspecies, but the community ID is still the genus: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/27527367

why can’t they just revert to the old community ID method, since it worked better than the current one?

This one isn’t because of subspecies. It’s yet another instance of a recent bug affecting all observations where the date observed is after the date uploaded. https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/why-is-the-observation-taxon-animalia-on-this-one/4359/5

Community ID bug with subspecies

Bug Reports

Topic		Replies	Views
Observations Being Left at Higher Taxon Level Bug Reports	8	1052	April 7, 2020
Subspecies ID does not affect community ID Bug Reports	5	650	January 27, 2021
Species ID not changing appropriately Bug Reports	7	1020	June 26, 2020
IDs below species don't update Observation Taxon until confirmed by a 2nd identifier Bug Reports	3	735	October 19, 2019
Discrepancy when observation taxon displays subspecies vs. species Bug Reports	18	1386	October 20, 2019

Community ID bug with subspecies

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