Concerns over opting out of community taxon

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I agree. In my experience, the large majority of times I have IDed opted-out observations, one of two outcomes has occurred:

  1. The ID has remained incorrect (this is of course my opinion of the ID which I am quite sure is correct).

  2. The observer has just agreed with my ID, likely without the expertise to do so.

Neither are ideal. I would prefer not to interact with observations where the observer has opted out of CID. While I respect the observer’s choice to opt out, I would also like the choice to opt out of encountering these observations when IDing. Sadly, the feature request for this (which @opisska asked about) was declined:
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/implement-a-new-filter-for-observations-that-opt-out-of-community-id/27053

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