Thanks @pisum, I read through that post and it lead me to a couple of other threads (I did search before posting but obviously not well enough).
I guess I kinda understand. In the above case, if I grasp things correctly…
txlorax IDed a plant as Sugar Hackberry 3,733 times, but only 3,286 of those IDs ended up having a community consensus ID of Sugar Hackberry; those other 447 possibly being IDed as Common Hackberry or only IDed to the Hackberry genus.
It would seem more useful for the Top Identifier to reflect the person who has had the most consensus IDs. I’m less interested in a person that IDs a species a lot of times, but possibly incorrectly (I’m not talking about txlorax, just making a general observation) than in the person who has had the highest number of community consensus IDs. The “Top Identifier” moniker leads one to believe that this is most expert person at IDing a species, but it could be just a person who IDs a species a lot but possibly incorrectly.
And I guess that illuminates an issue I hadn’t thought about; how are “leading” and “supporting” IDs handled in the calculation of those numbers. If you’re the 1st person to ID a species or the 10th person, do those count equally? I guess that would be a kinda a tough thing to contextualize, though, because it would prioritize speed over accuracy.
As usual, it’s a lot more complicated than it initially appears. I’ll consider the issue resolved with the hope that the Bug Reports and Feature Requests provide some future clarity.