That disagrees text is persistent. I withdrew my ID. Then deleted my ID. iNat is still determined that deeplucanid disagrees with my ghostly ID. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/23331380

That’s intended behavior. Look at the set of identifications as a historical record, instead of “the correct ID”. For this reason it’s almost always a good idea to not delete one’s withdrawn ID’s outright. I seem to recall from an earlier conversation that ispot used to have a time limit after whic…

Thank you. Around the City Challenge, iNat was determined to offer (wrong by geography) IDs - then the CID needs encouraging to move to an ID which is possible. So I withdraw, and delete, and agree at a higher level. Californian buckwheat? Not in Cape Town. But it is most interesting when experts d…

I agree it is useful to keep this as a record of what ID is being contested – it may help prevent that same mis-ID from returning in future.

The record of discussion is useful where it clarifies ambiguity. But in this case, my wrong ID is untidy and I am uncomfortable knocking an expert’s level of expertise back to - is it a beetle or a bug - which is MY issue. Not theirs! But the ‘disagrees’ text is associated with their name, not mine…

It’s understandable why this is a feature, but often I see cases where someone made an inadvertent click on one of the “suggested IDs” and then had to go back and change it once they noticed that they’d made a mistake (mistakes that are sometimes in the wrong kingdom entirely). In cases like that w…

Sometimes a misidentification can be downright embarrassing. For example, in the moment I have misidentified Erigeron glaucus as Elymus glaucus just because the names are similar. One is a grass and the other a dicot and I would never mistake one for the other but with persistent disagrees I feel li…

While there is a social element, owning one’s mistakes can set a good example for fledgling naturalists. It’s ok to be wrong, and admit it.

Exaclty! I’d encourage ppl not to delete ID mistakes, they do no harm and are useful for others. And if one does, one leaves behind these odd messages.

so best practice is to withdraw the wrong ID, but leave it visible in the conversation?

Disagreeing ID text is persistent once previous ID is deleted

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kiwifergus June 9, 2019, 10:13pm 16

But we do get there! Without CV we have to start EVERY observation off manually anyway, so CV, even at its worst, is still a nett saving in effort for identifiers…

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Disagreeing ID text is persistent once previous ID is deleted

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