# Do you check your mavericks regularly? **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [September 29, 2026, 8:47am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/do-you-check-your-mavericks-regularly/86094 "2026-09-29T08:47:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nyenyedzi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/nyenyedzi/32/67600_2.png) [@nyenyedzi](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/nyenyedzi)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2026, 8:47am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/do-you-check-your-mavericks-regularly/86094/1 "2026-09-29T08:47:08Z")
I check at least once a week because I’m learning, and though I don’t often have many, the more I venture into IDing less common species, the more mistakes I make at the start 😊 I’m also asking because there’s a prolific IDer who sweeps through RG obs, agreeing to everything, who has more than 2,500 mavericks - surely those aren’t all justified. I asked this person once to check their great tit mavericks, and they cleaned them up - but none of the other species. I guess it’s not a problem as the rest of the community IDs outweigh the maverick? The maverick list I check is this one [https://www.inaturalist.org/identifications?user\_id=nyenyedzi&category=maverick](https://www.inaturalist.org/identifications?user_id=nyenyedzi&category=maverick) ---
**Author:** ![DianaStuder](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/dianastuder/32/43358_2.png) [@DianaStuder](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/DianaStuder)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2026, 9:32am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/do-you-check-your-mavericks-regularly/86094/2 "2026-09-29T09:32:24Z")
I check, every day. Since I also follow my notifications, I wonder **why or how** , some still slip thru. Mavericks tho is already, too little too late, and identifiers have overthrown your Maverick ID. It would be better if iNat would let us pick up Pre-Mavericks, where reconsidering our ID could let that third identifier move on to another obs instead. I guess we could use the new Disagreements filter (how to pair that with My IDs ?) That works. 68 for me to check (replace my name, and tweak the other filters as you prefer) [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?quality\_grade=needs\_id%2Cresearch%2Ccasual&verifiable=true&ident\_user\_id=dianastuder&disagreements=true&place\_id=any](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?quality_grade=needs_id%2Cresearch%2Ccasual&verifiable=true&ident_user_id=dianastuder&disagreements=true&place_id=any) ---
**Author:** ![noah\_vale](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/noah_vale/32/59920_2.png) [@noah\_vale](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/noah_vale)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2026, 9:38am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/do-you-check-your-mavericks-regularly/86094/3 "2026-09-29T09:38:40Z")
I somehow manage to stay on top of my notifications so I only check rarely, I don’t have any mavericks at the moment ---
**Author:** ![noah\_vale](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/noah_vale/32/59920_2.png) [@noah\_vale](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/noah_vale)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2026, 9:40am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/do-you-check-your-mavericks-regularly/86094/4 "2026-09-29T09:40:02Z")
My disagreements in the identify page [https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/identify?reviewed=any&quality\_grade=needs\_id%2Cresearch%2Ccasual&ident\_user\_id=noah\_vale¬\_user\_id=noah\_vale&verifiable=any&disagreements=true](https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/identify?reviewed=any&quality_grade=needs_id%2Cresearch%2Ccasual&ident_user_id=noah_vale¬_user_id=noah_vale&verifiable=any&disagreements=true) This part specifically “&ident\_user\_id=noah\_vale¬\_user\_id=noah\_vale” will only show your ID’s of other users observations ---
**Author:** ![DianaStuder](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/dianastuder/32/43358_2.png) [@DianaStuder](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/DianaStuder)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2026, 9:59am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/do-you-check-your-mavericks-regularly/86094/5 "2026-09-29T09:59:22Z")
Thanks – will try yours too. But I am finding ‘add value’ obs among those 68 … [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/21470883](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/21470883) Have added this to the Weird Wild Wonders project – which didn’t exist, or I hadn’t yet found it, then. Halfway done … and then finally took almost 3 hours. ---
**Author:** ![nyenyedzi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/nyenyedzi/32/67600_2.png) [@nyenyedzi](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/nyenyedzi)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2026, 10:02am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/do-you-check-your-mavericks-regularly/86094/6 "2026-09-29T10:02:04Z")
My notifications no longer show Disagree, so if it’s a taxon I don’t really know, I don’t know if it’s a disagreement or not unless I actually go to the observation, so I think more slip through. ---
**Author:** ![rcavasin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/rcavasin/32/17222_2.png) [@rcavasin](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/rcavasin)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2026, 11:04am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/do-you-check-your-mavericks-regularly/86094/7 "2026-09-29T11:04:47Z")
> [@DianaStuder](#): > > That works. 68 for me to check (replace my name, and tweak the other filters as you prefer) > [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?quality\_grade=needs\_id%2Cresearch%2Ccasual&verifiable=true&ident\_user\_id=dianastuder&disagreements=true&place\_id=any](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?quality_grade=needs_id%2Cresearch%2Ccasual&verifiable=true&ident_user_id=dianastuder&disagreements=true&place_id=any) I think that link only shows observations that are not marked as reviewed. At least, that’s what I got when I tried it. I thought it was weird when I got less that 100 disagreements. When I include observations that are marked as reviewed, it’s closer to 12,000. ---
**Author:** ![nyenyedzi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/nyenyedzi/32/67600_2.png) [@nyenyedzi](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/nyenyedzi)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2026, 11:24am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/do-you-check-your-mavericks-regularly/86094/8 "2026-09-29T11:24:58Z")
> [@DianaStuder](#): > > [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?quality\_grade=needs\_id%2Cresearch%2Ccasual&verifiable=true&ident\_user\_id=dianastuder&disagreements=true&place\_id=any](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?quality_grade=needs_id%2Cresearch%2Ccasual&verifiable=true&ident_user_id=dianastuder&disagreements=true&place_id=any) Ooph, Diana, this threw up a whole lot of obs for me to go through 😬 🙄 ---
**Author:** ![DianaStuder](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/dianastuder/32/43358_2.png) [@DianaStuder](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/DianaStuder)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2026, 12:15pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/do-you-check-your-mavericks-regularly/86094/9 "2026-09-29T12:15:30Z")
But slot YOUR name in instead ? Ack 25K. Depending on how you prefer to ID, I work down taxon levels. So I would start with what is trapped at Kingdom, where reconsidering your ID will be the most effective. With the Disagreements filter only 20 obs [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?quality\_grade=needs\_id%2Cresearch%2Ccasual&verifiable=true&ident\_user\_id=nyenyedzi&disagreemets=true&lrank=kingdom&disagreements=true&place\_id=any](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?quality_grade=needs_id%2Cresearch%2Ccasual&verifiable=true&ident_user_id=nyenyedzi&disagreemets=true&lrank=kingdom&disagreements=true&place_id=any) ---
**Author:** ![DianaStuder](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/dianastuder/32/43358_2.png) [@DianaStuder](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/DianaStuder)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2026, 12:49pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/do-you-check-your-mavericks-regularly/86094/10 "2026-09-29T12:49:53Z")
But, if you have already reviewed those 12K, you would need a **good** reason to look at them _again_. As a taxon specialist you will have lots of DISagreements, where you know you are correct. ---
**Author:** ![danly](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/danly/32/42066_2.png) [@danly](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/danly)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2026, 12:56pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/do-you-check-your-mavericks-regularly/86094/11 "2026-09-29T12:56:24Z")
I seldom check my mavericks (because I never remember how to) but yesterday I came across this one when someone added an ID: [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/344811443](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/344811443) I just checked using your link with my name, and only found one other maverick, which I rectified by withdrawing my erroneous ID. I do keep up with notifications, so I generally catch things at the pre-maverick stage. ---
**Author:** ![jnstuart](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/jnstuart/32/1623_2.png) [@jnstuart](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/jnstuart)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2026, 1:25pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/do-you-check-your-mavericks-regularly/86094/12 "2026-09-29T13:25:17Z")
I’ll leave one or two mavericks in place just to be a nonconformist and because I think it’s remotely possible I might be right. ---
**Author:** ![DianaStuder](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/dianastuder/32/43358_2.png) [@DianaStuder](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/DianaStuder)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2026, 1:27pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/do-you-check-your-mavericks-regularly/86094/13 "2026-09-29T13:27:07Z")
That is Proud Maverick, the lone voice, who is right ! ---
**Author:** ![aaravmishra](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/aaravmishra/32/33901_2.png) [@aaravmishra](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/aaravmishra)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2026, 2:12pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/do-you-check-your-mavericks-regularly/86094/14 "2026-09-29T14:12:13Z")
I often don’t check it (obscure urls. iNat needs a bigger menu!!!). I often make ids that are against the community id because I did the digging, but they trust the wrong one 😂 Location is one of the major reasons. They id it as something from another place. Many of the accounts are dormant. There are some where I am holding my opinion because there is a high possibility that I’m correct. ---
**Author:** ![spiphany](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/spiphany/32/31332_2.png) [@spiphany](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/spiphany)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2026, 2:49pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/do-you-check-your-mavericks-regularly/86094/15 "2026-09-29T14:49:21Z")
Please note the forum rules: You should not negatively comment on specific, identifiable users or link to observations in order to criticize people (suggesting that you are right but others are wrong and refuse to see it is likely to be felt to be criticism). ---
**Author:** ![jnstuart](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/jnstuart/32/1623_2.png) [@jnstuart](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/jnstuart)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2026, 4:03pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/do-you-check-your-mavericks-regularly/86094/16 "2026-09-29T16:03:25Z")
Not that I’m recommending it, but flouting the rules is very maverick-y. ---
**Author:** ![Vermfly](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/vermfly/32/625_2.png) [@Vermfly](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/Vermfly)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2026, 4:06pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/do-you-check-your-mavericks-regularly/86094/17 "2026-09-29T16:06:33Z")
I can’t seem to figure out how to get mine. I tried using those previous chains and replace my username. It says I have none but that can’t be right. ---
**Author:** ![jnstuart](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/jnstuart/32/1623_2.png) [@jnstuart](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/jnstuart)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2026, 4:20pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/do-you-check-your-mavericks-regularly/86094/18 "2026-09-29T16:20:17Z")
[https://www.inaturalist.org/identifications?user\_id=vermfly&category=maverick](https://www.inaturalist.org/identifications?user_id=vermfly&category=maverick) ---
**Author:** ![dendroleon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/dendroleon/32/27658_2.png) [@dendroleon](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/dendroleon)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2026, 6:25pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/do-you-check-your-mavericks-regularly/86094/19 "2026-09-29T18:25:54Z")
i have 2 maverick IDs and i am definitely correct in both cases ---
**Author:** ![bloomingtmrw](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/bloomingtmrw/32/73681_2.png) [@bloomingtmrw](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/bloomingtmrw)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2026, 8:01pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/do-you-check-your-mavericks-regularly/86094/20 "2026-09-29T20:01:14Z")
This made me check them for the first time! Besides one that was only a maverick because of a taxon swap, the rest are all still wrong \