Is there a sort of etiquette between IDers and observers that dictates requests to ‘fix’ an identification? I’ve recently been asked (politely) to change my initial ID so it agrees with the IDer’s suggestion. When I first began using iNat I used to naively Agree with IDers all the time and/or chan…

If you aren’t sure you gave the right id and not sure the other person gave the right one too - leave yours at least before the 3rd person comes. If you’re sure the second person might be right, then just withdraw or delete yours, there’s no obligation of agreeing to a new id.

…actually, just exploring this too - I think I’ve just never dug into this option and how to use it properly! It looks pretty useful. Its just not so obvious when you first load it up perhaps. In Diptera at least. Triangle menu options… Compare buttons… this is gonna be a whole new iNaturalist exp…

[image] sbushes: A user with 2500+ observations and not realising the importance/existence of the withdraw function…? I am very honest on my Profile page…I’m new. I uploaded most of those 2,000+ images during the June stay-at-home order, and they span a decade of past observations. I will be…

Ahhh. Ok, that limits you as evidence for my argument! Shucks :wink: My recollection was that I didn’t know how to use Withdraw for a long time … but this could also just be confirmation bias on my part. Yes, sorry, maybe hijacking your thread a bit through my comments - I should probably have spl…

[image] jessicaleighallen: I do not know the purpose of every function on iNaturalist. This will sound the wrong way, but it is not intended as such, so please don’t take it as such, but you likely never will, and that’s not a bad thing. I have been a member longer than you, have many times …

I appreciate you starting this topic. Now that I’m not trying to race through and get stuff ID’d to clean up, this has made me want to take a lot more time to explain my identifications.

I did not know I ~could~ withdraw an ID, or even that it may be something I ~wanted~ to do until another user (gently) explained A bit about it to me in a comment on one of my Observations.

I have a preference for withdrawing rather than deleting… Often it’s a visual reminder or heads-up to those browsing an observation that it can be difficult to ID that taxa… And kind of forms an “audit trail” of the pathway that the observation took to get to its eventual CID.

[image] kiwifergus: And kind of forms an “audit trail” of the pathway that the observation took to get to its eventual CID. This is a really good point.

I see a lot of recommendations to withdraw but you also have the option to change your ID to a higher level taxon. If you think it’s species A and the other person thinks it’s species B, you can just change your ID to the genus (or family or whatever is appropriate for the situation.) That way you a…

General Consesus on Being Asked to 'Fix' One's ID

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arboretum_amy July 20, 2020, 1:16am 40

It took me many months to learn it was possible to delete an ID instead of withdrawing. I never noticed the triangle menu.

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General Consesus on Being Asked to 'Fix' One's ID

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