And what’s the difference between haveing 100, 1000 and 10000 ID of a group? That’s what I already made. I mainly spend my time and efforts on Mantodea and Tettigoniidea (Mantis and Katydid). But I hardly feels changes of status or situation compared to when I first joined in. Do I didn’t notice …

It also helps good people, at least I don’t consider myself being a monster and I adore leaderboards of different kind, while not doing anything bad to get on top, etc.

There’s also niche expert identifiers that focus on and identify only one particular taxon on inat. If the taxon in question is not often observed you have such people having only a few dozens identifications (they would still be top identifiers though).

Again, why are so focused on reputation, it’s not what really matters? If you wish to add more ids, do it, if you wish to stop, stop it, but there’s nothing other people can do to that, every ider and every id matters, you see your ids making a new spot for the species on the map or get observation …

It is also not reputation itself, but which means one kind of feedback. You know things alway hard to hold on when feedback is absent let alone at the same time there are something hard elsewhere. As @aphili8 and @arnanthescout says, we want somethings for ourselves. I am no so successful in my l…

If you feel like you don’t want to keep going, it’s reasonable to stop for a while. People rarely will write something and most users won’t tag anyone, especially if they’re doing their “job” fine, in that cases it can be seen as distraction of ider, not a sign of respect. So, if you get nothing of …

Hi, Manassas! :) I am not an expert and cannot ID. Kudos to you for that! Because I cannot ID, I sometimes reach out, by tagging or by messaging, to experts for help in identifications. One thing I noticed that might be helpful is if your iNaturalist profile reflected your areas of interest in yo…

If so, then keep going, you can change taxon you id or choose a specific area only or do something completely different, or don’t, I don’t have much to do, but I don’t spend all that time iding, because it’s mentally and physically challenging, it’s ok to take a break doing leisure activities, or do…

[image] Manassas: It’s hard to quit Take a break when you need to. Look at the map I linked for you - and remember that across the world. Each. Of those observers (and identifiers in a longer thread). Appreciates. Your. Contribution. We do!

Nowhere near 10000 identifications but between 100 and 1000 I learned about the harder to ID taxa through error and helpful feedback from other users. With respect to gratitude and positive feedback from people you help with identification, I think these might explain it a bit: The social network…

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IDing on iNat is one of the few things I can do well. It’s hard to quit.

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