Hi - I have a problem with two particular identifiers who constantly mis-identify my and other folks’ observations. One of these identifiers is a foreigner who obviously does not know our species well, but for whatever reason feels the need to add their 2c, and another appears to have a compulsive…

I agree that the best approach to volume misIDs is to first contact the identifier and explain the issue and ask them to change their approach politely. This often helps, but sometimes not. If there are users who continue to add large volumes of misIDs and don’t respond to comments, etc. You can ra…

You as the observer may also agree to one of the possible species. You may point out (add specific data on size or colour etc.) why you do not think it is that particular species. It may not always be that obvious looking at a single photo.

Do these people do only agree to faulty identifications made by other users or do they put up a first identification (blindly choose from CV suggestions) Generally this is a nuisance only if they do not follow up, and withdraw. Just tag them and post constantely: “Please reconsider” and if there is…

[image] adamwelz: One of these identifiers is a foreigner who obviously does not know our species well, but for whatever reason feels the need to add their 2c, To be clear, you are only speaking of one individual, not all identifiers outside your country, yes? You do not mean your country’s o…

I think you should just DM the person about all the IDs.

What you edited out, it still obvious from Lucy’s comment. Ouch. Foreign or local is secondary to me. I battle more with - I am interested in fish, but I will ID that as A Plant. The taxon specialist is very often based in ‘foreign’. One of my current batch of - better onboarding of newbies - was…

I am very careful to upload identifiable photos, usually a series from different angles of the same organism. This is not a problem of not having good-enough images. This is a problem of hasty people taking chances so they can get a higher number of identifications on their profile.

I’ve left replies asking them to reconsider. Many times. Politely. They continue doing it.

Hi, Diana: Oops! The Forum was wonky for me when I was trying to comment very early this morning, so I saved my comment as a draft and came back an hour later and just hit “publish” without checking the thread further. I have edited my response now to be consistent with @cthawley ’s edits. (It may …

Even my crap shots are identifiable; I don’t upload images that are obviously not identifiable. e.g. this image https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/64378150 - however, this is not my point. I’m talking about crystal clear images, often multiple of the same individual organism, that are misident…

Hi Lucy - I am well aware that many taxon specialists are not resident in my country. If you read my post you’ll see that I referred to a single individual foreigner. Perhaps, instead of misreading my post and making an off-topic response, you could answer my question?

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