I love people can help each other identify our specimens BUT can anything be done about the Identification Farmers? It’s a bit obnoxious to get the 4th, 5th, nth email about another exact ID from them.

see https://help.inaturalist.org/en/support/solutions/articles/151000198927-how-can-i-reduce-the-number-of-notifications-i-receive- . that said, i would rather exist in a world where other folks are making identifications than a world where they are not. there are lots of legitimate reasons to make …

Well I’d recommend not uploading any North American Bombus. There are several of us that take a fine tooth comb to those observations, but is it really a bad thing to have 2, 3, or 4 people who all have a certain level of expertise helping to ensure that the observation is correctly ID’d? Have you…

I agree with others in this thread that such “identification farming” isn’t a problem provided that the observer has the required knowledge to make an identification. The problem comes when identifiers add confirming identifications of things they don’t really understand well or end up ghosting the …

I don’t pay attention to notifications, so this isn’t something I think about as I only ID ‘needs ID’ observations. However, there is an system glitch whereby I have come across some observations that ‘need ID’ but already have a lot of concurring IDs (more than 2/3, and sometimes 100% are concurri…

I’ve 100% done this but the last thing on my mind is farming IDs. My main concern is verifying that every observation of a specimen is correctly identified, and adding a supporting ID is a great way to do that, even if only a few percent of RG observations are actually confidently misidentified look…

It’s admittedly extremely annoying to get a notification about the 5th side-blotched lizard ID or the 8th California barrel cactus ID (especially when even slightly more obscure cactus can sit unconfirmed for months…), but fundamentally this practice is pretty harmless. It can be annoying when a mi…

[image] lmarun: the system still thinks an ID is needed Have they Opted Out of Community ID? Then you are all ‘wasting your time’.

You can also UNfollow an obs when future IDs no longer interest you.

[image] m_whitson: Observe more plants! 4th and 5th IDs are not usually an issue there. :) And keep away from snakes! (Not because they could bite you - generally they won’t - but because of dozens of ids)

Calling people as Identification Farming is pejorative, please, dont do it :(

[image] xeniorn: …also, if you have an excess of identifiers, kindly send them my way, especially if they want to identify some, I dunno, mosses, instead of “birds” :D I have posted 3 mosses(first one was posted Nov 12 2024) that have not received an agreeing ID, birds get one before I can re…

How to stop Identification Farmers?

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DianaStuder February 17, 2025, 7:13pm 15

Have they Opted Out of Community ID?
Then you are all ‘wasting your time’.

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