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 …

[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…

[image] eleggua: rank-hunters This may be a bit off topic, but how do we know people care about ranks/leaderboards/any other clout? Most top identifiers I know of are very knowlegable when it comes to the species they ID a lot of.

Also, I’ve always wondered how the person behind Gerald’s observation reacts lol

[image] wayne_j: And you can add fungi to the “will it ever get an ID confirmation” list. And mollusks, too!

my first indication that I’ve reached “top identifier” status for a taxon is usually not by actually checking my ranking (because really, who does that?), but when I suddenly start to get a bunch of people tagging me for ID help without any other explanation… then I might go and see that my “rank” h…

[image] wayne_j: ou can add fungi to the “will it ever get an ID confirmation” list. Except Psilocybe species. They’re feasted upon.

I never heard the term ID Farming and still unclear what it’s referring to.

rank hunting. making many ids in one taxon to increase id rank. not always the motivation, but often so. some folks simply love to interact with certain lifeforms via inaturalist. not rank hunting per se, simply passionate ‘obsession’. edit: there is synergy between ^those^ two purposes.

I agree on the fungi, the problem is having all the information to get a solid ID and so few are doing the IDing.

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lynnharper February 17, 2025, 10:20pm 24

Ditto. And someday I might get around to looking at RG observations and adding yet another ID, but that will be after I finish working on as many Needs ID observations as I’m capable of (in other words, probably never).

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