I think you’re misrepresenting OP’s statements and the situation overall.
In my view, to get to the “point” of this website, I look at their mission statement at a broader conceptual level.
“Mission: iNaturalist’s mission is to connect people to nature and advance biodiversity science and conservation.”
“iNaturalist is a lot of things, but at it’s core iNaturalist is an online social network of people sharing biodiversity information to help each other learn about nature.”
“It’s also a crowdsourced species identification system and an organism occurrence recording tool . You can use it to record your own observations, get help with identifications, collaborate with others to collect this kind of information for a common purpose, or access the observational data collected by iNaturalist users.”
I think it is very reasonable for some people’s behavior in their IDing to be not in line with those stated missions, even if it is certainly within the normal functioning of the site. There’s a broader discussion about people’s intentions and all that, and there’s a lot of gray area so I’m not saying there should be any rules or punishments coming of this. But generally I think it is reasonable for someone to be frustrated that their observation gets ten IDs (especially in the bigger picture of things, for example that many other observations get zero IDs, that people are not answering a question you want to learn about and instead are just posting IDs, etc).
If I do not feel like getting to many notifications, I feel it unlikely that it is actually a problem for most people
I think this is unreasonable. People have different experiences on here, regardless of how many IDs or observations they post. Someone sincerely expressing their frustrations can be valid, even if it is not a frustration you experience.
Thanks for the thoughtful discussion. I apologize that I don’t go on the forum much so I may not respond down the line.