# How to surface interesting observations

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**Created:** [January 23, 2024, 5:59pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-surface-interesting-observations/48435 "2024-01-23T17:59:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![tiwane](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/tiwane/32/54612_2.png) [@tiwane](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/tiwane)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2024, 10:12pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-surface-interesting-observations/48435/10 "2024-01-23T22:12:00Z")

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> [@matthias55](#):
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> Make it easier for identifiers to find species that are newly reported or have low numbers of observations (e.g. \<X; X could be 10, 20, or 50+) in a region (could be a US state, country, etc.).

This is one thing that Scott mentioned in his [blog post about the Geomodel](https://www.inaturalist.org/blog/84677-introducing-the-inaturalist-geomodel) - eventually using it to surface observations that may be incorrectly identified or represent really interesting finds.

> [@matthias55](#):
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> Sometimes I’ll come across an observation that looks interesting but I don’t know what it is. I would like to be able to flag it in a positive way so that other IDers would see it as well. I could “fav” it or tag individual IDers but that doesn’t always feel right somehow.

Faving or tagging other users is generally fine, although it obviously depends on the user and the number of times you tag them. You could also make a traditional project for these observations, as [adding observations from the Identify page is now possible](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/new-functionality-added-to-identify-and-upload-pages/48448). An observation of mine was recently added to [Undescribed Diptera](https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/undescribed-diptera), for example.

I don’t think we’ll be implementing upvotes or downvotes. Most of the downvoting goals described here can be achieved via the Data Quality Assessment.

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