Just needed to vent a little here… I’m finding some identifiers do not bother to read the notes I provide, or to look at additional photos beyond the first one, leading to confusion that would otherwise be quite simple to resolve. If identifying, take a few moments to read! Okay, I feel better now…

Follow the conversation chain for context about the post I was responding to and the post that it was a response to. You can do this by clicking on the arrows on the right side of the post (in the quoted text or beside the avatar of the user whose post is being responded to). My analogy was a respo…

Regarding misidentifications, I have learned so much from identifiers in iNat, and being a ‘person that knows about plants’ between my friends, I keep learning how much I don’t know. But I try to identify at least a bit (I have double IDs than observations, although I add many ‘Angiospermae’ or ‘Lep…

[image] castieler: Can somebody share a link to see my maverick IDs? https://www.inaturalist.org/identifications?user_id=sedgequeen&category=maverick Put your own name in this instead of mine. Your question reminded me that I should have checked myself. It’s been too long. Found I had a l…

Thanks! I had lost it and I managed to get some more since last time I checked. I cleaned it up and learned a bit more. And I added it to my bookmarks!

[image] kyle_campbell1: where will the mentors come from? with the IDing load being as high as it is, how many ppl will still have time to mentor people and go through the phases of learning with them? That happens all the time. I learn by essentially hanging around the people who know more …

[image] kyle_campbell1: I don’t understand where you got blocklisting from? (might be due to my ignorance - what is blocklist?). That is what I’m asking. I do not see how the place that we ended at with the shared living space analogy is meant to be applied to the topic at hand. What is your …

[image] ursaw: doublecheck every observation I identify to make sure whoever posted it is not on my “don’t deal with them” list? URL parameters and browser bookmarks to the rescue! https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?not_user_id= <long comma-separated list of ‘unwanted’ username…

[image] sedgequeen: https://www.inaturalist.org/identifications?user_id=sedgequeen&category=maverick Put your own name in this instead of mine. Your question reminded me that I should have checked myself. It’s been too long. Found I had a lot of them, withdrew most my ID’s. Most were more or le…

agreed, it is very difficult to get any verification for things sometimes. I mostly focus on fungi and that is not as popular as insects and plants where I live, but just getting anyone to confirm the most basic and obvious species of boletes is a chore

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DianaStuder September 26, 2025, 3:11pm 121

Earthworm mentor if someone is interested in learning more about IDing earthworms.

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