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…

People not reading the notes is an interface problem. All it needs is to label the tab “Notes*” if there are any notes and just “Notes” if not, (or a colour change). Obviously it needs to be visible on Identify too.

I am one of those who ID from the thumbnails in the Identify tab. Guilty! Nowadays, I’m almost always looking at observations that are already at species level. Sometime, I am looking at observations at the genus level, where there’s only one species in that genus in my region or the species is qui…

[image] neylon: Honestly it’s getting so frustrating dealing with some observers complete lack of understanding regarding mistakes or the amount of time that identifying takes, that I’ve pretty much stopped. I still ID a bit. But lines like “misidentifications are of no value” don’t really make …

(Working on a laptop, using “Identify” for identifying, for bringing up a series of observations to answer some question I’m having, for annotating, etc., etc.) My most common approach to identifying is to pull up something of interest (a location, a taxon, etc.) and arrow from one observation to t…

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[image] nilshelstrom: I’m finding some identifiers do not bother to read the notes I provide, or to look at additional photos beyond the first one I’m curious. How does one go about determining this to be true?

I’ve never heard this unwritten rule? I certainly don’t think it’s necessary to call someone a burden to the system because you have decided their observation-ID proportion is too low for your liking?

I imagine that if you have two quite different species in the first photo but only one in later photos, and include a note to say which you’re interested in, it would be fairly clear that they’re not either reading the notes or looking at later photos if they pick the wrong species to ID?

It’s not a rule, written or unwritten, more like a recommended practice. I’m not a “power IDer” but I’m also not a “power observer”. I have more IDs than observations so I feel I’m doing okay.

Identifiers: Read the notes!

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pfau_tarleton September 25, 2025, 1:54pm 54

True in every human interaction…especially so online….and well worth repeating! I need to hear it sometimes.

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