Not a folk. It was my suggestion. And pisum crunched the numbers. If you upload your obs with your own ID - then the ratio is 1.25 to ‘give back what you require from identifiers’. It is a choice which has drawn a mostly positive response.
iNat welcomes soaring numbers of observations and observers.
Then we hit a wall of missing identifiers to balance it out.
GSB 2024 stats for example
8.6K observers, but at least half as many identifiers this year at 4.4K
52% green stuff, 24% ‘bugs’
47% RG … with only 3% Casual (pretty good for broken or Captive/Cultivated)
262K obs