I regret that thoughtful responses are gone too. a short response is much easier to type out a hundred times Use a text expander as tiwane suggested . Then you only need to craft your answer, kind and informative, once. There is a HUGE need for identifiers on iNat. We need ALL hands on deck. iNat …

I’m of the opinion that learning the broad-level plant taxa for your area is a great way to start identifying—it’s pretty low stress, low stakes (you’re not potentially making something RG erroneously), and just very fun and illuminating to be able to sort things into smaller and smaller bins as you…

Preferences vary but I do look through Plantae at Kingdom level probably as frequently as I look through Unknowns. So for the Southern Appalachians, feel free to “dump” into Plantae! If you can take Plantae to moss, fern, angiosperm etc. - even better! Be bold, there’s nothing to lose and you can on…

[image] annkatrinrose: Be bold, there’s nothing to lose and you can only learn. As was said above, that only applies if you’re actually watching your notifications. If you get it wrong and don’t realise and withdraw, you end up increasing (potentially significantly increasing, if the observer…

[image] DianaStuder: 1.5 million dicots waiting This is why I don’t bother to provide an ID of “Dicots” unless I see something that someone could use to take it further. I don’t know the family, but I see a cluster of very distinct winged seeds? Okay, I put it to “Dicots” and hope for the bes…

[image] annkatrinrose: Preferences vary but I do look through Plantae at Kingdom level probably as frequently as I look through Unknowns. There are identifiers who review Unknowns, and there are experts who look at particular families and genera, but the broad level IDs are too often overlook…

If you can recognize something as a plant, for goodness sake, ID it as a plant! Why? Because botanists may go through and look for, say, Plants in Oregon to ID, but we’re not likely to skim through Unknown to find the occasional plant. And feel free to ID it lower, too, if you can.

[image] david99: s they are identifying. facts, I agree the 90% of people on inat aren’t at the point where they should, say be doing a lot of ids, of course there isnt a rule that says you can’t but it makes the platform run a lot less efficiently. another thing I was thinking working on wha…

Looks like you quoted a fragment of a sentence? And do you have anything to add that would move the discussion forward? If not, best to use the like button.

Has anyone tried tying the number of IDs made by organizational participants to a grant funding application? When I get IDs from people who I perceive to be experts, it encourages me to make more observations (more data points)… but it also encourages me to plant more plants for the benefit they pr…

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