At the moment, the Identify tool summons only observations with a consensus ID at or below the specified taxon. This frequently creates a frustrating situation for me, and I’d assume, many other identifiers. Eg, if a user guesses a gall was caused by mites, when I know it was caused by wasps, my ID…

This is my favorite suggestion ever made on iNaturalist. (Also want to add that others also spend a lot of time on SOML.) It would make so much more sense if experts could easily find these observations instead of having to wait for them to be “teed up.”

[image] Megachile: Eg, if a user guesses a gall was caused by mites, when I know it was caused by wasps, my ID sends that observation all the way up to “Arthropods.” If the user withdraws their original ID, the problem is resolved, but many never bother. Now, the next expert to work through eith…

I thought the proposal was to have it show up in Identify to anyone searching for Chytrid Fungus as well as to anyone searching for plant kingdom.

Yes, that’s my understanding of the proposal as well. The downside is that it will be harder to remove clutter from identify (requiring multiple identifiers instead of just one). I’ll edit my post to try and express it more clearly.

I didn’t realize that IDs could be added through filenames! But yes, this is what I think should happen. It seems preferable to me that identifiers be presented with lots of false positives than to end up with a bunch of false negatives. Cluttering Identify doesn’t seem like a big problem, personall…

[image] Megachile: find a way to let identifiers know they can make the choice for themselves So, maybe a feature request to add an appropriate option to the filter panel, so it can be “clicked in” to the url instead of having to manually build the url? I would definitely use that option for …

[image] Megachile: ident_taxon_id Ohhhhhh this is cool. I tried this with genus Romneya, and then I also told the search filter I wanted to see only things ranked above genus. So now I have whole set of observations over which there is disagreement whether they might be Romneya. It’s so inter…

This is great. This one that you did had two IDs at genus level six months ago, and just needed one more ID since then to get it out of State of Matter Life: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/24857751 And I filtered for “Butterflies” and got a few of those out as well (not identified below t…

[image] kiwifergus: If it’s clearly not a gall caused by mites, then your explicit disagreement of wasps will make it… wasps? The community ID will be arthropods, since mites are arachnids and wasps are insects. The proposal is for the ability of a third person to then be able to find it more…

[image] saturnring: I didn’t know that anyone could just cancel someone else’s ID by disagreeing. But then, I didn’t know about the URL that is the subject here, either. that was my impression prior to this, but: [image] kiwifergus: Looking at how it works in the calculations, the explic…

"Identify" mode should default to active, not consensus, ID

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"Identify" mode should default to active, not consensus, ID

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