I’ve sometimes felt guilty when I upload an observation and the CV has no suggestions (or it has suggestions that seem extremely unlikely), so I just dump it under “bees” or “flies” or whatever it happens to be. The reason I feel guilty is that I’ve either had the same thing identified before (somet…

Makes no sense to me to leave things in unknown. I think more IDers will bring more IDs. I think making it hard for new IDers to find their preferred taxons is not incentivizing.

[image] peakaytea: new IDers to find their preferred taxons Yes if there are identifiers for that taxon. But - see how many ‘plants’ are Needs ID in your preferred location? 11K plants for NY ? I bookmark my links with the number of pages, waiting. :scream: When I bookmarked plants in Afri…

How much would it help if laymen (like me, but not myself for reasons mentioned below) lifted plants too? Currently I go thru a few pages per day (place=world (I found out that frogs in China are frog-shaped too, so narrowing the location wouldn’t help) , added=one-single-day, label=unknown, one su…

Agreed. I meant that unknown is not preferable to kingdom. Sorry for the confusion.

I think we can each find our own corner of iNat, where we can enjoy moving the IDs forward. I like to see light at the end of the tunnel so I am chewing away at the CNC residue. That has a definite END. Then I work thru various batches of Pre-Mavericks. I find it disheartening to look thru 30 obs an…

During the City Nature Challenge, I frequently used “Random” as I was going through observations… It was SO useful – one observer can upload a whole slew of observations, and if I just select date as descending, it will just show all of those observations. With ‘random’ it shows a lot more folks’ …

Wow. This is interesting. So what happens if the 2 large sponsors stop the sponsorship? This forum is a very good one and must explore means of staying afloat, always

I have been fighting Lyme for 20+ years. It is really affecting me mentally. First I lost the ability to do math and had to quit my job. Then I lost my mental energy to do art - it isn’t as easy as it looks. Lately I have been loosing my mental ability to do IDs. However, on most days I am stil…

In defense of "lazy" observers (like me)

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DianaStuder June 16, 2023, 9:03pm 131

You have seen @jeanphilippeb 's yellow label projects?
https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/jeanphilippeb/73398-phylogenetic-projects-for-unknown-observations

Choose your taxon, filter to location …

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In defense of "lazy" observers (like me)

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