In defense of "lazy" observers (like me)

As one of the active identifiers, I have to say that this is discouraging. After all, the reason I comment with keys or links is so that I won’t be the only one who can identify the taxon. When I have come to the thirtieth “Genus Calisto” of the day, and it is one of the two or three common, expected ones, I start to get irritated. Why did I copypasta that identification guide so many times if nobody picked it up and did anything with it?

There is another thread going on, titled, “How to get more observations ID’d to RG.” Well, one way is to help out the active identifiers by using the resources they provide. After all, it takes two IDs to make RG, and any given active identifier can only provide one. I would consider it a success if I started regularly seeing those two or three Calisto species making RG, either by someone before me identifying them to species that I can verify, or by someone coming after me and verifying.

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