iNaturalist participants beware of incorrect corrections to identifications. I was unfairly labelled as “Maverick”, but I have a Biochemistry degree, educator credentials, graduate research, and other leadership experience. My wildlife identification was incorrectly corrected by a high volume observ…

On the other hand, we all have a bad day from time to time. I’m not always the best at letting things pass but it’s usually the best policy.

I agree, keep it civil whenever possible. But when someone comes in with both barrels blazing, I can forgive another for being less than civil in response.

[image] jnstuart: keep it civil whenever possible It’s always possible, even if the social media world might leave a body with the impression that incivility is obligatory. More to the point, it’s also almost always more productive, if solving problems and resolving conflict is the objective.…

Welcome to iNaturalist @daphne1 . The culture of iNat intentionally disregards credentials in favor of community consensus. It is a democratic idea, that the community will correct errors over time. I (and most experienced users) would attest it works. Users with credentials and experience in a field…

Just trying to sort through the confusion here. @daphne1 is not her same user name on iNaturalist - someone else already has that user name. @daphne1 has an observation from 2 years ago that is marked as maverick because of likely choosing a misspelled homonym on the drop down menu - easy enough, I’…

Oh, thanks. My bad-- I didn’t notice the recent casual lizard and just assumed it was the 2 year old sagebrush observation, though it seemed odd that’d trigger such a bellicose response after so long! And if I may say so, the lizard observation looks like yet another example of why allowing opt-out…

Thank you very much. That encourages me to keep going. Often, however, a safe determination is unfortunately not possible only after a photograph.

Gradually, I understand the philosophy behind iNaturalist. Thank you very much.

No I did see the observation in question, the username is slightly different but the profile picture is the same, it is a two year old observation.

No that was the one, there were only a few observations from two years ago (including the lizard), and that was the only maverick ID.

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kuchipatchis September 22, 2020, 2:06am 48

i hope this isn’t inappropriate to say, but i think this thread is a good example for why expert credentials should not be given special weight for identifications like some people suggest

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