Is it possible to search for observations where other users suggested different identifications than my own

The title pretty much sums it up, but I was looking for a way to check the observations where another user disagrees with my ID suggestion (either completely different IDs or one ID is at the subspecies level and the other is at the species level, for example) and could not find it.
I remember reading about a way to create a search query to find the observations where you’re the “maverick”, but that is not what I’m looking for as I can have disagreeing IDs without being necessarily the maverick (correct me if I’m wrong).

Does anyone know a way to do this?

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No, I don’t know how to search on iNat. But this is a bugbear of mine - if a person makes a change, I believe that they should provide an explanation or a link. It’s how people learn. If I run across this, I’ll copy the binomial name and look it up. Perhaps that could work for iNat too, although others may have other methods.
And yes, depending on the competence of the identifiers, you may or may not have the maverick ID.

There have been some other posts about this but I don’t think it’s possible.
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/search-for-disagreeing-ids-on-my-observations/2736
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/provide-a-way-to-filter-observations-by-disputed-ids/6698
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-can-i-find-ids-that-disagree-with-mine/25917
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/ideas-for-making-it-easier-to-find-observations-with-conflicting-ids-in-identify/9064

As for subspecies, those are a bit more complicated.
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/leading-subspecies-ids-should-change-the-obs-taxon-like-leading-ids-of-other-ranks/139

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