They should not be doing this, curator or not. Staff have said that duplicates are not a big deal (iNat isn’t reliable for abundance data anyway) and should be treated like any other observation. If one isn’t willing to ID them, I think the best solution is to comment that it is a duplicate, mark reviewed and move on.
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