I’ve been doing quite a bit of IDing lately, using the info in the ID challenges and other resources. I’m rarely getting to species level - mostly to phylum, class or order.
I hope I’m getting the right IDs, but I’d like to be able to find any observations where someone has disagreed with my ID. (This includes my observations, but mostly other people’s obs). I’ve gone to the “Your IDs” section of my profile, but I’m not sure if this would actually highlight any where someone disagreed with my ID. Is there any way to find this?
This url shows all observations identified by you that also have an active disagreement, but it’s probably still broader than you want since it doesn’t distinguish between disagreements with your ID specifically. Still, there are only 228 to go through if you think that you missed notifications. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?ident_user_id=ciafre&disagreements=true
I can’t remember off–hand how you doing it, but you can create your own iNat summary for any given year. (This reminds my, I need to set mine up for 2026). Anyway, in the Identifications section of the summary it gives you stats on which ones a Leading and which ones are Maverick. You can then click on the Maverick section to see the ones where people are disagreeing with you.
There’s probably a neat lesson somewhere on how to set up the summary page, but I’m not sure where. If you go into my profile page I have a stack of them. You could just copy the hyperlink and edit it to put your own username instead.
Do your notifications specifically call out that something was a disagreement? I do scan through all my notifications, but have to expand “show more” to see what my ID was and what the following ID was to see if it was an agreement or not.
Also the quick list that shows when mousing over the speech bubble notification icon - if that could show “added an agreeing identification” or “added a disagreeing identification” or something like that to quickly see there, it’d be so helpful.
Its clunky and not very versatile, but if you search for identifications by your user_id with category=maverick you can see your observations that are maverick (ie sibling to) whatever the Community Taxon is on those observations
Unfortunately this only shows cases where it is too late – where multiple people have already disagreed with your ID. Most of us would prefer to know much earlier so we can withdraw and prevent our ID from hindering the community ID.
I agree that something like this would make it easier to tell at a glance whether a notification requires any action from me or not.
Since it is a project, you can use as a filter with whatever (taxon / location / or taxon and location etc) 555.5K obs waiting. And some are easy to move a step further.
you can see how a particular identifier’s identification compares to the observation taxon, and you can do a relative comparison to the other identifications that have been made, both in terms of taxonomy and sequence of identifications.
so if you’re looking for subsequent disagreements to your id, this would most likely occur when your identification is a descendant or other relative to the observation taxon, where your identification isn’t the disagreement, and where the sequence of your identification is smaller than the total number of identifications on the observation.
for example, on record 8 below, you can see the identifier’s identification is a descendant relative to the observation taxon, the sequence of the identification (2) is smaller than the count of identifications (3), and the identification is not a disagreement (the category is “leading” without a disagreement indicator):
you can also add &updated_since=2026-01-01 to filter for only observations updated since a particular date, or &order_by=updated_at&order=desc to sort the observations by updated date.
It switches to my observations when I add the user_id, so probably that part is wrong.. but I never got familiar with those url filters..
the link that @paul_dennehy uses is not useful for me either, as it shows over 30k observations for me as well.. of course, where I disagreed with former IDs and I do that a lot apparently.. not feasable to go through them all to find the cases where someone disagrees with me.. it’s a pitty that it is not easy go recognize those cases if not beeing tagged at least
