Make ID by taxon describer automatically Research Grade

Edited the title to make it an action phrase, as suggested here, feel free to change it if it’s not accurate.

There have been suggestions for similar functionality in the past, but iNat has decided to not grant any user more power than any other when it comes to ID and data quality votes, so I don’t see this happening. And as @fogartyf said, adding this functionality for what would probably affect a handful of users would likely not be worth the development time.

A reputation model using only iNaturalist activity has been explored a bit, but it would be really complex.

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