Turn the withdraw function into a visible button on the observation (with a connected tooltip to explain its purpose). As has been vocalised by many (especially on recent threads)… there is a well-known issue with OPs “blind agreeing” to IDs that are suggested. The major downside of this occurs wh…

Interesting. This is really different in design to the web interface. With the weighting much heavier on the “Suggest an ID” I wonder if the blind agreements are happening more with phone users or web users. For me, if you removed the agree option there, I wouldn’t suggest a further ID. I’m not…

[image] pisum: i think it sends the wrong message to suggest that people should want to retract their IDs often enough to highlight that button more than something like compare This is the opposite of how I’ve been viewing it. If I felt certain when I made an ID and then someone makes a subse…

I think it would be a helpful convenience and reminder to have the Withdraw option more visible as a button on one’s own ID, so I added my vote. [image] sbushes: with a connected tooltip Do you have any suggestions for what this tooltip should say? Maybe something like, “Cancel this identif…

[image] jdmore: Do you have any suggestions for what this tooltip should say? Maybe something like, “Cancel this identification”? Yes, sounds good! Not sure if its too much for a tool-tip, but it could also say something like this as well " use this if your existing ID is conflicting with t…

[image] sbushes: Not sure if its too much for a tool-tip, but it could also say something like this as well " use this if your existing ID is conflicting with the community ID " " let community ID take precedence if yours is conflicting" " submit to community ID" " accept community ID" Ye…

[image] jdmore: And I would want to avoid implying that withdrawal “should” or “must” happen in particular circumstances - it’s always optional. There is another topic https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/general-consesus-on-being-asked-to-fix-ones-id/14609/73 where the issue of one person asking …

Isn’t the fact its optional implied just by the nature of having a button to choose to press or not? I’m not sure. Another option though, would be that once withdrawn, the Restore option would take its place, to visibly show that you can return to original ID. In any case, I agree simplicity is im…

[image] sbushes: Isn’t the fact its optional implied just by the nature of having a button to choose to press or not? Without any tool-tip, yes. But a tool-tip saying something like [image] sbushes: " use this if your existing ID is conflicting with the community ID " might suggest o…

[image] jdmore: People who do a lot of identifying generally understand what “confirm” means. But those who don’t (and who are the ones we are most trying to target for clarifying what “agree” means) may just interpret that as another way to acknowledge/thank an identifier, without more explanat…

Confirm and agree are near synonyms to me in the context of IDs. I’d find it pretty confusing.

Make the Withdraw function visible as a button on the observation block (with a connected tool-tip)

Feature Requests

saturnring July 22, 2020, 12:32am 18

There is another topic https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/general-consesus-on-being-asked-to-fix-ones-id/14609/73 where the issue of one person asking another to withdraw their ID has been raised, so if it is always optional maybe that should be explicit on the tool-tip?

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Make the Withdraw function visible as a button on the observation block (with a connected tool-tip)

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