I’ve been active on iNat for 2 years and I routinely identify other users’ observations, however I’ve always been confused (and frankly quite scared) by the “Mark as reviewed” button, which—I learned tonight—only hides observations for me but doesn’t affect their identification status or their visib…

[image] radrat: Mark this observation as reviewed to hide it from your identification feed. Other users will still see it. We don’t really use the term “identification feed,” so Maybe “Mark this observation as reviewed so you don’t see it again in Identify . Other people will still see it.”

@kueda yes, I was not sure about the official name for the Identify page but that looks good to me. Anything I should do to formally file this as a feature request or is this sufficient?

"Mark as a reviewed" is the most confusing UI element in the iNat interface, it could use better tooltips

Feature Requests

kueda July 20, 2020, 7:51pm 4

This should be sufficient to get it in the pipe. Will it be sufficient for it to come out the other end? We’ll see. Lots of things in the pipe. Many of them unpleasant.

Topic		Replies	Views
Marked as Reviewed but I keep seeing again General	16	337	March 16, 2026
Show number of reviewers for an observation? General	31	897	January 16, 2023
Identify: How to mark all as unreviewed? General question	5	917	December 13, 2019
Automatically unmark a previously reviewed observation if a subsequent ID that disagrees with the community ID is suggested Feature Requests	28	1524	October 20, 2021
What does “Mark as reviewed” mean? General question	7	2507	November 9, 2019

"Mark as a reviewed" is the most confusing UI element in the iNat interface, it could use better tooltips

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