# Misidentification, accountability, and bullying **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Tags:** question\ **Created:** [February 7, 2021, 10:15pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/misidentification-accountability-and-bullying/20130 "2021-02-07T22:15:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 16
**Author:** ![sbushes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/sbushes/32/8217_2.png) [@sbushes](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/sbushes)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2021, 12:49am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/misidentification-accountability-and-bullying/20130/16 "2021-02-08T00:49:12Z")
It’s painful to come across these new users, and see the damage they’ve wrought. This is far from a one-off event I think…probably closer to the norm for anyone new who uses the identification portal(?)… so flagging or contacting staff would be a pretty full-on response!.. and be very unwelcoming to the users, who as @cmcheatle said are likely just making honest mistakes. Really, this should be solved preemptively, with better support for first time identifiers … e.g. - limiting access until they have completed some sort of training tutorial - signing off that they have read the basics and understand the impact of their actions - pop-up prompts for initial IDs explaining what to be careful of Anyone know if there has been any update with the better onboarding [mentioned](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/why-not-empower-recognised-experts/14419/97) a while ago by @tiwane ? --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/misidentification-accountability-and-bullying/20130)._