Misidentification, accountability, and bullying

No, but in the context of another feature request, the current focus is:

iNat staff watch the forum and feature requests as they come in and are discussed. Bumping a post to the top of the queue by responding to the topic won’t help with prioritization of feature requests - they have limited time to implement new features.

Back to the subject of this forum topic, I agree that honestly mistaken identifications should not be flagged. Some people take a while to circle back to notifications, and may not have yet seen your comment that explained why it can’t be IDed as that species. I know people who just check iNat every few months or less. Without more context I don’t understand how this could be interpreted as bullying, but I will also say that we do not use the forum to point out inappropriate or undesirable behavior. If you’d like, feel free to privately message a curator/moderator/staff with links/screenshots.

If someone is making intentionally incorrect IDs on your observations, please do bring that to the attention of curators by flagging the ID.

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