No, you didn’t change anything. Basically, there are some quirks with the way announcements work. We can set announcements to only appear for users with a certain account locale, or only appear on certain network sites. And if there’s an existing announcement, a new announcment won’t also appear unless it has similar settings (eg both announcements need to be selected for the same locale). We’ve had a lot of non-blog announcements lately that were only shown to accounts with English locales, so when I made my announcements I had to also choose only English locales. Thus if your account’s locale wasn’t English, you wouldn’t see it. I’m going to play around with some of the settings and see if there’s a way around this.
There’s definiteley some of that, as there is in just about any group, but in my experience many expert identifiers on iNat are helpful or neutral. Unfortunately negative interactions are often more memorable. Regardless, I try to profile identifiers who do also take the time to help and encourage people.
Anyhoo, back to the regularly-scheduled moth identifier discussion.