I think it was brought up in https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/amount-of-unknown-records-is-decreasing/8594 and similar topics, of course iNat doesn’t have enough iders, there will never be enough, but veryone using the forum imo ultimately should start iding at least something, checking common easy species, etc., because pure numbers matter too, by contributing ids you help both other users and yourself if you’re observer. And everyone should talk with experts out of website to try to hook theme up with idea they’re needed and that without iders there will be no use of iNat data, because now many thing are just ot known by cv, or known incorrectly, we can’t go past first hundreds/thousands of most observed species without help of others.
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