'Needs ID' pile, and identifications

[arboretum_amy]

@arboretum_amy

I made up a trick for this recently-it’s clunky but it works. You might remember some time ago I wrote a tutorial on how to split up photos; several identifiers like to link that tutorial when asking the observer to split photos. So if I do a sitewide comments search, putting the URL of the tutorial as the search term, I can get back a list of observations that probably still need splitting. (Rarely the observer successfully splits the photos, but most of the time they don’t try. Or a few people say they tried and failed.) Then I can look at the list and see the ones still at Needs ID, and vote those ones as cannot be improved.

I have the search bookmarked on my computer, but am not at home now. I’ll share it here when I get back to it.

Here it is: https://www.inaturalist.org/comments?commit=Search&page=90&q=https%3A%2F%2Fforum.inaturalist.org%2Ft%2Fhow-to-fix-your-observation-with-photos-of-multiple-species%2F15096&quality_grade=needs_id I have it set on page 90 because I’ve already worked backward through pages 105 to 91. You could start again at page 105 if you want to be sure to catch things I’ve marked but didn’t have enough identifiers to go casual.