All my mavericks atm are for this reason…i’ve started to tag a friend who is helping with ID’s to un-maverick myself and move them further towards correct :) That’s kinda the nice thing about being active for a while? forming e-friendships (which sometimes turn into IRL ones!) and having people to tag back and forth for such things haha
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Where are you finding these numbers?
The amount of Unknowns here in Florida is driving me insane. I’ve been keeping track of the number in the state as I go through hundreds every day. In the last three days, it went from 13,160 Unkown obs to 15,500. Three days, even as I identify them!!!
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Where are you?
Those numbers are very easy to search on the Explore page
The information is somewhat different because @lynnharper made her post on October 6th.
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Yes! This is a very interesting thread but it has diverged several times and I think could have been separated into a few threads - which would have kept me from being prevented from posting because iNat does not allow more than three consecutive posts from the same person. I have spent a lot of time in the past few days reading through this post to glean out some helpful info.
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Thanks very much for the definition. There are so many helpful links in this thread that I have not had the time to read the link that this definition is in.
I now have 14 pages of stuff I need to learn/look up/read/act on. (Outrageous!)
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I’m sure everyone whose ID is a maverick made it because they believed that it was correct.
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a lot of mine were fat fingers/sloppy selection on the drop down (example: carolina wren instead of carolina chickadee. Or yeah, some honest mistakes (apparently there’s centipedes that look a lot like scolependera that aren’t).
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I go to the basic Explore page, here: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations
I filter for place, if I need to, and then look at the numbers of Observers and Identifiers along the gray band towards the top of the page. Does that make sense?
I was trying to keep the number of Unknowns in Mexico under 22,000. Really, I was aiming to get the number down to 21,000 or even 20,000. Then I got distracted by Queen Anne’s Lace and other Unknowns and somebody added over 2,000 Unknowns all in one day. I’m hoping it’s just the way they work and that they’ll start adding IDs to their own Unknowns very soon.
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Or it was my best guess for a taxonomic group I know nothing about, in which case I am very happy to be corrected.
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Thanks. I will try that.
Well yes of course people ID when they think theyre right.
I was continuing a convo about mavericks sometimes being fixes for wrong pile-ons. mine currently are this class of mavericks: are cases where for example something got labeled as a trichaptum (fungi) even though the photos show smooth underside so theres like four trichaptum biforme on it and then me, saying stereum (which, does have smooth underside, unlike trichaptum). Or vice versa. Basically no one looked closer or at the other images of other views and judged too quickly. We all do it sometimes! But in this case since it keeps RG it stops it from getting fixed so I sometimes tag other fungi folk in my area who dont mind it so it can get knocked out of RG and fixed
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I’m hoping iNat will let the Forum nanny come over and NUDGE observers to try and ID across ‘2K uploaded in one day’. The Forum nanny would never permit that here!
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