I can’t see any reason this observation: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/25510873 shouldn’t be at species level, but it remains at phylum.

By backing up the ID and disagreeing all the way to phylum, you’re also disagreeing that the observation is in the class Florideophyceae. So, at the time of your post, there wasn’t the >2/3 community agreement needed to reach Research Grade. [image]

[image] It shows up as RG at species for me.

Thanks - someone added another agreement species ID after I posted here, and that brought it to research grade. So now I see that it wasn’t research grade at species because the phylum ID is considered a disagreement with Osmundea spectabilis. However, I made the phylum ID as an explicit disagreeme…

The original ID was Corallina officinalis, which I was confident was incorrect. I didn’t know what group it was below Rhodophyta, so put that in - explicitly disagreeing with Corallina officicinalis If I’m understanding you correctly, this also implied that I was explicitly disagreeing with Corall…

[image] gwark: this also implied that I was explicitly disagreeing with Corallina , Corallinoideae, Corallinaceae, Corallinales, and Florideophyceae, and that my ID of Rhodophyta would subsequently be counted as disagreeing with any subsequent ID within any of those groups? This is right. A f…

That is a bit confusing. I feel like a disagreement should only apply to the lowest ‘leaf’. If I know something isn’t a maple and put it in as ‘plants’ with an explicit disagreement with Maple it shouldn’t be construed as ‘not a dicot’, i don’t think.

Thanks @bouteloua - I hadn’t realized this previously. I do a fair amount of IDing but mostly not disagreeing, so I guess I just haven’t run into the issue (or at least not noticed it) before. It’s not how I would have intuitively expected things to work.

I want to make a feature request for this too but I haven’t gotten around to it. Offer the ability to hard disagree or not to the next finest level that the current identifications support, when one disagrees with the current community id. There seems to have been a gaffe, when a bunch of blues (bu…

Observation Stuck at Phylum

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Observation stuck at Genus despite Species ID's Bug Reports	30	3380	September 5, 2019
Supporting a dissenting id General	5	557	December 30, 2019
How to deal with observations that attain research grade, though only ID of the genus should be made? General	25	1301	March 26, 2021
"disagrees with previous finer identifications" General web	6	433	January 29, 2020
Issue with disagree on ID not working correctly Bug Reports	4	477	June 1, 2019

Observation Stuck at Phylum

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