I have an issue with people who identify sightings “out of time”. The sighting has been identified by a number of people and is research grade. The person comes along weeks, months or years later and identifies the post. This is unnecessary and makes more work for previous identifiers and the pers…

I think the main nuisance aspect of it is the notifications (and in my opinion it can be a rather large nuisance). Has anyone proposed a feature where all notifications of additional agreeing IDs to RG observations could be turned off? That would be the ultimate solution, I think, and completely avo…

[image] barbetsmith: Has anyone proposed a feature where all notifications of additional agreeing IDs to RG observations could be turned off? this feature already exists (but for all agreeing IDs, not just for RG) [image]

[image] thebeachcomber: this feature already exists (but for all agreeing IDs, not just for RG) Ah thanks, that’s great! Yes, not 100% aligned with what I was proposing, but possibly close enough for some people’s use cases. (Personally, I think I still want to know when someone backs up my …

I couldn’t agree more with @spiphany and @rupertclayton !

I’m not an avid identifier but a while ago I was super into hyenas so I tried to identify as many as I could to a.) become better at identifying them and b.) to review previously research grade observations Sometimes, doing (b) can be very helpful as I’ve found a couple research grade observation…

I perhaps should disclose that on at least one occasion I have expounded at considerable length about some of my frustrations connected with (among other things) experts spending their time adding additional IDs to RG observations of species that are generally ID’d correctly, in taxa where there are…

I missed this iNat update - thank you! I hope future changes include restricting notifications of confirming IDs to one’s own observations. I do hundreds of IDs of other’s posts, and of course don’t want my feed cluttered with notifications of agreements of those, but I want to know if someone co…

I disagree. I have zero issue if someone comes along much later and provides an ID, agreeing, disagreeing, etc. In fact, I have enough old observations kicking around that if there was some sort of time limit on providing IDs then a lot of them would never get IDs. In addition to what others have …

I am happy to get multiple ID on taxons (including disagreements), which are difficult to identify. Getting multiple agreeing IDs on common species, which are almost impossible to misclassify can be somewhat annoying, especially if they go back several years. As a result I sometimes think twice befo…

People identifying sightings identified previously when it is unnecessary

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isopodguy March 10, 2026, 3:27pm 12

Personally, I like it when someone comes along and adds an ID to an already research grade observation of mine, even an old one.

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People identifying sightings identified previously when it is unnecessary

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