# People removing their identification?

**URL:** <https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/people-removing-their-identification/38616>\
**Category:** General\
**Tags:** question\
**Created:** [January 15, 2023, 4:13am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/people-removing-their-identification/38616 "2023-01-15T04:13:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![thebeachcomber](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/thebeachcomber/32/12748_2.png) [@thebeachcomber](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/thebeachcomber)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2023, 4:34am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/people-removing-their-identification/38616/2 "2023-01-15T04:34:35Z")

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there are a number of threads discussing the ‘why’ behind deleting IDs, eg [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/top-identifier-deleting-erroneous-ids-to-conceal-errors-what-to-do/34851](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/top-identifier-deleting-erroneous-ids-to-conceal-errors-what-to-do/34851) and [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/deleted-identifications/14827](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/deleted-identifications/14827)

as for

> [@Calcarius](#):
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> How did they do it?

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/3X/1/8/186d320c1e0992c8b95c2ce7b60e6a398f29f8d7.png)  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/3X/8/5/85f7c910e1efcf3178b90f438a9a8697670e02e0.png)

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