One example: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/33456159 One possible solution might be a popup or something to say “This organism is not in the Kingdom selected by the observer–please review your ID”? There are too many of these on State of Matter Life in my opinion. The observer did nothin…

I wasn’t disagreeing at all with you either. I was just trying to point out that by not honoring the observer’s intent people are discouraged instead of encouraged, which is the opposite of the primary purpose you referred to (and that I agree with).

Great example. Four years ago the identifier changed your clear ID, which you immediately commented about, and the identifier still has not changed the ID even though active on the site as of yesterday. Meanwhile, numerous people have spent time and effort trying to get the observation corrected.

Yep, I realized we were saying the same thing using different examples after I posted my reply. :P

[image] karen33317: Well, I would label it a duplicate photo/observation [image] karen33317: So everyone else’s opinions are okay, mine aren’t - gotctha. [image] saturnring: I think expressing your opinions is fine, but maybe they should be in a separate thread about how there shou…

How is saying she plans to or would flag observations which are 100 percent permitted, even explicitly so in the user guide honouring the site wishes?

I was going by the statement in her other comment which stated that she does honor iNat’s wishes, even though she may disagree with them.

deleted, although I don’t know why

Ok, I’m super confused now. I was just trying to clarify what you were referring to in that comment. Not saying you had to delete it or it was offensive

Oh sorry. My comment briefly said that but then I removed the delete part because it seemed too harsh. I guess I did it too slowly.

This problem of a reviewer IDing the wrong subject seems to come up again and again. Although the submitter provided the initial ID for the organism that is the subject of the photo, I suggest – as I’ve suggested elsewhere on the forum – that if you want to make clear (or make clearer) what the subj…

Possible Solutions to common State of Matter Life issues?

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