# Puzzled by disagreement consequences

**URL:** <https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/puzzled-by-disagreement-consequences/43966>\
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**Created:** [August 6, 2023, 9:11am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/puzzled-by-disagreement-consequences/43966 "2023-08-06T09:11:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![DianaStuder](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/dianastuder/32/43358_2.png) [@DianaStuder](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/DianaStuder)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2023, 10:13am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/puzzled-by-disagreement-consequences/43966/4 "2023-08-06T10:13:45Z")

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> [@jhbratton](#):
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> I set it back to Coleoptera, which was perhaps presumptuous

It is the only option that iNat permits. To actively disagree. And be passively punished forever 😡

PS because iNat’s CID algorithm uses ‘interesting’ logic, I check What’s This at the CID. For your obs in the Ancestor Disagreement column you will see your ‘Always That One’ marching down all the taxon levels. Not your intention. Can only be resolved by you withdrawing or changing your ID. And why should you?! We humans agree with you. But the algorithm does not.

Sorry - this is a major sore point for me, since I choose to do a lot of identifying. Motivation for the [Pre-Maverick project to try and catch That One](https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/pre-maverick), before identifiers launch into a tug-of-war with the we will not be moved algorithm. Which is working as intended.

[https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/use-a-text-expander-browser-extension-to-quickly-enter-frequently-used-text/42842/6](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/use-a-text-expander-browser-extension-to-quickly-enter-frequently-used-text/42842/6)

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