Receiving notifications of agreeing IDs when opted out of confirming notifications

But if they haven’t confirmed an ID as specific as yours, then that isn’t agreement either, hence the two options given to distinguish why a higher level ID was provided.

c.f. https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/inaturalist-wording-for-potential-disagreement-promotes-fist-fights

I agree that discussing it is a healthy next step if the reason they’ve done what they did isn’t obvious to you, but in my experience a lot of the most knowledgeable identifiers will simply do this without a comment, but be very happy to explain in further detail to anyone with a genuine interest in understanding more.

There’s pros and cons to both those ways of doing this - but if you tell all those people to paste a boilerplate explanation every time they do this to an observation, then you’re just going to have “excessive repetitive comments from people who ‘agree’ with you” flooding your notifications instead :D