Based on discussion here.
This request is specifically for removing the “Agree” button from the thumbnails on https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify. It does not apply to dashboard items, observation pages, etc.
Top vote-getting cases are:
I am strongly against this.
I’m also against this. For what it’s with, the point about multiple photos has recently been somewhat negated by the addition of an image count to each observation on the identify page.
The image count indicator should hopefully prevent most observations of photos that depict different organisms from being agreed to when using grid view.
It shows up well on Explore especially, which I will use. Very helpful-thank you.
I am for this, but only in the context of removing ALL agree buttons for new users (until they have a total of 100 or more IDs and/or Obs) so they have time to learn that it is NOT A LIKE BUTTON! Therefore it won’t affect power IDers/Observers.
I can’t emphasise enough my belief that the combination of a learning AI and the “way too easy Agree option” is extremely problematic
Why are the indicators so small and inconspicuous? Until I read this thread, I had not noticed them at all on the Identify Page. I don’t often use the agree button, but I would find the indicators much more useful if they were in the bottom right-hand corner of the box below the photo.
The photo indication icons were just added yesterday. Discussion about them specifically would be better moved to a different topic.
The “Agree” button is already removed from Identify thumbnails in a few cases:
Not sure if there are others.
Note:
Could probably also remove the button if I’ve already added an ID.
Here’s one with multiple photos that people keep agreeing to: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/24658817
Can you confirm that the IDs added to these observations were added via the grid view Agree, and not from the modal? I’ve made this mistake from the modal (ugh) so I’m not sure removing Agree from grid view would help much.
Without asking other users I don’t think I can prove it, but considering how many IDs some of them make in a very short period of time, I find it hard to believe they’re not thumbnailing. Even with a nice computer on a fast connection I can’t get it to load that fast.
I get a 404 error when I click on the link.
Yes, it looks like the user took it down.
I’ve gotten pretty fast at keyboarding through the Identify modal. And when I agree with the existing ID there, it’s just “a”, 
, and I’m on to the next.
I use the keyboard too, but it takes some time to load the map and image for each observation. Thumbnailing goes much faster, especially if I use a touchscreen. (For clarity, I almost never thumbnail, just occasionally on batches of camera trap images all from the same user and with clearly visible animals.)
For all the reasons cited above, I would definitely be in favour of removing the Agree button.
The other reason is a design issue where the button covers the taxon name if font size is increased (as already mentioned on Increase thumbnail size on Identify, and here is another example:
Still not implemented? I see a lot of users that agree with every ID others suggest. I think this is not appropriate.
