Note this is specifically about removing the leaderboard on Identify . Please leave discussions about observer leaderboards to another thread. Please also refrain from calling out particular identifiers in a negative way as this is against forum guidelines. Many people agree the Identify leaderboa…

Thanks to @kueda for this change !

[image] nycbirder: I think this is where a lot of good comes from in identifying species down to the 5th or 10th plus identification. A number of IDs will come from aping the first and it is great to see (or personally produce) a correction. I don’t think a weighting system will work but keeping…

There’s no easy correction for 10 ids made, and a big question how these were made and how many wrongly agreed observations are in the system only because of mass identifiers (agreers). So definitely those should’ve weighted less than reasonable first 5.

I’m not sure why the agree button still shows up after that many people already have. Perhaps the identify page shouldn’t include research grade results?

It happens when you don’t refresh the page and observations can be RG and still be shown for you.

Like the explore page, the identify page can be set to show both, or just research. If someone was wanting to run their stats up, I imagine they are setting it up to show only RG. Removing that feature from the Identify page would do more to curb that undesired behavior than removing the leaderboa…

It’s happened to me this way: I search for a species with which I’m familiar. I “agree” with those observations that have an “agree” button that I feel I can ID via thumbnail, not knowing that I’m the third or 48th vote. Then I feel silly. Then I remember to go back and filter out the research grade…

I suppose I generally improve kingdom level observations so it’s not often I view anything research grade. That makes sense.

I mostly ID unknowns, so I sometimes pile on the second ID. I follow a few people, so sometime I’m 5th or so IDing something of theirs. Of course there is Gerald! Sometimes a user having removed Community ID can cause some piling on of IDs as well, as people try to get it out of Unknown. :)

[image] draposo79: Some “top identifyers” really aren’t exactly experts True of course, but iNaturalist lives on “engagement,” experts are just incidental. And in that sense compulsive clickers are very much wanted. edit: What I’m trying to say here is, please run, don’t walk, and vote for t…

Remove leaderboard from Identify page

Feature Requests

zookanthos April 8, 2020, 3:06am 12

I don’t share the concerns about bad IDer behavior, but I still support this on UI grounds alone. More space for observations or larger thumbnails or whatever!

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