Rename "Agree" button for identifications to "Confirm"

Every identifier knows how widespread is the dubious agreeing of users to identifications of their own observations thus subverting the value of the two-ID Research Grade. Many users press the agree button just as a way to show their gratitude or as a way to say “ahh, indeed it looks similar”, not realizing that they are actually performing an identification.

Surely, a “Confirm” button will not stop such practices but it should at least reduce them by communicating more clearly the true meaning of the button. “Confirm” has a connotation of higher confidence.


This is an old and similar proposal but it requests several other changes which might be the reason it didn’t get many votes:
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/improve-id-function-and-name-of-agree-buttons-a-modest-proposal-not/6589

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Uh, sorry. This was meant for the section “Feature Requests”. Some moderator should move it, please?