Require a comment when adding a coarser ID to an observation

So with the staff not for it and the community weighing in pretty heavily against it, I’m going to set this topic to close in a few hours.

That being said, I do want to acknowledge that it can definitely feel bad when someone disagrees with your ID that you were pretty certain of, without leaving an explanation. In general, though, most people will respond to questions when asked. And again, if it does look like the IDs are intentionally inaccurate, please flag the IDs so curators can take a look. Curators can now hide intentionally inaccurate IDs, so they can quickly deal with it if necessary.

Also, if anyone making IDs has some text they want to add for common ID mistakes, I definiteley recommend using a text expander.

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