I’ve accidentally found a way to get research grade on a species-level observation without getting two people to agree to that species-level ID. I think this is a very important bug to fix, because otherwise it could provide incorrect data to those using iNat for their research purposes. The observ…

Going forward, this will no longer happen. We’ve updated the algorithm so that an observation will no longer be Research Grade if the observation taxon and the community taxon do not match. However, this change is not being applied retroactively. So if an observation was RG before today with a comm…

Research Grade with only one ID at that rank

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jwidness December 10, 2025, 9:26pm 118

Even though iNat updated the ID, the original user can still withdraw it.

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Research Grade with only one ID at that rank

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