Yes, I agree. A light bulb went on in my head when I read the comment from the person who would like to be able to make more IDs at genus level, but couldn’t where there was already an identification at the species level. This is written into the Identification etiquette (paragraph 3 of https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/identification-etiquette-on-inaturalist-wiki/1503). I think it is worth asking whether some categories of people on iNaturalist are more impacted by the rule against making coarser IDs than other categories of people are, and, if so, whether this is really a necessary rule.
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