If one doesn’t have any experience with iNat, one might approach it the same way as other social media like Facebook, where uploading a photo with a comment like “Anyone know what this is?” would be a normal way of accessing the hive mind. And from this perspective, if your friends respond by telling you “it’s a plant/insect/bird/mouse”, you might think that they were being smartass or making fun of you instead of being helpful. Because you don’t realize that there are hundreds of thousands of observations on iNat and people find them by searching for their taxa of interest so you need to provide an ID even if it seems obvious.
hence this gem from the memes thread: