Should I give up identifying unknowns?

[AdamWargon]

This has been discussed many times on the forum. Here is one helpful post by @matthewvosper:

@matthewvosper

Yes! This is very much encouraged! Some reading material…

https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/does-anyone-else-get-bothered-by-how-many-observations-are-marked-as-unknown-species/31896

https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/coordinating-identification-of-unknowns/24572

https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/poll-how-many-people-seek-out-unknown-observations-to-id/6749/8

https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/best-unknown-finds/29009

https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/amount-of-unknown-records-is-decreasing/8594/59

https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/identifriday-is-the-happiest-day-of-the-week/26908

Be aware of this though…
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/why-do-some-serious-power-users-add-so-many-unknown-observations/282/8

It’s sometimes a good idea not to identify unknowns if they’ve only just been posted

There are also ‘boilerplate’ paragraphs you can adapt to explain things to any users who might question what you are doing. They can be found here