The problem with this is as the joe_fish example demonstrates. There really aren’t that many specialists curating a lot of invertebrates, for example. Just knocking out one person in the case of corals or sponges (joe_fish in the case of the former, myself in the case of the latter) would cause a cascade effect of bad data. Sure, there are at least hundreds of thousands of people ID’ing mallard ducks, but we really don’t need more of that.
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