Speed identifying, quality controls, 4th, 5th, 6th, IDs: community perspective?

[jessicaleighallen]

I’ve only been active on iNat for a month or so…so forgive my ignorance…this thread has gotten me thinking.

@josephthebirder

…if one is simply trying to bolster one’s ID count…

What is achieved by bolstering one’s ID count?

@yayemaster

I can reach 50000 observations in a month, and even with my speed, there is someone faster than me(alanhorstmann)

Is there a monetary incentive, or some level-up site reward that is associated with community members performing lightning fast identifications or achieving large numbers of identifications?

@mws

If you’re spending such a tiny amount of time making the IDs, I hope you go back to fix the ones you got wrong, when someone tells you that you’ve done so?

Could a user literally misidentify thousands of observations and simply walk away, leaving them incorrect…yet their Profile logs thousands of IDs and the community perceives them as valid?

[ Note: I am not saying this about @yayemaster, I’m generalizing. ]