I believe enough people are and the ones who aren’t won’t be stopped by a taxon image in my experience (I’ve seen enough plants with a normal leaf spot identified as some beetle or spider)
Identifying ladybeetles, I’ve seen quite a few observations left at genus or tribe despite the CV suggestion. For Platypezidae, a species level ID is the exception (though I believe most species aren’t yet covered by CV, so I don’t know whether that is much of an argument).
I agree with this. I really appreciate these kinds of comments by IDers and find them more helpful than any one photo. I learned how to take decent (for identification purposes) photos of mushrooms and of rust fungi that way. And with the iNat Metadata Tool by Megachile it is very quick and easy to add IDs with copypasta comments and annotations with just one click or a keyboard shortcut (if you use the identify page).
Personally, I have not noticed this. It is a problem, but apart from some bigger issues with observations uploaded via the seek app and potentially some that will be caused by the CV implementation in iNat Next, I see it being more of a constant thing perhaps slightly getting better because of a more accurate CV.
Wow, that’s quite some work you’ve put into that! And training the CV to that extent is a huge accomplishment!
I started the thread in question as an identifier equivalent to all the “favourite observation/photo/wildlife encounter” topics. If you want to, feel free to share anything you’re proud of, or any ID that you made which you are particularly fond of for any reason. It doesn’t necessarily have to be an individual ID. :)