Ok, so I’m confused, I was under the impression that if a tree (non-native or not) is not planted by someone then it is considered wild and not casual. I found what appears to be a red maple seedling (I could be wrong about the ID) in the middle of a state park, but it has been marked casual grade.…

I can understand the need for an automatic assignment to casual. I wouldn’t say arrogant necessarily because I’m sure it’s extremely frustrating to identifiers to have to keep marking garden plants casual, and it does guarantee more accuracy in terms of research grade. I see the value, but perhaps …

I’ve started adding a Note to my plant records saying it is or appears to be wild if there’s chance that it might be interpreted as cultivated. You essentially did this in your maple record.

Pleas mark them as you see those, in some areas there’re tons of unmarked trees (I don’t know why nobody clears them), so any help is appreciated.

if you would like to be notified of this change - make a feature suggestion. There is always more to learn about how iNat works - makes it an interesting learning curve. Or not. As you wish.

Let’s try to keep things civil - the ‘arrogant’ comment was completely unnecessary and possibly hurtful.

It’s fine to disagree, but to call someone arrogant is beyond the pale.

Nothing wrong was said, but true facts that everything is working as it was supposed and nothing is hidden on iNat, it’s one observation page that every new user will scroll down at least once.

It was already proposed, and still nothing is hidden now, grey marker is seen on casual observations in grid view, checking what you submitted is an expected action, no need to reopen each observation, casual observations are not hidden ones.

Checking captive observations once in a while is what I guess everyone does now, there’s no argument about notifications, it’s about calling words of other person what they weren’t.

Trees--casual or not

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Trees--casual or not

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