It’s happened several times while I was browsing observations to ID that I and someone else ID one at the same time. For instance, https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/251821839 shows a snail next to a chiton. While I was asking which, the observer identified the chiton. What can be done to make…

One thing that took me a while to figure out was that new observations coming in from people using the phone app don’t always upload with an ID, and it may take the observer a few more minutes to go back and add an ID (or maybe to get a better internet connection?). I try to be patient and not add I…

[image] m_whitson: I try to be patient and not add IDs to unidentified observations that haven’t been posted long. Same here - I actually often set the date observed range in the identify filters to end somewhere at least a week before the current date to avoid adding IDs to freshly uploaded …

I id observations that are at least a month old, to avoid that problem.

However, quick IDs can let an observer know if their photos are insufficient while they are still can take more photos.

[image] ruth-palsson: I id observations that are at least a month old By then, a new user could have given up on the app and left. I’m not a new user, but it still makes me happy to find that my previous observation received an ID by the time I upload my next one. A nice compromise, if you w…

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texas_nature_family November 17, 2024, 1:43pm 5

If the observer IDs something as something, that is what they want the obs to be. If the observer put it a chiton, I think it should stay this way.

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Two people ID at the same time

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