Um. One of my friends, who is a legit, eminent, published ecologist studying my favorite local ecosystem, recently signed up for iNat. It looks like he’s uploaded 40 observations, made 2 IDs, and set up 3 collection projects to collate observations. I’m glad I don’t have to tell him to go hike around for another weekend uploading until he’s got his 50 observations.
I’m as frustrated as anyone else here with coerced editors, bad automated uploads, etc., but iNat has a lot of real-life experts who are generally not power users the way most of us on the forum are. This strikes me as similar to the dilemma I have to deal with in my classes–the more assignments you pile on to coerce the less motivated students to prepare themselves for class, the more irritation and busywork you generate for the people who don’t need that stimulus.