Update app requires a user with 10 improving identifications in the last month. Why? Can I get an exception?

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Hi, I registered an app some time ago and now I want to update the referrer URL but I get this message: “In order to submit an application your account must be at least 2 months old and must have made at least 10 improving identifications in the last month.”

This has no sense to me. I’m a IT developer and I do not now much about nature so to me this is a not possible to fulfil!. As a developer I stimulate others to provide observations but I do not contribute myself.

Please, please, can you provide a solution that allows me to continue my development? Why a developer need to contribute observations?.

Thanks

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You need to add 10 ids, but not 10 observations, from what you wrote, you can do it in a minute if you open e.g. unknowns.

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see https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/community-guidelines-update-re-machine-generated-content/29029.

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The iNaturalist requests that to create of modify a registered app I have this new requirements: “In order to submit an application your account must be at least 2 months old and must have made at least 10 improving identifications in the last month”. The last condition is very difficult for me. I’m an app developer and not a naturalist so I do not active participate in the observation gathering.

Is there a way to get an exception to this rule to be able to modify the registration of my app?. I’m stack because my website url changed and I cannot change it in the registration and the new conditions do not allow me to solve the ussue. Thanks for your help

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Just go to unknowns and id 10 plants as plants or 10 birds as birds, I’m sure any person in this world can id a broad group like that.

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An initial ID on an unknown is a leading ID, not an improving ID. To get improving, another person has to agree with the same taxon or a descendant taxon. So you should choose observations that are likely to get follow-up IDs, like birds, mammals, butterflies, etc.

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just for reference, this appears to be a continuation of as https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/update-app-requires-a-user-with-10-improving-identifications-in-the-last-month-why-can-i-get-an-exception/33965. it may be worth merging the topics.

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Yeah, then open plants and id 10 as dicots, not much harder.