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 develo…

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

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.

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…

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.

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.

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

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marina_gorbunova September 29, 2022, 2:19pm 9

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

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

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