Looking over many Year in Reviews for 2025 I have noticed that the percentage of supporting IDs for power identifiers varies from a low of 22.7% to a high of 98.6%(with that user having a 10,000 identification day), with the most common range being between 65% and 85% supporting. I can understand if…

I work 12 hour shifts at my job, sometimes 18 or 20 hours, and I have been known to use iNat for the majority of the shift. (When there aren’t emergencies going on, and we are between calls.)

No iNatter should succumb to peer pressure to do more or something different than they are comfortable doing. If you are good at adding broad IDs for Needs ID records, have at it. If you enjoy spending most of the day adding confirming IDs to RG records, then do that. As long as what you are doing …

After adding correct or at least informed identifications, any percentage is fine.

You do not have to do any particular number of identification. You can do no ID’s at all, if that’s what you prefer. Of course, we overwhelmed identifiers would welcome any ID’s you choose to do. (You might find identifying fun – not that I want to pressure you do identify :wink: )

Oh don’t get me wrong, I try to do a few things from time to time, at the very least I try to kick unknowns in my areas of interest down to a lower level since while I’m not an expert in any particular taxon I have good knowledge of basic taxonomy and broad knowledge of the common life of a few area…

[image] Yes, identifying "unknown" observations matters! And can be rewarding! Great Southern Bioblitz IDed to plants - and 1250 - 1236 - 1199 - 1174 - more Africa done 959 - still sitting there a month later https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?project_id=great-southern-bioblitz-20…

that’s fine - without you dedicated observers, we dedicated identifiers would have nothing to identify!

I think it depends on what you ID. Birds for example (at least in North America) are not too misidentified. Now that I’ve switched to mostly identifying Collembola though, the “agree” icon isn’t pressed as often…

This will give you better idea about your individual taxons and your stats: https://www.inaturalist.org/identifications?user_id=sumie-dh&taxon_id=153155 < my Dugesiidae, because I doing these it’s like that. Note that your statistcs may copy behavior of your taxon in general, it’s not bad if you h…

I don’t believe the percentage matters unless it’s a personal goal to be more one than the other. In the end, if the suggested ID leads to the final ID, it helped.

What is a good percentage of supporting versus leading/improving IDs?

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DianaStuder December 7, 2025, 3:21pm 54

but you can tweak that URL to another broad ID, or choose a (Southern hemisphere) location. Have got it under 1K in 4 days.

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What is a good percentage of supporting versus leading/improving IDs?

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