" When should I agree with someone else’s identification? An identification confirms that you can confidently identify it yourself compared to any possible lookalikes. Please do not simply “Agree” with an ID that someone else has made without confirming that you understand how to identify that tax…

Maybe it would be less confusing if the ‘agree’ button were to be called ‘confirm’. I think one would have to be more certain of an ID to click on “confirm” than you would if you clicked on “agree”. To agree could mean that the previous IDer has convinced you, or that you believe that person to be …

There has been so much discussion about this that there is a feature request that you can vote for: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/improve-id-function-and-name-of-agree-buttons-a-modest-proposal-not/6589 . It has a good summary. Nothing will come of it, regardless of what the button says, people w…

Your comment on the button reminds me of one of my favorite Terry Pratchett quotes: If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying ‘End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH’, the paint wouldn’t even have time to dry.

No ider will write the explanation of every single id, you know they’re not paid and there’re millions of obs needing attention? You shouldn’t add an id you didn’t come by yourself or can’t replicate with keys used by ider, it’s not hilarious to see iNat caring about added data that also comes to s…

Awww! I miss me some Terry Pratchett. Actually, rereading his books would probably be a welcome diversion right now. Thanks so much for reminding me of his wit.

[image] schoenitz: Nothing will come of it, regardless of what the button says, people will click the button. Because it’s a button. And buttons need to be clicked on. I think this really gets to the heart of it, and in my opinion the ‘Agree’ button should be removed altogether. It only provi…

And this site doesn’t want me to agree with them because I don’t have the same knowledge? Nobody said that.

So, what I’m getting out of this thread is that I better have some expert level knowledge of every taxonomic order in order to agree, which is completely impossible. I would never agree with a single observation on this website for anything to be Research Grade in that case. I also now have people …

Well, why would you need to know each taxonomic order? You id only what you know, iding Motacilla doesn’t require knowledge in Rumex and so on. Some subspecies can be added only by geography with 100% certainty, e.g. there’s no Alces alces ssp. americanus in the middle of Europe, but anyway there’s…

"When should I agree with somebody else's identification?"

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schoenitz September 23, 2020, 1:35am 17

I mean yes, completely agreed. But do you remember this thread? https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/changes-to-the-agree-button-functionality-and-addition-of-markdown-in-comments-and-id-remarks/14566

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