Hello, I am an amateur learning about the native plant species in my area, and occasionally I post observation of other wildlife. I noticed that some observation receive 4, even 6 agreeing ID, and I was wondering why would naturalists “over confirm” a non disputed ID ? It happens especially whith…

Fair enough. I hadnt thought of that.

Mine splits into neat thirds. But that also reflects how we prefer to ID on iNat. I do a lot of Unknowns - so my Leading might be as blunt as Fungi or Aves. I also do disambiguation, so the Supporting is trying to pull a deadlock out of Plantae. Or to force iNat to show the var or ssp. I don’t ev…

This link works great! Diagram is very useful!

Two more recent threads have highlighted a good reason for making “extra” supporting identifications. If a person deletes their account, all their identifications disappear! This throws many observations back to “Needs ID.” So please do “agree” with identifications on Research Grade observations …

Yesterday, I uploaded a mediocre digisciope of a Snowy Owl (Bubo scandiacus). This morning, less then 24 hours later, it has ELEVEN supporting ids! My question for those who add supporting ids to observations like this that are very much already research grade; why do you feel it is necessary to ad…

We had a long topic on this recently that I’ll try to find: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/why-do-some-observation-receive-plenty-of-agreeing-ids/37287/

Nah, just a mediocre picture of mine form the New Hampshire coast, where they aren’t unusual.

Agreeing can be the iNaturalist equivalent of Facebook’s “Like” feature. No harm done.

It looks like that species is a habitually popular one. Perhaps it is easy to identify and students are taught to pick species they are sure of to begin using iNaturalist. Perhaps it is just a striking bird and people include it in their species to pop up whenever it is observed.

Why do some observation receive plenty of agreeing IDs?

General

vreinkymov February 7, 2023, 3:45pm 128

Maybe there’s more interest in this species, or perhaps it’s the Snowy Owl referenced to in this topic: Newsworthy Observations?

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Why do some observation receive plenty of agreeing IDs?

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