I ended up tagging those that were quickly IDing and explaining I had a storage issue…blah blah blah… people were nice about it and I felt silly. I also added a line to the top of my profile asking people not to ID my stuff. I gave up though eventually, and decided I need a better system for setting aside my leps and generally, for dealing with backlogs in all areas.
I really did a learn a lot here though from asking my original question to being on the other side of my speculation.
Thanks everyone, I am going to go double check that my vote for the “draft mode” (like @jdmore referenced) is still there.