This is inspired by https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/you-know-youre-seriously-into-inat-when/1992 and https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/you-know-you-really-love-entomology-when/68788
When you think you’ve been identifying for 5 minutes but you spent an hour;
When you spend 20 minutes tracing a single taxon;
When your guess comes out correct because your memory instantly catches onto the images.
When you literally forget that most people don’t know what the anterolateral region of the T3 maculae are, and just drop them in casual convo 
That’s how we, “most people”, learn. And we need more of “you people” in iNat, commenting on ids.
So, thank you. 
When you know when all the school iNaturalist projects are in your area. 
You go through the unknowns, just hoping you’ll find something you can ID to species instead of just class or order.
You know the order of taxonomic identification (KPCOFGS).
When you set the ‘Reviewed’ filter to ‘No’ on the Observations page of a certain species, and no observations show up because you have already identified all of them.
When you recognize almost every single observer’s account in your home province and major observers in countries you have never even been to!
Adding on to natalie’s order of taxonomic identification: I learned that acronym as “King Philip Caught One Familiar Green Squirrel” haha!
When you google “[observed living being in species level] subspecies” to see if you can identify it further.
I learned King Philip Comes Over For Good… Spaghetti
When you spend an hour identifying instead of 5 minutes uploading your observations
When you can identify local observers by their hands in the photos.
omg that happens to me too.
that is a superpower I doubt that is possible 
When you open 20 tabs and download 15 papers just to id 3 observations.
When you spend an hour tracing observations of a single taxon, hoping it has been observed, then find a very similar species and misidentify it. That is one of the craziest things that has happened to me.
A new paper has been published.
ID’er - instantly finds observations and flags taxa for curation.
When you start thinking of creating a website to help gather sources for ID’ing all beetle species in your region and then the beetle expert tells you the number of beetle species in a single 10 sq/km may be more than 800. That’s when you realize maybe you are in over your head.
I’ve been there!
Sounds like extra motivation! wink
