So far I am obsessed with observations but am willing to become an obsessive identifier but only plants, please, ok, and a handful of birds.
when your GF/hiking partner suddenly realizes you’ve, yet again, stopped to take a pic of some plant or bug that you’ve seen a thousand times before
…when you check the map to see where the taxon you want to put on an observation occurs, and then go on an hour-long side quest cleaning up mis-IDs of that taxon before actually putting the ID on that observation
That’s the lovely thing: you can pick what you’re comfortable with / what dings your chimes. Welcome to the Forum! (And to iNat, if you just set up your account there.)
You know that you’re obsessed with identifying when you go to look at the most common Odonata species in the US for a project, realize that there are a whole bunch of really weird vagrants at the bottom of the list, and decide to take on cleaning them out.
(I may not know what kind of dragonfly is in that photo, but it’s not hard to figure out that if the species the photographer decided on is restricted to the area around Kazakhstan, it’s probably not going to show up for a photo op in New Jersey!) 
…when you type “bl”, “cc” or “mi” into the searchbar and it automatically gives the websites with the leafminer key (https://bladmineerders.nl) cranefly key (https://ccw.naturalis.nl) and general insect keys ( https://sites.google.com/view/mikes-insect-keys/mikes-insect-keys ) you use (in that order)
We always need more plant identifiers
(I’m out of likes)
When you click an obs. to refine the id and you see you had already identified it (disagreeing id). Happens over and over again, even right now.
Whenever you add an identification to an observation, it is automatically marked as Reviewed. On both the Identify and Explore pages, there’s a filter you can set for the Reviewed status. If you search for “Reviewed = No”, you should never have to waste time looking at an observation you’ve already dealt with.
You can also manually set Reviewed (one observation at a time, or a whole page at a time on the Identify page) for any other observations you don’t want to see again.
Sometimes you go back to observations you have already reviewed because you have learned more since then and want to give a finer identification than before
No I am atleast for my speciality a visual id’er, so I use the explore page.
I am not obsessed with identification at all. When I can’t figure it out in a week I just leave it (until I run into the same observation later)
I’m your man. Assuming you mean plants in Eastern North America. (I can do Western North America and Eastern Europe too, but not that much.
…when you start making a spreadsheet to sort your compilation of subtle differences between a bunch of similar species.
I’m in so deep with some of these bugs I like now, lol
That’s a lot! I’m just at
- 1682 IDs made for others
That’s still a lot! You’ve only been here for less than a month, my first YEAR I only gave 944 Ids. Keep up your great work! :)