But I Endeavor To Find Out - Blog Posts

inaturalist certain kinds of observations definitely do get more faves than others everyone on the site uses the favorite button differently and honestly figuring out why someone favorited your obs is half the fun I personally use it for two reasons 1) photos i really like get saved to a slideshow for my computer background and faving them helps me keep track of what ones I have 2) I'm IDing genus Jikradia leafhoppers and your obs is a GORGEOUS J. olitoria that I save to look at later or your Jikradia obs is an undescribed species from Mexico/Florida/US Gulf Coast and I'm saving it for further review <- two possible uses of the faves button but I also have people fave some terrible quality observations I've made of common animals or just random bird obs so for some people there may be no method to the madness but I endeavor to find out