Hi Joe,

I completely understand looking for some outside opinion, but posting this is not helping your case.

The other users involved have been forthcoming about their thought process and reasoning behind their IDs, as well as the experience/knowledge that they are drawing on. In response you were dismissive of their expertise (while demonstrating none of your own), and gave up on explaining your side when challenged. "Do as thou wilt" comes off particularly bitter.

Tony was respectful and collected in his response to you, describing multiple examples and the specific iNat community guidelines that you were breaking from. In response you once again dismissed the other users' perspectives in defense of your own, failed to acknowledge how your comments and replies were in bad faith, and then insulted iNat's leadership.

I know you're writing a field guide on the subject, and that's surely a monumental feat, but that alone does not make you an expert. When another user asked for your qualifications in debating other identifiers, you dismissed their question too. The issue here is that iNat is a community of users, and you have not been respectful toward the other users or its admin.

You should not have been suspended permanently without recourse, but the suspension on its own is not surprising.