Many winning answers, albeit funny, are wrong. Original poster, should be able to post the final right answer, after the duration of votes or days.

After submitting a photo on the iPhone app, there's no way to check on it to see what people are saying. The iPhone app is not very useful if you can't check the results of your submissions in it.

How about a Peoples Section, where we submit photos of people from our past - those we can't recall their names, or can't locate them??? Could call it "Who or Where are they now?"

An option to follow images whose outcomes you would like to know.

Users who click follow this image receive email notification when an image is identified.

That way, a community can use idthis for specific crowd support. Example: a webpage on edible mushrooms could let users submit images of mushrooms they've picked and want ID on to know if they're edible. The webpage crowd subscribe to a custom RSS for all and only new idthis images with the tag "ediblemushroomsite.com" and post answers.

allow the flagging for useless, trolling, "i know what is is, but can you guess it" and /b/ related material. ie melon cat, bazooka ground hog, 100x100 pictures.

Seems the iphone app doesn't construct a well-formed URL when logging in if the password contains characters like > and ] producing and error "Connection failed. Error - bad URL".

Once you have enough viewers, crawl the Web for Creative Commons images that can be used in commercial enterprises and have users ID them while suggesting from the context iof the images what they might be. This way you add to your collection of IDed pictures. You can then have user's uploaded pictured compared in similarity to the collection.

I come to this site to try to be helpful and every time i waste my time wading through page after page of the most mindless comments i have ever seen. they are not the least bit funny. my patience is wearing out and i may not be back.

Do it.

Add a musical instrument category would be nice. Thanks

You could start with a base of already IDed items and add to the collection as user submit photos. Newly submitted photos would then be compared visually say by using the Open Source software imgseeknet to make similarity matches. For instance if you already have a picture of the Matterhorn and someone uploads a picture of the mountain, you could display you Matterhorn picture and suggest that's what the user is uploading.