# A way to make duplicate observations Casual without adding a flag

**URL:** <https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/a-way-to-make-duplicate-observations-casual-without-adding-a-flag/35471>\
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**Created:** [September 13, 2022, 12:18am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/a-way-to-make-duplicate-observations-casual-without-adding-a-flag/35471 "2022-09-13T00:18:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![saturnring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@saturnring](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/saturnring)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2022, 8:27pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/a-way-to-make-duplicate-observations-casual-without-adding-a-flag/35471/15 "2022-09-14T20:27:56Z")

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So many topics about this issue! This one [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/an-abundance-of-duplicate-observation-flags/32582/15](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/an-abundance-of-duplicate-observation-flags/32582/15) contains a staff comment by @tiwane advising not to use the DQA section for duplicates.

“There is currently no DQA vote to address duplicates. Please don’t use a DQA vote for them. My comment was saying perhaps there should be, but right now none of them address the ‘problem’ of duplicate observaitons.”

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