# Allow users to record absence data

**URL:** <https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/allow-users-to-record-absence-data/2779>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Created:** [May 1, 2019, 11:48am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/allow-users-to-record-absence-data/2779 "2019-05-01T11:48:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![pisum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/91b2a8/32.png) [@pisum](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/pisum)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2019, 2:07pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/allow-users-to-record-absence-data/2779/22 "2019-05-08T14:07:39Z")

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well, if you’re going to use observation fields for now, i think i like some of the other ways people are handing absence data a little better. see [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/observations-of-absence-vs-presence/1298/13](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/observations-of-absence-vs-presence/1298/13).

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