New here so still figuring things out. After some 250 observations, it seems like I’m the only one interested in clicking on the annotations: adult/juvenile, male/female, alive/dead, etc. These seem important and useful for people doing research and for general learning, but they seem largely ignor…

Perhaps the site owners should consider using a complete data sheet for each observation before accepting a “click and go” style. I’ll bet many users don’t even know the extra data is possible.

Come to think of it, other data like way down at the bottom of the observation page like date/time accurate I mostly have skipped or forgotten. It would be easier to do when uploading. I do verify date, time, location of every observation in my photo editing software before uploading. So, actually …

M, you don’t need to vote for yes there without strong reason, they’re made mostly to add no, and if you’re not agree with that - vote yes to get obs from casual. Voting yes on every obs is a waste of time.

Pretty much the only time I’d vote yes is if someone else has voted no and I disagree. I have occasionally have voted yes to “Organism is wild” if it’s an observation of a wild organism of a species which is commonly captive/cultivated. For example this observation of Verbena bonariensis . I’m not s…

Yup, I do it too sometimes when it’s an escaped plant and I asked the author if it’s wild.

I try to add annotations where I can. (Especially for things like larval moths and butterflies. or projects reporting organism deaths and causes.) However between the App not having that option available and the added steps involved with going back on a web upload It sometimes falls by the wayside. …

I think “Can the community ID be improved” is the only DQA setting I’ve seen used proactively set to a Yes. All the others I’ve only seen used reactively to counter a No. As @zabdiel and @marina_gorbunova mentioned, there’s really no need to set a Yes on the DQAs on upload: If they are left as-is, …

[image] r_rogge: However between the App not having that option available Do you mean in iPhone? Because I do see annotations available on other user’s records in-app in Android (both on New observations in Explore and on ones I’ve reviewed in Activity>Following), and on my own (admittedly, …

[image] muir: I guess what I feel the need/want for is annotating the observation photo, not the single organism definition that like @jakob , stands out to me in terms of general use and appropriateness… I think applying annotations per photo would be more accurate, but implementing this migh…

I’d really like to be able to enter this information before submitting the observation. I often enter 20-30 observations in a single session. Having to remember to go back and enter this information means that I may not remember, while I would probably do better if I can added it when I enter the ot…

Annotations: Male/female, etc.—How to get more action?

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Annotations: Male/female, etc.—How to get more action?

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