For a while (and especially recently) I’ve seen a handful of observations being uploaded with incorrect annotations. There is the voting system, but can anything actually be done to fix these annotations besides hoping the observer is responsible? Oftentimes the bad annotations are made by new users who then go inactive or are otherwise unresponsive. It’s compounded by the fact they may be confused by what the annotations do, or how the site works in general, and they tend to be users who are more likely to upload a lot of similar blurry photos which results in the associated taxa’s image pages being flooded with mistakes. When the annotations are downvoted, does it actually hide them given enough downvotes? If it doesn’t, is there a reason why it doesn’t already work like that? I feel like following community ID system if an annotation gets enough downvotes it should automatically be cleared, or at least hidden from taxon image pages in similar spirit to how opted-out observations become Casual with enough disagreements.
It’s worth pointing out that incorrect annotations can sometimes prevent correct annotations, so voting against them isn’t always good enough. For example I believe you can’t add the leafmine annotation when gall is already added even if you vote against it. Which is unfortunate because some insects do both and some users mark a lot of things as gall which aren’t.
Another issue I’ve noticed is ghost annotations can get in the way. For example Insecta can be annotated as Adult, Juvenile and Egg. But if you mark one Juvenile, then ID it to something with different forms like a beetle you can’t mark it as a Larva, I believe because the old annotation is still applied to the observation.
I just tested it and this appears to no longer be the case.
Only the user who made an annotation can remove it.
This isn’t true, the observation owner can remove it as well.
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