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…

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 insect…

Only the user who made an annotation can remove it.

This isn’t true, the observation owner can remove it as well.

Can annotations be removed?

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Can annotations be removed?

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