Can't flag observations or photos

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Platform: Website

Browser: Firefox

URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages: Observation link removed by moderator but I am pretty sure its happened on any observation I’ve pondered flagging. I don’t consider it very often so I forgot I couldn’t do it.

Screenshots of what you are seeing

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I did crop the screenshot. Shouldn’t matter though.

Description of problem

I can’t flag observations for problems, as best I can determine. Attempting to search ‘can’t flag’ did not seem to bring up a similar post, though I might just have missed it.

Step 1: Go onto the page for an observation (preferably one that deserves flagging)

Step 2: Click ‘Flag as Inappropriate’

Step 3: Select appropriate flag type (which would be Other I forgot to change it before screenshotting. Doesn’t seem to matter)

Step 4: attempt to scroll down to finish reading the ‘for duplicate observations’ statement and be completely incapable of doing so, and also unable to find any way to submit the flag

In this case I think the observation is copyright? it looks like a screenshot of maggots off google. I might be wrong and it’s completely fine, but that’s separate to the fact I don’t think I can flag it incorrectly or correctly.

Ah, I should flag the photo instead… still a problem I can’t flag the observation if necessary, but I can - oh. can’t do that either, same issue.

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I have tried doing this at different scroll levels, it doesn’t seem to matter. I can’t scroll once I open the flag menu, and it always opens at the same level where I can’t actually complete the flagging.

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I removed the link to the observation above as forum posts shouldn’t call out other users specifically (though I don’t like the link was included with ill intentions). FWIW, another user had flagged the image for copyright, and I was able to flag as well (though I didn’t).

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I got around this by going to browser setting and zooming out to 80%. Not sure if that would work in your situation, but maybe it’s something you could try?

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I wasn’t sure about that, yeah. It asked me for a link, and that was the only link I had. Good to know!

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Appears to be a functional workaround, thank you!!

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No problem! Glad to help :)

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I wanted to add I seem to have the same issue as of 2 days ago (May 5th) but I’m in a Chrome browser. The zooming out trick seemed to work on the first observation - the photo changed to the removed for copyright text, but the flag didn’t show up in my Subscription > Flags list. The other 2 observations I attempted to flag then didn’t even change to the copyright flag text (and also didn’t show up in my Flags list)

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