Casual with one genus level ID and one species level ID

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Platform: website

URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/294351764#activity_identification_62a9cc97-3c5c-4e89-94a3-753d05dd42d7

Screenshots of what you are seeing:

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Description of problem:

Observation previously RG at genus level due to DQA having been ticked as good as it can be. Genus level ID later revised to species level, now obs is Casual…

Tested on a different genus level RG obs and realised the same thing happens.

This seems incorrect and not as expected.
Am I missing something?

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It’s not strictly a bug, but it is a recent change in the coding/algorithm that many people didn’t expect.

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It’s Casual because it’s been marked “No, it’s as good as it can be” with only one species level ID. If it were “No, it’s good as it can be” with two genus level ID’s but no species level ID’s, it would be Research Grade, but in iNaturalist’s vile new system, this situation goes to “Casual.”

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See: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/research-grade-with-only-one-id-at-that-rank/3270/51

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Interesting. Missed this.

Do staff state this as intentional? If not, then I think it’s fair to define it as a bug which needs fixing. It’s totally illogical.

EDIT : Staff state not intentional here

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They have said it’s intentional. If you want to keep discussing it, please use the linked topic, just to have everything in one place.

Edited to add – when I said “intentional”, I only meant that they intended to change the existing behavior.

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