Community Taxon still be confirmed buttons greyed out

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Gnadochaeta_cf_nigrifronsPCCA20171112-9456AA-scrn
Gnadochaeta_cf_nigrifronsPCCA20171112-9456AA-scrn1899Ă—2517 246 KB

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Step 1: Buttons for "Based on the evidence, can the Community Taxon still be confirmed or improved? " under data quality assessment are grayed out.

I am not sure if this is a bug, or a feature I do not understand. I posted the obs. identifying only to genus, which I think is appropriate in this group. Usually I can toggle those check boxes on and off. I am the only one who has suggested an ID, but another user has annotated to indicate the sex. I am pretty sure I checked the “no, it is good as it can be” button. I do not see any indication anyone disagrees with this.
Again, maybe not really a bug, but my misunderstanding of a feature. I see several forum posts about this part of the data quality assessment, but not this specific issue.

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It looks like there is no community taxon so voting shouldn’t apply. But maybe there was a previous ID that allowed the vote, and that ID was deleted.

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this is an unintended side effect that just recently appeared after this feature request was implemented. See the last few comments on that thread

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Thanks, I’ll make a note and follow that conversation.

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The button for “ID cannot be improved” is based on the community ID. That is, it only has an effect on the status of the observation after there is more than one ID. Until a couple of days ago, it was possible to check this box even if there was only one ID on the observation, but it would not make the observation research grade until a second ID was added.

There was a change made recently to all the DQA items to prevent voting on them if the criteria the DQA is meant to assess are not applicable (i.e., in this case, the observation does not have a community ID). Due to a glitch in the implementation of this change, votes which were previously added to inapplicable DQA items are now stuck in a sort of limbo and cannot be changed because the voting function has been disabled without doing anything about existing votes.

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This should be fixed now.