“There’s no statistical skewing…”
Here’s one epic user since suspended (with many other photos marked as copyright infringement)
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And many of those are flagged as duplicates
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As the user is no longer active (in this case suspended) there’s no hope they will ever merge themselves. This would take one person with admin access a mere second to merge them as a single useful observation. (<- edit “singe”)
The user is suspended.
But we are stuck with the problems forever.
That’s a different issue, and one that I, too, would be interested in.
Hey @tiwane! Would you mind providing some feedback on this? Is it permissible to resolve duplicate flags (see conversation above)?
@loarie Do you have any thoughts on this? A number of us (I think) would like to work through/resolve the old “duplicate” flags, for the reasons outlined above.
But given the number of flags involved, and the history of the issue, I’d be nice to have some feedback from Staff before doing so.
I think in cases where there are a few duplicates of an observation and it seems like the user made a mistake by uploading different photos fo the same encounter that’s OK. If there are like 8 or 10 or more observations of the same encounter by one person, or if it seems like they’re trying to pad their numbers, that’s something that would require some more thought on whether the trade-off is worth it.
Thanks @tiwane!
Where appropriate, for now I’m leaving the following language on the flags I’m closing: “Appears to be inadvertent and not chronic behavior,” and then adding a link to this forum discussion.
In the resolution reason/summary field, I’m stating: “Duplicates not prohibited.”
Figured I’d let others know exactly how one curator is handling them. Hopefully all this winds up being pretty non-controversial.
Feature request here, for what it’s worth:
Merge existing duplicate observations and the identifications and comments on each - Feature Requests