This morning I had a moment of name-change confusion during which I flagged a taxon and then realized immediately afterward that the flag isn’t necessary. I can’t delete it because I’m not a curator, but I feel as the creator of the flag, I should be able to delete it. [Capture]

This is now live, you should be able to delete one of your own flags if: no one else has commented on it, and it is unresolved Works for my test account, let me know if you can delete a flag you’ve made.

whoa I was just this morning thinking about posting the same request. here was my draft: Allow person who created the flag to delete it (again) We used to be able to delete the flags we created, but can’t anymore (or maybe it was just curators?). Sometimes I flag things as a test or on accident, …

I have some reservations about this request. On taxa, and in a lot of other contexts, flags provide valuable history of the community’s discussions and interactions with the content. In general, I would like to see a policy that the only things a user can delete individually are the things that wo…

That’s a valid argument. I think it might be best that flags with those criteria are delete-able, and that we re-give users the ability to resolve their own flags, so comments etc are preserved.

Yes I suppose resolving it myself would also work.

I mean it would work if I had the power to do so. So the feature request could either be for the power to delete your own flag or the power to self-resolve it.

OK, added an issue here going with @jdmore ’s suggestions. https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist/issues/2852

I could’ve use this an hour ago! :laughing:

Delete/withdraw flags that you created

Feature Requests

tiwane January 20, 2021, 8:00pm 10

This is now live, you should be able to delete one of your own flags if:

no one else has commented on it, and
it is unresolved

Works for my test account, let me know if you can delete a flag you’ve made.

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Delete/withdraw flags that you created

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