DQA votes disappearing

[yongestation]

@cthawley

One leading/more specific ID here (and I’m not criticizing the IDer, just the scenario) adding a more specific ID essentially wipes out all that previous ID effort (changes OID and removes DQA votes). Then, a previous IDer needs to see the notification of a finer ID (already dicey with high volume IDers), return to the observation, add another ID (a disagreeing one which happens to be the same as their original ID and doesn’t change the CID at all) and then tick the same DQA that they had already ticked (but was deleted). This is not an efficient system for IDers to use and quite demotivating.

yes but then it sounds like the issue is with the DQA votes being erased (a change I have mixed feeling about too) not with the box being grayed out when the CID doesn’t match the OID (a change I think was a strict improvement).

@cthawley

The observation would have remained at RG at the genus level.

This is not true. The box is only disabled when the CID doesn’t match the OID. Before this box was disabled in this case, selecting “No” on “Can the CID be improved” would immediately make such an obs casual.