What’s up with “Evidence of Presence: A lot”? I saw it while identifying an Unknown clump of insect eggs. I added an ID of Pterygota, then decided to annotate them, so I added Alive or Dead: Cannot be determined and Life Stage: Egg, then went to do Evidence of Presence and saw this:
Was this intentional? Is it specifically for eggs? If so, it seems to go against what I’ve heard over and over from iNat staff: An observation is for one organism.
Edit: I removed the Egg annotation and it still showed “A lot” as an option, so that’s not it. A random observation of mine (a bird) did not have the option, and neither did a random insect observation, which had “Molt” instead.
i am actually not entirely sure what you mean by bug report, i think posting it here is good, thank you for doing so. and, if it recurs make sure to say so. If not, i guess it isn’t an issue really.
I have noticed sometimes Chrome will auto-translate pages already in English if it detects a word it thinks is a different language, which will change parts of pages into nonsense. I wonder if this could be an incident of that.
Pretty accurate this is, and this is getting to be an issue on mobile browsers “a lot”.
I recently sent some english langage tests to some “hindi speakers”. The entire test got translated into english and those folks scored the highest possible score that was possible. They posted a screen shot and I realised that the auto translate of entire pages was the reason. So back to pen and paper for these tests now.
It’s always English. However, I did recently start using the “Translate to English” option while identifying to translate placeholders, comments and notes, which are often in Spanish. It’s possible that was still ‘on’ when I went to annotate. I’m not really sure how it works.
Okay, this is definitely the problem! The overenthusiastic autotranslate picked it up and “translated” it. I was actually using it on that observation. I just tried again (clicking translate on the Notes section, then opening Evidence of Presence. I was able to catch the moment when it switched from Molt to A lot. Here is the observation if anyone else wants to see: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/41813833