I’m sure this has been discussed before, but why do observations where the location information is completely private go into the “Needs ID” category rather than “Casual”? Unless I am missing something, it seems like from the perspective of anyone trying to help with identification, there is no real difference between “Location Private” and “Location not specified.” Also, the Data Quality Assessment doesn’t allow users to downvote “Location is specified” even if months have gone by without the original poster responding to a query about the general location of the observation.
I guess maybe there’s some benefit to allowing these observations to get to Research Grade if the species is sufficiently distinctive? I’ve just noticed that there seem to be a disproportionate number of “Location Private” observations that stay in the “Needs ID” bin for a long time even though some of them might be identifiable with very basic location info.