I’m interested, what happens if an observation is changed by the observer, after other people have added identifications, data quality votes or annotations to it? It seems that if I change the photo of an observation which has reached research grade status, it stays research grade. Will the identif…

To my understanding the only other thing that changes might be the “date modified”, which isn’t displayed anywhere, but you can sort by date last modified on the Identify page. Definitely an issue that’s come up before (e.g. here ), but no solution has been provided.

[image] mikkohei13: Or another case, what happens if people vote for location being accurate, and then the location is changed? (e.g. the coordinates from US to Australia) Will the votes remain? Just a note that voting the different parameters as accurate is a very uncommon thing on the site,…

[image] mikkohei13: Or another case, what happens if people vote for location being accurate, and then the location is changed? (e.g. the coordinates from US to Australia) Will the votes remain? The votes remain, yep. [image] mikkohei13: Will the identifiers get a notification about this…

If one votes for e.g. ‘not accurate location’ on an observation and suggest to the observer that it needs to be fixed, the only way that one would be notified that the observation has been updated is if someone makes a comment. That puts me off using the voting buttons for this purpose. I use them…

They’ll be fixing that soon: [image] Notifications on iNaturalist - Please Share Your Ideas! here are a few features that are already on our radar: Get notified when a Data Quality Assessment changes the data quality grade of your observation. In the meantime I just make quick a comment to …

That’s ace - I was trying to say, I would like to change my vote if the observation metadata improves - would be nice to be alerted about that.

How changes in observations are handled?

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bouteloua July 18, 2019, 4:21pm 6

They’ll be fixing that soon:

In the meantime I just make quick a comment to inform the user.

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Notifications for Data Quality Changes General	10	845	May 27, 2023
When location is altered, DQA "Location is accurate" should reset and notify downvoters Feature Requests web	18	499	July 31, 2026
Notify observer when another user marks something in the Data Quality Assessment section Feature Requests	20	1748	February 25, 2019
When a user edits the location or date iNat should remove "Date/Location is inaccurate" votes Feature Requests	15	892	June 26, 2021
Is this an appropriate assessment? General	9	645	July 3, 2019

How changes in observations are handled?

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