Include obscured observations in species lists for place-based projects

[dlevitis]

Yes, they could.
Which is why I moved on to this suggestion:

@dlevitis

One feature that could make this a lot easier, and would be consistent with @cmcheatle’s caution, would be to allow people to write one note contacting everyone who has obscured observations within the area of a project they manage. The sender would not see the list of obscured observations, or the list of observers being contacted, but the observers would receive a request to contribute their observation to the project, and could decide to do so or not. I just contacted about 25 people, and I’m guessing that about three of them actually have obscured observations there, but with the current setup that’s the only way to do it.

In short, if anyone running a place-based project who wants to include special status species needs to hunt down the observers of obscured observations, there should be a streamlined way to do that.

[bouteloua]

Got it, since that sounds like that’s a different feature request, maybe we should close this one, or the title/first post should be modified?

[cmcheatle]

@dlevitis

to allow people to write one note contacting everyone who has obscured observations within the area of a project they manage

Please dont take this as being devil’s advocate or nitpicking, I see this as an interesting possibility for helping. I’m just trying to flush out the mechanics. The immediate question is why one note, or more specifically when would a project admin use that one message ?

When they create the project to get the history? What then happens a month later when they want to know if anything else has arrived ?

[charlie]

@cmcheatle

why one note

in the past due to how project notifications worked, there was very heavy spamming that basically broke the notifications for high volume users. We don’t want that to come back, though maybe notification reform could help.

[dlevitis]

My thinking is that we want to limit the number of messages of this type people get, or else they will just ignore them. If you have an obscured observation in my study area, you aren’t going to want a request from me every month. If someone was desperate to send another message, they could set up a duplicate project, but it should be a little bit of work to send the second message. But the first request, I should be able to basically push a button, write a paragraph stating why I’m making the request, and push send.