I’ve been noticing a lot of DQA abuse lately - is there any way to see a particular user’s DQA votes to see if there’s a pattern going on?

I think this is important info for a curator to have access to, and I have also noticed what I suspect may be DQA abuse, but I do not think curators currently have this access

“Data Quality Assessment” - it’s the section way down at the bottom of the observation page (or the Data Quality tab in Identify mode). [image] Any user can thumbs-up or thumbs-down the various entries, and if the downvotes exceed the up votes on anything, the observation becomes casual grade. H…

To my knowledge no, and there’s not even a way to flag the vote. I think voting history and the ability to flag a vote are crucial for curators to be able to actually deal with DQA abuse, which is pretty darn common.

as far as i know, there currently are not great ways for regular folks to filter observations by particular user’s data quality assessment (DQA) activity. the best you can do is to get a set of observations and then parse those observations on your end to do your own secondary filter by votes by tha…

I am also worried about some similar weird use of DQA. I’m not a curator, and this is only a stopgap measure: Search for observations IDd by user that are casual. You might be able to narrow by taxon or the like to get a better feel for a pattern. Message me offline if I’m not making this clear. …

Oh, I know this thing! Thanks for clarifying.

Oh and that isn’t even a guarantee you’ll find these users by searching for their ID’s, I’ve seen some users that only add a vote, so no ID to tie them to an observation.

Is there any way to view a user's DQA votes?

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graysquirrel October 14, 2024, 4:36pm 10

I’ve created a feature request for this, since there doesn’t seem to be any way to do it currently: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/allow-curators-to-view-an-accounts-dqa-votes-and-allow-for-flagging-and-hiding-of-dqa-votes-and-annotations/57188

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Is there any way to view a user's DQA votes?

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