Make captive/cultivated not automatically "no ID needed"

[sedgequeen]

@quillipede

Decoupling the captive flag from whether things appear in the identification flow by default could reduce wilful misuse of the flag (improving data quality somewhat) without changing any of the other functions outside of identification. That seems like a net positive. And it could keep them engaged long enough that they start looking for wild organisms to add to their lists too.

Yes, yes! Well put.

@upupa-epops

I don’t think it was originally intended to mean “defective” nor is it entirely technically accurate; that’s not what the word “casual” means and many Casual observations are not “defective”. . . . But lumping all DQA/metadata failures into the same category creates the impression that it’s a dumping ground for everything iNat doesn’t really want.

On iNaturalist, “Casual” is in fact a dumping ground for trash – observations without date or place, sometimes even without a photo. Putting Captive/Cultivated into that trash heap makes it trash, by association if not by intention. Not to mention harder to find. Please, please separate Casual and Captive/Cultivated.