I’d like to know when other users are marking items in the DQA of my observations, as they may be mistaken about whether the organism is actually captive/cultivated, whether the location is actually incorrect, etc. A notification should only be generated when the status of the DQA item changes, i.e…

If you click on the number next to the thumbs up or down, a little popup will come up with the person’s user name in it. If it says “ inaturalist.org ” instead of a username, then that means the site automatically flagged it, which happens at some threshold of Captive-flagged species per area.

I’d like this feature as well. It really bugs me when people (or the site bot) flag things incorrectly, especially when I’ve specifically said “feral” or “yes these palm trees are naturalized, take it up with USFWS if you don’t believe me” or whatever in the description. I clean up Casual observat…

yeah i wish obscured observations displayed with just the uncertainty square (maybe darker with more records of same) and not the circle since the circle is by definition always in the wrong place. But…i guess that’s off topic so i’ll leave it at that

(testing to see what flagging as off topic does ;)

hahaha it probably demoted me or something. ps. i flagged yours too… hahaha

1, 2, 3, 4… I declare a flag war!

but seriously… I can’t see any change on it, so it must be a silent alert to moderators…

why can’t I vote for this? It says 12 ‘limit’. oh well, I’m voting via this comment. ( so here’s another OT comment for ppl to flag. :) )

you only get a certain number of votes so you’d have to unvote something else. ‘advancing’ in the forum give you more votes but i am not sure how that works yet

I would agree to the request with a single change, only be notified, or have it as an option to only be notified if the vote will change the status of an observation. I see no reason to be notified a 3rd person has voted that something is captive etc.

Notify observer when another user marks something in the Data Quality Assessment section

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Notifications for Data Quality Changes General	11	793	July 26, 2023
Thoughts on Improving Transparency of DQA Votes General	63	1077	January 10, 2025
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Allow curators to view an account's DQA votes, and allow for flagging and hiding of DQA votes and Annotations Feature Requests	28	582	November 1, 2024
Why is this Observation Casual/Needs ID/Research Grade? - "Official" Topic General web	355	21164	November 17, 2025

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