Observations without media should not allow IDs by other users

[lmarun]

I’ve read all sides on this issue thus far, and I’m not swayed from my initial opinion: iNat observations should include either visual or audio data. Other platforms can function in different ways (I also use eBird), but part of what makes iNat observations robust and reliable is that ‘real’ data is available. Even if there is a photo of a tree, with a note saying that a California bluejay flew off, but it was there before the picture was taken, I will not ID this. I go to Data Quality and I give Evidence of Organism a thumbs down and move on, add a comment saying that, unfortunately, there is no bird visible for us to ID, ‘but would you like to leave this observation up so that someone can ID the tree?’, and then move on.