Obsevations with deleted photos are still verifiable

Moved to a new topic, originally posted in https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/observations-that-are-media-less-but-somehow-verifiable-and-some-rg/13826.

@antrozousamelia are you seeing this just one observations made by that account?

I tried to replicate a few times on our test server but can’t.

What happened was this, as far as we know?

  • observation posted with photo.
  • photo flagged as copyright infringment.
  • observer deleted photo but not the observation.
  • observation is still verifiable even though its DQA looks like this:

  • reindexing fixes the observation.