There are some specific users that have been uploading observations with the wrong date to get a better result on a bioblitz (I am talking about well informed adults). They have uploaded obs. with images taken some days or weeks before but they uploaded on the days of the bioblitz (the real timing …

Personally I’d use the DQA if there’s evidence the date is wrong, and if they fix it you can remove your vote.

[image] PdFuenteB: phenology of some obs. didn’t match totally Doesn’t matter whether they are deliberately cheating or not - they are devaluing iNat data. Should be ‘flagged’ for date is wrong.

[image] kuchipatchis: bioblitzes are built in with the leaderboard and you can swear its not a competition all you want but the leaderboard is right there I’ve heard it mentioned that some bioblitz organizers give awards or prizes for most observations. If no awards/prizes are being given, an…

I would definately try to make sure first that it indeed is not a misunderstanding. I also uploaded quite a bunch of observations where I had to adjust the date in retrospect, because a) I did forget to set the date in the camera right or b) the camera went back to factury setting mid trip and I rea…

[image] tiwane: I’d suggest reaching out to them and asking them about it with the assumption that they mean well. Understood. Would you suggest doing this before using the DQA? …and perhaps a boilerplate to use that expresses the assumption that they meant well?

[image] tiwane: and if they fix it you can remove your vote. Do notifications alert you to DQA changes? I thought that got put on the backlog.

DQA votes do not currently generate notifications.

Sorry, I misunderstood. I meant to ask: do changes to dates or locations generate alerts, or would Bob need to keep checking the observation to see if the user changed thouse so he could rescind his DQA downvote?

What I sometimes do if using DQA is writing also a short message that I am happy to change it if the problem is fixed (or explained to me such that I can agree that there actually is no problem) and I am tagged

We should make people understand, either young or adult, that the prize is knowledge, not the highest number of observations (often, during bioblitzes, they are represented by misidentified and/or badly photographed and/or unflagged non-wild taxa).

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People being dishonest to win on a bioblitz

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