Platform(s), such as mobile, website, API, other: All URLs (aka web addresses) of any pages, if relevant: Observation pages with DQA voting, including Identify Description of need: DQA fields are generally available for voting on all observations. However, in some instances, it is beneficial to p…

This should be fixed now. DQA sections that have a vote will not be grayed out.

There are a few cases where observations containing no photos or sounds could be IDed to species - specifically, if they have a DNA sequence attached. I actually have run in to this a few times.

[image] cthawley: For instance, if an observation only has one photo, the “Evidence related to a single subject” DQA is not applicable, but users can still vote on the field. Supporting this one - which I have struggled with. (To me the new DQA was an accepted guideline - specifically for - m…

[image] cthawley: When an observation has 0 or 1 photos, the “Evidence related to a single subject” DQA should be greyed out. i think any mix of photos or sounds should be the driver here, not just photos. [image] cthawley: When an observation contains no media, the “Evidence of organism…

[image] cthawley: When an observation has no location entered, the “Location is accurate” DQA should be greyed out. When an observation has no date/time entered, the “Date is accurate” DQA should be greyed out. To my knowledge, it already is like this for missing locations and dates. In the …

Thanks for all the input so far! I’ve edited the submission to take some feedback into account, specifically: Thanks @dysm for pointing out that [image] dysm: it already is like this for missing locations and dates. In the “identify” tab, anyways. I verified with a test observation that thi…

That’s fair. Honestly, I actively dislike when sequences don’t have media for the same reasons I dislike a huge portion of the IDs in genbank - there’s no way to verify that the name attached to the sequence is justifiable. So yeah, I don’t even know why I brought it up lmao. Too much time spent st…

[image] cthawley: When an observation has 0 or 1 photos and/or sounds, the “Evidence related to a single subject” DQA should be greyed out. The wording of this sounds like 1 photo and 1 sound would be greyed out. The DQA should be available to be checked in this situation. Many times I see pe…

Edited to [image] cthawley: When an observation has ≤1 media file

It might also make sense to gray out the “can the Community Taxon still be confirmed or improved?” check boxes until there actually is a Community Taxon. While I can’t tell when they were added, I have run into situations where “Yes” has been checked very soon after posting on observations that wer…

Made a github issue here: https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist/issues/4084

Prevent DQA Voting When Pre-requisite Conditions Aren't Met

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DQA votes disappearing General	25	464	January 22, 2026
Thoughts on Improving Transparency of DQA Votes General	62	1131	November 11, 2024
"Evidence relates to one subject" DQA and photos with multiple species in them General	21	542	March 27, 2024
Use of “It’s as good as it can be” in the DQA General	29	1181	January 31, 2025
How do you handle / hide low-quality observations? General	26	956	January 6, 2026

Prevent DQA Voting When Pre-requisite Conditions Aren't Met

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