Random obs marked as 'captive/cultivated'

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Platform (Android, iOS, Website): website

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Browser, if a website issue (Firefox, Chrome, etc) : Firefox

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Description of problem (please provide a set of steps we can use to replicate the issue, and make as many as you need.):

Step 1: I upload an obs of a common species.

Step 2: I wait a while for it to be ided.

Step 3: After a while, I check the obs again and find it to be casual. After inspection, the ‘organism is wild’ bar has been downvoted (see image above).
This has happened quite a few times before, and I have no idea why. I upload all obs from the mobile app, so how could I mark it as ‘not wild’?,
This isn’t all too common, but after checking all my casual obs, most of them seem to be casual because of this glitch. I’ve already changed most of these to wild, but it keeps happening to new obs I upload. To be clear, no one else has voted that the obs is not wild. So what’s going on?

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Other users can also mark observations as “not wild”, not just the observer.

Additionally,

So when you hover over the downvote, is it your icon, iNaturalist’s icon, or another user’s that appears?

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I don’t think these were marked by the system. I haven’t found any captive obs of pied kingfishers, coasters, grey herons, etc.

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No icon appears, but I haven’t really checked. I just click it to make the obs back to needs id. I’ll check next time it happens.

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you can see who made the vote , can you link to one of these observations ?

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Can you link to an example observation where this has happened?

Are you providing a countervote to move it back to needs ID or withdrawing the erroneous vote?

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I did change all of them, but the first one was this pied kingfisher:https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/264809469

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Withdrawing. I click on the darkened thumbs-down button.

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Ok, then this may indeed be a bug if you aren’t accidentally marking the observations as captive/cultivated.

At least for android (and I assume also for iOS), you can mark observations as “not wild” in the app.

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Wait, really? So far I’ve been adding all the annotations via the website. How did I not know this before?

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Here’s a short video showing how to do it in the mobile app: https://vimeo.com/331151155

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Just to clarify, downvoting “Organism is Wild” is using the DQA, not an annotation. So annotating and marking as Cultivated/Not Wild are two different things. If there’s a case where the DQA vote is showing that a user added a vote when they did not, that would be a bug, but it isn’t apparent that this is what happened here.

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Mine went instantly into hobby, too. But with no downvotes at all. (a native plant)

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In the “Identify” window, clicking the “x” button marks the observation as captive. Sometimes I bump this button by mistake and accidentally do this. Could be what’s happening


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I uploaded the images from my phone and just a few seconds later checked iNat on my PC to edit it further. It was already captive. It was an automated process before I got to open up the observation myself. I never had that happen before and after though. Only today, for viola arvensis. I thought the given explenation above was good, but after checking the page and seeing it highlighted as native left me wondering.
Also, if I had accidently marked it as captive, wouldnt it show a downvote? I pressed the upvote to fix it, because I read this thread before, but I had no visuall indicator that it was marked captive, other than it being on amateur quality.

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It happened again, right now.
Löwenzahn (Gattung Taraxacum) von 27283 Verden (Aller)-Borstel, Deutschland am 8. April 2025 um 02:25 PM von Jennifer Rosebrock · iNaturalist

I will leave it untouched for now. I think it’s caused by the mobile upload and imidiate access on PC. I hit refresh in my PC browser (observation overview) right after confirming the upload on mobile.

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This observation is not “Casual” but “Needs ID”. The Screenshot you provided above also seems to show a Needs ID observation. A Captive/Not Wild observation would have a downvote for “Organismus ist wild” but there is no downvote in the screenshot. I’m not sure what, if any, issue there is here, but there doesn’t seem to be an issue with captive/cultivated.

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I don’t see any downvotes for ‘wild’ there, so I’m thinking it’s either:

  1. a display error on your end

  2. maybe it somehow defaulted on upload to captive on your end (seems less likely)

  3. possibly an accidental click on the ‘captive’ button? I’ve clicked this accidentally while uploading myself before, so it might be that?

In any case, do you have any other observation links with the issue, since I’m not really seeing it on my end for the linked one you put above?

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I already changed it back to wild before I made this bug report.