Platform: Website Browser: Safari URLs: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/102438435 Description of problem: Yesterday I found the observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/102438435 while IDing unknowns, which was there because it had a single withdrawn ID of Eremobates. I adde…

I don’t know. I also wonder but cannot test by myself whether this behavior could cause otherwise unreachable states to be achieved, like: genus ID added and withdrawn order ID added and withdrawn family ID added genus ID reinstated, family ID now disagrees order ID reinstated, now disagrees wi…

I wonder if there is a related quirk in this observation, where there are only two IDs, no opt-out, no missing data, no DQA check, and yet the observation ID is at “Plants” instead of the refining ID: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/66207240

This may have happened to me on this observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/7160064 , although it wasn’t a reinstating of an ID. I think I did probably enter a species name first, and then deleted it and entered the coarser ID. Maybe this is happening because the observation needed more…

That is different because it appears that davidenrique has disagreed with an ID that does not appear to exist at all; the only way I can think that that could remotely make sense is if there was a Moneses uniflora ID at the time it was posted which was since deleted instead of withdrawn. Note that t…

[image] wildskyflower: I guess possibly davidenrique had the pane open for ~half an hour before adding an ID I hadn’t thought of that. Thank you.

Reinstating withdrawn ID causes a later coarser ID to show as disagreement

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saturnring December 21, 2021, 2:49am 7

I hadn’t thought of that. Thank you.

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Reinstating withdrawn ID causes a later coarser ID to show as disagreement

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