Just came across an extralimital observation for a species and found that it belonged to a suspended user that appears to be some sort of trivia game. This was showing up on the map, which raises the question of why was this showing up on the map? It was research grade, which is troublesome in its o…

QG is a bit of an outlier, but there are multiple reasons that an account can be suspended, some of which have nothing to do with data quality. Thus, content created by a suspended account is not automatically wiped.

Suspended User observations showing in maps

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sgene December 28, 2019, 11:11pm 2

There is some Questagame background here: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/v-quick-question-questagame-users/3383

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Suspended User observations showing in maps

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