Platform: Website Browser: Chrome Hi all, I’m currently having some problems with the annotations on sightings. Specifically, once I agree or disagree with an annotation, I cannot remove my agreement or disagreement except in a roundabout and unintuitive way. I have tried it with three different…

I don’t think it’s loading time unless it takes an enormous amount of time. The annotation takes a good couple of seconds to load when I first put it in, and a couple more seconds to agree with it initially. I just tried it again then with a longer waiting time between the next steps - about 2 min…

Well “an hour or two” turned into four, but it still doesn’t work. So I don’t think it’s a loading issue.

brian_d: So it might be a real issue, although not affect all. this should affect everyone, across all platforms (since the problem seems to be in the API). as far as i can tell, a DELETE /votes/unvote/annotation/{id} call doesn’t actually remove the annotation vote from the annotation, but…

I only noticed it recently but I’m not sure how far back it goes. It wasn’t affecting me earlier this year but I have no idea when it actually started.

[image] pisum: as far as i can tell, a DELETE /votes/unvote/annotation/{id} call doesn’t actually remove the annotation vote from the annotation i’ve been thinking about this more, and i think what’s actually happening is that the vote is removed, but the observation is not getting reindexed.…

[image] pisum: so another workaround would be to attempt to delete the vote and then click on one of the DQA metrics (which would trigger a reindex of the observation). you’ll see that the removal of the vote will occur with the change of the DQA metric. I just tried that, and yep it removes …

Thanks for sleuthing this, @pisum . Wrote up a bug here: https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist/issues/3225

Unable to remove annotation agreement or disagreement

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trscavo September 14, 2021, 12:44pm 15

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Unable to remove annotation agreement or disagreement

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