When "Evidence of a Single Organism" is marked "No," is Observer Notified?

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I don’t know whether the observer is notified when the “Evidence of a Single Organism” box is marked “no,” which makes me reluctant to check the box unless the observer has not been active for quite a while. Does the observer get a notification?

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No they will not get a notification. Observers are not notified about votes on any of the DQA lines. Staff have long been aware that users would prefer a notification, but like all requests related to notifications, changes have been very slow.

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You can always leave a comment (I’m checking X – please let me know when you fix it and I’ll uncheck) that they should see if they check their notifications occasionally.

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Notifications would make it easier on identifiers also.

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Thank you all for the quick responses.

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no but if you search your own, or any users observations with the url modifier &order_by=updated_at changes to dqa will bring observations further up the ordering
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?user_id=insert username here&verifiable=any&order_by=updated_at

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I personally try to put a “It looks like you have multiple observations. I’m going to mark the multiple subjects, please tag me when you have fixed this or have questions” as a comment so that if I’m wrong and they added a host picture or a scene picture that I thought was a separate obs they can correct me.
Also other IDers, and so that the OP knows.

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Because of the notification issue, and often as a prompt to an observer - who may already have been asked once or twice - I leave a comment. That also notifies me of any activity where I applied a DQA. Also for the ‘Can Be Improved’ hidden away right at the bottom. The comment is more immediately visible to the next identifier - why is this obs STILL waiting ?

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