When location is altered, DQA "Location is accurate" should reset and notify downvoters

[cthawley]

I approved this request because the main request is related to the DQA. The ancillary

@deboas

Part 2. At the same time, it would be very useful, but not essential to this request, if any downvoters could be notified of the location update so they can check their concerns were addressed. I realise we don’t have DQA notifications yet, but understand they are planned.

is something that

@tiwane

• We are not currently accepting new feature requests related to

  • Notifications or the dashboard/homepage (staff would already like to update these)

so please focus any discussion/cast your votes on the main part of the request:

@deboas

when the location of an observation is edited, that should reset any votes on “location is accurate”.

Also noting that there is precedent for changing DQA votes based on user activity on the observation, such as this implemented Feature Request:

https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/remove-yes-votes-from-the-can-the-id-be-improved-dqa-when-the-community-taxon-improves/27273

My personal response to the request is that I would be a little concerned that this proposed feature would allow users a way to remove DQA votes that they disagreed with. They could change the location to something that could also be inaccurate or change the location and then change it back to the original incorrect location to reset votes. As a curator, I’ve seen a reasonable amount of observations with intentionally incorrect IDs (basically trolling, jokes), and I’d be concerned that users will to do that in the first place might exploit this feature. As there is no location edit history for observations, there wouldn’t really be a way to detect this (unless staff have something, but that still doesn’t help curators moderating issues on iNat if staff would need to be called in to address stuff like this - not a great use of their time probably).