I am not staff, just a volunteer mod. I have no hard data on how the DQA is used across iNat, just my own experience in using it and seeing its use by other users.
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I don’t think it’s ever occurred to me to do this, even when I’m a maverick correcting an ID with 3+ incorrect IDs. I like the idea of being able to force it out of an incorrect RG ID but fear I’d never remember to come back and fix it if it got enough correct IDs to be correct RG…
I get there, by @mentioning
until we achieve CID at RG.
Some of us are using “No, it can’t be improved” to shift dandelion (Taraxacum) observation to RG. There are between 2 and 1000 weedy dandelion species, depending on your taxonomic philosophy. Many photos aren’t identifiable to section much less to species. Most people can’t ID them accurately even if the photo theoretically could be ID’d. We figure if somebody who actually knows how to ID dandelions wants the records, they’ll know where to find them.
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There was so much dandelion discussion that I only post photographs of them when somebody is posing on them. If I’m asked to post the dandelion as a separate observation, I’ll decline!
Dandelion is my elder daughter’s nickname.
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That is a possibility and I’ve seen observations with 5+ correct IDs still not at RG because someone checked ‘yes’. But if that happens, someone else, like someone who adds an ID and notices there are so many IDs already, can check ‘no’ and it’ll be fixed.
I think in the end it’s better to have a correctly identified organism not at RG than to have an incorrectly identified organism at RG with a possibility of no one ever checking it again.
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