Permissions related to public user are too strict

[goddesswarship]

Expected Behavior

• Users with the researcher role can view and edit public encounters without a collaboration with public user.
• Collaborating with public user will automatically accept the collaboration.

Current Behavior

• Users with the researcher role are required to start a collaboration with public user in order to view public encounters.
• Collaboration request with public user remains pending until collaboration is accepted. User public is not a real user and there is no one to approve/deny collaboration requests.
• Researchers who can view public encounters can't edit them, even if org admin and assigned applicable location-based roles

Testing Notes
Public collaboration requirement was observed in Wildbook 10.9.5. Inability to edit public encounters was observed in 10.9.2

To test, search encounters by submitter for username public using an account without the admin role assigned. Click on any search result to test the above.

Community link
https://community.wildme.org/t/encounter-assigned-user-incorrectly-set-to-public/5463
https://community.wildme.org/t/access-to-encounter-submissions/5474