[mb-users] A cute idea

[Philip Jägenstedt]

I support this idea! I'm not particularly reckless, but I also
discover errors only after looking it through the 3rd time, but too
late...

Philip

On 9/14/07, Lauri Watts <krazykiwi at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just landed at rate your music for some reason, and i've never
> really paid attention to it.  They have some database issue, so you
> can't add an album with a dupliate name, but you can change an album
> name to the same as an existing one.
>
> They have a pretty cute workaround to it though, namely:
> Any edits you do within 30 minutes of adding a new album to their db,
> are auto approved.  Obviously, this only applies if you were the
> person who added the album.
>
> I wonder if this isn't something we could consider?  It's all too
> common I add an album, and realise I typo'ed something as soon as I've
> just hit submit on the last page, or worse, don't spot it at all until
> after the album page loads up at the end.  As an autoeditor, it's no
> big deal, but I see a lot of times someone adding an album, then a
> pile of small fixups to stuff they didn't catch while adding it.  Then
> I sometimes see people entering edit notes to the original album
> addition, saying things like 'you need to fix x', not realising
> there's an open edit to do just that a couple of voting pages later.
>
> So how about it?  Developer folk, how big a deal would this be to
> implement?  What does everyone else think of it?  I can't really think
> of any down side, and several positive results.
>
> --
> Lauri Watts
>
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