[mb-users] A cute idea
Mika Heiska
kilualmighty at gmail.com
Fri Sep 14 11:38:03 UTC 2007
Lauri Watts 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.
I approve, happens to me too often. Someone could say that we should
just be more thurough, but screw that. :D Mistakes happen to everyone
once in a while.
~Mika
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