[mb-users] A cute idea

[Chad Wilson]

Mika Heiska wrote:
> Lauri Watts wrote:
>>
>> 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 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.
And the reality is that I see billions of these kinds of edits from 
newer users. It'd be a big step towards making MB a more user friendly 
place; along with other previously suggested (and logged) changes, such 
as "removes count as cancels" and some kind of duplicate edit detection.

I can imagine it might have some kind of complexity to implement though 
as the conditions for what constitutes an autoedit are current just 
based on the user and the type of edit; not related to any previous 
edits. I'm guessing it could be performance impacting as for any new 
edit you'd need to check whether it were "related" to a new album that's 
in a grace period, rather than just against the editor's AutoEditor 
status and the fixed set of AutoEdit types. (unless I'm missing something)

To flesh things out a bit, would you propose to allow autoedits (in the 
30 min period) of:

- add track
- remove track
- edit track name/time/number
- set release durations
- change track artist

What about
-remove relationship (album -> ?)
-add relationship (album -> ?)

Good idea Lauri :-)

Chad / voiceinsideyou