[mb-users] A cute idea

[Frederic Da Vitoria]

2007/9/15, Lauri Watts <krazykiwi at gmail.com>:
>
> On 9/15/07, Chad Wilson <chad.wilson at gmx.net> wrote:
> > Mika Heiska wrote:
> > To flesh things out a bit, would you propose to allow autoedits (in the
> > 30 min period) of:
> >
> > - add track
> > - remove track
>
> These two, I think bear discussion.  I was more thinking of typos in
> track names, setting the release status wrong, that kind of thing.
>
> > - edit track name/time/number
> > - set release durations
> > - change track artist
>
> Those and, altering the release type, language (that's the one I often
> don't notice was autoguessed wrong), and release event info.
>
> Another that gets me pretty often is I set the release to album, then
> hit page down to get to the rest of the form - but the field is still
> selected, so instead that field is now set to something else.
>
> > What about
> > -remove relationship (album -> ?)
> > -add relationship (album -> ?)
>
> I wouldn't think these would count.
>
> Basically limit it to completing things you could have done during the
> initial add edit, and to altering things you did do. Not
> relationships, they should probably go through normal voting, since
> you don't add those while adding the album anyway.
>
> --
> Lauri Watts
>

Now that I rethink about this idea; I am not so sure it is the best answer
to our problem. If I understood correctly your suggestion and it's
implications, Lauri, here is what would happen.

Suppose I enter an album with a mispelling, let's say I entered Lov instead
of Love. Before anyone votes, I enter a new edit to correct my bad edit. The
problem I see is that the edit other users see and vote on is still the bad
one. I'd rather allow correcting an edit as long as it hasn't received any
vote. I realize this may be tricky: a user may load my first edit (with
Lov), I then change Lov to Love, then the other user votes, but he votes on
Lov instead of Love because he has loaded my edit before I corrected it. But
still if there was a technical solution to this problem, I believe this new
suggestion is both more intuitive and better suited.

-- 
Frederic Da Vitoria
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