[mb-users] A cute idea

[Tracy Poff]

On 9/15/07, Frederic Da Vitoria <davitofrg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 think that was the plan.

> 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.

I'd think it would be fairly trivial to embed a timestamp in the
voting form; then, if the release had changed between the form being
loaded and the vote being cast, we could have it discard the vote and
ask the user to review the edit again, and even show what had changed.
There may possibly be some difficulties I'm not aware of, but I
wouldn't think that they would be insurmountable.

Tracy Poff