[mb-users] A cute idea

[Philip Jägenstedt]

Don't voters see the release with all pending edits anyway? Looking
year-old Add Release edits the data shown is actually the current data
and not what was entered at first. I'm assuming the same would be true
of edits which have not yet  been applied, but I could be wrong.

Philip

On 9/16/07, Frederic Da Vitoria <davitofrg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2007/9/16, Kuno Woudt <kuno at frob.nl>:
> > On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 11:14:01PM +0200, Frederic Da Vitoria wrote:
> > > 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.
> > Isn't the whole point of having these new edits as autoedits within the
> > 30 minute grace period to get them applied immediatly?  So voters would
> > see the fixed album on the 'add release' edit, unless I am missing
> > something.
> >
>
> I think it was the point, but I don't think it addresses it. The correcting
> edit will change the release, not the original edit. Even if it is an
> auto-edit. Currently, if I enter a new edit to correct an old one, once the
> edit is applied, I see the change in the release. But the original edit
> still contains the error.
>
> --
> Frederic Da Vitoria
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