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| Registered: March 14, 2007 |  Posts: 235 |
| | Posted: | | | | In most of the profiles I vote for, it says "new contribution", but for new contributions, you are not asked to enter contribution notes anymore and you don't see an exisiting profile to compare with.
Most of the time, these "new contributions" are worthless and a waste of times, and sometimes they are degredations of good profiles. Would people please stop doing this and take a look if they actually have something to improve on the profile before submitting?!
/Mikkel | | | | DVD Profiler på Dansk |
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| Registered: March 10, 2007 |  Posts: 524 |
| | Posted: | | | | This is happening because the profiles were new at the time of submission. Once we get caught up, the user will see the old one at the time of contribution.
-Gerri | | | | Invelos Software, Inc. Representative |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 13,202 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting mikl: Quote:
In most of the profiles I vote for, it says "new contribution", but for new contributions, you are not asked to enter contribution notes anymore and you don't see an exisiting profile to compare with.
Most of the time, these "new contributions" are worthless and a waste of times, and sometimes they are degredations of good profiles. Would people please stop doing this and take a look if they actually have something to improve on the profile before submitting?!
/Mikkel It seems to be a glitch in the system that should go away once invelos gets caught up. What you are seeing is this... One person submits the profile because it is not in the system. Before it is processed, another person submits the same profile thinking it is not in the system. Because the first profile hasn't been processed yet, the system believes the second one to be a 'new contribution' as well. Since the system is treating the second contribution as a new contribution, there is nothing for the contributor to compare it to. There is no indication that it is not new. Once the first one is accepted and released, the system treats the second one as an update and it is put into the voting system. But, because it was initially treated as a new profile, there are no notes. Hope that helps. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
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Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 235 |
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 | | Posts: 116 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Gerri Cole: Quote:
This is happening because the profiles were new at the time of submission. Once we get caught up, the user will see the old one at the time of contribution.
-Gerri I am a bit confused how all the profiles will get back into the database. Is Invelos working on that or do we have to contribute everything back into the new database? | | | Greetz,
Marc Castermans
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 13,202 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting MarcCastermans: Quote:
Quoting Gerri Cole:
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This is happening because the profiles were new at the time of submission. Once we get caught up, the user will see the old one at the time of contribution.
-Gerri
I am a bit confused how all the profiles will get back into the database.
Is Invelos working on that or do we have to contribute everything back into the new database? We have to contribute everything back into the new database. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
- Citizen G'Kar |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 |  Posts: 115 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting MarcCastermans: Quote:
I am a bit confused how all the profiles will get back into the database.
Is Invelos working on that or do we have to contribute everything back into the new database? Yes, we must/can contribute all into new database. This is actually good thing because in this way many bad profiles disappears. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 2,293 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Unicus69: Quote:
It seems to be a glitch in the system that should go away once invelos gets caught up. Well not really... it'll just be less common. It used to happen on the old system too and was a regular occurrence for profiles that hadn't been entered before their release when 3 or 4 people used to contribute them on the Saturday they arrived! it only didn't happen that often to me because I put in pre-release data for almost all the DVDs I buy. | | | | It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 1,279 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting mikl: Quote:
That helps, so people are not completely mindless  thanks both.
/Mikkel I'm now checking the notes once I've submitted 'new entries' to make sure there isn't one already waiting. It doesn't take that much longer and means I can withdraw ones I need to, saving Ken and Gerri a small amount of work. | | | | IVS Registered: January 2, 2002 |
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