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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 1,819 |
| | Posted: | | | | I would like a tick box that appears when you evaluate a contribution that lets you indicate if you trust the user.
Then....when the update comes down that tickbox is displayed to show that you can accept the update.
I realise that this isn't a 'nice' feature - but, I have learned from experience that some users are more truthful in their contribution notes than others. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | I have thought about this before and i think it's an excellent idea.
Skip | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it.
Outta here
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 20,111 |
| | Posted: | | | | Good suggestion Pantheon! | | | | Corey |
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,459 |
| | Posted: | | | | I'm not so sure. Even trusted users can make mistakes, and if you see them marked as a trusted user, you may be tempted to vote "yes" without checking.
I prefer to look at each submission on a case by case basis, without any pre-conceptions. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 2,005 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Pantheon: Quote:
I would like a tick box that appears when you evaluate a contribution that lets you indicate if you trust the user.
Then....when the update comes down that tickbox is displayed to show that you can accept the update. Something similar has often been suggested. Problem is, that there is a difference between a user you trust to submit changes which follow the rules, and data you want to accept into your local database (which may differ from the data which follow the rules). What you really want (and what I would also welcome), is a checkbox which you can check when evaluating a submission, if it is data you'd like to integrate into your local database unchanged. But also then you have a problem: You can still not accept this update blindly, because with this update you will also get changes, which you may have rejected previously, which were not part of the last submission (other areas of the profile). | | | 
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,819 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting northbloke: Quote:
I'm not so sure. Even trusted users can make mistakes, and if you see them marked as a trusted user, you may be tempted to vote "yes" without checking.
I prefer to look at each submission on a case by case basis, without any pre-conceptions. I want this feature to be a local only, personal option feature. I would use it to show that some users can be trusted to be following the rules and that I can be (relatively) safe in trusting their contributions. I would still evaluate each contribution on its own merits - but if I saw a profile I had ticked then I would be more inclined to accept without having to dig out the disc and check for myself. |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,819 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Pantheon: Quote:
I would like a tick box that appears when you evaluate a contribution that lets you indicate if you trust the user.
Then....when the update comes down that tickbox is displayed to show that you can accept the update.
I realise that this isn't a 'nice' feature - but, I have learned from experience that some users are more truthful in their contribution notes than others. I'm absolutely flabbergasted and amazed................... I got a negative rating mark for the above suggestion? I would sincerely like to know how anyone found the above statement to be offensive or abusive in any way? |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | You never know, Pantheon. There are many users who abuse the system. Some of them I know of are not to be trusted...maybe that is what upset them.  Skip  | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it.
Outta here
Billy Video |
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| Registered: July 31, 2008 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,506 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Pantheon: Quote:
Quoting Pantheon:
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I would like a tick box that appears when you evaluate a contribution that lets you indicate if you trust the user.
Then....when the update comes down that tickbox is displayed to show that you can accept the update.
I realise that this isn't a 'nice' feature - but, I have learned from experience that some users are more truthful in their contribution notes than others.
I'm absolutely flabbergasted and amazed...................
I got a negative rating mark for the above suggestion?
I would sincerely like to know how anyone found the above statement to be offensive or abusive in any way? It's probably because you yourself said it wasn't a "nice" feature   Have a  from me! |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 3,321 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Pantheon: Quote:
I'm absolutely flabbergasted and amazed...................
I got a negative rating mark for the above suggestion?
I would sincerely like to know how anyone found the above statement to be offensive or abusive in any way? My guess is it's a new user who doesn't know what the arrows are for and thought they were voting against your suggestion because they didn't like it. That's all I got because nothing else even makes sense. | | | Get the CSVExport and Database Query plug-ins here.
Create fake parent profiles to organize your collection. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 2,692 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Pantheon: Quote:
I would like a tick box that appears when you evaluate a contribution that lets you indicate if you trust the user.
Then....when the update comes down that tickbox is displayed to show that you can accept the update.. the problem with this is that I often find that when the update appears it includes more information than what I originally voted on - so a number of contributions seem to have been merged into what appears as a download. Some you like.. some it's wtf - where has the SRP gone? etc. I still preview all the changes and only partly accept what appears on most of the profile changes. | | | | Paul |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 3,830 |
| | Posted: | | | | . | | | | Sources for one or more of the changes and/or additions were not submitted. Please include the sources for your changes in the contribution notes, especially for cast and crew additions. | | | | Last edited: by ? |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 810 |
| | Posted: | | | | The master database is a collection of profiles not a collection of changes to profiles. Any time that you update your profiles, you are comparing against the sum of all changes not the latest changes. I fully understand why you would want this feature, but I don't see how it could work without changing the structure of the master database, which would add a new set of problems.
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San Juan Capistrano, CA, USA |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,394 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting pdf256: Quote:
The master database is a collection of profiles not a collection of changes to profiles. Any time that you update your profiles, you are comparing against the sum of all changes not the latest changes. I fully understand why you would want this feature, but I don't see how it could work without changing the structure of the master database, which would add a new set of problems.
pdf You should re-read the original post, since your comments aren't relevant to Panthoeon's suggestion/request. Pantheon is talking about voting on contributions, not on updating profiles. When you evaluate someone's contribution you are comparing his version with what is currently in the database. You are only voting on the latest changnes, not the "sum of all changes." If this topic were concerned with updating profiles, your comments would be pertinent. But they don't address the subject at hand. | | | Another Ken (not Ken Cole)
Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinking badges.
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,459 |
| | Posted: | | | | Actually, the intial post does talk about updating profiles: Quoting Pantheon: Quote:
Then....when the update comes down that tickbox is displayed to show that you can accept the update. So Paul's concerns are pertinent, as even if you do have a trusted user tickbox, the update you download may be an amalgam of untrusted and trusted updates. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 810 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting kdh1949: Quote:
Quoting pdf256:
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The master database is a collection of profiles not a collection of changes to profiles. Any time that you update your profiles, you are comparing against the sum of all changes not the latest changes. I fully understand why you would want this feature, but I don't see how it could work without changing the structure of the master database, which would add a new set of problems.
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You should re-read the original post, since your comments aren't relevant to Panthoeon's suggestion/request. Pantheon is talking about voting on contributions, not on updating profiles.
When you evaluate someone's contribution you are comparing his version with what is currently in the database. You are only voting on the latest changnes, not the "sum of all changes."
If this topic were concerned with updating profiles, your comments would be pertinent. But they don't address the subject at hand. Why don't you re-read the original post? I read his post as asking for a tag to show at update time based on your "trust" of the user and/or their notes on the website. I was pointing out that at update time there is currently no way to connect an update to the user(s) that made the submission. Feel free to quote from the original post to show me how I am wrong. | | | Paul Francis
San Juan Capistrano, CA, USA |
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