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Posted By: Henry Plainview
Subject: WARNING: PA did not validate this information
Date Posted: November 18 2009 at 18:41
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http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=825 - Today I noticed that there are several Ruins albums with asterisks, and the albums with asterisks have that warning. The dreadful tab and lyrics link also have an asterisk, but the normal album pages links do not. I am almost 100% positive Ruins' page didn't use to be like this, and I've never seen this before.
What does it mean, why is it there, and what would it take to get rid of it so there isn't even more stupid clutter on the album pages? ------------- if you own a sodastream i hate you |
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: November 18 2009 at 19:12
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And it makes it look like what was submitted by the album adder needs
verification rather than it being the revenue-generating tabs and
lyrics search addition that has the problem. Not to sidetrack this,
but I really don't care for the Lyrics and Tabs additions at all. I
know that the admin are quite strict about not sharing such things in
the fora, and one has to question the legality of many of these sites
that this site is enabling others to search, and I don't like it because it makes it look
like the one who added the album included those fields. I don't know that we should be condoning what some of those sites do that this site helps, has helped, to advertise. If it must be
kept to make this site commercially viable, then it should be separated
to make it explicitly clear that this info was not provided by the submitter. Though I'd rather it gone altogether, perhaps there would be a way to remove all tabs/lyrics links to which the warning would apply. I know I'm not pleased to have that kind of stuff added into something that I prepared for the site (which can be very time consuming for us). For a site which the content owes so much to volunteers, I find the commercialism (ads) rather too blatant and I feel it gets too high-billing. I do, however, recognise that the owners should be fairly compensated for all of their work on this site, and that this site is very expensive to run, and it does provide a great service. Anyway, sorry for going off on a tangent. It will be interesting to hear what those who are in the know have to say about the question. |
Posted By: Henry Plainview
Date Posted: November 18 2009 at 20:41
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I agree with you on the hypocritical lyrics search, and I made a thread about that, but not many people seemed to care.
But what confuses me about the asterisks is that I didn't see it when I added http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=25743 - this album , and while RussianKrieg has not made any posts on the forum, that's no reason to mess up the aesthetics of the page with an asterisk and ugly warning. ------------- if you own a sodastream i hate you |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: November 18 2009 at 22:12
| I understand. I leaped to a wrong conclusion about why the albums might have been tagged with asterisks and why the related warning. Inanely, since the tab and lyrics links album title has asterisks (which is merely a direct result of the album having asterisks as that's an automated action) I though that might be the specific sections which the warnings referred to (as in don't try these links because PA has not verified them. A very silly thing for me to even think. I don't know how or why the albums get tagged with warnings/ asterisks -- the why I can guess at (a cautionary warning). I don't know if it's flagged by site monitors or is an automatic process for certain types of user, or if it the system automatically uses other data to correlate results. I'd put my mind to it myself, but my kids are very demanding now (and rightfully so), and will be interested to hear the reason. |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: November 19 2009 at 05:33
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Shall I remove them? ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Henry Plainview
Date Posted: November 21 2009 at 17:39
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Remove what? ------------- if you own a sodastream i hate you |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: November 21 2009 at 17:46
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Now there's a VBScript error and I can't see any albums! edit: looks like this error is happening for every artist page. |
Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: November 21 2009 at 17:49
Vacation Bible School Cripts? That sounds serious!  ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
Padraic wrote:Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: November 21 2009 at 17:53
| I can get to individual albums, but not through the artist page. |
Posted By: Tuzvihar
Date Posted: November 21 2009 at 18:05
It seems so. And the player disappeared. There are links to individual tracks in its place...  I reported it in the bugs section: forum_posts.asp?TID=63037 - Something's wrong with bands' entries... ------------- "Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent." Charles Bukowski |
Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: November 21 2009 at 18:25
| I think the player thing is an improvement, you can still flip through a bands discography without disturbing you listening to a track. |
Posted By: Tuzvihar
Date Posted: November 21 2009 at 18:26
Yes, I think so too. ------------- "Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent." Charles Bukowski |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: November 21 2009 at 19:13
The asterisks of course!! I did it anyway. BTW I have no,problem with the pages with google chrome. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: November 21 2009 at 19:52
| Changing browsers doesn't effect anything for me. |
Posted By: Henry Plainview
Date Posted: November 21 2009 at 20:52
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AFFECT! ------------- if you own a sodastream i hate you |
Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: November 21 2009 at 20:53
| I know, but I was too lazy to change it. |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: November 21 2009 at 21:11
I must be plain lucky then. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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