Quote by kayurachan@hitodama: thanx for reminding me, there's a way to
skip that out so that a character won't be added to multiple series/games/etc. I'll ask Sheqel to fix it :3
But please let's not go off-topic, ok? Issues on tags can be directed here: Tag Admin Thread.
I don't think this is off-topic at all -- it could be one reason for the problem, why there are many images that
get multiple tags that may not apply?
I don't know about the instance the person was referring to, or if it should have applied, but it sounded like they
were surprised that it had been automatically added and that maybe it was not appropriate.
If that's the case, then what I've been complaining about is a bug and I've been getting harassed for
reporting the symptoms of the bug. (And maybe the admin in charge of that section is merely defending the status quo and
wasn't aware of the bug, until now?, but why deflect the comment as not relevant to this thread when it might be a
contributing factor to the problem?)
Also, this whole topic is about tag confusion between "Queen's Gate" and "Queen's Blade",
so it _seems_ the comment may have some direct bearing on this problem.
merged: 04-26-2010 ~ 03:31am
Quote by fireflywishesAstara,
Honestly, what you're asking us to do is too much. You seem to think that we are being paid to Moderate on this
site and that we have all the time in the world to make things perfect and to YOUR liking. We are just normal people
with normal lives, who help out on the site out of the goodness of our hearts and love of anime/Japanese culture.
It's not that they need to be perfect to my liking, but that run into problems --- but to add insult to injury
(hyperbole), I get slammed for any attempts to fix the problem:
Quote by kayurachanThe tags
you created for the QB gallery just don't make ANY sense.
First warning for bad tagging. Any more and you'll be restricted.
If you don't like our tagging system then just look for another anime community that meets your
standards.
I asked exactly which tags on which images were a problem, and she gave no response.
I mentioned the irony of the situation, of her threatening to restrict me from tagging my images-- as she was the one
who wanted me to tag them in the first place. I DID try to please, and then get this. Ya wonder why I might be a teensy
eensy bit miffed?
So honestly? What might be great for you to do? Is to not do so much and mangle my tags -- you claim I'm asking you
to do too much, it's what I'm asking you not to do -- like mangle my tags and throw restriction notes at me --
for trying to do what you say is to much for you to do (the more specific category tagging on my images) -- it's
not that I was asking you to do it for me, but to let me do it for my images -- and hopefully allow it for future images
and stop merging my tags for the series into aliases for the game.
Maybe you weren't aware of the the full situation?
Astara
merged: 04-26-2010 ~ 03:50am
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Quote by kayurachanSeparating galleries into anime vs manga (or game, or
whatever you like) has already been discussed with our admins and rejected.
It would require a hard and time consuming work. Since there's no script or such "trick", we should tag
all 300.000+ gallery items manually. And that would be in charge of our staff
since members could make mistakes and create further mess in our galleries.
Just because it might not have been a good idea in the past, doesn't mean it might not be now (or in the future).
The landscape is constantly changing. It seems that that amount of items in an anime DB will constantly be increasing
going forward.
It will be the case that eventually categories will become unweildy -- too large to be useful to narrow down to find an
image.
Now this is also, partly in light of bandwidth and server constraints. If my line speed to static.minitokyo.com
wasn't as low as 5-10KB/s on a slow hour, then that would help -- but congestion is what is, for now -- whether
there, here or in the middle.
Meanwhile, I have the same problems in my file system. I sometimes need to find new ways to break apart existing
categories so I can still find things.
And while it seems impossible to go back and deal with past images -- as I tried to say before -- it doesn't have
to be done now or at any point -- but there's no reason to stop the opening of the category specific labels for
future inclusion -- which is what is happening. I've not pushed for anyone to go through and relabel everything
from the past -- though double-labeling everything in queen's gate with queens blade seems consfusing, at least
I'm now aware of a way of working around that -- the
new query syntax is very helpful in that regard (aka queen's blade -queen's gate).
As for the idea of staff being overworked, maybe more members need to be made staff. Either ask for volunteers who are
willing to take a 'light touch approach' or volunteer them, but at the least stop giving demerits to people
who are trying to help the system and telling them they make no sense (especially when you can't give
examples).
