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Subject: I removed the decade designation on parodies
Too many stupid complaints about wether a parody belongs in the 90s or the 2000s... The parody index will probably also change to a strictly artist based listing in the future, but that's a little more involved, so I don't know when I'll get around to that..
I'm also chaning the "Originally By" to "Based on the performance by" which is more inline with what I meant when I wrote that.. some people need everything spelt out for them based on some of the comments being left on parodies lately..
Subject: Re: I removed the decade designation on parodies
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Too many stupid complaints about wether a parody belongs in the 90s or the 2000s... The parody index will probably also change to a strictly artist based listing in the future, but that's a little more involved, so I don't know when I'll get around to that..
I'm also chaning the "Originally By" to "Based on the performance by" which is more inline with what I meant when I wrote that.. some people need everything spelt out for them based on some of the comments being left on parodies lately..
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Great news! This will hopefully eliminate some of the irrelevant commentary in the comments sections :D Thanks Chuck.
Subject: Re: I removed the decade designation on parodies
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Great news! This will hopefully eliminate some of the irrelevant commentary in the comments sections :D Thanks Chuck.
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If you see any really stupid decade complaints, feel free to report them as "inappropriate" and I'll deal with them.. it's clear there's a small group of individuals who can't comment on anything else about a parody, and feel a need to nitpick it to death, so I'm all too happy to remove their comments at this point
Subject: Re: I removed the decade designation on parodies
I echo Pippin's sentiments. Great moves, both. Thanks Chucky!
Subject: Re: I removed the decade designation on parodies
That's a good idea, Chuck. Hey, what's with the rash of wierd postings where the lyrics appear where the parody titles should be? Just look at today's submittal, as an example:
http://www.amiright.com/parody/70s/blindedbythelight0.shtml
It doesn't even have the author's name listed.
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Too many stupid complaints about wether a parody belongs in the 90s or the 2000s... The parody index will probably also change to a strictly artist based listing in the future, but that's a little more involved, so I don't know when I'll get around to that..
I'm also chaning the "Originally By" to "Based on the performance by" which is more inline with what I meant when I wrote that.. some people need everything spelt out for them based on some of the comments being left on parodies lately..
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Subject: Re: I removed the decade designation on parodies
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That's a good idea, Chuck. Hey, what's with the rash of wierd postings where the lyrics appear where the parody titles should be? Just look at today's submittal, as an example:
http://www.amiright.com/parody/70s/blindedbythelight0.shtml
It doesn't even have the author's name listed.
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I wish I knew what was causing this.. I've been removing the parody from the site when it does, hoping the author resubmits.. it's like the site is losing a field on me when it writes out the data, but it doesn't appear to be following a pattern.. I'm going to have to look closer at this, since it appears to be happening more often..
Subject: Re: I removed the decade designation on parodies
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I wish I knew what was causing this.. I've been removing the parody from the site when it does, hoping the author resubmits.. it's like the site is losing a field on me when it writes out the data, but it doesn't appear to be following a pattern.. I'm going to have to look closer at this, since it appears to be happening more often..
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Just a quick thought here: At another forum that I used to visit very regullarly before I found this place we had a problem with something we came to call crosspostings. Basically the problem was that if 2 people submitted something within the same second, it became a 50-50 chance that both submission would end up under the wrong thread rather than the right one.
Maybe some timing thingie like that is behind this too?
Subject: Re: I removed the decade designation on parodies
I don't think so, I use lockfiles to prevent the same file from being accessed at the same time.. I think this is something else
Subject: Re: I removed the decade designation on parodies
CG - So glad you removed the decades thing and changed the artist from original to based on performance. I really hate that nitpicking as well. Who cares as long as the reader can identify the song. What really gets my goat is someone commenting that they knock off a point for getting it as they say 'wrong' or giving a point for knowing the real original artist. This is not in the voting criteria and is just irratating to see. Like you said - some need to have everything spelled out and cannot seem to grasp the concept of spirit and intent. Thanks!
Subject: Re: I removed the decade designation on parodies
That also was a relief to me not to really sweat the decade, because somebody would either say it was wrong anyway or something else irrelevant, like the 1st recorded instance...blah, blah... ::) Thanks!!
Subject: Re: I removed the decade designation on parodies
Thank you so much for doing that.
However, some of the parody URL's will probably always contain incorrect information; there's probably nothing anyone can do about that. Oh well :-X