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Contrary to what my name might suggest, I don't speak a word of Spanish, nor do I have a hint of Spanish blood in me. I do love Spain and the Spaniards, however.
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Oh hell yes...
Added by el_dude on July 25, 2008 | |
I have crossed the 1,000 point mark. I am now going to go nuts with live edits.

UPDATE: For those of you who have not crossed 1,000 points yet, live edits are not all that different from what you are doing right now. You can add all sorts of information to a page, it still has to be moderated, and you still won't get any points whatsoever until the moderators have reviewed your submission. The only difference is that you can see your edits on that page as soon as you make them, whereas in the past, you'd still be staring at a blank page after you click "submit".


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Submissions Going Through
Added by el_dude on July 25, 2008 | |
It looks like the staff is finally getting around to some of my subs. Hopefully they'll get to all my screenshots by tomorrow, at which point I'll probably be over 1,000 points. I'm wondering how the points system works once you are able to make live edits. For example, if you write up a nice, long article, since your edits are now live and no one moderates it, who determines how many points you get for that submission? Is it handled by a computer? Given that points are given for quality as well as length, I find it difficult to believe that it would be handled by an automated system, as only a person would be able to judge the quality of submitted material...


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Queries and Bugs. UPDATE: VINNY REPLIES
Added by el_dude on July 23, 2008 | |
Just a few things I noticed after another day spent on the Bomb:

Query: First, I know Mjolnir, Aska, and others have brought this up, and it is a serious issue: are submissions being reviewed in the order they are received? I ask this because some of my text and screenshot submissions have been pending for 50+ hours now, while I see others' submissions going through fairly quickly. My concern is that someone else's article may get approved first even though it was submitted after mine, or that someone may post the same screenshots that I did and theirs will get approved first, so that my submissions are rejected when they are reviewed and I am deprived of points. I've PM'd a whole bunch of staff members about this, so hopefully we'll get a firm answer on the moderation order by tomorrow.

Bug: there seems to be a small bug when you go to "entire friends network" tab. I have more than 100 friends, but the site seems to be displaying only 2 pages, 50 friends per page, and no more than that.


UPDATE...VINNY REPLIES TO THE QUERY

Official response from Vinny (staff):

We have different queues for images than text so they are being processed at different rates. Other things, like minor changes, are just sometimes faster because they don't take as much time to verify or approve. For the most part though, we are going through all the major content submissions on a first come first serve basis.

The back of the queue is around 58 hours. As you can guess, we're pretty slammed, but working to get things moving faster and faster. That's one of the reasons you may see some of your submissions processed before others, as we refine our approval process.

Let me know if you have any concerns, we're definitely eager to get everyone's stuff up ASAP.

thanks,
Vinny

So there you have it. The official word is that the queue backlog is now 58 hours, and for the most part, submissions are being processed in the order they are received. Vinny has given me permission to post this PM and spread the word on the current queue status, so if anyone else out there wants to spread this info, feel free to do so...



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Brad Shoemaker is the Man
Added by el_dude on July 23, 2008 | |
Brad Shoemaker is my fucking hero. I sent him a PM last night complaining about my submissions "disappearing" (I sort of went on a tirade), and the guy was nice enough to actually PM me back with a reply, informing me that it was simply a glitch in the page navigation system and that my images were NOT lost (I want to post the PM but I won't, since it's a PM). Seriously, you have to be a badass to personally reply to a user's PM like that. Say it with me: "We love Brad! We love Brad!"

This guy is my hero









You have no idea how relieved I am. Thanks for the update, bro...


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Uh oh...
Added by el_dude on July 22, 2008 | |
I spent all of last night submitting close to 500 images, and they were ALL pending this morning. Now, I'm looking on my "Pending Subs" page under the "images" tab, and I see only about 25 images pending. I have received no notification in my feed or anywhere else about the other 475 images being accepted or rejected. They are just gone from my "Pending Subs" page. Please, for the love of God and all that is holy...PLEASE don't tell me there is a glitch with the web page and that I have to re-submit 475 images.


UPDATE: My God, I spoke to another user who was having the same problem and it seems like our submissions are gone, just like that. I know the site is in beta but I don't know if I can take the blow. Maybe you guys think I'm whining and being silly but I sat in front of the computer for hours last night scouring for screenshots, uploading them to this site, posting them to their respective pages, doing my part to contribute, and all my hard work is gone just like that. I'm gonna need some kind of guarantee that this won't happen again before I invest any more time and energy into making contributions to this site.


UPDATE 2: OK I made some new screenshot submissions about 15 minutes ago and those are not showing up under the "images" tab in "pending subs" either, so there is hope that rather than my 475 images being lost, they are still pending and just not showing up under "pending subs" due to a glitch in the website. I still have lengthy articles that have now been pending for 40+ hours. 4 people is not enough to go through these submissions. That is an impossible task. They need to get some new staff members ASAP.


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EXCUUUSE me "el_dude" OR IS THAT EVEN YOUR REAL NAME anyways, thanks for the friend request, you've given me one more thing to add to my list of things to be greatful for
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