Thanatos_Prime
-
Posts
135 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
1
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Articles
Downloads
Gallery
Blogs
Posts posted by Thanatos_Prime
-
-
Is anyone else having issues changing releases from Year to Month-Day-Year or am I just not figuring it out?
I also cannot review past the previous pages in pending changes, I can only see the first page there.
-
Ok here is another report or two:
It does not appear feasible to change a release date that is only a year to a month, date, year format.
it appears that making changes to the platforms themselves is now, possibly, more widely available, unfortunately not the images though.
I saw a few changes that did not appear to be from seasoned submitters.
I can only see the first page of my pending changes, there are not page choices shown. Nor is there a next page. I tested this in both Firefox and Chrome and verified no extensions were active.
-
And compilation is now a Genre NIIIIICE!
And so much easier to tell if Clear logos really are clear!
-
Firstly, I love many of the new changes to moderations format. The dark theme is going to be a blessing on days when I am battling a migraine. What I have an issue with is that the game does not show the platform for which you are making changes. This comes into play when I am approving screenshot images as we tend towards ones that match the original resolution of the platform and surely will come into play when approving box art of all kinds. Additionally, you only get a "preview view" of the primary game box, having that right in front of me has saved much time in the past so it will be hard to part with that.
Thank you for the attention to our side of things and for the wonderful program and site!
-
1
-
-
I have a few changes made 11/15/2023. In this case they do have a single rejection each and 14 approvals. Additionally, my account as I get close to having all but these 4 items approved my total pending changes goes into the negatives. Looks like if everything gets approved I would be at -14 (negative 14).
-
1 hour ago, faeran said:
Based on what we are seeing with those, it looks like it's just taken that long for your change to get enough approvals. Maybe a slower month than normal, or potentially more skips than normal.
Gotcha, if we have people skipping these fixes because of the level of fatigue with change requests and subsequent corrections for the Developer and Publisher fields. I can understand that very vividly.
-
1
-
-
To keep you posted, this particular item (above), which was submitted on the 27th of last month was finally accepted with no rejections this morning the 8th, a dozen days later, and with significantly lower moderation traffic these last few days. Meanwhile, there are still items from October waiting to be approved, one is attached
.
-
Sure here is one of the earliest ones:
-
Since the updates earlier this year that randomized the moderation queue things have taken longer and longer to get moderated. I currently have several items that were submitted on 10/27 in the early morning still awaiting 3 votes. There are zero rejections on these items, but still they wait. I have plenty of other submissions since then that have been approved. It feels like some part of the process has broken down.
-
One of the changes made in these updates to the Moderation of the DB was a randomization of the order in which changes get moderated. It used to be that a moderator would see the changes made in order of submission. In the new setup they are presented with some sort of weight system as to what gets addressed first, which is fine. However, the randomization breaks down when we have large volumes of change as we have had since someone/ones decided that all the Publisher and Developer names should no longer contain company info.
Since then the volume of changes has far outstripped the ability of moderators to keep up with the changes. This means that on the 3rd of November I still have items with zero rejections that were submitted in the early morning of the 27th that are pending. Perhaps this is a reflection on the amount of people we have moderating, but I really think it comes down to that randomization.
I'm not sure that I have a solution to present, perhaps the randomization needs to be tweaked in some fashion. Perhaps we need to attract more people to moderation or limit the amount of changes one person can enter in a given time period to allow issues like this to not arise.
-
1
-
-
Yes, normally if they do NOT have the same developer, then they are different games. The ones linked above, where one is now deleted had different developers. And the Scuba Diver and Sea Hunt 2600 games where Scuba Diver is currently on the chopping block have two different developers. I again am voting NOT to merge the two for this reason.
https://gamesdb.launchbox-app.com/games/details/41029-scuba-diver
https://gamesdb.launchbox-app.com/games/details/28818-sea-hunt
-
While we are on the subject here I would like to bring up that if you have 2 games that look the same, but they have 2 different developers, I would expect that they would be considered different games. Thoughts?
-
On 10/21/2023 at 2:43 PM, bpitt said:
I have a question about submitting changes. Here is my situation:
- Game A and game B appear to be the same game from screenshots and research.
- Game A was released in 1983
- Game B was released in 1987
- Game B has game A as an alternate name as well as other alternate names
I was going to suggest deleting game A as it had less info (alternate names and publishers) but game A was released first (1983) and therefore here is my question: Should game A be the official name of the game as it was released first?
If this is the case, I will submit deleting game B and add all alternate names and publishers to game A.
Give us links to both games and we can help you figure it out.
-
3 hours ago, C-Beats said:
Not sure anything is really being announced regarding who got the licenses, but most talks about that stream have been happening here
That thread is a box of spiders and I am not going to open the lid an inch. Thanks though!
-
Sorry to necro an old thread but I was looking for an update on the recent 10 Year Anniversary livestream event and giveaway. Where would be the best place to look for that information?
-
Getting this over and over again this morning while trying to moderate:
-
It is at 27 approvals now, still pending.
-
Thank you!
-
1
-
-
"The way Launchbox is coded, it will automatically detect if the box spine runs vertically or horizontally and it will add the spine accordingly to the 3D image."
Can I get a citation for this or a confirmation of this? Trying it on my own has not yielded positive results.
-
On 3/20/2023 at 9:00 AM, Jason Carr said:
FYI all, the previous issue with changes stuck in limbo was unfortunately reintroduced because a stored procedure got reverted (it was my mistake). Apologies for that (again). That has been fixed.
I still have one outstanding item, a C128 game that I accidentally added with scanlines on, which I will fix after approval or disapproval. It was submitted 3/16, and this is the current status as of this minute.
-
5 hours ago, Jason Carr said:
I've removed all duplicate games in the database, and added a restriction to the game table on the database that no two games can have the same title and platform.
YES!!!
-
1
-
-
Despite still working through the issues, the speed is just breathtakingly fast for moderations. As soon as I verify sources and click to approve it is on the next moderation in a flash! Absolutely outstanding!!
-
3
-
-
4 minutes ago, Jason Carr said:
Also, FYI, I just banned AlphaPictoris from the games database for uploading explicit porn games. We're going to be cracking down hard on this going forward. If you find porn in the moderation queue, I would appreciate it if you could take a screenshot of it and PM it to me (and of course, reject it). Thanks all.
To be clear the banning is for the images he uploaded, not the creation of the game itself, correct? Games can be created and modified as long as the content does not contain nudity or pornography?
-
I need help with this one: tried matching fonts and clearing out the background. Everything I try ends up looking like crap. Any help appreciated, want clear logo for Breakin' Briks for Amiga. There is no box, it is a homebrew. Here is the title screen.
I like the new Games DB layout and all....but....Recommendations
in Features
Posted
Alternately, maybe Neo Geo just needs people to stop *MOVING* cabs to Arcade and creating dupes.