Ritchardo Posted August 17, 2022 Share Posted August 17, 2022 (edited) Forgive me if I am doing / have done something wrong here but I'm a little confused by some new entries I've created over the past day or so. I'll take this one as an example. I created an entry for the game 'Robot Attack' on the Amstrad CPC (a somewhat forgettable lightgun shooter). Everything has gone through moderation and been approved so I decided to refresh the metadata and update the game in my own collection to reflect the database and found there was no available images to download - which seemed odd as I was sure I'd added a Box Front and Screenshot. Had a search on the database and found two entries for the same game - they are the exact same entry except the second one has images attached to it while the first doesn't: https://gamesdb.launchbox-app.com/games/details/164355 https://gamesdb.launchbox-app.com/games/details/164356 I figured user error somewhere and marked the first one for deletion but I also decided to check the database for the other approved entries and found that the same thing has happened with the other CPC game I've created and had approved. https://gamesdb.launchbox-app.com/games/details/164358 https://gamesdb.launchbox-app.com/games/details/164357 The issue is only on the CPC games I created, it hasn't cropped up on the Atari ST ones I made. Anyone seen this before or have any idea what went wrong - just so I can try to avoid doing it again?! EDIT: I've gone back through the Change Status log and one thing I have noted about these two titles is that they've received 4 approvals rather than the customary 3 is it something to do with that maybe - the last approval has been registered twice perhaps? Edited August 17, 2022 by Ritchardo Further info Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurzih Posted August 17, 2022 Share Posted August 17, 2022 (edited) I'm afraid it's very old database bug. I've tried to troubleshoot it a lot, but no one seems to know the specific reason. It's possible that there are too many moderators at the same time accepting/rejecting or someone slower than others resulting in a fully accepted entry when it's like 3-0 and then the slower moderation re-creates an entry without media files? Just a thought, can't be sure. It's happened to me too many times when I've added a huge number of missing games during 1-2 weeks for example. Edited August 17, 2022 by kurzih Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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