Funny thing... I had 67 pics in my queue. Those pics stayed in my queue for a couple of days... Then I uploaded 200 pics... Now, no less than an hour or so later, I am down to 202 pics... Which means that 65 pics were dumped rather quickly... I am hoping that in a future upgrade we can view our queue and see what is and isn't dropped/denied/or whatever you want to call it. It just seems sort of fast after a large upload that most of my queue that was previously uploaded is gone.
Thamuz 16 years ago
I'm pretty sure that all the pictures are looked at randomly so there's no way to tell if those pics that just got looked at were the 67 you had uploaded before or the new ones.
It would be nice to be able to view our queue and keep track of what gets denied though. I'm sure implementing something like that would be a lot of work.
It would be nice to be able to view our queue and keep track of what gets denied though. I'm sure implementing something like that would be a lot of work.
RogueLeader 16 years ago
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Originally posted by Thamuz
It would be nice to be able to view our queue and keep track of what gets denied though. I'm sure implementing something like that would be a lot of work.
Yeah... that's what I'm concerned with. Maybe some sort of system where we can see the thumbnail of what is still in the queue?
Tarquin 16 years ago
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Originally posted by Assman!
Im starting to wonder just how random it actually is!
It's unlikely that it's actually "random" per se. More likely is that they come in a series and get stacked backwards chronologically.
Say for example I upload items 1-10. They're in order.
Then someone uploads items 11-20. They're in order too, but they're on top of 1-10. The pile then looks like:
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Add to this that in some cases, any time a server is refreshed, reloaded or re-ordered and it takes the files out of their previous order but still in a predictable pattern and it makes it very confusing, but still not entirely random, which is why pics often come up in groups still and get approved in groups still, even though it's not a consistent and holistic group.
This happens to me sometimes in the files I store. Despite putting them in a given order, every time my server calibrates, it changes the order of the icons I just uploaded - but they're still in roughly the same order for four or five icons, those four or five icons have simply shifted position among the 20 other sets of four or five icons in the server.
For example, if I had these 20 files on my server right now, tonight when my server backs up, reorganizes and refreshes, if I go back to it the files will be moved in terms of order (but still in the same directory I had them in) and they'll look like this:
16
17
18
19
20
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
1
2
3
4
5
That's when it's cutting the entire file system in half or shifting it around, and then re-stacks the order on its own. If I don't mandate a time and date stamp to the files (which I don't) then it'll do this to me and the order changes on my pretty constantly.
It's certainly not random, but it certainly is confusing as all fuck.
So it's not genuinely "random."
Indeed, the order shifts are predictable, but in such a way that it makes it totally tedious to predict that order and get them into order, and makes it even more difficult to explain to someone, so it becomes easier to observe it as "random" and to say that it's "random" even if it's not really random.
That's why we see (if we look back over the approval queue) that some pics that were obviously uploaded together still do come up together. There's some variation and pics do tend to get scattered, but there are chunks that stay together too and that just happen to dodge the file reorganizations when they happen.
It's probably chaotic as fuck, but it's probably not "random."
It's a fuck-ton easier to say "random" than what I just said, however.
Thamuz 16 years ago
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Originally posted by Assman!
Im starting to wonder just how random it actually is!
From my understanding it's just a pile of roughly 15,000 photos and the all the mods can do is kind of reach a hand in the pile and either approve or deny it.
That's one thing that bothers me though. If I upload a set of 40 pics of some chick for a series then all those pics should be looked at together. I notice all the time that when I upload a set that I've already posted in a thread, I end up seeing a lot of those pics uploaded by other people and then the series ends up incomplete when if the entire series was looked at together then all the pics could stay together in that series.
Bangledesh 16 years ago
So, I'll go ahead and say this for like the 10th time.
The order of the queue remains the same. The order in which the pics and videos are uploaded, is the order in which they're in the queue.
This is how moderation is done:
When a moderator "enters" the queue, they are placed into a random location within the queue. And they then moderate the files directly above, or directly below that point. This prevents conflicting (or identical) actions on the same file from different moderators. The queue, and moderation, is random in that the there are random entrance points for moderation. Not that the files are randomly shuffled or restructured.
We're operating with scores of GBs, not a Bingo wheel.
The order of the queue remains the same. The order in which the pics and videos are uploaded, is the order in which they're in the queue.
This is how moderation is done:
When a moderator "enters" the queue, they are placed into a random location within the queue. And they then moderate the files directly above, or directly below that point. This prevents conflicting (or identical) actions on the same file from different moderators. The queue, and moderation, is random in that the there are random entrance points for moderation. Not that the files are randomly shuffled or restructured.
We're operating with scores of GBs, not a Bingo wheel.
Tarquin 16 years ago
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Originally posted by Bangledesh
We're operating with scores of GBs, not a Bingo wheel.
Perhaps the "bingo wheel" notion merits investigation?
It'd be like a lottery thing. We could get a pick through the queue and be like, "Ca-Ching!"
