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By tag .. maybe.
By search .. very possible. I meant to do this, but it fell through before it went live.

I'll add those to my list of enhancements to figure out & implement.

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Originally Posted by nehalita

so for now should we leave the "complex" ones alone or reject it and add the other?

Add them as the simple ones. Don't reject the complex ones, though, I can always change them (either by alias or by renaming them altogether). Just make sure one is there .. preferably the simple (frc7, frc47, etc)

I just found another slew of these:

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prev        URL                                                next        Uploader

        http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/23763        23761        Clark Gilbert

23763        http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/23762        23761        Clark Gilbert

23762        http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/23761        23760        Clark Gilbert

23761        http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/23760        23757        Clark Gilbert

23760        http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/23759        23757        Clark Gilbert

23759        http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/23758        23757        Clark Gilbert

23758        http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/23757        23755        Clark Gilbert

23757        http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/23756        23755        Clark Gilbert

23756        http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/23755        23754        Clark Gilbert

23755        http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/23754        23753        Clark Gilbert

23754        http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/23753        23752        Wigginsgame

23753        http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/23752        23749        Bill Bennett

23752        http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/23751        23749        Bill Bennett

23751        http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/23750        23749        Bill Bennett

23750        http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/23749        23747        Bill Bennett

23749        http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/23748        23747        Bill Bennett

I'm thinking that this problem may be related to uploading pictures in batches. The ones with the uploader in blue appear to have been uploaded in batches, since their create times are bunched.

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And a possibly related symptom: When I click on "photos", the thumbnails that get displayed are out of order:

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http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/23763

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/23761

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/23762

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/23760

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/23757

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/23758

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/23759

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/23755

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/23756

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/23754

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/23753

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/23752

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/23749

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/23750

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/23751

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/23747

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does adding an additional param to the SQL query solve this?

Like: SORT BY uploaddate DESC id DESC, or something like that?

I don't know what's going on under the hood, but I remember having a problem like this one, and I solved it by adding the id, and mirroring the sort direction from the date.

Just an idea...

How about a "Tags:*** " counter for users, displayed underneath the counter for how many posts a user has made? There's space.

It could kind of serve as another indicator of how involved people are in the community, it could also be a nice incentive to for people to help out.

What do you think?

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Originally Posted by Cyberguy34000

I am planning on putting some CD-Media things in the profile -- I'll think about adding those.

One thing I will definitely add is a 'Search for CD-Media items uploaded by this user' quick-link.

Joel, you and Greg are dead on -- they all have the same upload date, so they aren't ordered properly. I added the ID yesterday and it didn't work for some reason, but I think I made a typo or something. :)

Should be fixed this time, for real.

I went ahead and made the photo upload page similar to the paper upload page. The big difference is: you have to put a title in with every image you upload. The rest is pretty much the same.

Let me know if there are any issues with it -- I'll check later tonight or early tomorrow morning.

CD-Media "feature report" & some questions

(I hope none of this is already covered in the FAQ. :rolleyes: )

This may be a feature or a bug. I'll let you make the call: When you click on "tags" under "everything", the list of "All Tags" is in alphabetical order. But if you click on "tags" under "photos" or "papers", the "All Tags" list is out of order. (Maybe it's in order by popularity or by date added.)

A question about tag popularity: Is it figured according to how many items receive a tag, or by how many clicks the tag receives?

A couple more questions about deleting tags:

When I vote to delete a tag, am I voting to delete the tag from the system, or just from the picture/paper.
(Is this the difference between a vote to delete via the "Vote on tag changes" button, and a request to delete a tag via the "delete tag" trash can icon?)
Why does the trash can icon show up on some tags and not others?

Re: CD-Media "feature report" & some questions

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Originally Posted by GW (Greg) Ross

This may be a feature or a bug. I'll let you make the call: When you click on "tags" under "everything", the list of "All Tags" is in alphabetical order. But if you click on "tags" under "photos" or "papers", the "All Tags" list is out of order. (Maybe it's in order by popularity or by date added.)

I still have to rewrite the tag clouds .. so I haven't been paying enough attention to them. The most popular ones (tag is used the most) are listed first, but that will probably change to be alphabetical system-wide.

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A question about tag popularity: Is it figured according to how many items receive a tag, or by how many clicks the tag receives?

How many items are tagged with that particular tag.

Quote:

When I vote to delete a tag, am I voting to delete the tag from the system, or just from the picture/paper.

From just that item.

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(Is this the difference between a vote to delete via the "Vote on tag changes" button, and a request to delete a tag via the "delete tag" trash can icon?)

When voting via the trash can, you are essentially removing it from the item, and then adding it again with 1 'delete' vote. If it truly should be deleted, two more deletes will get rid of it for good (from that item). When you vote to remove via the 'add/remove/abstain' page, it is already in voting process and you are just voicing yes/no ..

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Why does the trash can icon show up on some tags and not others?

It won't show up if it is currently being voted on. It won't show up for 'Who Am I' that is not your own, just yet (whoami weirdness prevents it from happening).

Re: CD-Media "feature report" & some questions

is there any option of having an "add all tags" option when voting? or perhaps one that selects "add" for everyone on that page and then we can just select which ones we want to delete out of that pool?

...it's not really THAT big of a deal but if it's a few lines of code it'd be cool. don't sweat it if it's too much =)

Escaped characters don't seem to be handled very well.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/24031?

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Originally Posted by Greg Marra

Escaped characters don't seem to be handled very well.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/24031?

Yeah, I just noticed this as well... When I put a 's in the title, it ended up showing \'s for some reason.

Must be a bug in the newly redesigned photo upload process .. I'll take a look at it later on ..

Thanks :)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brandon Martus

Must be a bug in the newly redesigned photo upload process .. I'll take a look at it later on ..

Thanks :)

The same thing happened to me. I put an apostrophe in the title of a picture that I uploaded, and it showed up escaped. I was able to edit out the backslash easily enough, though.