2007 VCAs Begin!
- Willen
- Now in Hi-Def!
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This also wouldn't address the wide variety of other non-english songs that people use. I've seen videos with Russian, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Korean, Chinese, Finnish, Swedish, Spanish, Japanese, and many more. Not to mention that getting correct spelling for these songs and artists is probably asking for a miracle considering some people here can barely spell words in their native language.
Plus, there's a giant chunk of videos that use movie trailer audio, TV commercials, spoken audio, and other sources instead of songs. And don't forget the (usually horrible) renditions of songs used in the Iron Chef Idol MEPs 'sung' by the participants. I kid, some performances are pretty good.
Having said this, I still support something to be done to clean up the more egregious errors (Likin Park, Lincoln Park, Linken Park, -linkin park-, **Linken Park**, **Linken Park**, and other similar misspellings, plus the variations that include the song name and/or the album name with the artist name). The scary thing is, doing this will probably add about 2000 more entires to Linkin Park's over 5000 AMV count.
Plus, there's a giant chunk of videos that use movie trailer audio, TV commercials, spoken audio, and other sources instead of songs. And don't forget the (usually horrible) renditions of songs used in the Iron Chef Idol MEPs 'sung' by the participants. I kid, some performances are pretty good.
Having said this, I still support something to be done to clean up the more egregious errors (Likin Park, Lincoln Park, Linken Park, -linkin park-, **Linken Park**, **Linken Park**, and other similar misspellings, plus the variations that include the song name and/or the album name with the artist name). The scary thing is, doing this will probably add about 2000 more entires to Linkin Park's over 5000 AMV count.
- BasharOfTheAges
- Just zis guy, you know?
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Even with the "random" entries, a significant portion of the database would be cleared up with the method trythil suggested. It may have to be part of a multi-tiered strategy, but it would more than likely fix a good 80% of the problems by itself.
The results would, sadly, still have to be sifted through by volunteers.
The results would, sadly, still have to be sifted through by volunteers.
- Vlad G Pohnert
- Joined: Tue Jan 02, 2001 2:29 pm
- Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Well, basically the key work is volunteers...BasharOfTheAges wrote:Even with the "random" entries, a significant portion of the database would be cleared up with the method trythil suggested. It may have to be part of a multi-tiered strategy, but it would more than likely fix a good 80% of the problems by itself.
The results would, sadly, still have to be sifted through by volunteers.
Anyway, this dicussion is best left for another thread
Vlad
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Find me some that don't exist in the MB database, and it's not too hard to get them entered. The replicated database I wrote about can, and should, be regularly synced with MB's master database.Willen wrote:This also wouldn't address the wide variety of other non-english songs that people use. I've seen videos with Russian, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Korean, Chinese, Finnish, Swedish, Spanish, Japanese, and many more. Not to mention that getting correct spelling for these songs and artists is probably asking for a miracle considering some people here can barely spell words in their native language.
The problem of non-music sources can be addressed initially by the overrides table I wrote about. As time goes on, we can look into linking that up to some other source.
As far as spelling and the like go...well, yes, that will still be a problem.
My proposal is designed to provide an approximate solution to the technical problems of tracking and merging duplicates, and maintaining a list of audio sources. It cannot address, and was not meant to address, the larger social problem of stupid and/or lazy people.
- Vlad G Pohnert
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Hi All,
The second round of the VCAs has arrived! Go vote for your favorite videos from the semi-Final lists!
However, I'm also sad to say that we've found a few cheaters in our community who thought they could get away with stacking votes ... but we've taken care of that and they will be dealt with...
Vlad
The second round of the VCAs has arrived! Go vote for your favorite videos from the semi-Final lists!
However, I'm also sad to say that we've found a few cheaters in our community who thought they could get away with stacking votes ... but we've taken care of that and they will be dealt with...
Vlad
- dokool
- Sir Gaijin Smash
- Joined: Wed Jul 31, 2002 9:12 pm
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Hot damn, I made the semis out of nowhere. Ego boost !Vlad G Pohnert wrote:Hi All,
The second round of the VCAs has arrived! Go vote for your favorite videos from the semi-Final lists!
However, I'm also sad to say that we've found a few cheaters in our community who thought they could get away with stacking votes ... but we've taken care of that and they will be dealt with...
Vlad
I look forward to seeing how FMH competes in the "Who's Going To Lose To Doki" category.
- Ileia
- WHAT IS PINK MAY NEVER DIE!
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dokool wrote:Hot damn, I made the semis out of nowhere. Ego boost !Vlad G Pohnert wrote:Hi All,
The second round of the VCAs has arrived! Go vote for your favorite videos from the semi-Final lists!
However, I'm also sad to say that we've found a few cheaters in our community who thought they could get away with stacking votes ... but we've taken care of that and they will be dealt with...
Vlad
I look forward to seeing how FMH competes in the "Who's Going To Lose To Doki" category.
Actually, it's sad because he's probably gonna split his vote like poor JCD did in the dance category last year.
- dokool
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Hmm, didn't think of that. Time to raise the dead and make'm all register!Ileia wrote:Actually, it's sad because he's probably gonna split his vote like poor JCD did in the dance category last year.dokool wrote:Hot damn, I made the semis out of nowhere. Ego boost !Vlad G Pohnert wrote:Hi All,
The second round of the VCAs has arrived! Go vote for your favorite videos from the semi-Final lists!
However, I'm also sad to say that we've found a few cheaters in our community who thought they could get away with stacking votes ... but we've taken care of that and they will be dealt with...
Vlad
I look forward to seeing how FMH competes in the "Who's Going To Lose To Doki" category.
On another note, when did become an actual icon?
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