Opinion leaving bug

[Scintilla]

See <a href="http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... 271">video with no download links</a>.

See <a href="http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... 46271">the opinion system telling me I have to download the video before I can leave an opinion on it</a>.

Tell me what's wrong with this picture.

[godix]

Tell me what's wrong with this picture.

That you want to leave an opinion on a video you couldn't have downloaded and watched?

[BasharOfTheAges]

This was one of the points of putting the op blocker on there. The real bug is the ability to dowload from a direct or indirect link and not being able to leave an op.

[Malificus]

Tell me what's wrong with this picture.

That you want to leave an opinion on a video you couldn't have downloaded and watched?

That that person apparently has the same video listed twice in their profile under a barely different name?

[Scintilla]

Tell me what's wrong with this picture.

That you want to leave an opinion on a video you couldn't have downloaded and watched?

You're forgetting about conventions, file-sharing utilites, friends with CDs, etc.

[Scintilla]

This was one of the points of putting the op blocker on there.

Ah, but see, nothing's stopping me from leaving an op on <a href="http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... ?v=87">one of Maboroshi's videos</a> that was never released for download, or <a href="http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... 6993">this Evanescence video that I saw at AnimeNEXT 2004</a> but didn't download (or, for that matter, my *own* Evanescence video).

With MOST videos that have no links, you can leave ops fine. That's why I'm reporting this particular one as a bug.

[Kalium]

This was one of the points of putting the op blocker on there. The real bug is the ability to dowload from a direct or indirect link and not being able to leave an op.

No, it's not a bug at all. It's something not really detectable.

[Orwell]

This was one of the points of putting the op blocker on there. The real bug is the ability to dowload from a direct or indirect link and not being able to leave an op.

No, it's not a bug at all. It's something not really detectable.

Whenever somebody puts up a in/direct link, why not have it redirect to a page or counter to detect that the button has been clicked, and then take them where the original link points?

[Scintilla]

This was one of the points of putting the op blocker on there. The real bug is the ability to dowload from a direct or indirect link and not being able to leave an op.

No, it's not a bug at all. It's something not really detectable.

Whenever somebody puts up a in/direct link, why not have it redirect to a page or counter to detect that the button has been clicked, and then take them where the original link points?

The real problem is the lack of any way to confirm that a download from a direct or (especially) indirect link <i>completes</i> successfully. You'll notice that a video you download from the Golden Donut won't show up on your list of videos with pending star ratings until the download actually finishes.

That trackability of download completion has always been the stated reason that star ratings are allowed for local links but not for direct/indirect.


And speaking of the Golden Donut, somebody might want to update the text at the bottom of <a href="http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... w.php">the Donation Stats page</a> to remove that "the Donut can be <b>easily achieved</b>" part, considering that it's BEEN achieved already for over 3.5 years now.

[BasharOfTheAges]

Er... there should have been question marks in my post. Been feeling a bit out of sorts lately-