Small complaint about this years VCA's

[Osakaisthebomb]

I really don't get the strange names for the awards. I mean yeah I've been gone a while and maybe somewhere in that time the awards names were created and the choice of the names made sense then, but they are SO darn confusing. I don't know what Half of these video won for. At least put an explanation of what the award is based on under the name. This was done at the start of this years contest but that was thrown out as the days passed.

Seriously why complicate this process so much?

[mirkosp]

Hover the mouse on the name of the awards and you get a tooltip with the "old" category name and description.
It's not implemented very well due to :reasons:, hopefully next year it'll be setup better.

[NS]

You guys keep saying hover, and people keep bitching because it's a bad system. You'd think you woulda just put the real names in the results for the finals since the semi finals had the same bitching. But I guess we don't learn from mistakes :O.

[mirkosp]

You guys keep saying hover, and people keep bitching because it's a bad system. You'd think you woulda just put the real names in the results for the finals since the semi finals had the same bitching. But I guess we don't learn from mistakes :O.

I did ask G_Q. What he told me was that due to how VCA system handles the thing, it wasn't really possible to do any better anymore at that point in time... he was more specific, but I don't really remember the exact issue and the exact words, so this is about all I have. He did say that we'd do better for next year, yes, but that's about it...

[Phantasmagoriat]

I don't know how the original page is generated, but after a couple minutes of ctrl+h, ctrl+c, ctrl+v you can use this page instead:

True Award Names for 2011 VCAs | (Original)

I didn't really follow the VCAs this year, so I thought it was an early April fools joke
Still, I favor simplicity, so I even omitted redundant words like Best, Most .. Video, Award... etc...

Org so silly

[Corran]

Mirko, it is all database based... you guys would only need to rename the categories now that the contest is over.


EDIT: And if you really want to keep the current names somewhat you could swap the titles with the hover text... That way someone looking for instrumental or sentimental don't have to hover over every link to find what they are looking for and the Eva related title is still readable in the hover.

[CodeZTM]

I tend to agree. On the forums, it's cute and could have really good images incorporated with the help of our designers.

But when voting, it's just a pain. A very big pain.

[NS]

I don't even care about the fact that there are different titles, but the fact that you had the real ones ONLY one hover was the only thing that was weird. It should always at least be under or to the side of it.

[trythil]

You whiners.

Just write a Greasemonkey script to do the replacement on the fly. All the data is in the document.

[trythil]

You whiners.

Just write a Greasemonkey script to do the replacement on the fly. All the data is in the document.

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// ==UserScript==
// @name           Rewrite awards
// @namespace      org.ninjawedding.whiners
// @description    Rewrites VCA descriptions for the lazy.  God, I was hoping I wouldn't ever look at that damn page ever again.
// @include        http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members/amvvca/2011/
// ==/UserScript==

var vcaResults = document.getElementById('vcaResults'),
    categories = vcaResults.getElementsByTagName('abbr'),
    synopsisPattern = new RegExp(/^\(([^\)]+)\)/),
    matchResult,
    category,
    i,
    synopsis;

for (i = 0; i < categories.length; ++i) {
  category = categories[i];
  matchResult = synopsisPattern.exec(category.getAttribute('title'));
  synopsis = matchResult[1];

  if (synopsis) {
    category.innerHTML = synopsis;
  }
}