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| Registered: March 10, 2007 |  Posts: 4,282 |
| | Posted: | | | | You can now view a list of links you've submitted which have received feedback as invalid. Click "View Link Feedback" on the main link submission page to view the list.
Some common things to check for the links:
- Make sure they follow the link guidelines (matching locality, site type, etc)
- Make sure the selected link category is appropriate
- Check whether the site requires a login. Some links may work for you if you have an auto-login set for the site but won't work for other users.
If a particular link has feedback but is valid, you can safely ignore the feedback. A single feedback vote won't remove the link from display and administrators also check the links before removing them. | | | | Invelos Software, Inc. Representative |
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| Registered: November 11, 2007 | | Posts: 58 |
| | Posted: | | | | Ken... Is it possible to see why our links were considered invalid by others? I just checked them, and as far as I could tell, there's nothing wrong with any of them... The other thing - on the list of entries that have received invalid feedback, there is a link to the subject with a link to the DVD underneath. Clicking on the bottom (DVD  link pulls up a page that says "Unable to edit locks for this profile" ... is that supposed to happen? | | | | Watching the world, one DVD at a time... |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 3,830 |
| | Posted: | | | | | | | | Sources for one or more of the changes and/or additions were not submitted. Please include the sources for your changes in the contribution notes, especially for cast and crew additions. |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 3,830 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting corkymcg: Quote:
The other thing - on the list of entries that have received invalid feedback, there is a link to the subject with a link to the DVD underneath. Clicking on the bottom (DVD link pulls up a page that says "Unable to edit locks for this profile" ... is that supposed to happen? Yes, the voter has a DVD from another location, UPC or EAN (as I understand it) His Blu-ray or DVD or HD DVD has the same title and the same movie release day. | | | | Sources for one or more of the changes and/or additions were not submitted. Please include the sources for your changes in the contribution notes, especially for cast and crew additions. | | | | Last edited: by ? |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 3,830 |
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Link only to the main page for the site - not to individual sections (trailers, reviews, information, etc) Am I correct with these statements: In the Trailers and Clips section www.apple.com/trailers/fox/i_robot/trailer3/ is a wrong link www.apple.com/trailers/fox/i_robot/ is a correct link movies.nytimes.com/movie/286093/I-Robot/overview is a correct link (trailer link on that page) link to mp3 files don't belong in any section | | | | Sources for one or more of the changes and/or additions were not submitted. Please include the sources for your changes in the contribution notes, especially for cast and crew additions. | | | | Last edited: by ? |
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| Registered: April 10, 2007 |  Posts: 51 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting corkymcg: Quote:
Ken... Is it possible to see why our links were considered invalid by others? I just checked them, and as far as I could tell, there's nothing wrong with any of them... Same here, just double checked all my "invalid links" but they're all ok. It would be good if there were a way for me further vaildate these flagged links. |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 |  Posts: 223 |
| | Posted: | | | | Ken,
Is there any way to leave a short message when you identify a link as invalid?
Case in point, for the animated Disney film 101 Dalmations there are three links which I've identified as invalid because they point to the live action film instead.
So, although these links "work", they're not for the right film. Would the screeners want to know why a link had been identified as invalid? |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 3,197 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Giga Wizard: Quote:
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Link only to the main page for the site - not to individual sections (trailers, reviews, information, etc)
Am I correct with these statements:
In the Trailers and Clips section
www.apple.com/trailers/fox/i_robot/trailer3/ is a wrong link
www.apple.com/trailers/fox/i_robot/ is a correct link
Technically neither is wrong but the first is redundant and not needed if there's a link to it from the main page. Quote:
link to mp3 files don't belong in any section
Dunno, if it's a sound clip... Why would it be different from a photo or video? But you should propbably only link to the page with the clips, not the mp3-files directly (as with .mov files). | | | | First registered: February 15, 2002 | | | | Last edited: by Nexus the Sixth |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,197 |
| | Posted: | | | | All but one of my "invalid" links were for imdb, wiki or apple sites in English for English produced movies. So what I'm I supposed to do about them, just ignore them?  Except one is in Swedish for a Swedish movie... Some German don't like.  | | | | First registered: February 15, 2002 | | | | Last edited: by Nexus the Sixth |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,197 |
| | Posted: | | | | Maybe we could have an optional locality preference setting in the user interface so we are only exposed to links in our native language, if we prefer... Seems rather pointless to submit links if people don't want them.  | | | | First registered: February 15, 2002 |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 17,804 |
| | Posted: | | | | Well, I think the positive and negative votings on the links do not only mirror the functionality/correctness of a link but more or less the personal preferences? !  | | | | Thorsten | | | | Last edited: by kahless |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | Ahhhh personal preference, I love it, something that in no way belongs in the Online in ANY FORM.
Skip | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it.
Outta here
Billy Video |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,197 |
| | Posted: | | | | I looked again on my negative votes and it seems that some users simply vote against it if it contains a %XX instead of a symbol. I find this offensive, it makes no difference whatsoever to the link.  | | | | First registered: February 15, 2002 |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 693 |
| | Posted: | | | | Good tool. Helped me correct few mistakes I made  Some NO votes are clearly wrong though  It will help allot if a NO voter will explain his decision. | | | | October 12th, 1985. Tonight, a comedian died in New York. |
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| Registered: November 11, 2007 | | Posts: 58 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Giga Wizard: Quote:
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The other thing - on the list of entries that have received invalid feedback, there is a link to the subject with a link to the DVD underneath. Clicking on the bottom (DVD link pulls up a page that says "Unable to edit locks for this profile" ... is that supposed to happen?
Yes, the voter has a DVD from another location, UPC or EAN (as I understand it) His Blu-ray or DVD or HD DVD has the same title and the same movie release day. I'm sorry ... I know I can be an idiot from time to time ... but I have no idea what that means... | | | | Watching the world, one DVD at a time... |
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| Registered: May 22, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,033 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting corkymcg: Quote:
Quoting Giga Wizard:
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Quoting corkymcg:
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The other thing - on the list of entries that have received invalid feedback, there is a link to the subject with a link to the DVD underneath. Clicking on the bottom (DVD link pulls up a page that says "Unable to edit locks for this profile" ... is that supposed to happen?
Yes, the voter has a DVD from another location, UPC or EAN (as I understand it) His Blu-ray or DVD or HD DVD has the same title and the same movie release day.
I'm sorry ... I know I can be an idiot from time to time ... but I have no idea what that means... when you attach a link to the profile, if you connect it by title/production year it will show up on all the profiles that have that title (or original title) and production year. This could include profiles in other localities. So the no vote you are seeing is from someone who owns one of these profiles, and since you don't have the profile in your collection it doesn't let you bring up that page on it. I have a couple of these too. As others stated, i put an English link for an movie produced in English and someone with a netherlands copy put a negative on it. Per the rules its a valid link, they just don't like it cause its not in their language. Thats most of them, one looks like its because someone else posted the same link after me in a version without %27 -Agrare |
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