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Introduction
This is a page for storing suggestions for tools or new site features. If something becomes agreed upon it can move over to the Todo List.
Cover Scan Management
Here's a conversation from the mailing list about covers:
And I would think that comparing pictures in this regard is technically doable, the question is if easy accessible code for that is available. Jochen Lionel English schrieb: > I think one thing that would also make the job easier is if we had a > place for a "last known good" scan. When replacement scans are loaded, > the current scan would be bumped to a "last known good" area instead of > deleted, and if there were problems with the new scan we could easily > restore the previous one. > > It might also be nice to have a feature (and I don't know if this is > possible) that would prevent people from loading a replacement scan that > is identical to the current scan. Maybe a mod to the program that > resized the incoming image, then did some kind of checksum comparison > against the current image, and if found to be identical the replacement > would be rejected with a message indicating "The scan you're trying to > load appears to be identical to the one currently marked for > replacement. Please load a new scan." > > Mike Nielsen wrote: >> Well, I'm not a senior editor so I should probably shut the hell up >> cause I don't know what you guys have talked about but here's my two >> cents... :) >> >> It's probably more than a one man job. A couple of people who keep an >> eye on the new covers directory, and maybe a mailing list for those >> folks to discuss things about a suspect cover. Then any requests to >> the error list for a replacement cover can be sent to these folks to >> look over and decide if a new cover is really needed. >> >> Obviously, when I say someone needs "the balls" to tell someone no, I >> mean we should be nice about it. I assume that goes without saying. >> The Valente thing makes me angry, and I'm sure Jim is tired of marking >> them only to see him reload the same damn cover over and over. >> >> Which reminds me I need to scan my Essential Super-Villian Teamup book >> and get it loaded so it's one less Jim has to deal with. I'll try to >> do that tonight Jim. >> >> >> Mike Nielsen >> >> */Donald Dale Milne <[email protected]>/* wrote: >> >> And, I think that if there's anyone here with the balls to tell a >> potential uploader that we already have a perfectly good cover, it's >> you >> too. >> >> Actually, I believe that it's inevitable there will be problems with >> some contributor sooner or later, as some of our contributor's scans >> would be frequently deleted. I suspect that anyone who would be a good >> cover editor would have to bounce some scans, fix some scans as >> permanent, and maybe go as far as Mike suggests and outright ban some >> people. >> >> - Don Milne >>