Delete FIDs with bad CRC and >=1 users [DENIED]

Skywalka · Post by **Skywalka** » Thu Mar 25, 2004 2:39 pm

The check could be performed once a day. FIDs that are older than 14/28 or whatever days which have a bad crc and only 1 or 0 users would be deleted

With now around 20000 users I think it is safe to say that the propability of a file beeing of any user afer let's say 28 days with only one or less users AND a bad crc is close to zero if not negative.

I think entries like this just produce server load / the time it takes to display all files of a given anime.

kidan · Post by **kidan** » Fri Mar 26, 2004 12:41 am

I think you'll have to go one step further:

Actually the DB should still know about that file (=ed2k-hash/size) and either just hide it or alternatively prohibit anybody but a mod to readd this file (Of course the reason 'corrupted not spread version' should be presented to the user).

Iceman[grrrr] · Post by **Iceman[grrrr]** » Fri Mar 26, 2004 3:19 am

Again, I am against deleting files that have 1 user.

All files without any user should be deleted 1 week after creation.

Wormlord1442 · Post by **Wormlord1442** » Fri Mar 26, 2004 6:44 pm

Certain files without users can still be useful, because many people don't use AniDB to keep track of their files, but they do share them.

I added some spanish files that I'm not sharing, but they had lots of sources. Those files started with 0 sources, and they stood that way for a long time, but now some of them have users. If you had deleted them, any spanish user who prefers spanish subtitles wouldn't have found the links.

Lack of content leads to lack of interest.

rowaasr13 · Post by **rowaasr13** » Sat Mar 27, 2004 2:15 am

I disagree. For example, right now I'm only one user for this file, but there is other sources for it in ed2k and I've never seen correct file so why remove this one, at least until there's correct file?

There's another thing to think about. Right now if file have "Bad CRC", someone who latter add his own files can see it. If you just delete entry, there's big chance that next user with this file just add this file back without checking good/bad CRC at all.

Iceman[grrrr] · Post by **Iceman[grrrr]** » Sat Mar 27, 2004 2:58 am

at last, other people thinking my way!

Post by **exp** » Sat Mar 27, 2004 8:40 am

i don't think deleting files which have users is a good idea.
they're part of those users mylist after all.

and the deprecated files feature should also take care of the
"cleaning" of the anime page quite nicely.
so i don't think that any more cleaning is required currently.

BYe!
EXP

Skywalka · Post by **Skywalka** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 10:52 am

I totally agree. With the new view option my request becomes obsolete and in fact for now and I guess for some time in the future it is good to keep adding stuff to the DB as long as this is no problem performance- transfer- and storage-wise.

We don't have to implement something that is pretty much "board-nazi" like to AniDB ^_^

Post by **PetriW** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 12:18 pm

AOM doesn't like too many files though, soon I'll have to implement some hide or partial load feature.
Problem is doing it without it being very noticeable to the user.

Skywalka · Post by **Skywalka** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 12:29 pm

since the "deprecated" files have now been implemented you could choose to not display those and load them after two clicks - after someone opened the anime and then clicked an additional "load deprecated files" button - just the way it is now on the web in anidb.

Post by **PetriW** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 12:34 pm

if only it was that easy...