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Okay, I have a lot of pics I'm going to submit to the upload box. (I hope I don't get in trouble for accidentally flooding duplicates, but then again I seem to remember reading something about and...MD5 tag? Let's hope that covers my butt. :P) My problem is that I don't know what to put in the "Download From" box.
Help me please? :(
Updated by albert
sexbunny24 said: Well that makes sense I suppose. Won't hurt to try, nya? :3
If you have no source, you don't put a source.
Images with source are preferred, but it's perfectly understandable that someone just uploading from their HDD won't know where it came from. So go ahead.
jxh2154 said:
In some cases, yes definitely. Link the image itself whenever you can. The artist's database page has a field for adding the site URL.
Problem is... there are some images that have problematic URLs. I think you raised this concern in this thread but never got a reply. forum #647
Quess said:
But it usually helpful in finding artist, especially when I see a source filled up but no artist, by using the "Find artist" link. Or am I doing it wrong?
When you hit Find Artist, that queries against the artists db. You are right that setting the source to something users can visit is helpful, but if you are downloading directly from the artist's site that necessitates going back to update the post manually.
albert said:
When you hit Find Artist, that queries against the artists db. You are right that setting the source to something users can visit is helpful, but if you are downloading directly from the artist's site that necessitates going back to update the post manually.
So only the person posting is the one inconvenienced. I always download what I post so I have not problem with that.
Quess said: Problem is... there are some images that have problematic URLs. I think you raised this concern in this thread but never got a reply. forum #647
Yes but that doesn't mean one should not put the proper link in. If you're uploading the image yourself, and have the link, then you should be able to add the artist if it isn't already there.
If not, leave a comment with the homepage URL and let someone else source it and create the database entry.
albert said: The artist DB is completely separate from what you put in the source field.
Yes, but in terms of find artist, having the image URL helps, right? Either way, it seems like we've always tried to link to the image, and should continue to do so, when possible.
sexbunny24 said:
(I hope I don't get in trouble for accidentally flooding duplicates, but then again I seem to remember reading something about and...MD5 tag? Let's hope that covers my butt. :P)
Since no one seems to have mentioned it, there is indeed a duplicate image filter. It's pretty good from my experience so don't worry about it. You should probably still manually check since it wastes bandwidth to upload it only to have it rejected, but it can be hard as a non-priv user since things aren't always rated like you'd imagine them being.
Flush said: Since no one seems to have mentioned it, there is indeed a duplicate image filter. It's pretty good from my experience so don't worry about it.
I thought so too, but there are a loooooooot of dupes coming up in the regular member uploads in the mod queue.
I wonder if maybe the dupe detection could be a little less strict? If it's the same image moved to the left by a pixel, it should probably come up as a dupe. And could slight resizes be recognized too? I know nothing about how difficult this would be.
So this may be unrealistic, but is there a way for the system to warn that it's a dupe AND show you the duplicate image, so you can compare and decide if you still actually want to upload it? It could reject *exact* matches straight up, but gray area stuff could be given the choice, perhaps?
The problem is figuring out how to determine two images are similar when they aren't byte-level copies. I may decide to implement http://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/query/mrquery.pdf one day but it's not a trivial problem.
