Two way name validation
Issue #4706
new
So one idea I had to make all filenames to be scrape-ready would be to have a two way name validation, I know this can go very wrong, so I was thinking of database populated by the community use. I don't know the actual cost of this in terms of traffic but bear with me.
Let me break it down:
It will be a 4 field table with id, original_file_name, launchbox_suggested_filename and votes:
- User CTRL+E on a game and fixes the game's name so it can be scraped
- User selects the right game name from the Launchbox suggestion list
- Launchbox asks if user wants to also update the filename, so it's never wrong again.
- Launchbox checks if the current filename exists on the database
- If it does then this id is updated with +1 vote
- If it doesn't a new register is created with 1 vote
- The greater the vote count the more reliable the data is.
- Eventually LaunchBox will have enough data to suggest more accurately the name of the game.