PIN & POP PIN & POP Site Announcements & Ideas

[momin.ator]

We're working on some ideas to make this better without putting too much more pressure on our amazing Mod team - We'd like to avoid a "holding pen" or a mandatory review process if possible as I think it could cause MORE duplicates if we don't review and release fast enough. We definitely agree that the dupes are a big problem as it stands and is in need of a better solution. (keep posting ideas if you've got them)

What exactly are you doing now?

 

[sls778]

I believe these should be fixed now (let me know if you still encounter these issues).
When reviewing offers you can see more information on that offer by clicking on the row (anywhere except the checkbox) to expand it. It will show condition, condition notes and backer card - even if they haven't filled it in.

Thank you for letting me know about these issues. It's very helpful in getting things fixed up quickly.

Hi Chris! Not sure if this is on your list yet but I noticed if a trade is accepted via second chance board, it’s not flipping the pin tag from trader to traded. If you go into the log book it does show it’s been traded, but it’s also staying active in your list of traders. Attached photos of 2 examples (Pooh and Archimedes owl pins)

 

[Randakinskywalker]

What exactly are you doing now?

Heya! (Pin and Pop mod here for those who don't know since I'm a serial lurker). To clarify: are you asking what the current submission process is or something else?

If current submission process, I can answer that. Pin listings are posted as soon as they're submitted. There's currently no review process. I think we've talked about it before but a) we don't want to be too stifling and b) as Chris said, we don't want people to be working hard on listings that may have already been submitted and are sitting in a queue. We haven't finished backfilling the database yet so it would become a pretty large queue vs if we had our database up to date to this point and were only looking at brand new releases and very rare pin submissions.

For duplicates, we rely on people reporting them when they see them (we look for them too), mostly. Chris also has a tool built that searches the database for duplicate PTDB and MPC ID numbers and will automatically flag those as duplicates for us to review, though those also require the people submitting the pins to be adding those IDs. I think it also combs for similar names/series but I'm not positive. Our current duplicates queue is 511 pins.

 

[Chris Nickols]

What exactly are you doing now?

@Randakinskywalker is correct (and one of our amazing mods). As for a possible solution to the issue, I think we need to figure out how to empower more people to be able to make corrections without putting more pressure on the mods to fix the mistakes and also prevent destructive changes that can result from making it too open. The mods have a great sense of how to keep it all consistent so if we could get more contributors to collaborate with our mods - and develop more tooling to assist that collaboration - then we'd probably have something more scalable and sustainable.

 

[Chris Nickols]

Hi Chris! Not sure if this is on your list yet but I noticed if a trade is accepted via second chance board, it’s not flipping the pin tag from trader to traded. If you go into the log book it does show it’s been traded, but it’s also staying active in your list of traders. Attached photos of 2 examples (Pooh and Archimedes owl pins)

This has been fixed. Thank you for letting me know about it - the screenshots helped so much.