On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 08:36:20 +0100, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
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Perhaps... shift the operational policy, have the bot tag not result in auto deletion 7 (or n) days later, but require a manual review to shift it into an auto-delete n days later category?
A lot of people seems to be confused on this point. Let's clearify: There is no such thing as automatic deletion categories. Yes there have been a couple of icolated incidents where an admin have gotten a bit carried away and used a script of some kind to delete everyting in such a category without first reviewing the contents, but that's *NOT* policy, that's misuse (or at least irresponsable use) of admin powers.
What often does happen is that someone will review a tonne of images over the course of a couple of hours/days and then when only "bad" images remain in the category use a tool or script to delete them with one click. It might be hard to tell the difference by just looking at the deletion log, but it's a very importnat distinction.
Bottom line is automatic deletion of images should not be happening and if it does the problem lies with the admin carrying out the deletion, not the fact that the tags placed on the images say that they may be deleted after a scertain deadline if they don't comply with policy. Humans *are* supposed to review them first to make sure they do not in fact comply with policy (and hopefully fix the ones that can be trivialy made to comply with policy as well). These humans can and do naturaly screw up and make mistakes from time to time, but remember it's always possible to undelete images later if the reason for deleting them are found to be lacking.
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