Mon Jan 25, 2010 12:31 am
The biggest problem, perhaps, is that OpenSubtitles is a repository. It's fancy and popular but it's just a repository.
The data is created elsewhere and there are no built-in control or tools in OpenSubtitles to help creators. So there is no incentive to create stuff yourself and post it to the site. There's incentive for uploading and, in a lesser way, for hashmatching.
The current system rewards people who behave badly (that's not the intention, but it's the effect), and the users are picking that up and running with the idea. I've seen people upload the same subtitle as 20 different languages so it counts 20 times (they change just enough for the algorithms to count it as different). Just today I flagged five subtitles for Alice in Wonderland that were in the wrong language and were almost exact duplicated of others uploaded by the same user before.
Obviously, admins can help with this, but controls need to be built-in as internet scales mean not enough admins can deal with the problems.
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[url=http://eduo.info/soleol/]OpenSubtitles from your desktop: SolEol for Mac/Windows/Linux[/url]
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