Eduo, in regards to your comment: people saying its “horrible, horrible”. Why let someone deter you in the first place? As long as its not a fool mans quest, then you should continue in achieving your goal, despite any opposition. You shouldn’t let anyone’s comments put you off. Use their comments not to sink into the abyss, but to rise.
Its important to remember that occasionally some healthy criticism helps steer you in the right direction, this is the only aspect of anyone’s criticism you should actually take on board.
You saying: “guess this is where I step down and become just a silent developer behind the scenes”.
Correct me if I’m wrong, that to me is a defeatist attitude on your part with a hint of pessimism which you can do without.
You need to realise your ideas are sound and I’m sure OS would incorporate them in the future. Just because your ideas are not implemented overnight doesn’t necessarily mean you’re obsolete.
These things take time, as they say: “All good comes to he who waits”, right? It may be along time, but… patience.
OS, the Bayesian Rating system sounds good, but it still boils down to whether the users will actually Partake in the practice of using the said system. You’ll go through the trouble of setting it up when it may still be ignored like the system currently in place.
I agree with rogard’s hypothesis. The shiny metal apparently does make a difference to a certain extent. I’ve personally seen a trusted platinum members subtitle almost completely ignored over a well known gold member, when clearly the platinum members file is an edited version and the other is just a raw transcript off the production line. What can you do?
But it’s not just about who’s got a shiny “****”. On occasion I have seen a gold member ditched for another gold member. Lets name them GM1 and GM2. GM1 uploads subtitles for a particular series quite often (raw crappy transcripts), in comes GM2, who in my opinion is trusted and supplies good edited subtitles and his subtitle is as good as diced. Where GM1 heavily out numbers GM2’s downloads by the thousands.
How do you deal with that? Some people just don’t know better or don’t care unless it’s a machine translation.
I guess, what you’ve come to expect or get used too, you keep taking, instead of looking for anything better.
p.s Aloha alex. Don't know if you remember me, but I agree not many people know about opening the file up, hence, them being irritated and going someplace else in avoidance of the advertisement.