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[Dragom]

Originally Posted by Saccade

These guys know what they are doing, Dragom. I don't think there's need to ask again, once the game has been approved.
There's being cautious and there's the delete button. I've uploaded things that have needed removing from FTP before. And I'm still alive.

I believe they do! It is me who does not know well what I can or should do here - that is the reason of some of my notes.
And I am glad that you survived - means that I might have some chances...

Originally Posted by Saccade

The idea of the "coming soon" pages is a good one.
Even though a standard page, with minor adjustments, is easy - the task of registering everything is pretty large.

I know what you mean. Long time ago I was not bad at using a DOS database ("DBaseIII plus" to be accurate). Than with Windows era, I lost almost that skill, but had a chance to use it again - professionally, and I was pleased to "discover" the possible combination of manipulating data with DBase3p and then save the dbf file, and look at it with MS Excell...
After that any report would be automatic and ready to show to anyone.

Well, what I want to mean, is that using just a few of small/simple symbols - (of course each with its own accurate meaning) one can easily tag a record (read game name) for a situation - a simple click/tag does the job of updating its actual status... no big deal - BUT truth is that I don't know what it takes to programers to allow such a simplified situation...

Originally Posted by Saccade

There is also the fact that a site full of empty pages with no images (as we'd have to take screenshots or link to mobygames or someone, even though you have to make the gamepages for some of the games we get here...) isn't exactly thrilling.

I think that would not happen - using a general layout common to games NOT READY would be always showing to those who would look for that game: You ACTUALLY HAVE that already - you just lack other info on the page that you get when you search for "bedlam" (e.g.):
Actually you get:
"The search term "bedlam" affected 0 results" !!.
What I WOULD LIKE TO SEE (or something like it):
e.g.
"The search term "bedlam" affected 0 results; Review: on the making"
or "ESA - Game not allowed" or, "Review: Missing", or "Archive:Missing", etc...
The crucial point would be that updating the database would have to be done by the editors, updaters and/or "aprovers".. raising questions of administrative access...
But it would for sure, save precious time to the staff as answering to repeated questions to newbies like me...
Oh, well, I m afraid I went too far with this, but now I hope I made it more clear...