Protection against vandalism controls

[Skavau]

At the moment it's too easy to vandalise Criticker, and relies upon random people encountering the movie and reporting it. In my list-making and adding of stuff I've noticed a lot of language vandalism (2 Broke Girls, Big Bang Theory, Mr. Robot and The Knick) stick in my memory where someone just spams every single language slot.

I haven't seen any cast, genre, or country vandalism but on the same basis it is quite conceivable that people could do this.

[mpowell]

Thanks for this note! We do actually have controls on the back-end to handle this type of thing, making it easy for us to roll-back all changes made by individual, bad-intentioned users. We can also then block them from making further updates. So far that's proven effective, but it seems like some updates might have sneaked through the cracks.

We'll take a look!

[Skavau]

Oh yeah, I understand you likely have logs that check for this when reported. I have submitted tickets for the ones with language spam, but I suppose I mean that banning one user doesn't mean someone isn't going to make a new account the next day and do it all-over again.

The big part is the languages, from what I've seen.

[Victoriouz]

but it seems like some updates might have sneaked through the cracks.

In this case it probably wasn't vandalism; when Criticker added the Language field last year it seems somehow the site staff managed to automatically add every language listed on the titles' IMDB pages to the corresponding Criticker pages;

https://www.criticker.com/forum/viewtop ... 891#p76891

I haven't checked all four examples but TBBT and 2BG only have English listed on Criticker now, but both had a ton of other languages listed on their main imdb pages (like "Hindi Italian Russian Mandarin Klingon" for TBBT even though those obviously aren't the main languages spoken on the show)

I can see Lost currently has 10 languages listed on Criticker (English Spanish French Japanese Latin German Russian Arabic Korean Portuguese - and of those additional ones I would only maybe see an argument for keeping Korean due to the Sun and Jin characters) - but us regular users can only input 8 languages on the editing form (or just 2 on the title submission form), so I really think it was just a case of importing every language listed on IMDB.

[Skavau]

but it seems like some updates might have sneaked through the cracks.

In this case it probably wasn't vandalism; when Criticker added the Language field last year it seems somehow the site staff managed to automatically add every language listed on the titles' IMDB pages to the corresponding Criticker pages;

https://www.criticker.com/forum/viewtop ... 891#p76891

I haven't checked all four examples but TBBT and 2BG only have English listed on Criticker now, but both had a ton of other languages listed on their main imdb pages (like "Hindi Italian Russian Mandarin Klingon" for TBBT even though those obviously aren't the main languages spoken on the show)

I can see Lost currently has 10 languages listed on Criticker (English Spanish French Japanese Latin German Russian Arabic Korean Portuguese - and of those additional ones I would only maybe see an argument for keeping Korean due to the Sun and Jin characters) - but us regular users can only input 8 languages on the editing form (or just 2 on the title submission form), so I really think it was just a case of importing every language listed on IMDB.

Oh, well I take it back if it was a bug. I just assumed someone was being childish.

However, someone could, with ease vandalise that if they wanted to.

[Skavau]

It's not just a bug. I've seen an number of titles now with 3 or 4 extra obviously nonsense languages. It's a prime field for user vandalism.

[mpowell]

Oh yeah, I understand you likely have logs that check for this when reported. I have submitted tickets for the ones with language spam, but I suppose I mean that banning one user doesn't mean someone isn't going to make a new account the next day and do it all-over again.

The big part is the languages, from what I've seen.

Hey there! We've just implemented new back-end fixes that will help us do a better job of tracking who's been adding languages. Details in this post

[Skavau]

I still do see occasional mistakes and possible instances of sloppiness or even vandalism in new entries by other people. Or sometimes older entries.

Is it just you who responds to tickets about incorrect countries, languages, genres etc?