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OtherEric:
And for what it's worth, I seem to have been wrong on the cmj34...

garbanzo:
As I re-read my post with fresh eyes this morning, it struck me that I may have come across as ungrateful. I am certainly not! I adore this site, and I'm indebted to everyone who makes it happen, from the buyers to the scanners to the editors to the uploaders to the coders to the staff. I'm just offering my perspective as a user. Moreover, in the real world I work as a processes improvement project manager, so I'm rarely content with how things are, when I can imagine how things could be. And I stubbornly refuse to accept the idea that things ought not change sake of appealing to the phrase "that's how they've always been"!


That said, I really don't think things are as complicated as you suggest. Yes, there are exceptions. And if you try to build your rules around those exceptions - those few odd books, or those few picky users - you'll give yourself a headache. It's easier to let them be what they are - exceptions to the rule.


I refer again to some torrent trackers I belong to (all of which are also run by volunteers). One in particular hosts 1.2 million torrents. Rules are in place about those uploads - what type of file they can be, how the files are named, what folder structure is used - and by golly, it works! All 1.2 million files conform to the rules.


You do make a good point that most files that might be uploaded here have already been uploaded here, and that going back and changing them would be a chore. You also suggest that things might be done differently if you were to start over from scratch. Why not consider that? This site is great as a massive, lightly-organized dump of scans, but with some thoughtful curation work, it could become a truly amazing archive of history - a "museum" in the truest sense of the word.


Anyway, I need to get back to cataloging my own collection. Let me know if you ever feel like starting fresh, I would love to help.

Captain DJ:
Uploading in rar or zip format being bad I agree with, we need to do more about this. We could even script it just to change file extensions from rar to cbr on the server side after they been uploaded or could go as far as banning .rar / .zip uploads.


Most of this goes back to the time where we were happy to have any upload so wasn't overly worried about the format / filename etc as long as we had it on the site

Yoc:
If a script to rename rar and zip files to the cbr/cbz file name were easy to do please feel free Capt.
But I don't think we should 'ban' them.  Some people out there might have no choice (as far as they know) in what format they share with.

-Yoc

Snard:
I agree with Yoc's statement about not banning any particular extension (i.e. .rar or .zip). I personally keep all of my comic archives named as .zip, since I don't use CDisplay, but rather choose to use built-in Windows tools for viewing the files (Windows natively supports the .zip extension). When I do uploads to DCM, I try to remember to make a copy of the file, renamed as .cbz, before I upload. However, if there were a script or action on DCM that took care of the renaming for me during uploads, I would welcome that, since it would be one less thing to remember to do.  (As a side note, the upload service for DC++ does something like this.)

Thanks for all you do.

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