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Pointless locks on data fields
posted by Jim StarkSTAFFMOD on জুন 29, 2024 at 5:34 AM
I'm curious, what is the point of locking some TV episode data (in particular runtime, title, and overview) before the episode has aired? No editing conflicts, the fields are just locked, sometimes even without any data in them. Is it done automatically (in that case, can it be changed so it happens only after the broadcast), or is someone just jumping the gun and locking whatever they can under the assumption that they are 100% sure what's going to happen in the future (or have a time machine, idk)? In case it is the latter, what is the point of that?
Reply by Banana
on জুন 29, 2024 at 7:42 PM
Maybe it would help to have specific examples?
Reply by Jim Stark
on জুন 30, 2024 at 5:44 AM
For example, The Boys have all titles for season 4 locked, including unaired episodes https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/76479-the-boys/season/4. Why? All names were added 8 months ago by a regular user, one was already proven incorrect (and it took 3 days to fix that, so 3 days you were providing inaccurate data to all clients), and obviously, no one can tell if the remaining ones are correct until the episode is officially released. So what is the advantage of having them locked before they can be verified? I'm not keeping records, but I've seen that way too often. While I understand the necessity of locks, especially when something is being edited back and forth, locking something "just in case" is counter-productive.
UPD remembered one where runtime was locked as 0 https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/253249-ashley-madison-sex-lies-scandal/season/1/episode/1