Re: WOW "fixes"

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On 26/03/2008, tparker <tparker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> David Gerard wrote:

>  > If people are not using it, and are instead doing it somewhere else,
>  > then this suggests something could be improved about the AppDB
>  > interface (and will need to be for 1.0).

> I have submitted to the AppDB multiple times for both WoW and City of
>  Heroes/Villains. Each time I made sure to follow the directions for the
>  submission and everything seemed okay when I sent it in. I never saw any of the
>  submissions show up in the DB even though I had made sure that they added new
>  information, were using current versions of the games and Wine, a linux distro
>  that didn't have a listing yet, etc. so that I was adding useful info and not a
>  'me too!'.
>  In each case after several weeks I would get an email that said my submission
>  had been removed from the DB but said nothing about why so I have no clue if I
>  did something wrong in the interface, misunderstood the type of information I
>  should have included, or who knows what else. As a newish linux/wine user and a
>  definite end-user, not a programmer, the 9th or 10th time that happened I just
>  stopped submitting. Now I just try and help with game related posts on my distro
>  forum (Ubuntu), a general user forum (linuxquestions.org), or this list instead.


So the AppDB is an information black hole and actually needs to be
worked around, then?


- d.


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