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Yes, we could complain to thousands of people uploading screenshots to a decentralized network or add a software setting to nip the problem in the bud.
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To be fair, TVDB doesn't allow other users to upload different versions of the episode thumb. This has given me crazy for a while. It's the only artwork on TVDB that is first-come-first-serve, and whoever sets it is the only person who can change it. What gets me is that people will often choose really bad images that are not descriptive of the episode, but instead just show some hot girl character in a generic pose.
If TVDB allowed voting on thumbnails like they do for posters, banners, and fanart, then it would fix a couple of problems. I'm not holding my breath though, as far as TVDB goes.
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2014-07-25, 21:20
(This post was last modified: 2014-07-25, 21:20 by Knocks.)
Well, if official XBMC team members keep shooting ideas down and acting hostile toward people who suggest new things, then of course, people will be less likely to support such things.
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It's not about hostility, it's open source project and no one gets paid for it. If team members don't think it's a good idea it's up to a person wanting it to implement it.
I can almost guarantee that if you( or anyone else) provided code for it , it would be added. It's not about not wanting it in, it's about having need and motivation to do it.
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(2014-07-25, 21:20)Knocks Wrote: Well, if official XBMC team members keep shooting ideas down and acting hostile toward people who suggest new things, then of course, people will be less likely to support such things.
I know it can look that way, but it's really just various people voicing their opinions on the matter. It's more scrutiny than hostility. I myself have often started out skeptical about an idea, but I said what I honestly thought, people clarified, and ideas were tossed around, and I then saw the logic behind it.
Plus, different people on Team XBMC have different ideas and preferences, so some might never see the point, while others do. I think there's a point to the idea because I've seen people post very spoilers fix images before. We also already do this for the episode description, so this seems like a logical expansion. So even now, different Team XBMC members have different viewpoints :)