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Solve A Lot2
Solve A Lot2
Assistant Postman

Sep-15-2006 22:46

Thanks to Admin for posting resumes. It is a better idea than listing all detective names (for those that wanted privacy).

Bad News:
There seems to be a bug with the resumes. I know of at least 2 detectives, that show them listed in agencies they never joined.
I believe it is tied to "gift subscriptions". When a person buys someone a gift subscription, it automatically links the accounts. So, now the gifter and giftee have the same resume.

I am sure Sleuth Admin is working on correcting this, but I wanted to let everyone know, before we go around accusing people of "infiltrating our agencies" :D

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Autumnsprings
Autumnsprings
Con Artist

Sep-16-2006 00:26

Not to mention the detectives whose complete history isnt listed for some reason...

biggie528
biggie528
Lucky Stiff

Sep-16-2006 00:40

Yeah and also, I know other agencies ppl in my agency have been in that aren't listed? Is that because they didn't actually subscribe while they were there?

biggie528
biggie528
Lucky Stiff

Sep-16-2006 00:41

Oh and also you can't see histories for retired detectives? If you don't know their new name, how do you know which one is which?

Sorry, just lots of ?s :)

Greyling
Greyling

Sep-16-2006 00:43

Think this thing is too full of mistakes to be useful in any way at the moment.

R Anstett
R Anstett

Sep-16-2006 07:23

Some points.

It does not show agencies that have been closed down. So the 'temporary' agencies people use in multiple cities do not show up.

When an agency "changes names" what happens is you open the new one and close the old one. So the old one will not appear.

It is a very good thing to see the various multiple agencies that people have been in.

Arabella Parker
Arabella Parker
Well-Connected

Sep-16-2006 08:27

I agree with Greyling, there are too many mistakes and flaws in this at the moment to be able to use it effectively. It does not provide accurate information, and is too incomplete (by leaving out agencies that have been closed) to be the tool that it is intended to be used for. I can see potential problems arise because of the false information it contains now. Maybe some peoples are more correct than others, but just having 1% of the Sleuth community represented falsely is too much in my opinion.

biggie528
biggie528
Lucky Stiff

Sep-16-2006 11:32

WOW Ben, thank you for the change....this is MUCH better :)

River D
River D
Well-Connected

Sep-16-2006 11:36

But certainly not perfect. my resume is now incomplete <sigh>

Sleuth Admin
Sleuth Admin
Tale Spinner

Sep-16-2006 11:37

For you non-subscribers, you can ignore this conversation. Detective Resumes are a feature that only apply to subscribers, and can only be accessed by subscribers.

This turns out to be a really complicated feature. Complicated in a technical sense, complicated from an ethical sense, and complicated due to the vagaries of human motivation. Too complicated, probably, to throw up to public discussion. But here we are.

There was indeed a bug that was causing resumes to inappropriately link accounts where one person bought a gift subscription for another. However, this was not the source of most of the complaints I got on releasing this.

Most people who have complained simply want their history blocked even though it is valid, for a variety of reasons.

In some cases, they purchased a subscription for a friend by logging into their friend's account and then using the same paypal account they had used for their own subscription, etc.

In other cases, they don't give a reason, just that they want it blocked.

What I have instead decided to do is to seriously dumb down the resume logic. It no longer searches for other accounts purchased with the same paypal account. It now only searches for other detectives on the same subscription.

For example, if I have a detective that gets retired, and I transfer the subscription to a new detective, all of my previous detective's agencies will show on my new detective's resume.

However, if I purchase two separate subscriptions, one for one detective, and one for another detective, the two resumes will now not be cross linked.

The advantage of this change, is it should completely eliminate agency history records that were bought by one person for another person, whether the purchase was made through a gift subscription, or whether they just used the same paypal account to buy subscriptions for each account separately.

(cont)


Sleuth Admin
Sleuth Admin
Tale Spinner

Sep-16-2006 11:40

The disadvantage is, it will be easier to cover up your tracks if you want to start over with a new identity. Doing so would simply require starting a totally separate detective, and then purchasing a separate subscription for that account, even if you were to use the same paypal account to do so.

So, it’s not a perfect solution, but it is going to have to do.


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