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rti9



Joined: 08 Jul 2007
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 6:31 am Reply with quote
There is a weird response on the theme search system. When clicking the Tennis theme on The Prince of Tennis (TV), it takes me to a list of three results. Looking at it, I thought nobody had tagged Ace wo Narae with the Tennis theme, but it is there. Clicking on Tennis on the Ace wo Narae (TV) page leads me to six results. Clicking on Tennis in the Prince of Tennis: The National Tournament (OAV) leads to ten results. Really weird.
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dormcat
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Joined: 08 Dec 2003
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Location: New Taipei City, Taiwan, ROC
PostPosted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 7:40 am Reply with quote
Looking closely at the URL: there's a &a=[age rating] variable; in addition to the theme, the system only searches titles with the same or lower age rating(s). The Prince of Tennis is rated "all ages" so it only searched "tennis" theme within "all ages" age rating. Ace wo Nerae! is rated "older children" so it searched both "all ages" and "older children;" The National Tournament has no age rating yet so the system searches every age rating except adults-only titles.

I have no idea that age ratings could affect genre searches until now. Shocked
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rti9



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 8:43 am Reply with quote
Whoa. That is really nice, but isn't this too complex for what seems to be a simple task? I can understand segregating +18 titles, but every age rating affects it. Now that adult ratings can be added by anyone and age ratings aren't a priority to staff members, should age rating really be a variable in this equation?
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Dan42
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Joined: 02 Jan 2002
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 1:57 am Reply with quote
Um... yeah... maybe I overthought this. I should probably change it to only take into consideration the adult-only rating.
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doc-watson42
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Joined: 10 Feb 2003
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 4:34 pm Reply with quote
Dan42 wrote:
Um... yeah... maybe I overthought this. I should probably change it to only take into consideration the adult-only rating.

Would you please be so kind as to add an option to the search to turn off the age rating feature?
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dormcat
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 1:39 am Reply with quote
doc-watson42 wrote:
Would you please be so kind as to add an option to the search to turn off the age rating feature?

I can't fix it for you, but you can bypass it easily by adding &a=AO in URL. Wink Twisted Evil
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