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@MrMazda Fair points, which I'll ensure I take onboard next time I upload something that could, at a simple first glance, be so considered.
I've only had three struck down out of more than two hundred, though most of these were obviously not duplicates of course. Only one of these (I think) was genuinely a duplicate - based on .mkv = .mp4. The others weren't, and I was told "well they are", even after I pointed out WHY they weren't after they'd been deleted. But I'm sure moderators et al have enough to do without getting bogged down in discussions like that, so I'll just take your advice in future and make it very clear why my torrent is not a duplicate of another, even if it might appear to be at first glance.
I do think, though, that clear guidance on the .mkv issue should be included in the upload rule. Either it is a duplicate or it isn't. If it is, is it only .mp4 that it might be a duplicate of? Is it a duplicate if it's a single file containing multiple softcoded subs, and the other is .mp4 with no softcoded subs but half-a-dozen .srt files - matching what's softcoded in the .mkv - included in the torrent?
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@Kevin4fm a mod cannot make decisions based on the container alone, because being MKV doesn't equal to having soft-coded subs. For example take a MP4 movie, add chapters marking each scene and make it a MKV, the video stream is 100% identical, but one has a thing that the other doesn't... And still the file sizes are virtually identical. Would that be a duplicate? If you ask me, I have no fucking idea, glad I'm not a mod
Because the duplicate rule is for very simple cases, it must be extrapolated for edge cases, and mods will inevitably resort to their own discretion to decide. One mod probably would delete what another wouldn't, following the exact same rule, like a soccer referee.
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@ianfontinell I agree for the most part. The simple instruction to include, clearly why "this" .mkv is different to "that" .mp4 + .gb.srt + .sp.srt + fr.srt is reasonable, especially given a mod needs to be able to make that determination fairly quickly, and other things - size, resolution, etc. - might otherwise make it look so.
My "issue" is that I suspect many, as I did, will start from the basis that a .mkv containing softcoded English and Chinese dubs, all in one file, is a different format - and therefore not a duplicate - of a torrent containing a .mp4 + those two .srt subs.
I do, though, feel there should be a clear note in the definition of "duplicate" that an .mkv IS considered a duplicate of a .mp4, UNLESS it contains additional elements not included in the original torrent, and that these differences should be clearly stated.
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