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Folks have been reporting for a while that something seemed wrong with transcription credit. As it turns out, there was something wrong, and we’ve fixed it.
There were a couple of bugs in what we call our “attribution” algorithm – the algorithm that figures out how much of a song you’ve transcribed or how much of an annotation you’ve written:
- On annotations, we weren’t giving credit properly to users whose suggestions were accepted. Instead of going to the suggester, credit was going to the person who integrated the suggestion. This is now fixed.
- Suppose someone transcribed 70% of the song, but left out the last copy of the chorus. Then someone else comes along and changes some minor stuff like punctuation. Then a third person comes along and adds the remaining 30% of the song. The bug was that person 2 – the person who didn’t do anything really – would get credit for the stuff that person 3 added! (The reason has to do with the fact that person 3’s edit, because it added a chorus, included words that were the same as what person 1 added.) This happens a lot, and it’s not just limited to the scenario I just described. Fundamentally we were doing the wrong thing when we were calculating credit. But we’ve fixed it now.
Going forward, any new songs and annotations should have the correct attribution. Remember that attribution is not a perfect science, so it won’t ever be 1000000% exactly right, but let us know if you see something fishy.
As for old stuff, we’re currently going through and re-calculating attribution for about 300,000 songs and 100,000 annotations. It’ll take a while to process, so hang tight. If you come across a specific song or annotation that seems off, you can try making a minor edit to it – that should kick off a recalculation for it.
Keep pointing out problems that you notice. Thanks!
Suppose someone transcribed 70% of the song, but left out the last copy of the chorus. Then someone else comes along and changes some minor stuff like punctuation. Then a third person comes along and adds the remaining 30% of the song. The bug was that person 2 – the person who didn’t do anything really – would get credit for the stuff that person 3 added! (The reason has to do with the fact that person 3’s edit, because it added a chorus, included words that were the same as what person 1 added.) This happens a lot, and it’s not just limited to the scenario I just described. Fundamentally we were doing the wrong thing when we were calculating credit. But we’ve fixed it now.
I had this happen to me (this exact scenario) on the song I spent the most time and effort on this site with. I really hope I get the transcription credit back. I put 4 months of work into adding lyrics to it before we had anything other than several live versions and then got it taken away because later we decided to repeat choruses. :(
@Slickk can you link to the song? we can check to see that everything’s working properly
@Slickk you’re now the top transcriber on that song:
@jsomers ScopeY has 26% for copying the hooks.
That's intentional I think. He contributed 25% of the actual characters on the page, so he gets 25% credit.
@Slickk @nightpool that’s something that shouldn’t count toward credit – there’s no reason to give someone a big chunk of credit for copying and pasting a hook
Well, not sure if this is a good thing or bad thing for my IQ… (jk, I couldn’t care less tbh about a little decrease :L)
@jsomers Not sure what’s going on here but now I have majority transcription credit on a few songs that I didn’t transcribe – all I did was reformat/clean up the lyrics:
- Natalie La Rose – “Somebody”
- Tove Lo – “Talking Body”
These are the only songs I recognize from my profile – I’m sure there are more though.
There are also a few songs that I transcribed the majority of but never received majority credit until now (“Holy Grail”, “Mrs. Potato Head”, “100”) but I’d rather the original majority transcribers get credit for “Talking Body” and “Somebody” if that’s possible.
darn it. i was happy to receive a ton of credit for simply accepting suggestions.
also i think this is unrelated but this song shows up in my transcriptions but i cant see transcription credit on the page itself
Agree with @angelated. Accepting a suggestion and integrating into an annotation/SLA does require some attention and time and should be rewarded.
Rejecting does too – at least for those of us who PM the “suggestor” about it.
I dont know why I still think its funny ,g what I added still dont cross 70% of what they did, how come they made it under my pages which I still cant edit it though!!
Ps: at first when I added the outro it was locked page and I asked someone to get it opened so I could add it but now I cant see edit button
Now tell me where’s my citation though where is the real credit? :D