What Is A Suitable Model ID?

[beutelwolf]

Originally Posted by effCup

If we accept "unknown ABC" @iafd simply because it provides us with a useful abstract key, then my point is why do we ignore the equally useful abstract keys provided by vef thread ids?

Why indeed? In fact many of our responses to id requests that say "box post" do just that, they identify an unknown request with another unknown. Which is just that: an identification.

I think where there is a difference is when we are trying to be knowingly selective, i.e. not putting every single human being we find an image of into a database (leave that to google), but make a conscious decision about the ones that for one reason or another have some interest. This is what egafd/iafd are doing: they focus on people appearing in pornographic movies, i.e. movies that had some form of commercial release. When our section mods put unidentified models into the mystery box, they make a similar conscious selection of what's worth keeping an eye on.

I would also be in favour of moving some of our additional material threads for box entries into the respective model sections, using the numeric value of the postid in the box (not the number in the box - that changes all of the time) as part of the thread title - as opposed to merely calling her "Jenny from Knave" in the title which is non-distinctive. This is then saying: we know her (or indeed him), perhaps not by name but by face/tit/tattoo, here is where we put material for her, and there is the box entry, and this tag is what we use as her name.

There is one problem with this: stickability of our postids. Box posts tend to get deleted when either the material dies on the imagehost or the mystery is solved or two box entries are joined or there was a take-down request or whatever. To make our box post-ids usable in the same way as the xnk's of egafd we would need to keep (as egafd did) a list/table of deleted box-entries that explains what happened to them when they got deleted, again using the numeric value of the post-id in the list to identify the entry. Thus if the postid had been used as an id-tag and someone tried to follow it but only found a dead link, they can still find in that list why the link is no longer there - ideally with some sort of forward pointer.

Of course it would take some commitment to maintain such a list, but frankly I'd find it (not so pretty to look at but) more useful that the gallery of solved mysteries we have at the moment. For example, people could keep an eye on their very own mystery requests and when an entry is deleted because the material died they could re-up the material and PM a mod with a pointer to the re-up and the deleted post-id, to have the thing re-instated.