April 10th: The bill has been vetoed!
April 2nd: The politicians in Arizona are about to sign into law a bill that would mandate sites like e621 to either impose age verification on all users or be at a risk of lawsuits. Such system would be required to go through third party vendors, who in turn must go through a government database to verify every user's age. This is not only a major violation of privacy, but it also opens up a very real danger of identity theft through phishing schemes and other methods, not to mention that we would not be able to control any of that information to make sure it is permanently deleted after age verification is complete.
Unfortunately, Arizona is the state out of which e621 operates, which means that this law will almost certainly affect us if it is to pass. If want to help us ensure that this site can continue to serve you without being required to know who you are, please ask the Arizona governor to veto this bill.
Please, help us get the word out by letting others know about this issue.
For some further information on what the bill does have a look at https://action.freespeechcoalition.com/bill/arizona-hb-2586/
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Bongani
MemberMinimum four tags per post, please!
ippiki ookami
Former StaffI provided eight...
Bongani
MemberThere was only one when I edited the tags.
remigius
MemberLook at the tag history.
Genjar
Former StaffFrom what I can see, there was only one. Ippiki and furrypickle seem to have tried tagging this at the same time, and the edits got overwritten.
That tends to happen whenever someone uploads posts with no tags: several taggers bounce on it at once, and end up negating each others edits..
furrypickle
AdminThat is exactly what happened. I hate that damn bug. I've been talking about that bug for ages now, and recently talked to one of the devs directly about it. It has to do with what's called "race conditions" so basically instead of both tasks going to a central point which adds them together and keeps both edits, they instead "race" against each other and can potentially negate each other out. It can be fixed by making tag edits atomic, I'm told. But it is waiting on a list of things to fix. In the meantime it causes random headaches like this one, where two people edit the tags at the same time and the site overwrites one of them and credits them with "removing" the other person's tags without informing either party that anything happened differently than normal. Which undoes valid work and looks like tag warring/vandalism even though both people are innocent and it's just the site's code which is doing something idiotic. It really needs to be fixed, but there's always a queue of things waiting to be fixed. It's frustrating. I keep trying to get it pushed up the list, because stuff like this is just ridiculous and frustrating for everyone involved in the percentage of times that it occurs. We're lucky that the site is big enough that it doesn't happen every time. And I know I am impatient. It's just hard to be patient when I see it causing bs like this for everybody... =/
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