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Eventful - messy event titles and descriptions #57

Open danbretl opened 13 years ago

danbretl commented 13 years ago

Some of the new events pulled in from Eventful have messy titles and descriptions. Event titles should not be allowed to be in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS. I can handle this on the app side if you feel it's more appropriate, but so far you've indicated that you'd handle it in the scrape. Some event descriptions still have HTML entities for symbols like apostrophes and the like as well. I do not think that we should allow HTML / rich text markup in event descriptions. It opens the door to a lot of ugliness that I don't want to see in our app, and so far I see no advantage to allowing it.

danbretl commented 13 years ago

There are also links in some descriptions as well. Previously, we had been avoiding linking people to things outside of our app. Perhaps we should have another discussion about this as a group.

danbretl commented 13 years ago

We discussed the ALL CAPITALS TITLES, and decided that we should leave them be for now. I think the interim solution for them should be to manually catch and correct them using a lightweight web system for event review / editing (something which I believe we need to have and use in general, at least early on).

danbretl commented 13 years ago

Examples of HTML entities that are showing up in event descriptions include " and ' - it seems that these should be replaced when scraped and brought into our database.