[Developers] type checking?

[Kirrily Robert]

On Dec 2, 2007 12:03 PM, Arthur van Hoff <AVH at zing.net> wrote:
> When adding a genre to an podcast I accidentally picked National Public
> Radio from the popup list. The expected type for the was
> /user/cotton/default_domain/broadcast_genre, and NPR was not of that type.
> Why does the site allow me to pick a topics that is not of the correct type?
> Can't it restrict the list to just the valid type for that property?

As they say in the classics: "That's a feature, not a bug!"

John's described the reasoning behind it, but I'll just add that if
you want to revert your mistake properly, you have to do it in two
places:

1) remove the genre from the list on the podcast's page
2) remove the type "podcast genre" from the NPR page

Annoying I know, but the ability to add types to topics really is one
of freebase's strongest features!

K.

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Kirrily Robert
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