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Originally Posted by bmah
He's not asking about where batch notes are posted or what specific aspects of the batch are revealed. He's wondering why some batches are privatized in the first place (where you cannot view any of the submitted songs whatsoever). This seems to be a new thing that was recently introduced and I honestly cannot recall much conversation around this.
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I could always be corrected by Kayla when she comes over here, but I believe my understanding of this is correct.
With the introduction of all of these fantastic innovations in the batch submission system, there will no longer be a necessity to have all information contained within threads. To my knowledge, the system allows game management to see the contents of all submissions at any given point. However, the privatization of batches allows for users to see the status of
only their files and nothing else. Additionally, I do believe judges are also able to have sets assigned to them within the system too, meaning they only can see what's assigned to them, and nothing beyond that (unless it's relegated to them for some reason). It's essentially an effective implementation of the least responsibility principle.
A likely situation: when the next Official Tournament batch opens, users will not be able to simply glean over the entirety of the submission list either in the batch submission area or (likely nonexistent at this point public threads) to predict where songs are, as ratings are compartmentalized within the batch tool.
It's no longer a batch submission tool at this point, it's an entire suite that is almost entirely self-sustaining, without the utilization of e-mails or the existing system of threads.