| Registered: March 29, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 4,479 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting dee1959jay: Quote:
Some users requested them, so they've got to be of use to someone...  "Some" users, among about no more than one hundred people posting regularly in those forums. People who come here are not representative of most of dvdprofiler users. We have here people for whom contribution is a hobby (nothing wrong with that). For most "average" dvdprofiler users, what is important is to watch movies (yes, it is really possible with those little discs  ), not to reproduce exactly the overviews, even with typos... | | | | Images from movies |
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| Registered: March 29, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 4,479 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting dee1959jay: Quote:
... except if a new release of the programme starts offering new fields...  If you are interested to know what I do locally with new fields, have a look at this thread... Though it could be interesting for many other users, I will not contribute that sort of change  . | | | | Images from movies |
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| Registered: March 19, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 6,018 |
| | Posted: | | | | Personally, I don't care for all the extended art crew either, and I will only contribute them when I'm doing an audit on the crew for that profile anyway.
To me, the other two new features are useful (I hated the ' around parts of the Overview in italic and bold we had previously).
Regarding typos: I don't like to have them in my local database either. Which means: I first copy them, contribute, correct them, lock the Overview field and don't make a fuzz about it all the time. |
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| Registered: March 29, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 4,479 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting dee1959jay: Quote:
... and don't make a fuzz about it all the time. That is exactly one of our problems. We have some rules that quite nobody agree with (how many people say, as you, that they correct typos ?...), but when someone say "this is stupid", he is considered as to want to sabotage the database. If we take that particular rule : In fact, I never saw a typo reproduced in an overview that I downloaded. That is because, generally, people correct them unintentionally. They read the overview, then type the text as they remember it, correcting unconsciously the existing typo (and often making some that do not exist). That's real life... and for people who do not come on those forums, as rules do not mention typos, most "normal" contributors think they must be corrected, as they say everyday to their children at school... Accepting without saying anything the half dozen stupidities existing in the rules just make them much more weak than if they were corrected... | | | | Images from movies | | | | Last edited: by surfeur51 |
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