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| Registered: March 14, 2007 |  Posts: 862 |
| | Posted: | | | | I also think it's to much. I try to vote every day (twice, once in the morning, once after work) but i don't hav ehte time to do a update everyday so last sunday i had 700 updated profiles. I took the easy way and locked everything exepct rating, overview and studios and accepted everything else. Later, when i get around to doing titles myself, i'll 'upload' and see what changes were made before (of course i don't really update). Than i unlock where needed, download the update, change what i need sto be done and than i should have a good and complete profile.
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 5,459 |
| | Posted: | | | | That seems a very convulted way of doing it - couldn't you just leave them pending and go through them a bit at a time? |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting northbloke: Quote:
That seems a very convulted way of doing it - couldn't you just leave them pending and go through them a bit at a time? I agree, that's what i do. Right now i think i am sitting around 600 pending my approval, not to mention several hundred to vote on. Skip | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
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Billy Video |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,394 |
| | Posted: | | | | What I find more annoying than overview formatting changes is the people who are only moving the "Home Video" houses down to the DVD Publisher field. Especially those that deal with a TV series with 5 or 6 child profiles. I find it easier to do this myself in my local DB as I come across a title. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to move the "Home Video" or "Home Entertainment" houses to the publisher field. Overview formatting is another matter. I've noticed that there are a lot of misspellings and typos in the existing profiles (those made by submitters and not what is on the box cover). These show up to me because I'm copying the existing overview into Word (so my old eyes can see it better at 12 point rather than what's on the edit screen in profiler) and Word dutifully puts little red squggles under words it thinks are misspelled. I can then verify these against the rear cover image and correct them to match the cover. (Word is much better at noticing some misspellings than I am.  ) Re the Tomb Raider discussion, I don't agree with northbloke that Tomb Raider's different color is NOT an indication of bolding. I think it is -- if the producers didn't want to highlight Tomb Raider they wouldn't have put it in a different color. It's not italic, and since we can't do colors in the overviews, bolding is appropriate. However: northbloke's statement does not in any way warrant a red arrow! And the person who gave one to him for that is clearly violating the reputation system. | | | Another Ken (not Ken Cole)
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,459 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting kdh1949: Quote:
Re the Tomb Raider discussion, I don't agree with northbloke that Tomb Raider's different color is NOT an indication of bolding. I think it is -- if the producers didn't want to highlight Tomb Raider they wouldn't have put it in a different color. It's not italic, and since we can't do colors in the overviews, bolding is appropriate.
However: northbloke's statement does not in any way warrant a red arrow! And the person who gave one to him for that is clearly violating the reputation system. I respectfully disagree (not about the arrow bit ). The rules tell us to follow the formatting on the back cover, not to add our own to show highlighted text. And the words TOMB RAIDER are exactly the same height, width and thickness as the rest of the main text of the overview, so are not bold. PS I thought the text was already in italics? I can't access the cover at the moment so can't check. | | | | Last edited: by northbloke |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 13,201 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting kdh1949: Quote:
Re the Tomb Raider discussion, I don't agree with northbloke that Tomb Raider's different color is NOT an indication of bolding. I think it is -- if the producers didn't want to highlight Tomb Raider they wouldn't have put it in a different color. It's not italic, and since we can't do colors in the overviews, bolding is appropriate. I have to disagree. Ken said that bold was for bold and italic was for italic. Nothing more, nothing less. Whether or not the producers wanted to highlight a word isn't the issue, how they chose to highlight it is. If they chose bold, we enter it as bold. If they chose italic, we enter it as italic. If they happened to chose red or green or black or yellow or 'insert color here', we ignore it. To confirm north's thought, it is indeed, already in italics. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 1,414 |
| | Posted: | | | | I've given up; I have between 150 and 200 updates every day and I just can't take the hours to go through and approve them so I'm just accepting them willy-nilly. I hope y'all are doing your homework. | | | | "This movie has warped my fragile little mind." |
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| Registered: June 21, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 2,621 |
| | Posted: | | | | Now we need the ability to add colors to the overviews for the next update. I admit I was guilty at first of submitting silly little changes. I really thought it was O.K. and any right info is good info, until I started going through similar entries from others and noticed how annoyed I was getting.  Now if it's just overview, italics or rating details I won't bother to submit. All 3 is on the edge so I have been doing those, but also have started doing the extended crew and double checking everything to make the submission worthwhile. I've ran into a couple that needed better or proper cover scans too. Moral of the story, make the submission worth it for everyone else to vote and screen. Moving the publisher is week and should fall under the new/alternate disc ID rule of being O.K. to submit with other changes, but not all alone! | | | | Last edited: by bigdaddyhorse |
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| Registered: July 31, 2008 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,506 |
| | Posted: | | | | Likewise I did the same for a while. Now I've gone back to doing "proper updates" |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 5,491 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting skipnet50: Quote:
Terry:
Consider YOURSELF lucky...imagine if you were one of ken's screeners.
Skip , if there's a steady paycheck in it, I'll believe anything you say. (Ghostbusters 1984 )  | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 862 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting northbloke: Quote:
That seems a very convulted way of doing it - couldn't you just leave them pending and go through them a bit at a time? I started doing that but it was a lot of work and every day more updates are released. I thought this was easeir as most updates are just overviews, rating and studios anyway. If i ever get around to update some titles myself i'll just first check if my profile is complete and up-to-date as in the DB and than change/correct as needed. paul |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | I have one final comment on this topic. Because one user does not understand excatly how to handle issues in a polite manner and 5that user is further allowed to behave in whatever manner he wishes by the Community. I have decided I will return to where I was. ALL of my pending Contributions have been withdrawn and will NOT be resubmitted now or EVER. I don't deal in double standards. There were steps that could have been taken and should have been taken other than the approach taken by the user. He is not the sole reason for this decision, he was merely the trigger. There is ONE database that will follow the rules and it will be the one I maintain locally. But I will no longer be a party to users who do not understand how to behave or a community that condones such behavior while condemning others. My data is my data. Have fun, kids.
Skip | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it.
Outta here
Billy Video |
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,459 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting skipnet50: Quote:
I have one final comment on this topic. Because one user does not understand excatly how to handle issues in a polite manner and 5that user is further allowed to behave in whatever manner he wishes by the Community. I have decided I will return to where I was. ALL of my pending Contributions have been withdrawn and will NOT be resubmitted now or EVER. I don't deal in double standards. There were steps that could have been taken and should have been taken other than the approach taken by the user. He is not the sole reason for this decision, he was merely the trigger. There is ONE database that will follow the rules and it will be the one I maintain locally. But I will no longer be a party to users who do not understand how to behave or a community that condones such behavior while condemning others. My data is my data. Have fun, kids.
Skip If you want to have a hissy-fit and throw your toys out of the pram, so be it. Just remember you're the one who decided to have a tantrum about a "no" vote rather than simply correct your submission. Edit: something just occurred to me, and I went and checked something. Please explain to me how I was to take "steps that could have been taken" ie. PM you about the error, when YOU HAVE ME BLOCKED??? | | | | Last edited: by northbloke |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | I told you, north, there are ways to properly handle this issue, which YOU made the choice not to execute. I find your behavior reprehensible and have said this to you here for a very long time. I have asked you to change it and you refuuse as your latest post confirms yet again. I have Contributed many times the amount of data and cast many times the number of votes that you have and there is a proper and an appropriate way to deal with it. Because you choose to take the most combative approach is not my problem it is yours. I suggest with all due respect sir, that you get to work on contributing and voting and take a long hard look at your own behavior.
I figured that you would respond as you did. I would suggest that before you continue to spout from your POINT OF VIEW, you try just once to see things from another perspective.
Skip | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it.
Outta here
Billy Video |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | What's the matter, north does the truth hurt. I made no offensive and attacking comments in the above post.
I merely responded to you and lightly called you for your behavior as i have said repeatedly that I will do. Unlike your post which was HIGHLY insulting and combative but very typical of you.
Skip | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it.
Outta here
Billy Video | | | | Last edited: by Winston Smith |
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,459 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting skipnet50: Quote:
I told you, north, there are ways to properly handle this issue, which YOU made the choice not to execute. Which are? Please enlighten me how I am meant to inform someone of an incorrect submission when they have my PMs blocked? Let me see, oh yes, A NO VOTE! Quote:
I find your behavior reprehensible and have said this to you here for a very long time. I have asked you to change it and you refuuse as your latest post confirms yet again. Interesting, whenever you've been told to act like a responsible adult, you've always refused and said "not till everyone else does". So I say the same to you: I'll modify my behaviour when you do! Quote:
What's the matter, north does the truth hurt. I made no offensive and attacking comments in the above post. What are you on about now? I assume someone gave you a red arrow, but it wasn't me - I've just got back from lunch. Unlike you, I'm honest and open about the red arrows I give. |
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