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It seems to me, since around the time of the fee increase, that new submissions have slowed down considerably. Right now i have 1072 titles (UPC's ) that are not found on Discogs. This number is usually around 2-300.

Anyone else notice this or can you point me to any stats about number of submissions per day/week or whatever?
 
Ethos99 said:
It seems to me, since around the time of the fee increase, that new submissions have slowed down considerably. Right now i have 1072 titles (UPC's ) that are not found on Discogs. This number is usually around 2-300.

Anyone else notice this or can you point me to any stats about number of submissions per day/week or whatever?
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I haven't been buying much recently :P

Plus there's not a whole lot of incentive for regular users (who are not into selling stuff) to add a new submission.
 
cul8er said:
I haven't been buying much recently :p

Plus there's not a whole lot of incentive for regular users (who are not into selling stuff) to add a new submission.
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I'm trying to do my part as things come up, but very little time and a photographic downgrade back to my old-ass phone when the new one shit the bed have me a little slower on the draw than I used to be!

That said, of the half dozen or so things I had set aside to enter recently I'm down to one left!
 
avecigrec said:
If you, or Discogs, or pretty much ANY record label want to send me records in order to have them plugged into the database, I'd be happy to oblige! 😝
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I love records. I despise data entry. Does one cancel out the other…

I once got placed in data entry job for a call database for a dodgy loan company call centre. They couldn’t sack me but wanted me out so they took me off the phones and put me doing that. I just copy and pasted the CEOs name and phone number into the database 25000 times in amongst the normal customers…
 
Joe Mac said:
I love records. I despise data entry. Does one cancel out the other…

I once got placed in data entry job for a call database for a dodgy loan company call centre. They couldn’t sack me but wanted me out. I just copy and pasted the CEOs name and phone number into the database 25000 times in amongst the normal customers…
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My brain loves data entry and sorting/filing.
Hilariously, other than very temporary positions, or as part of other positions, I've never actually been employed doing either.
 
avecigrec said:
My brain loves data entry and sorting/filing.
Hilariously, other than very temporary positions, or as part of other positions, I've never actually been employed doing either.
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That was the weirdest company I ever worked for. It was the summer in uni and I just wanted to work two weeks longer to get until I went back and have beer money and they were trying to force me out so they put me doing that thinking I’d quit.

I remember the boss on the call centre floor, a particularly stupid woman, saying to me, “you should just leave us now because you don’t want someone who hates you on your permanent employment record.”

She looked so confused when I emplaned to her that there was no such thing as a permanent employment record, I mean who would even keep and manage such a thing, and that I had no intention of putting them on my CV or seeking a reference…
 
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Ethos99 said:
Preach. I once had a debate with someone who didnt like me using IEX as shorthand for Indie Exclusive. Wanted me to go back and change my entries. 🤔:rolleyes: :ROFLMAO:👎👎
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Is it a discogs thing when people demand the original person that updated, update it again to what they feel is correct? Why don’t they just update it? Especially when it’s something as minuscule as the freetext field.
 
Ethos99 said:
Preach. I once had a debate with someone who didnt like me using IEX as shorthand for Indie Exclusive. Wanted me to go back and change my entries. 🤔:rolleyes: :ROFLMAO:👎👎
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Yeah this guy saw that I put “recent box breakout release” or something similar, not in the release, not in the release notes, but in my submission notes. I mean that’s just any old gobbledygook that goes in there, it’s not part of the public submission so it’s not quite irrelevant, but equally it’s of the lowest importance.
 
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