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What is it with random dickheads going into the comments and pointing out input errors and quoting rules, with the recall and lack of comprehension of a cop, without actually fixing them?
 
Joe Mac said:
What is it with random dickheads going into the comments and pointing out input errors and quoting rules, with the recall and lack of comprehension of a cop, without actually fixing them?
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It is why I will usually wait for someone else to enter something. My accuracy score whatever is shit and I’m like one mistake away from not being allowed to submit. And it’s not like I’ve ever entered anything in wrong (maybe the correct way to do track numbers). I’ve just left stuff out or I got yelled at once for putting the hype stick What’s baffling to me is the amount of but this rule says this and then someone else is like this rule says this. Then some knucklehead comes along and makes the listing for the variant you have something completely different.
 
Lee Newman said:
It is why I will usually wait for someone else to enter something. My accuracy score whatever is shit and I’m like one mistake away from not being allowed to submit. And it’s not like I’ve ever entered anything in wrong (maybe the correct way to do track numbers). I’ve just left stuff out or I got yelled at once for putting the hype stick What’s baffling to me is the amount of but this rule says this and then someone else is like this rule says this. Then some knucklehead comes along and makes the listing for the variant you have something completely different.
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Bloody amateurs
 
Lee Newman said:
It is why I will usually wait for someone else to enter something. My accuracy score whatever is shit and I’m like one mistake away from not being allowed to submit. And it’s not like I’ve ever entered anything in wrong (maybe the correct way to do track numbers). I’ve just left stuff out or I got yelled at once for putting the hype stick What’s baffling to me is the amount of but this rule says this and then someone else is like this rule says this. Then some knucklehead comes along and makes the listing for the variant you have something completely different.
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I've never even thought to look at my stats. At least since going back to making entries. I probably paid attention to them back around '07 when I was doing FLAC and mp3 entries for digital-only Electronic releases...

My biggest thing is not having votes on a lot of the things I've put up. Looks like I have 68 pending...

I know I don't have voting power and don't really know what and how to specifically get it. I don't really engage with the forums at all, I just create things as I need them for my own collection and try to be as thorough and correct as I can be. I've definitely had people make small adjustments to some of the listings I've created, but I don't believe I've had much in the way of egregious errors, save one accidental duplicate and one typo that shifted a release date by a decade, but both easily corrected.

Initially, I'd often be quick to rush and create a new listing, but now I usually give it a bit of time to a) see if somebody creates it before me and/or b) make sure I'm not pressed for time when creating the entry. I generally enjoy doing it though. It's the kinda shit that makes my brain happy.
 
Lee Newman said:
It is why I will usually wait for someone else to enter something. My accuracy score whatever is shit and I’m like one mistake away from not being allowed to submit. And it’s not like I’ve ever entered anything in wrong (maybe the correct way to do track numbers). I’ve just left stuff out or I got yelled at once for putting the hype stick What’s baffling to me is the amount of but this rule says this and then someone else is like this rule says this. Then some knucklehead comes along and makes the listing for the variant you have something completely different.
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I am the opposite. I will enter a basic entry knowing that the pedantic and fastidious will add or correct information as necessary.
 
avecigrec said:
I've never even thought to look at my stats. At least since going back to making entries. I probably paid attention to them back around '07 when I was doing FLAC and mp3 entries for digital-only Electronic releases...

My biggest thing is not having votes on a lot of the things I've put up. Looks like I have 68 pending...

I know I don't have voting power and don't really know what and how to specifically get it. I don't really engage with the forums at all, I just create things as I need them for my own collection and try to be as thorough and correct as I can be. I've definitely had people make small adjustments to some of the listings I've created, but I don't believe I've had much in the way of egregious errors, save one accidental duplicate and one typo that shifted a release date by a decade, but both easily corrected.

Initially, I'd often be quick to rush and create a new listing, but now I usually give it a bit of time to a) see if somebody creates it before me and/or b) make sure I'm not pressed for time when creating the entry. I generally enjoy doing it though. It's the kinda shit that makes my brain happy.
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It’s the rules police that I hate. Like Rule 275926.384027 sub section 2892743 states that in a scenario you put the credits in credits tab 492836…. blah blah blah blah blah…. And in z scenario you put the credits in credits tab 83296329…. blah blah blah… and remember photos in pink come before photos in dayglo yellow…. blah blah blah.

In my head I’m thinking “just fuck off and pull that stick out of your arse”
 
Joe Mac said:
It’s the rules police that I hate. Like Rule 275926.384027 sub section 2892743 states that in a scenario you put the credits in credits tab 492836…. blah blah blah blah blah…. And in z scenario you put the credits in credits tab 83296329…. blah blah blah… and remember photos in pink come before photos in dayglo yellow…. blah blah blah.

In my head I’m thinking “just fuck off and pull that stick out of your arse”
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Legit.
 
I had issues with only a couple things since joining Discogs. The first thing was a fight with some other member on whether The Beach Boys -Smiley Smile should be listed as “Lo-Fi” stylistically. That one ended up going to a forum post because we pissed a bunch of people adding and deleting the style from the entry.

For the record: I ended up winning, and the Lo-Fi tag was removed but Not before pissing off a bunch of people in the process. To be fair I didn’t know that there was another way to debate information besides the entry notes as I wasn’t even aware that Discogs forum was a thing.

The second time I got in a bit of an issue was when I didn’t understand that Turntable Labs “Exclusivo” series was different than other Turntable Labs releases and tried to list all their releases under the one series. I went through and updated 4 or 5 releases to pull them in and then TTL barked at me and told me I shouldn’t have done that. I went through and reverted all my entries so all is well that ends well I suppose.
 
avecigrec said:
My biggest thing is not having votes on a lot of the things I've put up. Looks like I have 68 pending...
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Some people get more votes in a day than I have my entire discogs experience....
I have 98 pending and only 41 total votes since 2016. I think GentleSenator gave about a quarter those votes :P

I am sure people are gaming the system to get votes. They either have multiple accounts or some friends to vote as soon as they make an edit. I have no proof, but that is my conspiracy theory anyway.

It is pretty vague on how to actually get voting rights. I think one of the things is to be logged in for a certain (uncertain?) amount of time. Another is to read every single guideline page. Maybe the number of votes matter, and your average voting "score" should be above 3.0 or something. Again, this is all my speculation. I think if I remember correctly, I had about 10 votes on my edits before the magical switch.
 
cul8er said:
It is pretty vague on how to actually get voting rights. I think one of the things is to be logged in for a certain (uncertain?) amount of time. Another is to read every single guideline page. Maybe the number of votes matter, and your average voting "score" should be above 3.0 or something. Again, this is all my speculation. I think if I remember correctly, I had about 10 votes on my edits before the magical switch.
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I'm sitting at 3.71 with 14 votes received.
My original contributions date back to 2007, but the majority are in the last 3-4 years.
Not sure I've read every single guideline page... just the ones I need as I need 'em.

It's funny, because I don't care and do care at the same time. I'd love to have voting rights, but have also done just fine without them.

For the meanwhile I'll just keep plugging along as I have and do.
 
zomgbear said:
I've never gotten into a super edit war or anything... but i'm ready to defend whats right lol

I also found that I dont really need voting rights. Just make your edits and most of the time it sticks.
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Haha fair! In the cases I mentioned I was definitely wrong! Like, typing 2013 instead of 2023 or creating a probably duplicate entry after thinking I'd searched thoroughly enough and not found the already existing one... nothing to argue in my case. I'm sure I would if I were in the right though!
 
avecigrec said:
Haha fair! In the cases I mentioned I was definitely wrong! Like, typing 2013 instead of 2023 or creating a probably duplicate entry after thinking I'd searched thoroughly enough and not found the already existing one... nothing to argue in my case. I'm sure I would if I were in the right though!
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Ahh some of the cases are something stupid like what's considered an EP or a compilation or whatever. To be honest, I don't really care that much, its just very easy to edit.
 
zomgbear said:
Ahh some of the cases are something stupid like what's considered an EP or a compilation or whatever. To be honest, I don't really care that much, its just very easy to edit.
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Honestly, what I miss most is being able to add things to Goodreads. I was able to years ago, but not anymore. Been trying to get a friend's book added for a hot minute now — every other book from her publisher is on there, but hers isn't.
 
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