Discogs - Help, Tricks, Secrets And Tips

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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TenderLovingKiller® said:
I am the opposite. I will enter a basic entry knowing that the pedantic and fastidious will add or correct information as necessary.
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When I make a submission I usually just add the bare minimum that makes it a unique submission - as I use the Copy From Draft to make some of it a bit easier. I'll add the runouts to show that I have it in hand - as some people will accuse you of not actually having it if you don't.

As most of these releases are movie scores, I don't have the time or the desire to enter all the credits - as I really don't care to list the 20 people that played violin on the release. Someone will eventually want to enter it.

I also don't post images when I upload - but will eventually if I need to. There is usually some asshat that will post a web image within an hour of uploading a new sub that I have to disable.

I took some time off the Discogs forums and my mental heath was much better, but I recently got sucked in to some shit that made me remember how good it was not to be on those forums. They are almost as bad as the Hoffman forums, maybe even equal.

As far as stats -

Pending 1,184

Rank Points 10,909
Average Vote 4.03
Votes Received 1,070
Last 10 Day Average 4.00
Last 10 Day Votes Received 1

I don't get too many votes, so my pendings are usually high. I really only lose pendings when someone edits after I do...not because it got voted on. I don't post on the "Vote on my edits" thread, so that may be why I don't get more. I know there's a lot of buddy voting going on, though.
 
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The issue with Discogs is that the site sucks - they don't seem to know how to code a functional database with features we want - they use free labor without even taking suggestions and implementing them. They don't seem to have any way of testing changes, so new "features" bug the whole site and makes the bad UI even worse most of the time. I shouldn't have to use a plug-in to make the site more functional.

The forums have hardly any moderation. Support tickets for anything other than marketplace issues ($$$) take weeks to get a response.
 
LeeVing said:
I also don't post images when I upload - but will eventually if I need to. There is usually some asshat that will post a web image within an hour of uploading a new sub that I have to disable.
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Wouldn't posting at least one image prevent that? Also, hypothetically, say no one else posts images, ever. That would annoy the hell outta me having items in my collection be imageless. In fact, I have a list of all releases I own with no images or incomplete images. Currently has 30 items. Eventually I'll get around to updating them.
 
Melt Face Molly Drop said:
Wouldn't posting at least one image prevent that? Also, hypothetically, say no one else posts images, ever. That would annoy the hell outta me having items in my collection be imageless. In fact, I have a list of all releases I own with no images or incomplete images. Currently has 30 items. Eventually I'll get around to updating them.
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Maybe - but not posting images is allowed as long as it is not prior to the release date - posting web images is against the guidelines.

I've posted over 1300 images, so I do post images. I'm just not always ready to take decent ones that are up to my standards when I'm submitting a new release to the database. For things that I get that are before the release date, I'll take the required image on my phone as proof of ownership, but I don't feel this is necessary for things that aren't in this pre-release window.

I don't take the best images...and I agree that submissions with images are better than submissions without images. But I don't feel that a shitty pic of the front sleeve just to throw an image on the sub does anyone any good. A shitty pic or no pic - someone will have to add better image no matter what.
 
LeeVing said:
The issue with Discogs is that the site sucks - they don't seem to know how to code a functional database with features we want - they use free labor without even taking suggestions and implementing them. They don't seem to have any way of testing changes, so new "features" bug the whole site and makes the bad UI even worse most of the time. I shouldn't have to use a plug-in to make the site more functional.

The forums have hardly any moderation. Support tickets for anything other than marketplace issues ($$$) take weeks to get a response.
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Oh marketplace issues take weeks too. Even when a customers payment cant be refunded.
 
Hemotep said:
Did anyone else get invited to a half hour interview with the Discogs UX team? If not and you want me to raise any specifics with them I'll have a one on one call with them next Tuesday.
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"why do you add a bunch of stuff no one wants and refuse to add things that people need and have asked for? why can't i exclude countries from my wishlist? why can i only have one wishlist? why is the wantlist feature completely fucking useless? why can't I set a maximum for wantlist items, did it not occur to you that i might want a record but not want to see offers over a set amount? why did you start taking a percentage of the shipping, are you just greedy fucks or was part of it being too stupid to realize that folks would leave in droves? what are you doing about scammers other than like 'thoughts and prayers guys, good luck!', are you doing anything to stop it?"

also throw in that their app sucks ass and the only reason people use it (and the site) is because of inertia, not because their product is good.

in conclusion, they are bad and they should feel bad, thank you for coming to my TED talk
 
yukbon said:
PS why can't I stay logged into my fucking app?
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In the video, but they changed authentication providers and yada yada still fukokta and were working on it.

Other highlights:
- they all work from home
- moving the database to the cloud with AWS
- have 104 employees
- Lloyd Starr is a backer of VMP's pressing plant and still smarmy as ever.
- no one asked good questions
- working on wantlist
- may go back to in house payments and/or add payment options in addition to paypal
 
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