I want to know what people think about the current voting system.

In my opinion a person should own a DVD if he is to vote for contributions on it - how else can he verify if the contributed data is correct?!

And, yes, I know that people can just add DVD's as owned without owning them, but you have to be pretty dumb to do that (again IMO) just to get to vote.

This has probably been debated before, but let's do it again.... 

I usually don't vote for my wish list profiles except when there is a public discussion about them in the forum.

I agree... there is a lot of things you can easily vote on without owning the title.

Voltaire53... you missed an obvious one... Taken Cast and Crew from IMDB... I think I could safely vote on that one without owning the title. 

It really is a matter of what is in the update. I only vote on things that are obvious when it comes to my ordered or wishlist titles.

I prefer only voting on titles i own. How can somebody e.g. verify cast and crew without owning the dvd? Oh yes....IMD* 

This item should be associated with the question whether it should be allowed to contribute from the wishlist. Dunno if it's possible, I never tried it 

Quoting kahless:

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I prefer only voting on titles i own. How can somebody e.g. verify cast and crew without owning the dvd? Oh yes....IMD* 

This item should be associated with the question whether it should be allowed to contribute from the wishlist. Dunno if it's possible, I never tried it 

Of course you can submit from wishlist or ordered... if not we wouldn't have pre-release info in the database. As I said before there is certain things that can be voted on and contributed on from without actually owning the title... Voting on has already been touched on... and as for updating you can do pretty much anything that is in the official press release... I have done that a lot myself.

Quoting Berak:

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I want to know what people think about the current voting system.

In my opinion a person should own a DVD if he is to vote for contributions on it - how else can he verify if the contributed data is correct?!

And, yes, I know that people can just add DVD's as owned without owning them, but you have to be pretty dumb to do that (again IMO) just to get to vote.

This has probably been debated before, but let's do it again.... 

Are you related to Al Gore.         You obviously have never met Trinitron.

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Perhaps, Tongue-in-cheek, Berak. Al Gore had theresults of the US 2000 election counted, recounted , and recounted some more and still because he didn't like th results.

As for Trinitron, he is Swedish(or maybe Norwegian) user that used to delight in being able to corrupt that part of the database because of the relatively small number of users from his part of the world. There were thoise of us that would help deflect his attempts at such corruption. He would setup numerous, bogus screen names and accounts and vote from them to try and get his way. He would regularly get his screen name and his various aliases banned because of this behavior, at the time that IVS shut down he had become Trintron FX68-8, basically meaning he had gone through 8 different versions still trying to corrupt the Db, he has been fairly behaved so far here at Invelos.

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Quoting Addicted2DVD:

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I agree... there is a lot of things you can easily vote on without owning the title.

Voltaire53... you missed an obvious one... Taken Cast and Crew from IMDB... I think I could safely vote on that one without owning the title. 

It really is a matter of what is in the update. I only vote on things that are obvious when it comes to my ordered or wishlist titles.

Very true, although I submit that "Ordered" is the same as "Owned" in a practical sense.