You are taking it all way too personally, mw.

All we can do is judge the results, you have at least two options, one you seem to be exercising. The other is to accept the constructive criticism and try to learn to do better. The work I have seen from you is a nice try, and I applaud you for that, but that doesn't mean that it has merit. I am a very tough judge on images, I will grant you that, but I want improvement and I am not seeing that from you, I am actually seeing images which if accepted would degrade the quality the images in the database.

Do as you will, sorry to have upset if i did.

Skip

Deleted this post ... should not have taken up space with this.

No votes do not mean that they will not be considered to be an improvement. It is quite likely that the contributions would have been accepted. Why don't you leave them and wait and see?

Quoting skipnet50:

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You are taking it all way too personally, mw.

All we can do is judge the results, you have at least two options, one you seem to be exercising. The other is to accept the constructive criticism and try to learn to do better. The work I have seen from you is a nice try, and I applaud you for that, but that doesn't mean that it has merit. I am a very tough judge on images, I will grant you that, but I want improvement and I am not seeing that from you, I am actually seeing images which if accepted would degrade the quality the images in the database.

Do as you will, sorry to have upset if i did.

Skip

Like you said in this post .. I have two options ... and I am choosing to just stop contributing.

It may not happen this week or this month or this year ... but sooner or later people will get sick and tired of all the negativity in here and do the same and then there will be NO database updating.

Like I said in an earlier post ... every screen on a computer does not show colors the same. You may see something different on yours then I see on mine.

You say that some of the contributions I made are no better, and possibly worse, then what is there and that is a total crock of s**t ... and you know it as well as I do. Just because they are not up to YOUR standards does not mean that others in here do not appreciate the work that some of us are trying to do.

I see many contributions that are NOT up to par ... some I see are on the edge ... but they are better then what is in the database at the moment. Should I vote NO because it is not perfect? I would reather have a newer scan in the database that is CLOSE in color but clear and focused then some of the crap that is in there now. It can always be improved upon by others if they feel down the road that the new one is not up to par.

I do not want to get into a big old fight in here about this ... and I am having second thoughts that I even opened this post. I should have just sat in the background and kept this to myself.

I will not contribute anymore to this database.

Thank you all for listening to my complaining.

Sorry to hear that MW.

I actually liked many of your scans and voted yes on them. I think the only one I voted Neutral on was Home Alone because it was just too close to call and I don't own that title to compare.

I can understand taking it personally. I can't do covers as I don't have a scanner but I am sure it's a lot of work to get the image as good as possible. So I can understand after doing all of that work and getting no votes or even some harsh opinions of them to take it personally. After all when someone tries their best and to get negative votes or comments on them it isn't about the quality of the scan but it turns to be comment on the work that they did.

I hope that you would consider because any loss of a contributor hurts all of us in some fashion.

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I've got to agree with Kathy and bigdaddy - there are some people on here who you'll never be able to please with a cover scan, but it doesn't mean they'll be declined.
I've had submissions accepted when the yes/no votes have been nearly 50-50

On the flip side of that, I've had scans declined with 12 yes and 1 no in that past. Check out Heavy Metal 2000, upc 043396052673. I should just submit those again as someone was big on crack that day, but took it personally and figure the one no voter and Gerri can have it their way with those horrid existing scans.

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For the record mwkirchner, we share a few titles but maybe only one UPC code. I was just trying to check it, but you killed your list. Was Up in Smoke 097360896640 one of them?. Pretty sure I voted yeah on something for that disc recently.

I did have an update that one. I had removed the quotation marks from around UP IN SMOKE.

Ahh yeah. I might've went Neutral on that since the whole title thing is confusing, esp. that one which has no quotes on front cover, but does have them in the credit box on back. If I didn't go neut., I would've gone yes as it makes the most sense to me to follow the front. I think it's even in the rules.

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I've got to agree with Kathy and bigdaddy - there are some people on here who you'll never be able to please with a cover scan, but it doesn't mean they'll be declined.
I've had submissions accepted when the yes/no votes have been nearly 50-50

I have to agree with what has been said so far. When I first started out a few years ago, I wasn't doing so good either, but I read over the no votes and to find out how I can improve. Sure there are some people on this board/database, you just can't please, but you shouldn't give up. If someone votes no and you disagree, PM them. I have in the past and sometimes they are willing to help you out. Remember the voters don't make the decision, they help the screeners, but in the end its the screeners that make the final call. BTW in your honor, I gave the Home Alone front cover a shot.