Interesting theory.

I know for myself, on rare occasions, I'll see a profile submission that is so messed up that I'll go ahead and submit a competing profile done correctly.  The only reason I do this is give voters who work on the "even garbage is better than nothing" principle an alternative to vote on.

I also haven't found a place where one can show off all the contributions they have.  I think it has a whole lot less to do with "glory" and more to do with trying to avert a mess.

I haven't ever seen this either. And I think I've contributed a fair amount.

Additionally, if its declined there probably was a reason. Did you have no votes? You do realize there are rules the contributions must follow right? If you didn't have no votes and it was still declined why don't you ask here instead of accusing just about everyone of being a bunch of plagerizers. And further more essentially accusing the company of supporting that.

-Agrare

Thanks Berak for your comment.  It seems a lot of people are in denial here including the company who owns it.  Maybe denial is just too nice of a word.

I totally detest this activity and I cannot condone this for any reason.

While this isn't a popularity contest...for some, are most definately wanting popularity, if not, they wouldn't steal other people's work.  It's all a matter of honesty and what is right and fair for all those who have paid the fee.

Lastly, if I hadn't read the rules, I would never have contributed one profile.

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The scenario you describe, however, is unlikely.  Contribution voters don't have direct access to the profile unless it is accepted, so it wouldn't make sense to vote down a profile then resubmit it as their own - they would have to rekey the data.

Agreed.  The more likely scenario is that someone else did an audit as well and, rather than checking to see if there was a pending one, submitted their own.  I know this has happened to me several times...especially on new contributions.

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Everyone just tries to get named in profile credits by adding a media company.

It sure does seem that way...but not just MC.  I am seeing the same profiles get contributed 2, 3 sometimes 4 times.  Once for the MC,  once for the Rating Detail, once for the bold/italic in the Overview and once for the new crew fields.  It is a welcome change when I see a profile that corrects all those areas at the same time.

For those paying attention, this is why my vote count is so high. 

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I've been a paid subscriber here for a number of years and have experienced periods when profiles are accepted though faulty as well as declined when profiles are 99 to 100% accurate.

As most people (who have contributed profiles) know it requires a lot of time and effort to gain the correct information to fill any given movie profile.  I know I've spent hours on just one profile.

I don't see any reason to spend all that time and effort just to get your contribution rejected without reason.  I honestly think there are certain members who have a high rating for contributions and they vote others a negative only to steal the info others tried to share and then submit the same profile as theirs.  I have been studying this carefully with my own contributions and those of others that have been rejected and always see the exact same profile accepted and the contributor acknowledged is never any of the ones that first contributed it.

I say to stop contributing and let the ones who get accepted work like we do and not steal our submissions.

ROFLMAO, you've been watching too much of The X-Files, everything's a conspiracy in your life?. Whew, while I do sympathize to a degree, I have never read anything quite so outrageous. As for your discussion about a Contribution being turned down for being 99 to 100% accurate...100% accurate should not be declined, 99% should be, assuming that 1% represents an error which somebody found thaty should be fixed. Nobody here is running for Mr or Miss America that I know of, it is not a popularity contest.

As to your allegation of no reason, that tells me that you make a Contribution and then walk away from it. As voters, when we vote NO we are required to leave a comment to tell the user what is wrong with his Contribution, but in order to be informed about this you must monitor your Contribution and take notice that there are No votes and then read the comments. All it should take is a single NO vote that discovers a problem to be fixed to dump a Contribution regardless of how many Yes votes there might be.

Broven, I don't deal with data that isn't submitted, I only deal with the data that IS and it is either right or wrong, on those occasions where I encounter something that I might consider gray, it happens, I vote neutral.

The truth is out there, but there is no conspiracy.

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Quoting bigdaddyhorse:

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Everyone just tries to get named in profile credits by adding a media company.

It sure does seem that way...but not just MC.  I am seeing the same profiles get contributed 2, 3 sometimes 4 times.  Once for the MC,  once for the Rating Detail, once for the bold/italic in the Overview and once for the new crew fields.  It is a welcome change when I see a profile that corrects all those areas at the same time.

For those paying attention, this is why my vote count is so high. 

I see the same thing happen in the dutch locality. I also often have to vote 2 or 3 times on the same profiles, all for 1 update. Personally, I almost always try to do a full audit when doing updates.

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