Quoting Lewis_Prothero:

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Thanks to SwissFilm for sending the PM

Is this the "Swi---ilm: thanks" from the screenshot?

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I immediately withdrew the contribution.

Thanks. Good job.

Mistakes happen - it's not a big deal. Someone will catch it and take care of it.

Which is why it is important for people to contribute. The more people check, add or correct data, the more the database will improve and become more accurate.

I understand a contributor making a mistake, it happens all the time.

The problem comes to the votes.  There are too many people that trust completely, and "rubber stamp" contributions.  It is really sad, considering this one would have taken less than a minute to verify (from the image within profiler).


I am all for trusting people, when it is warranted.  Even the people that are trustworthy make mistakes, and need to be checked.

Reagan said "Trust but verify" , which are good words to live by in a profiler world.

Charlie

Quoting CharlieM:

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Reagan said "Trust but verify" , which are good words to live by in a profiler world.

But why bother when especially the Overview field is of the anything goes category?


(the following is a personal view that has no influence on my voting behaviour):

To emphasize a word or a phrase you write it in italics or bold. But what's the point of having an entire multi-line paragraph be in bold?

Quoting DJ Doena:

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Quoting bbbbb:

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Quoting DJ Doena:

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If someone submits a new overview claiming he corrected an error I believe him.

All we can do now is to hope that you do not vote.

You couldn't stop me if you tried. I vote to the best of my knowledge.

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Did you PM the contributor, pointing out his mistake?

Explain the difference between regular and bold font style? Don't get ridiculous.

Maybe if you had shown him the screenshot of your cover (because as this thread proved he unknowningly had a different one) this whole issue could have been concluded days ago.

But no, you came to the forum without notifying the contributor because you wanted to make a point, you wanted to be right and let everyone know it.

I agree.

I guess you mean anything could possibly go on the back of the case? I thought you were saying anything goes rules-wise!   

Quoting Kulju:

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Quoting DJ Doena:

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If someone submits a new overview claiming he corrected an error I believe him. I don't pull the DVD from the shelve to check it.

Why don't you just check the back cover from DVDP? That's what I usually do. It takes about ten seconds.

For any change that is taken/verifiable from the cover, that is exactly what I do as well.

I completely agree.  These should not be brought to the forums.  Vote no, give reason, move on.

There is a larger problem with the voting process.

One that I voted no on (and the contributor pulled it a thanked me in PM).  A user previously had entered a Media company, with proper documentation, and was approved.  Good so far...

Another user came along, and tried removing that same media company (presumably because it wasn't listed on the packaging).  The contributor, if he had looked at the previous notes would have seen this.  OK mistakes happen. 

Before I voted on it, 5 or 6 people had already voted yes to the contribution (including the person that made the original addition).  In this case, a simple look at the previous contribution notes, by any of the voters would have shown the possible error.

This is the problem with he voting system.  I agree, almost all contributors, try to be very careful with their contributions.  They are still human (sorry if this offends any aliens on the board ) and still make mistakes.  If we as voters cannot even make cursory checks (look at previous contribution notes, reference against images on your computer, even reference your own previous contribution), then we are doing a disservice to the system.

We do not need to redo all the work again, but we still need to keep pointing out the mistakes that we see.  If we do not catch the easy ones, and keep people on there toes, then how do you honestly say you trust the whole system.


Charlie