Quoting lyonsden5:

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Quoting Battling Butler:

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much ado about nothing 

Agree. An honest mistake by a good submitter. I for one will continue to take you at your word mdnitoil as I always do on your submissions.

As will I.  I am still trying to figure out why this was even brought up in the forums.  mdnitoil is a trusted contributor.  I have not doubt that this could have been handled via PMs. 

Quoting m.cellophane:

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I don't think it was ever about mdnitoil. I think it's a spillover from this thread. I know the topics have nothing to do with each other, but if you read the other thread first and then come to this one, you'll see how the accusations flow in unison.

Did you really expect me to read all 11 pages of that thread? 

Well, I did, and all I can do is shake my head. 

I repeat my target was NOT midnit.

Skip

I am not trying to start anything in here, but here is what I find so disturbing about this thread.

It was brought up that the name was entered with a comma and it actually did not have a comma in the name. That is true (as seen from Skip's screenshot). When looking through contributions and reading what the contributor has done, I find it hard that we should have to get our DVD out and put it in the player just to see if he is right or wrong. Sometimes you just have to take him at his word.

The ones that get me are ones like I ran across last night.


This is how the back cover actually looked:

* Best Actor, Tender Mercies, 1983. <-- space after *, no () around date, period at end
** Best Director, Dances With Wolves, 1990. <-- space after **, no () around date, period at end
† Best Actress, American Beauty, 1999. <-- space after †, no () around date, period at end

This is what it looked like when contributed:

*Best Actor, 'Tender Mercies', (1983) <-- no space after *, () around date, no period
**Best Director, 'Dances With Wolves, (1990) <-- no space after **, ' missing after Wolves, () around date, no period
†Best Actress, 'American Beauty', (1999) <-- no space after †, () around date, no period


My point here is that this can actually be verified by doing no more then turning the DVD over and look at the cover and look at the contribution. These clearly did not match ... but yet it got nothing but YES votes until I came in and voted NO because we are supposed to be trying to make the database look as close to the cover as possible. This clearly was not.

I am NOT picking on the person of this contribution. I only bring this up to use it as an example. I even went to the extent to PM them and offer the correction which has since been done and it looks fine now. I am just trying to make a point that even though all that had to be done was turn the DVD over and look at how it was entered on the cover ... and that still got votes that were actually wrong.

To think that we should have to put a DVD in to confirm that what the contributor is saying is gospel is ludicrous to me ... especially if it is from someone who has made numerous contributions and who has not made numerous mistakes making us doubt what he is saying.

My final point is that I think the proper way for this to have been handled would have been to vote NO in the contribution with an explanation and PM the contributor and include the screenshot that was put in here to show why you were voting NO to it. He could have fixed it and that would have been the end of it.

I am not here trying to bash you Skip ... but sometimes you come off hard when all it would take is a nice PM with an explanation of what you see wrong with whatever and give the person a chance to either explain why he/she did what they did and possibly give them a chance to correct their mistake.

From what I read in here ... it was a MISTAKE ... and mdnitoil admitted that.

Just my $0.02 ...

@ James

Beware the dark side. It's power is strong. Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny. 

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This gets a negative vote? And you wonder

I was not the one who voted your post negative, but I would still advise that the vote was probably due to your rude and confrontational posting style, not the specific issue you raised.

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Why do people wote if they dont know?

Because if you had to check each and every item from the disc yourself, then there would be no or little point at all in the voting system. You might as well enter the correct details yourself.

As I see it, voting is a way to help the screeners in determining if the rules have been followed. A YES votes means "I have read the notes and checked the submission and I see nothing wrong". A NO vote means that you have seen something wrong, and you describe the problem.

I make the suggestion again , James,  but fon't complain if you don't.

Skip