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If we're going to be ridiculously OCD about following the formatting on the cover, shouldn't we also be consistent?

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Every key holder has the right to vote. It is an obligation to each person to exercise his or hers rights, here and in life, to better themselves as long as it is within the rules (here and in life). If you decide not to exercise your right, you are just denying yourself of what is due you.

To the OP, don't let the posts keep you from contributing, this is how it is, most of us seem to be terse and rude at times, Except me, I'm terse and rude most of the time. You'll figure out who's mostly BS and ignore them.
Keep on truckin'

LOL. Funniest post I have read in these forums. Priceless.
Funnier still is that you actually believe your own BS.

"within the rules", unless of course, they aren't to your liking.....


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had 389 profiles corrections waiting to contribute, but since they contain Frederick E.O. Toye. I'll have to keep them local.


Guess I'm going to have to go the way of Yves now.

Little ateo357 picks up the ball and runs home because the other kiddies  won't play by his rules..



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if I'm not going to download from the database because of another stupid auto-filter, forcing an incorrect name (that everyone will be calling a common name). I very well can't contribute profiles that force the name change.

Priceless. Keep 'em coming.
Awaiting your reply with bated breath. LOL.

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I am going to ignore everything else that you posted, and answer this one question...I would have taken it as a 10 and here is why...because I answered the question he actually asked, rather than the one you seem to think he asked.

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Did he ask why his contribution was wrong?  No.  Based on his post, he already knew why it was wrong because the voters told him why it was wrong.

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The only question he asked, the only part of his post requiring an answer was, "If we're going to be ridiculously OCD about following the formatting on the cover, shouldn't we also be consistent?"

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My answer, which completely ignored his snide remark, was direct and to the point.  I didn't tell him he was doing anything wrong...the voters did that...nor did I criticize him...in point of fact, he criticized us for being ridiculously OCD...so I am at a loss as to why you are so bent out of shape.

How in any way was your post constructive?  How did it help anyone that might have a similar question on the rules get any sort of clarity?  Absolutely nothing.  I love how I am "Bent out of Shape".  I have found many of your posts over the years to be great, and I have given you many green arrows.  But you also have the ability to post non-helpful & what appears to be judgmental posts such as the one I pointed out.  Why?

IMO your original reply scores a 1.  It didn't help anyone, besides your ego.

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Back on the subject of the answer to the OP, you see nothing wrong with it, but, indeed, you would not. As an experienced contributor, you know and understand the rules and their intricacies. Over the years, you have read many clarifications offered by Ken Cole and others like you. However, if you were a much less experienced contributor, you would take the comment differently, learning little from it.

Keeping with the teaching analogy, a teacher can be very short and direct when correcting a wrong colleague. When a student is wrong, however, one should thrive to make him learn, by giving explanations, even if these explanations have already been given many times before.

First, I am not a teacher and he is not a student.  Second, I never told him he was wrong, I simply answered his question about being consistent.  And third, what further explanation TO THE QUESTION HE ACTUALLY ASKED was required?

The truth of the matter is, I gave him the correct answer to his question and, rather than following your own advice and adding something constructive, you have chosen to criticize the manner in which the answer was given.  Give me a break.

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First, I am not a teacher and he is not a student.

That is obvious.  But I ask, why not?  You know far more than him.  Why not encourage him and help rather than give the "correct answer" to his "question"?

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That being said, personally I can't stand Overviews that are written in italics. I always fix them to my liking and lock those profiles.

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