I know it's not completely accurate, but it might be helpful when looking at a particular movie to see how many people have it in their online collections. 

This would help when editing profiles etc to know if your working on a version that your the only one with, or whether thousands of other people are going to be impacted by your change.

I relaise it's not completely accurate, as not all users upload to the online system, but it would give an indication at least

Any other thoughts?

Cheers

I like this proposal. The reason is not for contribution purposes but out of curiosity.

From a trivia/curiosity point of view I really like the idea, as long as it's anonymous.
As Telecine says, why not have a statistics webpage full of all these statistics?

Before I discovered this program, I used two or three online services where much (not all) of this information could be drawn upon. One site that I liked nearly as much as this one -- one I kept adding my DVDs to (for a while) even after I bought this one -- had a simple listing of the quantity of each DVD owned by the users. It was fun to discover a DVD that you, alone, were the only owner in that database. You could also look up the most owned titles in the database. Again, no users' names were revealed, but you could look through a list of the 100 most popular DVDs in that database each day or wekk or how often they updated it. It would also show you your most popular actors and directors, as well as the most popular ones in the database. That was one reason I began collecting Buster Keaton DVDs -- both as an actor and as a director. I smiled the day he bested Hitchcock in my most owned directors list!

Yeah, this is fun stuff to evaluate as you collect DVDs -- looking at what is popular that you refuse to own; what is unpopular that you love to own, etc.