Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the "let's bitch about a cent" topic 10th page party! 

How about we all just shut the hell up until we see what happens with the contribution?

Richie:

Quite the contrary, I see Lopek the rule-Breaker as being the one whose credibility has been damaged along with that of anyone who has voted yes. The Rule is the Rule.

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Lopek the rule-Breaker

Ooooohhh, a title!  That is awesome, almost trible sounding.  We can become like a clan!  I would like to submit myself as "mdnitoil the flatulent".   

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Lopek the rule-Breaker

Ooooohhh, a title!  That is awesome, almost trible sounding.  We can become like a clan!  I would like to submit myself as "mdnitoil the flatulent".   

                         
Are you going to buy "Thunderpants"

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I'd like to See Skip eat Crow when Ken authorises this contribution..

 

Skip,

I totally see your point but I would like to know have you interpret the part of the rule that mentions SRP on the original release. Am I wrong in believing that a title should not have an SRP until the date of release.

I was just wondering.

Anybody ever wonder why SRP is locked for any newly added profile with SRP information by default? It's because of over abuse of some contributers in that past, same is true for Disc ID.

BYates:

Having been involved in that process the ONLY issue was to prevent the several cent SRP changes being made by the dozens, and thernbeing changed. there is no interpretation to make as I have said. Do NOT make such a change PERIOD, that is all there is. There is NO provision within the Rule, nor any exception to allow for such a change unedr ANY circumstance. It is at the same time recognized that SRP CAN sometimes be changed by the distributor at some point prior to release of the, for example 28.99===>24.99 with supporting documentation that would be permitted, prior to release or perhaps even "close"(this might have to be a judgement call) to the release date, but such changes from the Distributor will be significant changes. The Rule depsite all the claims to the contrary was not intenede to leave any wiggle room...DON"T MAKE THE CHANGE. As I said, my data happens to be identical to Lopek's including the SRP, but there were TWO reasons I chose to WITHDRAW mine, FIRST and Foremost the SRP change was a violation of the Rules, no spin, no rationalization, it was against the Rules and Secondly it was a duplicate Contribution, I frankly have no idea whetrher Lopek's was first or not, that wasnot relevant in my reasoning for withdrawl. There were also some conflicts in Lopek's initial Contribution,

I had hoiped that Lopek would make the change to his Contribution and end of subject right there. He did change MOST of the conflicting issues, but not the SRP, that was when it became apparent that this was flagrant abuse of the Rules. I still gave him the benefit of the doubt, when I started this thread and discussed the topic in general terms, hoping to educate other users and that he would realize his mistake and fix it. Instead he chose to out himself and the title data, thus rallying a bunch of users to violate the Rules in addition to his own.

Now frankly, i grew tired of this some time ago, Brian. but your question was reasonable. The rule is clear and obvious and has been handled in precisely the way described for TWO years until a rogue user decided to deliberately break the Rules and then try to spin his way out of it and invoilve other members of the Community as well.

Thanks for asking

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