Quoting jgilligan:

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Maybe the best approach is to do what most contributors do... Contribute and completely ignore PMs and the forum.

The frustration seems to come from trying to make things better and help the community.  But that seems to just stir up the vocal minority, it doesn't seem to help resolve the ongoing problems.


Sorry to see you go.  I would like to think you may reconsider after taking a break, but I don't think the atmosphere is going to change much around here.

That's pretty much what I do.  I mainly only contribute new profiles.  If it gets rejected, then I figure it's their loss.  I stopped making cast/crew corrections because I do not agree with the naming rules adopted by the community.

Quoting Dr Pavlov:

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xradman:

I have to ask this, then why do you watch movies at all. The naming convventions that were adopted  are the ones used by Hollywood in their credits. It would seem to follow that there naming conventions do not meet with your approval either, particularly when you are dealing with Cast of mixed national origin. That is all we do...copy the data provided by the film.

Huh? I don't know about you, but I watch movies for the storytelling and not for the credits. I very much suspect the vast majority of people do it for a similar reason. So why would someone not agreeing with naming conventions used by DVD Profiler and/or by Hollywood have anything to do with why they watch a movies?

KM

Quoting Taro:

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It's basically just a guy with a computer somewhere in an office typing away as he sees fit.

... and making often typos...

Quoting Dr Pavlov:

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xradman:

I have to ask this, then why do you watch movies at all. The naming convventions that were adopted  are the ones used by Hollywood in their credits. It would seem to follow that there naming conventions do not meet with your approval either, particularly when you are dealing with Cast of mixed national origin. That is all we do...copy the data provided by the film.

I have said many times I hope that something can be created that will allow for what you want, but... we wait...patiently

Skip

???  What does DVD profile naming convention have to do with watching movies?

However, I have to ask you Skip in all seriousness, with all the time you spend in this forum and time you spend in checking profiles, where do you find time to watch any movies?

Quoting surfeur51:

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Quoting Taro:

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It's basically just a guy with a computer somewhere in an office typing away as he sees fit.

... and making often typos...

LOL, that too yeah. Best one I ever saw was 'Jorge Lucas'. Turns out it wasn't his Spanish half-brother but instead George Lucas himself 

Quoting xradman:

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That's pretty much what I do.  I mainly only contribute new profiles.  If it gets rejected, then I figure it's their loss.

Word! This laid-back-attitude saves me from a lot of grief and annoyance I simply to not wish to burden myself with. I have a life and watch movies for fun. My universe doesn't revolve around the DVD Profiler as some other peoples very small worlds seem to do.

Although I sometime do update existing profiles, I automatically dropp to "their loss" if it is rejected for a reason I can't fathom.


cya, Mithi

I use Hollywood in reference to the film community as a whole, grave. The rules were designed to deal with the credits period, I don't care what language, assuming of course that the program can ACTUALLY deall with them, and that is not a Rules problem, that is a Program problem. Like i said given the assumption, I domn't care what language the credits are in  type what you see, in the order you see it, not as you imagine it to be nor as you might prefer it to be. WYSIWYT. Credits are credits are credits, unless they happen to be something that the program cannot handle, which like i said is not a Rules problem. If the Program could handle Kanji characters and the film used Kanji, I would tell you type what you see, not what you think, want or imagine. Then we would have exactly the opposite issue of what we have now, translation of those Kanji characters and hopefully with all of this discussion we might be on the road to formulating a solutiopn for this...MAYBE.

Skip

The linking is a feature of the program not the central datasource, sugar. I understand where you are comingfrom, but you are putting too much on the linking. It is important, perhaps the most important feature but unless the data is dealt with correctly then the Feature will  never work correctly. That is the problem we have right now, much of the data has not been dealt with properly, some users are in such hurry to try and assist the CLT they are making assumptions which in the long run will be harmful, this is also why I keep saying good enough is not good enough. The foundation of the data must be solid for any features but this one in particular to functions as it should.

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