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Blah, blah, blah, blah...

Great contribution to the discussion... 

It was, because you have a tendency to bloviate.  You are entitled to your opinion, of course, even if it IS wrong! 

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Bloviate...good word! I'll remember that one for the next time he bloviates .

bloviate... didn't find this word in my dictionary. But I suppose I bloviated 88 times (my number of posts at this time...)

How many times did you "bloviate" in your 862 posts ?, and Rifter in his 1704 ?

Have a nice day...   

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Really you can't find bloviate in the dictionary. I will be happy to provide a definition and a source.

Skip

I thought you were the definition? 



Come on now, it was a joke based off of your tagline. 

Oh what the heck, here is my 2cents worth:

bloviate - to speak pompously (source: Dictionary.com Unabridged)
bloviate - To discourse at length in a pompous or boastful manner (source: American Heritage Dictionary)
bloviate - orate verbosely and windily (source: WordNet)  -- this one is my personal favorite

enjoy...

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any intelligent conversation without personal battle points is appreciated - thank you.

I think it's impossible here...

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any intelligent conversation without personal battle points is appreciated - thank you.

I think it's impossible here...

You really crack me up. Thanks, I was having a really crappy day but I feel much better now.    

so you really think that derailing a thread makes your day feel better?

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the fiasco that it's become.

Au contraire: common names/credited as is by far the best thing that's ever happened to DVD Profiler. I see more and more users making absolutely valid use of it (I see "common" names updates almost every day), and despite the fact that I agree that some we could use some more guidance from Invelos, the feature already works wonders. The wonderful NameVariants-plugin is a great help with this, too. I'm pretty sure Ken won't be fooled by a few of the more vocal users who keep shouting that we shouldn't use it - its obvious that for a huge majority of the (mostly silent) userbase, this feature finally makes the data in DVD Profiler actually USABLE.

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the fiasco that it's become.

Au contraire: common names/credited as is by far the best thing that's ever happened to DVD Profiler. I see more and more users making absolutely valid use of it (I see "common" names updates almost every day), and despite the fact that I agree that some we could use some more guidance from Invelos, the feature already works wonders. The wonderful NameVariants-plugin is a great help with this, too. I'm pretty sure Ken won't be fooled by a few of the more vocal users who keep shouting that we shouldn't use it - its obvious that for a huge majority of the (mostly silent) userbase, this feature finally makes the data in DVD Profiler actually USABLE.

Just because a lot of people are using it, doesn't mean it works right.  It just means that a lot of people don't have the sense God gave little green peas.  Most of the common name updates I see have little or no legitimate documentation, or aren't needed in the first place.  I still haven't seen any ruling from Ken on who decides what the common name is.  Until that happens, ANY use of common name is based on personal preference, and that's why we shouldn't be using it.  It hasn't got anything to do with a few "vocal" users.  But, those of us who can see farther than the end of our own noses can see the absolute mess current use is making of things, and the longer it goes on the worse it will be to fix when Ken figures out how to make it work right.