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Did any other ex-DVDspot member have this problem
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantAlien Redrum
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I've never heard of any fornordboy.
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I've never heard of any fornordboy.


You know who i meant.
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I always declined tickets full of spelling errors.
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It's pretty sad when the only person who sticks up for me is FilmAlba. 
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I always declined tickets full of spelling errors.

Thats why your site is out of buisness.  If someone takes the time to fill out a fourm and makes spelling mistakes, they should be corrected, not rejected.
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I always declined tickets full of spelling errors.

Thats why your site is out of buisness.  If someone takes the time to fill out a fourm and makes spelling mistakes, they should be corrected, not rejected.

If you can't take the time to spellcheck your submissions, you don't deserve to get it in the database. Especially when it's a constantly repeated issue.... which I think is a safe assumption to make in this case.
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I always declined tickets full of spelling errors.

Thats why your site is out of buisness.  If someone takes the time to fill out a fourm and makes spelling mistakes, they should be corrected, not rejected.


The site didn't "go out of business."  It was purchased by CNET which is a huge Internet company currently owned by CBS.
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I always declined tickets full of spelling errors.

Thats why your site is out of buisness.  If someone takes the time to fill out a fourm and makes spelling mistakes, they should be corrected, not rejected.

If you can't take the time to spellcheck your submissions, you don't deserve to get it in the database. Especially when it's a constantly repeated issue.... which I think is a safe assumption to make in this case.

There is was no spell check in profiler.  Everthing deserves to be in the database in order to make it more comprehensvie.  That was never the case with me.  It was pure laziness on the part of the editor who recived my request.  If the system were so great it would still be around.  I am glad I am here now and not on dvdspot.  It is like night and day.  If you can't handle the job, give to smeone who has better people skills.  The site is only hurt by the poor attitude.  Some people speak differant language or are poor spellers.
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I always declined tickets full of spelling errors.

Thats why your site is out of buisness.  If someone takes the time to fill out a fourm and makes spelling mistakes, they should be corrected, not rejected.


Spot went out of business because CNET bought it for the information to try and push their movie site (which IIRC failed) and had no further use for Spot. I would 75% of the time revise/hold(and wait for response) rather than decline or even hold a ticket but we did have a very long list in the editors forum of users and problems they had been told about repeatedly. The repeat offenders would just get straight declines on the parts in question. It was pointless leaving said people notes because it was obvious they were not reading them. We would always give first time contributors benefit of the doubt and go into detail with notes and revisions. Also, I used to spend about 10+ hours a week responding to people via PM's. My behaviour on this forum should not reflect on what I was like over there though. I'm a bitter git now
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I feel like I am back at Spot again reading this. 
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Except we like you now.
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I always declined tickets full of spelling errors.

Thats why your site is out of buisness.  If someone takes the time to fill out a fourm and makes spelling mistakes, they should be corrected, not rejected.


The site didn't "go out of business."  It was purchased by CNET which is a huge Internet company currently owned by CBS.


It wasn't even a business it was free and had no ad revenue.
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It did have ad revenue. It used pricegrabber although it was placed well and barely noticeable. Surprising really considering CNET usually stick more ads on a page than I've had hot meals.
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I always declined tickets full of spelling errors.

Thats why your site is out of buisness.  If someone takes the time to fill out a fourm and makes spelling mistakes, they should be corrected, not rejected.


Spot went out of business because CNET bought it for the information to try and push their movie site (which IIRC failed) and had no further use for Spot. I would 75% of the time revise/hold(and wait for response) rather than decline or even hold a ticket but we did have a very long list in the editors forum of users and problems they had been told about repeatedly. The repeat offenders would just get straight declines on the parts in question. It was pointless leaving said people notes because it was obvious they were not reading them. We would always give first time contributors benefit of the doubt and go into detail with notes and revisions. Also, I used to spend about 10+ hours a week responding to people via PM's. My behaviour on this forum should not reflect on what I was like over there though. I'm a bitter git now

To rejct a submission with out reading is obserde.  Sometime you would get responses like use this or that tool with no explaination of how to do it.  Most of the time my requests went through but towards the end thing got ridiculas.  I understand and appreciate the time you took but other people are taking there time as well.  My other gripe was with the titl count of TV shows, If something has two seasons in it and it was not sold individually it should count as two.  After all you could getDVD with four movies on a disc that were not sold seperatly and that counts as four.  Tv shows cost more money and are two seperate things.  Sometimes you would contridicte the rules that you set, for instance Twin Peaks boxset should have counted as three becasue season one, two and the piolot were sold individually and thhe piolot was filmed a year before the TV show.  I explined this to them and they siad they talked about it and it was still two.  My friend fought with you over Fary Tail Theater because they were sold seperatly and you guys would only count it as one.  He resorted to puttig in the indvidula voulmess so his title count would be acurate.  Yest there was no problem counting a Mills Creek set as 250 or any anime titles.  This was done becasue theses editors had low TV counts and wanted to have their collection look bigger than people who bought TV.  People Wwho spent more money on nice sets were punished by the editors.
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Actually that was one of the rules that every single editor asked to be changed but the owner (Croy) wouldn't change it and when CNET took over we would never even get a response to requests. It wasn't overzealous editors, which tbh, is a laughable opinion at best.
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Oh, and the idea I had personally that was put forward but never responded to was a seperate count for TV episodes, rather than seasons.
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