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I've read the post Taro was talking about: Romanization of... Dr. Pavlov/Skip...whatever he calls himself...that reply was totally uncalled for.  It was wrong.  It should not have been allowed.  It deserved to moderated, deleted...something should have been done.

I didn't see anything inflammatory in Taro's initial post.  Maybe Dr. Pavlov/Skip should have PM'd Taro.

When posts such as Skips are allowed, it makes me think the moderators aren't moderating!

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To state the obvious:

People are leaving. Certainly more than the ones that actually announce the fact.
Some people are not contributing, either profiles, to the forums, or both.
Post rating doesn't work, and has no effect.
Moderation is patchy as best, and inconsistent.
There are "preferred" user(s) who are allowed to be as rude as they like, knowing there are no repercussions.
Profile updates are sometimes voted on by people who obviously don't have the disc, but feel compelled to "pull you into line".

All of the above devalue DVDProfiler. From my own perspective (Australia) I have noticed a considerabel delay in regional contributions, virtually no contirbutions for older DVDs that don't have an exisiting profile, and few updates to existing profiles. This is compared to profile entry a few years ago.

A long time ago (so it seems) I contributed profiles and updates for my region on a regular basis. I stopped a while ago because, instead of simply voting to accept or reject a profile update, some people felt compelled to include personal insults in the voting notes, and to drag the voting process into the forums. This is what triggered a lot of new votes from people who had suddenly "acquired" the disc, and who didn't live in the region the disc was released in. Skip is a good example of someone who abuses the voting process in this way, though for the life of me I can't see why he bothers.

Finally, this forum is viewed as a joke by many people outside the DVDProfiler user base (and probably by a reasonable number in it). Why? Because, instead of forcussing on the films, or how DVDProfiler can be improved, this forum continually debates such things as the relative merits of dividing a title using a colon instead of a space. And not once, but continuously, over and over again.

Certainly Taro's comment on there being first and second class users is absolutely correct. I have been a user of DVDProfiler and these forums for a lot longer that Skip (despite what he might say) and can remember a time when these forums were a pleasant place to come to. That is certainly not the case now, and there is no prospect of that changing without serious Invelos involvement.

I'll ask the question again:

Ken, how many lost users will it take for you to do something about this?

Sorry about the length of this.

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Only thing that I can not see is the lacking of contributions,