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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 2,394 |
| | Posted: | | | | If a user has set his My Profiler collection to "Private," why are we presented with an icon to click on?
I don't have any problem with users wanting their collections private, I'm just curious why there's a button to pick that only gives you a message that the collection is private. I think that if someone's user profile doesn't allow email messages, the email icon doesn't show up in his messages. So why do we see a collection icon? | | | Another Ken (not Ken Cole)
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| Registered: July 31, 2008 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 2,506 |
| | Posted: | | | | It's an option in User Settings - Show a link to my online collection. It would be good if that was linked to the private collection feature though. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | This is not something that ever really bothered me, I would not keep my collection private. But in recent weeks i have found it to be very troubling, with the advent of users making rather gorss changes to international title (all copies and versions) while keeping their collections private I thin is outrageous. Every time I see it happen i ask myself the same question and the answer is obvious in these instances, what is the user trying to hide? I think thes type of Contribution and perhaps ANY contribution from a PRIVATE collection should be banned. I am a big believer sunshine, if you have nothing to hide...
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 693 |
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| Registered: March 19, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 6,014 |
| | Posted: | | | | . | | | | Last edited: by dee1959jay |
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| Registered: March 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 6,014 |
| | Posted: | | | | I would be vehemently opposed to what Skip is suggesting here. It is every user's right to keep his or her collection private, and using that right should in no way infringe on other user rights, such as the right to contribute. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other. Contributions require proper documentation, and that should be it. PERIOD. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | I understand deejay, in fact I am opposed to it as well, but i am also vehemently opposed to users making wholesale changes to the Online, every copy of any given film, based only on the copy in his possession, when it is known that in many instances that is a bogus assumption, and he keeps his collection private to mask his activities. Frankly i don't know what the answer is here, well I should say i do know the answer but...
Skip | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
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| Registered: March 29, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 4,479 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting dee1959jay: Quote:
I would be vehemently opposed to what Skip is suggesting here. It is every user's right to keep his or her collection private, and using that right should in no way infringe on other user rights, such as the right to contribute. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other. Contributions require proper documentation, and that should be it. PERIOD. I agree with that. If people want to keep their collection private, that is their right, even if they try to correct the horrible mess of the online correcting many copy of a given film. The two things are different, and this example should not be used by one user to launch is usual vendetta againt another one, whose efforts are laudable (though useless, in my opinion, due to the rules as they are...) | | | | Images from movies |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | Surfeur:
I take vehement exception to your comment regards vendetta. if you think that is true then you understand nothing. TIt is simply a users, as you put it correctly laudable effort, but it is misguided at best, his attempts to mask his efforts make me question his motives, but it has nothing to do with any sort of vendetta. I am simply totally opposed to what he trying to do since we know that the data of one copy cannot be relied upon to be the same everywhere or in every version. I applaud the effort, but it IS misguided. And i WILL accept your apology.
Skip | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it.
Outta here
Billy Video |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 4,526 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Dr Pavlov: Quote:
... he keeps his collection private to mask his activities. You have been known to say "Make no assumptions", but you're making quite an assumption yourself when you state that someone is keeping his collection private to mask his activities. You have no way of knowing the reason why a person is keeping his collection private.  | | | My freeware tools for DVD Profiler users.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | Callit an educated guess. Since he made his collection private about the same time as he started making wholesale changes.
Skip | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it.
Outta here
Billy Video |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,394 |
| | Posted: | | | | Hey, guys. None of your responses are on topic.
I didn't want to start a thread on the merits vis a vis keeping one's online collection private.
What I DID want to know is: Why, if someone has a private collection, I see an icon for that person's collection that, when I click on it, I find that the collection is private. If I can't see someone's collection, why do I get the option at all? | | | Another Ken (not Ken Cole)
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 6,730 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting kdh1949: Quote:
If I can't see someone's collection, why do I get the option at all? Because the programmer didn't think of it?  | | | It all seems so stupid, it makes me want to give up!
But why should I give up, when it all seems so stupid?
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,916 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting goblinsdoitall: Quote:
Because the programmer didn't think of it? That's my guess. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 13,199 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Dr. Killpatient: Quote:
Quoting goblinsdoitall:
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Because the programmer didn't think of it?
That's my guess. Mine as well. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 646 |
| | Posted: | | | | I think he did. We can see this behavior in a few places in DVDP too.
I do not share this trail of though, although it doesn't hurt much, it is annoying to have to click on something only to get a message that there isn't anything there. An additional icon to indicate that the online collection is privet wouldn't go a miss. |
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