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Sorry Achim, I can't sayt that i view Rick as an honest member of this Community. You and others seem to believe that you know enough about me to make judgements of personality and my motives and frankly sir, you don't know squat.

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I have seen no indication that anyone else has a clue

Oh, please!
Yes, you and Rifter repeatedly claimed to be software and database specialists. Now, I have seen a lot of useful add-ons (plugins, skins, external tools) developed by people around here, who therefore could make such a claim with some credibility, but yours is just ridiculous.

Sorry, for not ignoring you.

That's a lie.  I never claimed to be a specialist.  I said I've had a fair amount of experience at, and been paid for, designing and implementing database programs.  Skip has a lot more than I do.

The point being made, however, was that we understand the concepts behind designing a database.  I have a data processing degree, a large part of which study covered the design, implementation, and use of databases.  I made my living for 20+ years in the computer and data processing arena.  I think all of that gives me more than passing credibility.

You could make use of that experience, or blow it off as you have been doing, but it won't change the facts.

John,

You claim to have experience, but you fight cast and/or crew linking. Without linking, what is the data for? I would think that someone with "experience" would understand that a pile of data without any good way to cross-reference it is a waste of time and disk space.

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I've reviewed this thread looking for whichever reasons were given in support of adding this disc dividers into the cast.

There really haven't been any reasons to include them. 

Skip (who admits he may be supporting a view that isn't his own) says we can't be against the dividers on the basis that they're redundant because otherwise we'd have to revisit the rules for the edition field.

Rifter, who says he is against dividers above the child profile level, has said these are needed to sort out the shambles of extra data being forced upon master profiles. But he's against dividers for master profiles. 

That's all I could see in the thread. 

I asked Rifter if, since these dividers are being added to miniseries profiles of 3-6 episodes in length, if he adds these dividers to disc profiles of similar length in his collection. No response to that.

I would still like to know why anyone who has voted for these dividers feels they are a good thing. If we're to have them, they need to be in every episodic profile. So there needs to be a good justification presented rather than just that we dont' get it.

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In the meantime, dividers provide a tool that can be used to clarify and simplify cast listing in ways that goes beyond simply breaking the list at 'Episode #'.  Many people are fighting that tooth and nail.  And, as I've said before, a lot of these profiling problems and the ensuing fights are because people still persist in profiling TV set data as if it were a different animal than a movie set, when the only real, practical difference is the number of pieces of video on a disc.

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That creates fictional discs, Unicus, which i don't support and can't. One Disc, One Profile.

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