i was just wondering if there is a way to tell when a contribution is declined what it's declined for? I tried to contribute info on "Van Helsing" and it was declined. it had like 4 yes votes and one no. the no was something like "MC should be this" without documentation or a reason why it should be. is the reaon it was declined because the no voter has more clout than the contributor and the 4 yes voters? it kind of makes the whole "voting" system pretty wack. it reminds me of "Hell's Kitchen" where Gordon asks one chef to pick two chefs up for elimination, only to go and choose whoever he sees fit to eliminate. i wanna know who is DVDProfiler's Gordon Ramsay!

To answer your question, yes, some users have more 'clout'.  Ken explained this a little while back, I will see if I can find it but, simply put, because we have so many 'rubber stamp' voters...those that vote 'yes' to anything...Ken instituted a 'weight' system.  The voters who vote both ways, meaning sometimes yes and sometimes no, with an explanation, are deemed more credible.

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Skip voted no.  As for documentation, he has a wide personal knowledge.

(JOKE)

I am less than amused, Samuel. No I did not vote on his Van helsing as I am sure brian will be happy to confirm. I have a copy but evidently not his copy or version.

For the record mine say USHV but that was the ORIGINAL release in 2004 and there have been a couple since then, I think, plus the BD.

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I agree with that premise DarkKnight and have said so many times. If the Studio comment by whomever was valid then it should be addressed

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And the people who consistently vote yes without even checking should have their voting rights removed.

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Quoting samuelrichardscott:

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And the people who consistently vote yes without even checking should have their voting rights removed.

I agree. I recently voted "No" on some re-release covers and there were people who voted "Yes".
Very sad.

It's quite possible that they didn't know that it was a re-release & was the version they have. I saw one some time ago where a rather well known user voted "Yes" to a re-release cover and against the majority of "No" votes it was accepted. I resubmitted the original explaining the situation & they voted "Yes" to correcting. Before you say it, it wasn't a user who votes "Yes" to everything

I do however think that users who blindly vote for everything regardless of quality should at the very least have voting rights revoked for a short period.

Note that sometimes a valid NO vote will not get the contribution declined if the overall value of the update is greater than the incorrect part.

Though improper documentation such as not specifying your sources can get your perfect contribution declined with 100/0 yes votes.

Mine agrees with you, Unicus, at least based on my Cover Art.

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