Biggest pet peeve on Discogs?

As the title reads: Biggest pet peeve in Discog?

Personally, I'm pretty sure I just found what is either the biggest pet peeve or something to be grateful for:

Seller, instead of doing a sloppy copy to draft submission for their version of a disc, marks in the free text field on the ad "MADE IN " while listing it under the only listing, which is Australian.

This especially bother me because the disc that is listed (Australian), appear to have a small manifacturing error distorting the sound at the end of one track...but with the German CD it is impossible to know if it would still apply! So it could be better or, if unlucky, worse. No one knows.

So, pet peeves?

Ambiguous gudelines and redundancy sheriffs that favor ambiguous submissions over any repeated letter.

rugogs
Ambiguous gudelines and redundancy sheriffs that favor ambiguous submissions over any repeated letter.

+1 for that. While I find it amusing to waste my time reading threads of people arguing over unclear guidelines, it does feel extremely stupid that it needs to keep happening. Esoecially when you see them linking two, three, five diffrent discussions that never reached a conclusion before them.

Our definition of "compilation". I hates it. and the guideline is overly convoluted for no reason.

cellularsmoke
Our definition of "compilation". I hates it. and the guideline is overly convoluted for no reason.

I'll it i wemt to read them before replying and tbh your complaint is valid

90% of what ends up in the review/comments of a release. An additional peeve is that that bothers me.

Forum threads which reach almost universal agreement about a change or improvement to the guidelines which are left to wither on the vine.
I've seen too many to mention or link to particular ones.

Jayfive
90% of what ends up in the review/comments of a release. An additional peeve is that that bothers me.

I can sympathise with that one. Only time it appears even close to useful is in the example I mentioned, where it was in the comments that the "manifacturing fault" in the CD was determined to be more than just scratching on private copies.

The_Beatles.
Forum threads which reach almost universal agreement about a change or improvement to the guidelines which are left to wither on the vine.
I've seen too many to mention or link to particular ones.

THIS

The_Beatles.
Forum threads which reach almost universal agreement about a change or improvement to the guidelines which are left to wither on the vine.
I've seen too many to mention or link to particular ones.

The "What's going on over at the Metallica-page?" thread would be a recent example.

Didn't we even get Staff buy in on that? And... nada. Like it never happened.

cellularsmoke
Didn't we even get Staff buy in on that? And... nada. Like it never happened.

Maybe because staff appear to be made up of two chewing gums and a bunch of strings. Too much to do, too littke man power to actually out to it. Besides, they need to figure out how popular it is to discuss Master releases with your friends!

The_Beatles.
Forum threads which reach almost universal agreement about a change or improvement to the guidelines which are left to wither on the vine.

And then someone moans when you go in and make a change that, while not entirely fixes the problem, makes the submission more correct than it was before. All because people have made themselves terrified of getting votes for themselves. As if a single vote will fling you onto the CIP.

Unless this is your very first month on the site you should not be scared of changing anything. Most of us would need 100s, if not 1000s of NMCs or EIs to end up on the CIP.

That's if you get any votes at all as they've become a lot thinner on the ground.

Another pet peeve - people who can't quote previous posts properly. It's really not that hard.

cellularsmoke
Didn't we even get Staff buy in on that? And... nada. Like it never happened.

Last statement from Diognes when asked about it was that he felt a community pushback on that... *rolls eyes*

Biggest? That's a tough one. There are a lot. Not that I don't love this place. This site really is great. But there are a lot of little features that never really seemed 'finished' so maybe that's my pet peeve...it's a great site, but a lot of features that have never been properly fleshed out.

rugogs
Last statement from Diognes when asked about it was that he felt a community pushback on that... *rolls eyes*

That's the real problem; they want 100% agreement on things, no one back there just Takes Control And Makes A Decision.

1. Not being able to block specific sellers
2. Not being able to configure the system to not show sales from particular countries which I'll never buy from
3. The completely dysfunctional system

The main one for me is changing the current two way payment system so as to deter non-paying buyers. That, and a counter offer option for offers.

1. Credits in release notes.
2. Releases without comprehensive image sets.

timhorton69
1. Credits in release notes.
2. Releases without comprehensive image sets.

+1 for that

rugogs
The "What's going on over at the Metallica-page?" thread would be a recent example.

Perfect example. s were coming around to the idea that,
A: There was a problem and
B: The proposed solution wasn't going to ' break' the site.

I must it I was guilty of not posting in that thread. I suppose that makes me part of the problem.

The_Beatles.
rugogsThe "What's going on over at the Metallica-page?" thread would be a recent example.
Perfect example. s were coming around to the idea that,
A: There was a problem and
B: The proposed solution wasn't going to ' break' the site.

I must it I was guilty of not posting in that thread. I suppose that makes me part of the problem.

Yep. You already thought " hey cool, tomorrow we'll start with testing this" and when you revisit the thing 2 months later, because the next thread about the issue has just popped up, you see that apparently still nothing ever happened because staff simply vanished at the very moment where anyone just expected them to say a simple "Great, Go ahead! Let's do it!".
And so nobody ever took action because all efforts would likely have been worthless, as doing that sort of stunt without being able to link a thread with proper staff approval would only lead into endless arguments and back-and-forth editing.
Pretty frustrating...

- Releases needing changes for years, despite having more than a dozen owners.
- Vote bombing, especially on submissions that already have a Needs Changes status for years.
- Comments in release histories that include shouting, demanding the contributor to read guidelines, name calling or qualifications such as "crap", with the goal being that the contributor actually starts making corrections.
- Getting notifications that a submission needs changes because of really minor issues, such as capitalization errors.

jweijde
Vote bombing

This is exceptionally annoying.

Also, buddy voting. Yeah I guess there's nothing wrong with that if the vote is justified, most of the time it's just blind. Either way, I despise this practice.

missing references in submission notes for external info; missing references for artist and company profile edits; lousy web subs; images from the web; lack of s engaging in forum threads that need resolving; the bunch of usual trolls that always have to just make some useless comment in threads; and lots more...

I'm kind of the only person doing DB forum stuff these days. Nik pops in on occasion, but he's knee deep in C-level stuff most of the time.

What can I do to help speed things along better? On my end, I'd like to see things pretty much agreed and just ed to me for a stamp of final approval rather than having to spend time researching and understanding an issue, as is required for all these bigger threads.

Make SR's or ping me and stuff and I'll do my best to poke my head in. I don't always reply, especially if it looks early in the process or if I don't have enough information yet to formulate a cohesive stance.

Sometimes I say things in the forums and have to spend the next few weeks undoing the damage, or the decision ends up being super controversial and causes a 5 page thread or a dozen tickets and I have to explain to my manager (Nik) why the queues/forums are on fire and, yeah, less of that please.

jweijde
- Releases needing changes for years, despite having more than a dozen owners.
- Vote bombing, especially on submissions that already have a Needs Changes status for years.

So much this, especially if there's images that can be used to fix the issue. On the other hand, the joys of finally finding a copy of the release and taking it from a 3 NMaC disaster to a C&C is super satisfying, though.

jweijde
- Comments in release histories that include shouting, demanding the contributor to read guidelines, name calling or qualifications such as "crap", with the goal being that the contributor actually starts making corrections.

Yeah, this never works as intended. I understand that working in the DB makes you grumpy after a few hours, but chances are a lot of that is going to be misdirected anger. I had someone write in last week who got eviscerated after (understandably) failing to make their first submission. of a classical box set. from a cellphone.

jweijde
- Getting notifications that a submission needs changes because of really minor issues, such as capitalization errors.

100%. Especially if they suddenly 'don't feel knowledgeable enough' to follow up with a correct vote.

No images of the actual for sale items on the marketplace.

jweijde
Releases needing changes for years, despite having more than a dozen owners.

And +1 to this. There are many many submissions that don't even get touched for like 15 years. Still a long way to go for us until we have a comprehensive database.

Diognes_The_Fox
I'm kind of the only person doing DB forum stuff these days.

This forum right now....

Not adding Bass Music to also be used Electronic Music (or just moved to Electronic Music) for a reason that I still don't understand even though it's one of the most widely used styles in Electronic Music this decade.
first proper request made over 5 years ago:
https://discogs.librosgratis.biz/forum/thread/368197?page=1
Let's see, https://www.juno.co.uk/bass/back-cat/?show_out_of_stock=1 3432 records listed
https://www.juno.com/bass/back-cat/releases/ 8440 s listed

It's not so bad. Most of it's valid complaints, but I'm also TBH, kind of a mess of a scatterbrained dork. Just keep pinging me into threads / make an SR and eventually I'll get on it or explain why not.

A lot of my pet peeves are ones I'm not going to post because it's stuff I should/could be doing if I had the time/energy. Then there's other stuff like features and bugs that live in the high-effort/low-impact category that bug me/y'all as a contributor that I'd love to have fixed, but likely won't due to the never ending volley of external/internal priorities that overshadow them.

TBH, the one thing I wanna do in the world more than anything is sub and I'm willing to do what I gotta to make sure this place stays a valid output of my energy/time/money investment.

0bleak
Not adding Bass Music to also be used Electronic Music (or just moved to Electronic Music) for a reason that I still don't understand even though it's one of the most widely used styles in Electronic Music this decade.

There's a few accidental duplicate style names in the database, but they way the system works, it just mushes everything together anyways, so it's really best to add the style from hip hop and then remove hip hop.

There's also a lot of staff / top contributor privilege that prevents me from seeing things as they really are, which blows as much as it makes it easier for me to squeeze in weird edgecase junk.

Y'all go easy on me, which means I'm not like consciously aware of blind spots in the RSG which anyone new contributing hits like a brick wall.

Ya know what drives me up the wall? Big master releases. Fortunately we're taking those on for renovation, but there's definitely a lot of weeds that need to be cut back on. I'm helping my roommate/landlord catalog his collection and any major rock LP is upwards of half an hour if the pressing plant info isn't properly cataloged or hasn't been subbed yet.

I have a small request, which I hope more people follow, so that all our lives can be made easier if you're working with large MR's:
A) Try and add whatever information to your version's notes/companies/baoi/format FTF/etc to help others (and you in the future), arrive at the right sub)
B) Merge dupes if you find them
C) Leave comments and/or vote where you can't figure things out so that others will at least know it's a mess.
D) go easy on people trying to make sense of or clean up duplicates,

Diognes_The_Fox


I have a small request, which I hope more people follow, so that all our lives can be made easier if you're working with large MR's:
A) Try and add whatever information to your version's notes/companies/baoi/format FTF/etc to help others (and you in the future), arrive at the right sub)
B) Merge dupes if you find them
C) Leave comments and/or vote where you can't figure things out so that others will at least know it's a mess.
D) go easy on people trying to make sense of or clean up duplicates,

I think this is just about the most senible thing I've heard since I ed this site. I wish this exact statment was presented to all new contributors at some point. I've been here about 6 months, give or take, and it is only in the last few months and weeks I've realized how important details really are - if I'd seen it back then, I wouldn't have 3 submissions I did back when that still doesn't have any Matrix, because I didn't realize it was important for anything but LPs until a month or two back. I've already added Matrix to 3 or 4 submissions retroactively. Also, it would hopefully makw s a bit nicer to one another and new s would have an easier time getting help and and more to show those helping, because they'd better understand the need for maximum amount of info.

Yeah! Things with a lot of those larger MR's are so close to being like AMAZING but because there's so much disorganization, it's hard to deal with and feel comfortable working with.

Diognes_The_Fox
Yeah! Things with a lot of those larger MR's are so close to being like AMAZING but because there's so much disorganization, it's hard to deal with and feel comfortable working with.

You "small request" up there should be the first thing people see when they ed Discogs. It should be in the welcome PM IMO.

Next time I see a noobe wanting hekp to be a better and submitter here, I'm going to quote you on this. It's perfection.

Diognes_The_Fox
B) Merge dupes if you find them

But first make sure that they are actually dupes.
Inspect all available pictures attached to a potentially duped sub and compare them thoroughly with the other sub, as well as all other data (including tracklist, tiny variations in credits that may be expanded in the release notes, matrix informations etc.).
If there's not enoguh data available to be 100% sure that it's a duplicate, first ask questions to the original submitters or people that actually own the release to confirm PRIOR to your merge or removal request.

rugogs
Diognes_The_FoxB) Merge dupes if you find them

But first make sure that they are actually dupes.
Inspect all available pictures attached to a potentially duped sub and compare them thoroughly with the other sub, as well as all other data (including tracklist, tiny variations in credits that may be expanded in the release notes, matrix informations etc.).
If there's not enogh data to be 100% sure, ask questions to the original submitters or people that actually own the release to confirm PRIOR to your merge or removal request.

And this is why A) exist. If people follow A), problems with B) will be much less likely, and if people are unsure on B) they go to C). Incorrect merges is a btoher for everyone but can easily be avoided.

Some are already listed and discussed by others, so I will skip re-iterating them. Here's a couple of other ones:

1. Total conversion edits of releases just to sell an item (this has broken my collection a few times, and not to mention my wantlist).
2. Releases that have been carelessly edited so that they are now multiple things.
3. Carelessly added variants, and then people cleaning them up even more carelessly, so no variant represents what was initially submitted.
3b. Re-sorting of variants so the SID codes / Matrix are in alphabetical order.
4. Complete disregard for the guidelines when adding certain tags like Album, and specifying release dates when not stated on release (ex- Part of the problem myself)
4b. No guideline on what to do with CDs marketed by labels as MCD (but are not actually 3" in size). EP, MiniAlbum, Single? What are they?
5. Manufacturing dates added as release dates, manufacturing country added as Country.
6. Submission notes that state nothing useful of what was edited, or state something else compared to what was actually edited. (when tracing seemingly invalid data through 40+ edits, sometimes over multiple drafts...)
7. Drafts from merged releases are often deleted (related to 6, also known as the "dead end" problem when I am really annoyed) (ex- Part of the problem here too)
8. Comments, edits, etc on releases in my collection are not always sent as a notification.
8b. My own edits are sometimes sent as a notification to me.

Warepire
1. Total conversion edits of releases just to sell an item (this has broken my collection a few times, and not to mention my wantlist).

"Biggest pet peeve on Discogs?" - "Sellers!!!"

;-)

Diognes_The_Fox
There's a few accidental duplicate style names in the database, but they way the system works, it just mushes everything together anyways, so it's really best to add the style from hip hop and then remove hip hop.

A few problems:

Not a lot of contributors are aware that they can do that, or how to do that.

The style description is only the one for Hip Hop so even if someone knows how to add it, they may not feel comfortable adding it. I often don't feel comfortable adding it because of that.

Can it not just be moved to Electronic Music? This has been suggested before. I mean, the Hip Hop style of Bass Music could be seen another electronic style anyway, and then both style descriptions could be written there. EDIT: Even more reason to do it is that Hip Hop has both Bass Music and Miami Bass and the style description for Bass Music currently reads "sometimes referred to as Miami Bass"!

0bleak
Diognes_The_FoxThere's a few accidental duplicate style names in the database, but they way the system works, it just mushes everything together anyways, so it's really best to add the style from hip hop and then remove hip hop.

A few problems:

Not a lot of contributors are aware that they can do that, or how to do that.

The style description is only the one for Hip Hop so even if someone knows how to add it, they may not feel comfortable adding it. I often don't feel comfortable adding it because of that.

Can it not just be moved to Electronic Music? This has been suggested before. I mean, the Hip Hop style of Bass Music could be seen another electronic style anyway, and then both style descriptions could be written there. EDIT: Even more reason to do it is that Hip Hop has both Bass Music and Miami Bass and the style description for Bass Music currently reads "sometimes referred to as Miami Bass"!

The whole genre/style subject is designed much to scientific anyway.

I get the feeling that they're wanting to make the styles more precise (see the recent thread where they were calling for contributors) so I really felt uncomfortable adding Bass Music to this recently considering there's only the Hip Hop style in the description since it can only be added from Hip Hop: https://discogs.librosgratis.biz/Pessimist-Austerity/release/13291669

Inventory export artist field does not display ANV or multiple main artists correctly, making it difficult to reconcile with physical inventory that is shelved by artist

rugogs
Ambiguous gudelines

This too, the submission guidelines have always been vague and poorly written

countrymusicandcher
So, pet peeves?

Only being able to select all or one-at-a-time in my Collection for moving/deletion etc.

I love this place.

FredKiller
Only being able to select all or one-at-a-time in my Collection for moving/deletion etc.

You can check multiple boxes at a time?

The jumbled mess of anv's which sometimes appears in various profiles, and which in some cases are spreaded over various aliases from artists.

rugogs
The whole genre/style subject is designed much to scientific anyway

I'd much prefer a tagging system. Maybe along the lines of 'anyone can tag any *master* with a genre tag for their own use, and popularly agreed upon tags become what is officially a part of the master release entry'

love this site, yet there are quite some things that should be improved
a handful of the most irking problems:
- the impossibility to rename labels, when they're wrongly introduced with the first sub
- the impossibility to block specific sellers (yes, already mentioned, but this cannot be mentioned often enough), even though this seems to be the most wanted feature for many many s for many many years
- the impossibility to see all releases by an artist on one page, when that artist has aliases
- the absence of a 'deciding process', when an agreement on the solution of a problem has been reached in the forums
- the system being unable to order releases chronologically, when there are releases with the same release year, making Discogs the only site in the world where second albums can appear first: look here: XTC

a few things:

1) People adding flowery hypesheet promo blather to the bio of the artist/band. It's not their facebook page ffs. read the submission guideline.

2) People who message you about something you're selling like they're doing you a huge favour by implying they "might take it off your hands", but want you to make sure the postage "isn't too much".. mate, fuck off. I don't control how far away you live and how much jet fuel costs. Either buy it or dont. But sliding into the DMs for this cheeky dangle is the worst.

3) Not being able to sort my collection/inventory by all the data available. Why can't I sort by "most wanted"? If I can see something is in low demand, I can lower the price - or visa versa. Even when you export the data, that stuff isn't included. It's clearly there in the website data - so let me use it.

Oh! 4) people who will pull you up on some minor submission error (typo etc) but not just correct it themselves. Seriously.

most of this stuff relates to the db but as a keen buyer my pet peeve: marketplace relisting abuse..mentioned a million times before but it is not getting any better.. careless grading by sellers another which I know you've all heard before
metalheads who sell stuff for "$666"
and the term "minty" makes me shudder..
aside from that, it's all good here..

buddysrecords
most of this stuff relates to the db but as a keen buyer my pet peeve: marketplace relisting abuse..mentioned a million times before but it is not getting any better.. careless grading by sellers another which I know you've all heard before
metalheads who sell stuff for "$666"
and the term "minty" makes me shudder..
aside from that, it's all good here..

*shudder*

Oh yeah thats terrible... and sometimes you want to grab someone by the collar and be like "this vg+ copy is not wort 35€ and relisting every day won't change that!!!"

Is_This_My_Worldd
1) People adding ...
2) People who message ...
3) Not being able to sort ...
4) people who will pull ...

Mine :
People who complain about people
;-)

cellularsmoke
FredKillerOnly being able to select all or one-at-a-time in my Collection for moving/deletion etc.

You can check multiple boxes at a time?

cellularsmoke
FredKillerOnly being able to select all or one-at-a-time in my Collection for moving/deletion etc.

You can check multiple boxes at a time?

You can check the little box in the headings bar to select every item, or you can select individual items with their own little box, but you can't batch select more than one or less than all -- want to move half your 130 un-categorized items to a folder? Get clicking..

...and alphabetical by first letter of artist's first name is soooo early-21st century.

FredKiller
You can check the little box in the headings bar to select every item, or you can select individual items with their own little box, but you can't batch select more than one or less than all -- want to move half your 130 un-categorized items to a folder? Get clicking..

I mean, that's pretty standard for you to need to individually select what items you want to move around? I've yet to meet a system that is like "select on the middle third". I guess what i'm saying is - how else or what else are you looking for from the selection system?

Diognes_The_Fox
A) Try and add whatever information to your version's notes/companies/baoi/format FTF/etc to help others (and you in the future), arrive at the right sub)

Doing this as a newbie would be suicide. The sharks would be circling every little mistake, so fast.

Edit: Oops. My peeve was not supposed to be included. I had decided not to post it.

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Jayfive
90% of what ends up in the review/comments of a release. An additional peeve is that that bothers me.

Do you read the comments on YouTube, and on news articles as well?

Protip: Don't

(Deleted duplicate comment)

that type `Rolls eyes`

if you don't have anything on topic to say SHUT UP. or at least be clever enough you don't have to say "hey this is a joke, wink wink"

TomMegginson
Do you read the comments on YouTube, and on news articles as well?

I don't think you think I'm complaining about the same thing there. Discogs comments are 90% things the guidelines say should be there rather than arguments and abuse.

Besides, youtube lately is just a bunch of kids shrieking the same four memes at each other.

Seriously if I see that
"No one:
Absolutely no one: "
thing again I'm going to put my foot through my monitor.

MY biggest pet peeve, No Photos or just A stock album cover photo in a new sub. And I don't mean brand spanking new, 99.9% of the time it's copy-to-drafts. NOTHING says lazy to me more then a submitter who can't be bothered with photos. Every sub is supposed to be unique, there is No better way to prove that uniqueness then with photos. Even more aggravating is a sub that has sat years with no photos and a bunch of people have added it to there Haves, Wants, and even put up for sale. I'm left scratching my head wondering how the hell any of em know what variation is it, without photos it's a mystery box. I've also found that numerous duplicates subs are made because the first one have no photos. Look, it's 2019, if you have a record collection and are adding things to Discogs, I'd say very good chance you have a smartphone.... TAKE SOME PICTURES! Front cover, Back cover, A label, B label. Amature cellphone photos are better then nothing.
Then maybe someday someone like myself will come along and give the sub some good quality scans of the album.

blurayven
MY biggest pet peeve, No Photos or just A stock album cover photo in a new sub. And I don't mean brand spanking new, 99.9% of the time it's copy-to-drafts. NOTHING says lazy to me more then a submitter who can't be bothered with photos. Every sub is supposed to be unique, there is No better way to prove that uniqueness then with photos. Even more aggravating is a sub that has sat years with no photos and a bunch of people have added it to there Haves, Wants, and even put up for sale. I'm left scratching my head wondering how the hell any of em know what variation is it, without photos it's a mystery box. I've also found that numerous duplicates subs are made because the first one have no photos. Look, it's 2019, if you have a record collection and are adding things to Discogs, I'd say very good chance you have a smartphone.... TAKE SOME PICTURES! Front cover, Back cover, A label, B label. Amature cellphone photos are better then nothing.
Then maybe someday someone like myself will come along and give the sub some good quality scans of the album.

Agreed! Disabled a photo of an LP added to a CD submission just a few days ago. Nearly flipped completely when I noticed it had been stolen from the KEY RELEASE IN THE MASTER. horrible!

cellularsmoke
FredKillerYou can check the little box in the headings bar to select every item, or you can select individual items with their own little box, but you can't batch select more than one or less than all -- want to move half your 130 un-categorized items to a folder? Get clicking..

I mean, that's pretty standard for you to need to individually select what items you want to move around? I've yet to meet a system that is like "select on the middle third". I guess what i'm saying is - how else or what else are you looking for from the selection system?

Check first item, hold down shift, then check second item to select everything in between.

FredKiller
Check first item, hold down shift, then check second item to select everything in between.

Ah, yes. Now that I understand the issue I share your peeve.

Great thread!

I have a rotating list, but the ones that always stay on the top of the list are:

1. Actual notifications on releases or release histories, similar to how we can on the forum threads.

2. The ability to search on label pages, the same way we can on artist pages. Why not?!

3. Voting overhaul. Be able to vote on the correctness of a submission without penalizing (or rewarding) the most recent editor. And separately allow for voting on individual submissions to reward (or penalize) editors regardless of when they made their edit. (This suggestion for how we fix it is half-baked, but something better than what we have now.)

Brand new one, as of yesterday:
Splitting Rights Society: SACEM SACD SDRM SGDL
Into:
Rights Society (In rectangle): SACEM SACD SGDL
Rights Society (In ellipse): SDRM

I thought this could be the tipping point where Discogs would have collapsed, crushed by the sheer weight of its OCD-enabling ridicule, but apparently the guy has been at it for a while, unchallenged, so it must be me.

_jules
Brand new one, as of yesterday:
Splitting Rights Society: SACEM SACD SDRM SGDL
Into:
Rights Society (In rectangle): SACEM SACD SGDL
Rights Society (In ellipse): SDRM

I thought this could be the tipping point where Discogs would have collapsed, crushed by the sheer weight of its OCD-enabling ridicule, but apparently the guy has been at it for a while, unchallenged, so it must be me.

Jesus thats just insane

I mean I spend A LOT of time on this site and I am pretty anale about details, but that is just... so fucking unneccesary

My one (and not really a pet peeve): I'd love to be able to parse the TONS of data that Discogs has on my collection... for example, nerdy stuff like "I want to know all of the things that are in my collection that no one else has," or "I want to know exactly WHICH release just recently sold to change my overall collection value." Basically, a super nerdy advanced search function.

joshbeu
My one (and not really a pet peeve): I'd love to be able to parse the TONS of data that Discogs has on my collection... for example, nerdy stuff like "I want to know all of the things that are in my collection that no one else has," or "I want to know exactly WHICH release just recently sold to change my overall collection value." Basically, a super nerdy advanced search function.

OOOOOH I WANT THAT TOO. That's a fantastic idea. I was thinking of that collection value thing just earlier today! My collection value has gone up & I want to know why/because of what.

Oh, also: I'd like a little more visibility into what criteria is used to decide who gets the ability to vote on releases - I'd love to be able to help, and I'm not sure what I'd need to do to "prove myself."

joshbeu
Oh, also: I'd like a little more visibility into what criteria is used to decide who gets the ability to vote on releases - I'd love to be able to help, and I'm not sure what I'd need to do to "prove myself."

Agree. I'm literally in the fprums writing several times a day, and my average Vote went up to 4.00 today, so I hope I'll get voting rights soon.

joshbeu
I'd love to be able to help, and I'm not sure what I'd need to do to "prove myself."

help doing what?
99.99999% of all the things that can be done on discogs don't require voting. last time I checked there were more then 100k releases marked as needing changes. Pretty sure once you have fixed them all you'll have voting rights in no time.

The only thing impossible to do without voting rights is marking a profile as invalid and vice versa. For everything else you can just press the edit button most of the times instead of leaving a vote.

_jules
I thought this could be the tipping point where Discogs would have collapsed, crushed by the sheer weight of its OCD-enabling ridicule

Quote of the day.

baldorr
2. The ability to search on label pages, the same way we can on artist pages. Why not

Yes! This one.

My biggest pet peeve is when continually ask if the various interview / transcription / radio show / live releases can be moved from their respective artists' main pages into some other category, like Miscellaneous. It seems this question comes up at least once a month, and no matter how many times the reasoning as to why they simply cannot be moved is provided, the question resurfaces again and again and again and again and again... Do these people even bother reading the answer to their query?

I'm also not a big fan of the fact that every time I make a small edit to a submission, I have by default purchased all responsibility for every single other thing that needs changing. Sometimes I am making a partial edit because I don't own the item, but I know enough about it to remove or add a tag. But then someone else comes along and gives a negative vote because something else was also in need of correcting. I now have a negative vote against me, even though my edit was correct. That just sucks, and frankly, it discourages me from participating.

- The guidelines on dates - the copyright date is NOT the release date on a great many releases.
- s entering track numbers, studios, countries and dates in catalogue number fields
- The appalling way management trashed some of the most famous soul acts simply because, as Nik itted, he misunderstood the artists' names. Pages of incorrect garbage still unresolved.
- s who don't read label profiles when they add labels/companies to a release.
- Shops who add voluminous hype notes to their submissions but can't be bothered entering the right labels or companies.

Personally, one thing that gets on my nerves are those sellers who relist daily.

You know the sort. You check your wantlist / email, and it's always the same items from the same sellers!

I'm surprised nobody mentions it.

Let the management hire an active spam remover who is on it dailey and who gets instant notifications when spam is posted, especially on the forum. And especially during the weekends, when there almost seems no activity of forum spam removal going on.

It is great that DTF takes care of this, but i guess that he sometimes is occupied with a number of other things which need to be taken care of? Or let the develop department create a smart device which quickly deletes forum spam.

Helpful s always post forum spam alerts, but imvho this problem should be solved by either the management or by the develop department.

https://smileyshack.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/sspam_spamcanopener_100-100.gif

Jarren
I'm surprised nobody mentions it.

Weird, ain't it?

The way the system randomly reverts label page and artist page layout to the default from your saved options. It feels like a real "fuck you" each time it happens (daily).

collection takes about a minute and a half to load (1600 items, why so long?). It ALWAYS defaults to an unwanted display order and always defaults to 50 items and those silly price columns cannot be told to feck off. And yes I do know what cookies are. Collection cannot disable thumbnails (I don't need Discogs to send me little pics of items I own. This facility is available in wantlist tho. Bizarre.

"cannot parse response" error causes double-post. Deleted.

electrophonic
Let the management hire an active spam remover who is on it dailey and who gets instant notifications when spam is posted, especially on the forum. And especially during the weekends, when there almost seems no activity of forum spam removal going on.

It is great that DTF takes care of this, but i guess that he sometimes is occupied with a number of other things which need to be taken care of? Or let the develop department create a smart device which quickly deletes forum spam.

Helpful s always post forum spam alerts, but imvho this problem should be solved by either the management or by the develop department.

https://smileyshack.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/sspam_spamcanopener_100-100.gif

Anyone who's offended by the spam, click report and you no longer see it. At least, that's my experience. You don't see it, the report gets it dealt with -- win, win.

FredKiller
Anyone who's offended by the spam,

Not offending, just annoying

FredKiller
click report and you no longer see it. At least, that's my experience.

Apparently not during weekends. Latest score: 13 forum spams in the last 24 hours

Personally, my biggest pet peeve is now and always will be those sellers who relist the same 5,000,000 items 48 times a day

electrophonic
Apparently not during weekends. Latest score: 13 forum spams in the last 24 hours

Did you even read what they wrote?

FredKiller
click report and you no longer see it. At least, that's my experience. You don't see it, the report gets it dealt with -- win, win

I had no idea this was the case! I hit "report" and marked as spam and voila, the threads gone. Nice.

Earjerk...
Did you even read what they wrote?

I must have overlooked that

FredKiller
click report and you no longer see it. At least, that's my experience. You don't see it, the report gets it dealt with -- win, win

Earjerk...

I had no idea this was the case! I hit "report" and marked as spam and voila, the threads gone. Nice.

They're still there on the first page of my screen. I also reported one shortly ago on the "spam removal thread", but no change after that.

Okay, got the message now

Not being able to block sellers. My biggest peeve on this site by a country mile.

Bad sellers that are able to continue to sell.
The completely dysfunctional system, that favors them.

I've finally been reminded of one big peeve. Perhaps someone can explain it away.

On BMG direct marketing, club editions .... What's the deal with people entering the label ID as D######? There is almost always a space there, after the D. In fact, I believe there is always a space there. However, no one ever enters it and as such it does not pop up in a search when entered D ######. Big F'n peeve of mine. Grrrrumble. It's so common that I think there has to be an explanation. Like, possibly this information is being copied over from some other source where it's entered that way? I don't get it.

When you're looking at the images of a release - particularly a CD - and the image is small but wide - like two pages of a booklet - and when you click to zoom in, it actually zooms out. Because it started out wider than the maximum zoom window. Or an inlay, which is about the same size as the max zoom window, and zoom does nothing much of anything... I'll get me coat.

FredKiller
When you're looking at the images of a release - particularly a CD - and the image is small but wide - like two pages of a booklet - and when you click to zoom in, it actually zooms out. Because it started out wider than the maximum zoom window. Or an inlay, which is about the same size as the max zoom window, and zoom does nothing much of anything... I'll get me coat.

Nah I agree. And for this reason I also find it hard to take photos for CD subs bc its hard to make them the right size to be of any use to any other person

countrymusicandcher
Nah I agree. And for this reason I also find it hard to take photos for CD subs bc its hard to make them the right size to be of any use to any other person

Thank you. I guess I could make separate images of important details, but what good's a zoom if you have to do your own zooming?

FredKiller
countrymusicandcherNah I agree. And for this reason I also find it hard to take photos for CD subs bc its hard to make them the right size to be of any use to any other person

Thank you. I guess I could make separate images of important details, but what good's a zoom if you have to do your own zooming?

Agree. Additionally I feel as though zooming in on a specific detail, in some cases - like post-manifacture "Promo" stickers that only appear on some releases - I feel like it gets hard for people to get a feel for "what to look for" or how it actually look. Often you can't tell if it's on front or back, if it's big or small etc. I feel a part of the point with documenting diffrences like that is lost when you can't compare to a cover without it.

I dream of a Discogs zoom feature like the one on *cough*Ebay.

I guess not having an image caption feature is another pet peeve. Not the worst, but it could help with what you guys are talking about with images.