I didn't even know there was a Top Link Submitters list.  How lame.

Just checked through my "Link-Feedback", (didn't even know that this existed until just now)
seems I received some for contributing the official German movie sites, which the inhabitants of the USA don't seem to like.

Now really

Quoting Silence_of_Lambs:

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Just checked through my "Link-Feedback", (didn't even know that this existed until just now)
seems I received some for contributing the official German movie sites, which the inhabitants of the USA don't seem to like.

Now really

Are these official German movie sites for German films or for US films?  If they are for US films, I can understand that they wouldn't apply to the R1US profile.  I thought that, in those cases, the links were supposed to be attached to the specific profile only.

When submitting links, I use the following rule of thumb:
- trailer in native language of the production : add for all localities and profiles
- trailer in a localized language, different from the language of the production: add only for that specific profile

In my opinion, a German trailer of Inception has no business in the US locality profile, but does belong to the German locality profile of that movie.


liorb22, in your case I believe you didn't do anything wrong. Before throwing in the towel, perhaps you could:
- PM the NO-voters and ask for clarification? If they vote NO, they should have a valid reason for doing so
- If that fails or they don't provide a good reason, you can use the Support page on this website to inform Invelos of an abuse of voting privileges. They'll normally look into it and if indeed repeated abuses are found, they can remove voting privileges from those users

Quoting Taro:

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liorb22, in your case I believe you didn't do anything wrong. Before throwing in the towel, perhaps you could:
- PM the NO-voters and ask for clarification? If they vote NO, they should have a valid reason for doing so
- If that fails or they don't provide a good reason, you can use the Support page on this website to inform Invelos of an abuse of voting privileges. They'll normally look into it and if indeed repeated abuses are found, they can remove voting privileges from those users

That is exactly the main problem of the links system - You cannot know who gave the no vote. I would contact the voter if I could but It's totally anonymous. Ken must implement the same feedback system that is a part of the profile contributions, which means that a no voter MUST give an explanation of him doing so. Otherwise they just abuse the link system and it's contributers.

My apologies, I didn't know that. Well, in that case the system is indeed broken. Anyone can vote anyhow with impunity. That needs to change indeed. Did you try to contact Invelos about this? Because I think losing valid links is a real shame as it also adds value to the whole DVDP experience.

Quoting Addicted2DVD:

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I don't believe the no votes makes you loose the links either though... as far as I know... it just pushes that link down further in the list of links for that section. I haven't noticed or heard anything about the links being removed just from the no votes alone.

That's correct. No votes will only lower them down in the list, unless they have previous Yes votes that counteract this.

If a user does not check their link feedback and correct any incorrect links accordingly, the bad links will stick around and not be removed.

Pete
Based on my past experience, deleted links are effecting the counter. You lose between 10% to 20%. It doesn't sound much, but when you receive NO votes on a daily basis the impact is much greater overall.