Quoting skipnet50:

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All you demonsttrate is your...you fill in the blank.

1) Charming personality
2) Engaging wit
3) Tolerance for intolerants

Take your pick 

D None of the above.

If you think you are tolerant then you are a comedian.

Skip

Quoting GSyren:

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So basically what you're saying, Skip, is that if I'm unsure of how to interpret the rules, I'm not allowed to ask if I'm doing the right thing, if the issue has ever been discussed before. Is that it?

Don't ask skip, he is just a normal user, just like all the rest of us. The only people that can say otherwise are the Coles.

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You keep accusing people of things. "as usual you appear to be [looking for a fight]" you say. Well, I'd like to know if anyone except you think so? Where in this thread have I looked for a fight?
1) I asked if my interpretation was correct.
2) When told it wasn't I explained why I had thought my interpretation was right.
3) When I found I was in a minority I accepted it.
Where in this am I looking for a fight?

I would say that you did nothing wrong, but I am just a normal user like you and skip.

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you, on the other hand, has written things like

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YOU decided the rules should not apply, God forbid you should actually follow them

which is an insulting accusation and a blatant lie. If I didn't want to follow the rules, why should I ask if I had interpreted them correctly?

Once again, Skip, like the rest of us, is just a normal user. His thoughts have no more weight than yours or mine.

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Is there an unwritten law that if something has ever been discussed before it may never be asked again? Because it certainly isn't in the forum rules.

Of course there isn't. If skip or any other user is tired of reading threads with questions like this, they don't have to. But you, like any other user have the right to ask, until the Coles take that right away!

pdf

Quoting skipnet50:

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Quoting GSyren:

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So basically what you're saying, Skip, is that if I'm unsure of how to interpret the rules, I'm not allowed to ask if I'm doing the right thing, if the issue has ever been discussed before. Is that it?

You keep accusing people of things. "as usual you appear to be [looking for a fight]" you say. Well, I'd like to know if anyone except you think so? Where in this thread have I looked for a fight?
1) I asked if my interpretation was correct.
2) When told it wasn't I explained why I had thought my interpretation was right.
3) When I found I was in a minority I accepted it.
Where in this am I looking for a fight?

you, on the other hand, has written things like

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YOU decided the rules should not apply, God forbid you should actually follow them

which is an insulting accusation and a blatant lie. If I didn't want to follow the rules, why should I ask if I had interpreted them correctly?

Is there an unwritten law that if something has ever been discussed before it may never be asked again? Because it certainly isn't in the forum rules.

Gunnar:

In your OP you wrote:

"I entered this as OMB for Linaweaver and Screenwriter for the rest. Does that seem correct?"

Which to me was a bit BEYOND what you are claiming. The implication to me was that you had or were planning on Contributing bad data. You know i do't care what you do locally, you can call it whatever you want there, but the implication was otherwise.

Talk about paying no attention to the drivel of a user like pdf who can only be a something I don't want to say, but he is definitely not a very pleasant person under any circumstance. Paul, whatever you hostility issues are do ALL of us a favor and keep them ouit of these forums...PLEASE. EVERY one of your posts is combative, attacking and insulting, i hope one day to see a change in your attitude but I won't hold my breath waiting.

Skip

Skip, I learned from the best ... you.

As you have shown time and time again, never let the facts get in the way of posting your opinion.

You have shown clearly in this thread that you want to read bad intent into the work of others. You might ask yourself why you see every question as an attack on the database and/or the rules.

pdf

Skip,

How does the phrase "Does that seem correct?" suggest to you that I planned to contribute this even if I were told that it is not correct??? 

Quoting skipnet50:

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I will NEVER EVER accept the concept of XXXXX might mean this under this set of circumstances but it might mean THAT under this set.

For the record, though: that is exactly what we ARE doing. The method as supported by the majority of the community - well, at least by a few of the more vocal members - results in us being true to the on-screen CREDIT, not so much to these people's actual jobs. If a screenwriter is credited as screenwriter, we enter him as such, yet if a screenwriter is credited as writer, we use that. While I perfectly understand WHY we're doing so (and I'm doing so as well - no need to convince me), I can't help but feeling it diminishes the meaning and value of the data: if I see someone has a "writer" credit in DVD Profiler, I cannot be sure what it means. It just means that he was credited as a "writer", but he might as well been a screenwriter in reality, and the reverse also happens (I've seen "writer" combined with "original material by" and I've seen sole "screenplay" credits for absolutely original screenplays). We're using the same label for different jobs. So unfortunately, what you're saying EXACTLY applies to the method we're using.

Gunnar:

I am not going to waste further time with your baiting.

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No you don't understand. Imagine if you will sir, that we had the ability to enter the data as OPEN credits. what would you type, you too Gunnar. Would you be jumping up and down screaming about Screenplays and such, OR would you just be typing Written by with absolutely nothing further. Would a belief on your part that it was a screenplay have ANY relevance...NO it would not. If we had OPEN credits you would be typing Written by and anything other comment would be completely irrelevant and ridiculous. We hjave the same issue, the Credit is Written by and the chart tells you where Written by goes attempts to rationalizew it some other way are specious on their face and attempts to to try and create TWO different definitions for Written by and simply ridiculous. As usual, gunnar you are being argumentative and combative in an attempt to rationalize the irrational.

I also did not say anything like what you think I said. trust me, gunnar, if I went back and looked up the previous discussions and found your involvement i would be more than simply annoyed, in fact anger would not even cover it. You don't want me to do that.

Skip

Gunnarspeak for baiting.

You have my permission to reamain just as confused and make things just as difficult as you wish, gunnar. I am fed up and tired with your total unwillingness to ever accept anything without turning into some form of fight.

Skip