#musicbrainz

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      • I am, in fact, vomitously sick of having to enter those edits. But, I'm in an untenable position; I can't admit this for fear of them weaponizing the CoC against me somehow.
      • evelyn
        I mean, you could have just not written 'shameful'
      • hibiscuskazeneko
        See above. I've had worse slung at me.
      • One editor even threatened my life.
      • (and in that case, I didn't even come close to something like this)
      • aereaux
        I don't see how that makes it any better
      • levine
        I am enormously confused. Why does the edit "need help replying" for starters? It's a 3 months old typography change?
      • cheezmo2
        Yeah, the shameful is probably uncalled for unless in response to a specific edit. I would have just used the comment "style guidelines"
      • A 3 month old change but the comment they are asking for help on was made today.
      • I meant "in response to a specific comment".
      • levine
        OK so the reply was recent, I see. But I still don't get why it needs help replying from someone else?
      • From what I can see you hibiscus wrote a rather unnecessary loaded word which can easily be interpreted as being passive aggressive. Not much more to it than that from what I'm seeing right now.
      • atj
        hibiscuskazeneko: sorry, but with only this edit for context, the "shameful" comment seems completely uncalled for and unprofessional.
      • I'd cut you some slack if English was a second language, but..?
      • I mean, it's not even a strict style guidelines - "Use of basic ASCII punctuation characters such as ' and " is allowed, but typographically-correct punctuation (such as ’ for the English apostrophe) is preferred."
      • hibiscuskazeneko
        I've taken issue in the past with that guideline not being strict. It encourages abuse.
      • One editor I know of in particular openly flouts it (going so far as to remove Unicode characters in favor of ASCII).
      • cheezmo2
        I'm assuming a previous edit by GTF CHANGED it the wrong way. If it was initial entry, there is no foul actually.
      • atj
        OK, well that's silly behaviour, I'd hesitate to call it "abuse" though. I would vote no on such an edit.
      • Are you alleging abuse by the editor who left the comment?
      • hibiscuskazeneko
        atj: This is an alt of an editor who was banned for severe abuse, so there's nothing I can do about it.
      • This editor (GTF1982) is not the editor I'm talking about.
      • As GTF1982 pointed out in their note, my edit was entered as part of a 20+ edit sweep. They only replied to this one.
      • evelyn
        I'm really confused, what exactly did this editor do wrong?
      • hibiscuskazeneko
        Full disclosure: I see a lot of these initial imports with holes in them on a daily basis.
      • Missing Unicode characters, incorrect artists, spelling mistakes, etc.
      • Too many people blindly copy releases over from Discogs with no post-editing.
      • atj
        hibiscuskazeneko: we all do, it's always going to happen. I'm afraid people will not live up to your standards, that's life.
      • cheezmo2
        I hate that, especially when they add "Reissue", etc. as disambiguation.
      • atj
        Some of my first submissions on MB will have had mistakes. I think it's unreasonable to expect otherwise.
      • hibiscuskazeneko
        So did mine, but other people told me I did wrong and I changed my habits.
      • atj
        OK, but did they use language like "shameful" to encourage you to learn and improve?
      • cheezmo2
        So HK, just to go back to the origin of this, had they changed the ’ to a ' in a previous edit? Since the recording no longer exists I can't even look at the history.
      • hibiscuskazeneko
        I was talking about someone else. This particular editor didn't do that.
      • levine
        Then maybe apologize to this particular editor if they did nothing wrong...
      • atj
        Regardless of who it was aimed at you shouldn't use that sort of language. It does you no favours and antagonizes people.
      • hibiscuskazeneko
        If I do that, they'll use that as an excuse to continue making sloppy edits.
      • atj: Another prominent editor called me sloppy once. Again, this is someone well-known, so there's nothing that can be done.
      • levine
        So berate people who make mistakes, that's how they learn. Gotcha.
      • cheezmo2
        I'm going to have to agree that "shameful" is not a good edit note in this context then. I really respect you as a conscientious editor HK. I think you just need to not bother replying and let this go.
      • evelyn
        I still don't understand why this particular edit was 'shameful', was the apostrophe changed to ASCII apostrophe or what?
      • hibiscuskazeneko
        Isn't that what every parent and teacher does?
      • levine
        This discussion is ridiculous. You are 100% in the wrong here, sorry.
      • cheezmo2
        I think if your edit note was just "style guidelines" nothing would have happened.
      • atj
        hibiscuskazeneko: you seem to feel that "sloppy" edits are a personal attack on you. I would suggest that this attitude is not helpful for you.
      • Anyway, I'm going to bed, so I won't comment further.
      • levine
        hibiscus. You're frustrated over "having to" fix a lot of mistakes. Being frustrated is OK, it's human. Absolutely nothing wrong with that, we all get frustrated and lash out sometimes. But being upset over mistaken details in an *enormous*, community driven database with millions of edits constantly... You gotta realize that
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      • atj
      • cheezmo2
        Poor guy has a typo in his Homepage youtube link.
      • atj
        I saw that. It's all so weird.
      • reosarevok
        atj: people who try to make money from youtube often are
      • (not all, of course, but there's a lot of this kind of stuff)
      • atj
        Trying to think how to politely say that if he isn't an artist he shouldn't be adding himself to the database!
      • Yeah, it feels like a bizarre form of SEO to me.
      • reosarevok
        Well, if he makes music he technically belongs
      • Even if nobody listens to it
      • atj
        If no works are assigned to the artist, it will be purged right?
      • cheezmo2
        Mysterious Hip Hop has 105 views. It does appear he makes music.
      • reosarevok
        atj: if there are relationships it doesn't get purged, no
      • If someone does not make music at all, then we just remove the rels and that's it
      • atj
        So odd that he lists his parents names in his profile. I assume his wife isn't actually called "$ucess" right?
      • reosarevok
        If they do, then we let them be :)
      • Maybe the wife performs under that name :D
      • Or maybe he's "married to success" :p
      • reosarevok shrugs
      • atj
        Yeah that's what I was thinking
      • kids these days! :)
      • reosarevok
        17 seems young to marry, but then, what do I know how it works elsewhere :)
      • atj feels old
      • atj
        I think I'll leave it alone, he's not doing any harm (so far).
      • Rotab
        waifu: ✔✔✔✔💰💰💰
      • he is removing all the links though..
      • atj
        Yeah, so the artist will be deleted in the case. So the problem fixes itself.
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      • Is there any stats available for edit/submission volume over time? Was wondering if there has been a marked increase during the pandemic due to people being bored and stuck at home.
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      • chaban
      • atj
        thanks chaban
      • So it looks like the answer is no!
      • Rotab
        your typical musicbrainz editor was already staying at home ;)
      • chaban
        There seems to be a slight increase of active users: https://musicbrainz.org/statistics/timeline/mai...
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      • atj
        I guess I was expecting something fairly significant. Obviously people aren't bored enough to edit MusicBrainz yet! :)
      • cheezmo2
        My editing tends to be tied to my CD collecting which I pretty much stopped doing so I am a counter point.
      • atj
        The peak at 2020/04 is interesting.
      • reosarevok
        atj: haven't you heard, everyone is too busy buying Gamestop shares
      • atj
        reosarevok: Sadly not me!
      • chaban
      • Seems he was auto-editor before elections were automated.
      • reosarevok
        Well, that's their right :)
      • Hope it's not something we did!
      • chaban
        BTW, the election of kellnerd is going very well so far. 26 Yes, 1 abstain
      • atj
        He seems like a natural AE to me