Quoting Addicted2DVD:

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Everyone that comes to the forum has the right to and should have enough time to vote on all contributions.

People who don't upload their database can't vote, whether they visit the forums or not.

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Might I suggest an alternative:

7 days or 10 yes votes with 0 no votes - whichever comes first.

Play with those figures if you like, but that might be a way of 'automating' the majority of changes (remove the need for reviewer involvement for anything approved with a 10-0 vote).

Of course, there's a world of permutations to the suggestion.

I thought initially 2 days would be enough. I have come to the conclusion that a longer period is required because the time difference between the US and Australia could potentially put us at a disadvantage as we could be asleep at the time of lodgment and then go to work and will not see the vote for at least 24hrs.

This was prompted by some US deals on DVD / BD that are offered in the US which have a limited time and I have found myself late at night or in the morning thinking the offer is over before I could take advantage.

Cheers
Kelvin

Quoting DariusKyrak:

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Might I suggest an alternative:

7 days or 10 yes votes with 0 no votes - whichever comes first.

The problem with a required number of yes votes is that the amount of votes varies enormously across localities. While a number of, let's say 10, might be easily reached in the US locality and perhaps a few others, in smaller localities such numbers are never reached - which would make such a rule automatically default to 7 days.

Quoting Addicted2DVD:

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The way people blindly vote yes around here... I would be extremely against such an idea!

I'm confused what people mean by 'voting blind'?  I think people may have different interpretation of it.

When I vote, I look what is being updated.  Depending on the what is being updated I look at the notes.  If it makes sense and I believe it is following the rules than I vote 'Yes'.  If someone posts that they have updated the cast & crew from another approved profile I don't download or look at that profile.  The only time I might do that is if it is someone I'm not familiar with or something just looks wrong then I will do additional investigation.  But if the contribution is from someone I recognize as making quality submissions, supplied sufficient contribution notes and the updates look to follow the rules then I vote 'Yes'

My definition of 'voting blind' is just clicking 'Yes' without looking at the contributions and notes.?  I may be wrong, but it seems that many are of the opinion that every voter should investigate each link, etc.  While I think it is great that some do that, I don't think that should be the level of expectation.  If we were getting paid to do so that would be a different story.  At the end of the day its the screener's job to make sure the contribution is accurate, IMO.  Also IMO, the voters are in place to make the screener's job easier.

When I say voting blind I mean just instantly vote yes to everything... without even reading notes or anything it would seem. I have even seen times where someone say they took Cast, crew... everything from imdb and still get yes votes.