Spot on Vittra. Greenie.

Quoting Vittra:

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Skip and FilmAlba:
Since this is an international community, it's probably best to keep any statements about any country out of the discussions regardless of what you truly feel about the matter. Both of you should of also guessed exactly what kind of replies you would get.

While what you say might not be considered racism in a very strict definition of the word and you may not see it as offensive in the same sense, it is directing negativity towards a group of people. That group of people just so happens to be part of this community. So unless you really like being at the butt of a lot of criticism and harsh replies (which I often wonder if that's your goal), it's probably best to keep any such statements out of the forums. Ask yourself some simple questions: What purpose does it serve? What are you trying to get out of statements such as these? If the answers to either of those questions can be taken negatively, best to just not say it. Anyway, just my 2 cents.

Quoting Vittra:

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Surfeur:
You should have guessed exactly how such a thread would play out. 

Skip and FilmAlba:
Since this is an international community, it's probably best to keep any statements about any country out of the discussions regardless of what you truly feel about the matter. Both of you should of also guessed exactly what kind of replies you would get.

While what you say might not be considered racism in a very strict definition of the word and you may not see it as offensive in the same sense, it is directing negativity towards a group of people. That group of people just so happens to be part of this community. So unless you really like being at the butt of a lot of criticism and harsh replies (which I often wonder if that's your goal), it's probably best to keep any such statements out of the forums. Ask yourself some simple questions: What purpose does it serve? What are you trying to get out of statements such as these? If the answers to either of those questions can be taken negatively, best to just not say it. Anyway, just my 2 cents.

On the topic at hand:
While I do truly wish a certain amount of leeway were allowed in contributions to submit what is "in the spirit of the rules and program's goal", I do believe rules are a necessity. If we were too open to free thought, there would be far too much variation in the data we submit which would cut into it's usefulness quite a bit. Not to say following the rules strictly doesn't do the same at times, but the ramifications for completely ditching the rules would be horrible IMHO.

I do agree with your sentiments in that there are some inconsistencies in regards to how/when people choose to strictly follow and then stretch rules, but (usually) these are to make for more "useful" data getting in rather than just submitting data for data's sake with no regard for how said data will be used.

I applaud those types of inconsistencies as long as they are an improvement and have the program and community in it's best interest.

I pretty much know what most people response would be. And i honestly don't care what ppl think. Anti Americanism is not something new and yes there are things i do like about America but on the whole i think it's fubar.

Ask a Norwegian what he thinks of Germany and you might get a worse view than i think of America.

Quoting Dr Pavlov:

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James:

I did not attack France, i stated a fact. If you pick any given, for agument's sake, let's pick on CE3K, there is a lot of crossover data and a LOT of it originates in France. This is true of of most any title you pick and actually review the crossover data.

In the CLT, for Close Encounters of the Third Kind, I find 6 France-locality profiles with François Truffaut [Francois Truffaut] and 1 France-locality profile with François Truffaut. There are 27 other profiles in the db which list François Truffaut:

US - 5
UK - 5
Netherlands - 4
Denmark - 3
Sweden - 3
Canada - 2
Belgium, Finland, Portugal and again, France - 1 each

I doubt very highly that the cast lists in these 27 profiles "originates in France", but if you have evidence in order to substantiate your stated "fact" that they were sourced to France-locality profiles, please bring it forward.

Quoting Dr Pavlov:

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Now, yes it is possible, that France gets a different credit list, we know that, but it happens so frequently when i review the crossover data that i think their data should be reviewed by them and brought in line or verified as being different, such work would be useful to all of us and help the CLT to become more useful,

In the CLT, I found 3 US-locality titles with François Truffaut [Francois Truffaut] and 5 with François Truffaut. Since the US has 3 of 8 correct while France has 6 of 7 correct, it seems that it is US-locality data that should be reviewed and "brought in line" rather than the other way around.

ALL should be, James. Pleasant to see the data has been changed, i hope to see more of this.

Skip

Quoting Woola:

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Are you honestly saying that making a comment about a nationality is not racist?

I believe the correct term is Xenophobia....and it appears we have more than one of them posting in this thread.

Truly sad! 

My experience of Norway (Bergen) is that I will never complain about the price of a pint in the UK again

Sorry guys this thread is not about beer in Norway