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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 6,744 |
| | Posted: | | | |  They come from a time where things were different. I'm not sure anyone is using them anymore anyway. | | | Karsten
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| Registered: June 12, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 2,665 |
| | Posted: | | | | I use them. I may be tilting at windmills but i want them to stay. | | | | Bad movie? You're soaking in it! |
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| Registered: December 10, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,004 |
| | Posted: | | | | At least remove them for cast and crew and auto-clear whenever a new version changes the options for a field. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 17,334 |
| | Posted: | | | | I have hated these from Day 1... would love to see them gone. To many things get locked to keep personal preference and too many things change/need updating (especially after new versions come out) without an easy way to get them unlocked. IMO it was bad design from day 1. | | | | Pete |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 3,197 |
| | Posted: | | | | The only time I thought they'd be useful they were quickly overridden by the screener who thought differently, so yeah, throw them out, they won't be missed! | | | | First registered: February 15, 2002 | | | | Last edited: by Nexus the Sixth |
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| Registered: September 18, 2008 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 2,650 |
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| Registered: December 10, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,004 |
| | Posted: | | | | IIRC, these were added largely because someone didn't like me messing with genres in the database. |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 |  Posts: 2,337 |
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| Registered: May 29, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,475 |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,005 |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 736 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting TomGaines: Quote:
Yes, please remove them. As far as I remember, they come from a time, when we didn't have the voting system. And I think there were there when we didn't have yet the possibility for partial contributions. They also come from a time when the contribution mindset was completely different, since their were no rules and no contribution notes. Even the Sort title was contributed, which meant people entering their personal preferences like "Bond 01" rather than "Dr. No." So the locks were developed to keep information that shouldn't change (like a title) free from alteration. But the locks didn't account for changes to the type of information that could be found in a specific field. Now that we have a solid voting system, the on-line locks are no longer necessary. |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,917 |
| | Posted: | | | | My understanding is that they were also added to stop ping ponging once enough people agreed to a certain value.
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 6,744 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Dr. Killpatient: Quote:
My understanding is that they were also added to stop ping ponging once enough people agreed to a certain value. But they are never released even when the rules on a particular filed changes. And I cannot remember seeing a full six-lock on any contribution I made in the last few years. | | | Karsten
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 17,334 |
| | Posted: | | | | They are definitely out there! I know there is many within my collection. | | | | Pete |
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