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Don't be so bloody naive.  Do you really think I'm the only one out of hundreds of thousands of users who feels this way?  I won't give anybody else's name because I won't violate their privacy, but the person that introduced me to Profiler more than 5 years ago is one.  In fact, he is even more ademant than I am about it -- to the point that he won't contribute anything and hasn't for a long time.

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You're all saying "Lock your profiles if you don't like it". Well, fine...they can do that but that permanently precludes them from making any future updates to cast & crew for those profiles that contain "credited as" entries that they have not accepted. Is that acceptable? I don't know .

No, it isn't acceptable.  At a minimum user level, I should ALWAYS be able to accept a download to get "as credited" data without having to also accept a lot of stuff that is useless to me. 

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I should also be able to contribute, at a minimum user level, "as credited" data without being penalized because it doesn't have common name stuff added to it.  Notice I'm talking about the basic functionality here, not whether any more than that is good, bad, or otherwise.

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Think of it as buying a car.  There are certain basic features that come on the car.  I should be able to go into the dealer and buy that car, and if I want to add other options I can do so - but its my choice.

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You obviously missed the point about contributions.  If the cast section has 15 legitimate fixes, and one of those involves 'common name' then I can't make the contribution unless I leave that alone.  But if I don't have those in MY database, then I still can't contribute it because it would break the link.  Either way I lose out.

But that is a choice you have made.  You have the other option of doing what, some, of the rest of us do.  Back up the profile, change the entry to match what is being used online, contribute the correct changes and restore the profile back to the way you want it.  Does it add an extra couple of minutes to the process?  Yes it does but, if contributing is that important to you, it isn't an unreasonable amount of time.

By the same token, if a profile you want to d/l contains a 'common name/as credited' entry you can make note of that cast member, download the profle and then change that one entry back to the way you want it.  Does it add an extra couple of minutes to the process?  Yes it does but, if downloading updates is that important to you, it isn't an unreasonable amount of time.

At least that is how I see and do it.  Your mileage will vary. 

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No, it isn't a choice I made.  It was something forced on me.  I'm tired of being the one who always has to give in.  You guys screamed and kicked until you got duplicate data in boxset master profiles; now you want your way again, and to hell with what anybody else might want.  You don't even want to support Ken making it chooseable.

There's also no reason why Ken can't make it a choice that bypasses it, either.  Timewise, you're right; a couple minutes is no big deal -- if its only a few profiles.  But what happens if you get thirty or forty like that?  That couple of minutes just turned into an hour, maybe more.

Go back an read my first post on this.  I questioned the demand for this feature, I never said I wouldn't support it...it is up to Ken to decide whether or not this was important enough to consider.  If he does, I will support it.  If he doesn't, then you will have to live with it.  Such is the nature of things around here.

As for you always being the one who has to give in...give me a break.  For the longest time, the people who wanted the ability to link actors had to give in and you were quite happy telling them they had to live with it.  I find it funny, now that the shoe is on the other foot, that you aren't willing to accept the same solution. 

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No, it isn't a choice I made.  It was something forced on me.

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I'm tired of being the one who always has to give in.  You guys screamed and kicked until you got duplicate data in boxset master profiles; now you want your way again, and to hell with what anybody else might want.  You don't even want to support Ken making it chooseable.
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The difference is, I never said I wanted to prevent anybody from having linking.  NOT ONCE.  I just said *I* don't want it, rather don't need it.  ...

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I can read what people post as well as you can.

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want the ability to turn off linking completely.  I don't need it, and don't want to have to deal with it--at all!  By that I mean, that with such a switch turned ON, no common name data is downloaded to me when I do weekly updates, and no common name data is uploaded BY me when I make a contribution.