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... I said that a strict application of the rules (as recopy spelling mistakes  ) seems mad to me and that I won't contribute anymore in those conditions.

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I also am deeply amused at the vociferous abilities of lurkers who don't Contribute but want to leech off the work of everyone else.

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Because I don't believe this "Common name" crap/drek/junk/doggerel will work, and will just cause problems, I will now be unable to receive any updated cast and crew from profiles. All because of a few people, and NOT vox populi.

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I also am deeply amused at the vociferous abilities of lurkers who don't Contribute but want to leech off the work of everyone else.

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Because I don't believe this "Common name" crap/drek/junk/doggerel will work, and will just cause problems, I will now be unable to receive any updated cast and crew from profiles. All because of a few people, and NOT vox populi.

And I am not amused at all by these statements. As you can easily see by checking my user profile, I haven't contributed any profiles to v3 for reasons I outlined elsewhere. I am however the author of the Name Variants plugin, which should be proof enough that I have some insight into the topic of "common names". The other one, who has even more insight, recently told you that the feature is widely used and understood by contributors and voters.

So I think you two simply have some catching up to do.

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I also am deeply amused at the vociferous abilities of lurkers who don't Contribute but want to leech off the work of everyone else.

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Because I don't believe this "Common name" crap/drek/junk/doggerel will work, and will just cause problems, I will now be unable to receive any updated cast and crew from profiles. All because of a few people, and NOT vox populi.

And I am not amused at all by these statements. As you can easily see by checking my user profile, I haven't contributed any profiles to v3 for reasons I outlined elsewhere. I am however the author of the Name Variants plugin, which should be proof enough that I have some insight into the topic of "common names". The other one, who has even more insight, recently told you that the feature is widely used and understood by contributors and voters.

So I think you two simply have some catching up to do.

Since it seems to be common practice, let me go off-topic for once, too, and grab this opportunity to thank you for this absolutely wonderful plugin!

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...and you won't have to worry about hearing from me again. I'm sure you would like that.

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Rather than turning this, once again, into a discussion about "common names" in general, could we possibly go back to discussing the two examples at hand? Like lyonsden5 says: it doesn't matter what we pick, as long as we agree on something. So let's pick a "common name" for both, and move on.

Oh, I can see it now.

A thread for each and every time we need to have a stupid common name.

This is getting old really fast.

At some point a few weeks ago someone complained that they were being "unjustly persecuted" (or words to the effect) because they didn't participate fully, due to their wanting different data. So now I feel I'm in the same boat - the common name nonsense is doing nothing but screwing up the database, and - like someone posted earlier about it - will get us back to ping-ponging of profiles. because people aren't going to agree at all about names. The ONLY way this will work is if KEN TELLS US what a person's common name is to be.

So I guess - since I don't want to corrupt my data - I am being punished and can't use the whole program to its fullest.

Interestingly enough, I have yet to see a "common name" get 'ping ponged' since this feature was released months ago.

This fear appears to be a red herring.

Great answer, hal. Instead of dealing with his concen put him down and insult him for it. There are a lot of users sitting on the isdelines with this function, there are a handful of users who are actively trying to stake their claim to the gold in Aaska and i could count them on both hands.

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