The thank you thread

Not sure if there already is one or if it's even allowed.

I don't know if everyone re the times when they were new at submitting here. I think everyone should.
The guidelines suggested how to do things properly, but most people learned the ropes by way of checking submissions and how things were done by others. I did anyway. And by advice and input from experienced s.

I would like to thank some of these whom I learned a lot from back then.
Eviltoastman.

I learned a lot from many other s later on, but the above mentioned were my welcome committee.
Some are still active, some I've never crossed paths with since.
I them and I'm grateful for all the help and teachings.

Me? Patient? Think you're mistaking me with someone else. ;)
Thanks for the mention. Every little helps build the database. I learned the hard way. Stubbornness and run ins with other s. Not a great start. I'm a lot more relaxed in my older age......a lot more!

chn74
Not sure if there already is one or if it's even allowed.

I this. Thanks for making it!

thanks mum!

Diognes_The_Fox
I this. Thanks for making it!

I think this tread should be pinned. Its a nice addition to discogs and will help the climate here on the site, ther are a lot of positivity but many s feel attacked when reciving votes and ther are not enough apriciation for the s that help others. Me myself could be better at showing appriciation for the ppl who do a lot of good here. I'll try to come back with a list of ppl who I think have learned me a lot here.

Edit: this could be a good tread to post in when someone helped you. So they get the recognition they deserve for taking the time out of their day to do that

zelik were my first mentors: very, very patient and persistent. As well as so many oggers answering my rather naive questions in the forum :) Thanks!

TopCats45s
As well as so many oggers answering my rather naive questions in the forum

I always thought you were pretty clued up form the 'get-go', to be honest.

TopCats45s
The_Beatles. & zelik were my first mentors: very, very patient and persistent. As well as so many oggers answering my rather naive questions in the forum :) Thanks!

There is nothing more satisfying than giving someone a little help and then watching them get to a stage where they are helping other s. It was a pleasure and I'm pleased you mentioned it. andygrayrecords. The danger with these kind of posts is the people you miss out so thanks to all.

LolH
I always thought you were pretty clued up form the 'get-go', to be honest.

Took to it like a duck to water.

Man, I was a bit of a mess when I first arrived. Honorable mentions to Jayfive so many other people helped, cajoled and generally pointed me in the correct direction, without whom, I would have fallen by the wayside. Thanks all

Unfortunately, the person who mentored me in my early days, and helped me get out of CIP, prometheusrussell immediately spring to mind, but there will have been many more. Cheers, y'all :-)

I have to doff my cap in the general direction of prometheusrussell.
Sure there are others and I apologise if I forgot you.

Nae bother. Thanks, Andy

TopCats45s
Thanks!

Thank you for your continued hard work on merges (and all those 7" records you've filled in!)

There's a lot of people I need to thank. I'll try and post more as they come up.

Thank you all for the effort you put in to growing this place (and for being patient with me most of all!)

Diognes_The_Fox
hard work on merges

On that note, I feel I should also thank nadsat for showing me - not with words but with his example, that it's our duty as voters and discogs citizens to keep the place clean by regularly checking the merge and removal queues, and tidy up before or after when possible.

Nice idea chn74

I would like to say thank you to tam89rds and many many others for some interesting conversation.

Of course i also would like to thank teo for founding Discogs.

Outside of Discogs a big "thank you" for my wife... she met me with 100 LPs, a few Cassettes... now there are more thank 16000 LPs, MCs, CDs and she is still there and take ma as i am :)

This is a fine idea chn74, thank you.

I'm hard-pressed to name all the s who helped me along, way back when, as many have gone from the site now but DwarfeD were all a massive help back when I first tried to work out how this all fitted together.

chn74
Diognes_The_Foxhard work on merges
On that note, I feel I should also thank nadsat for showing me - not with words but with his example, that it's our duty as voters and discogs citizens to keep the place clean by regularly checking the merge and removal queues, and tidy up before or after when possible.

Thanks! :)

Opdiner
This is a fine idea chn74, thank you.

A serious +1 to that! And thank you, Opdiner, for helping out more than once when I needed your expertise and assistance.

I want to thank explicitely auboisdormant for their help in the beginning. Having been both my kind instructors as Newbie.

I've learnt a lot from the now "oldtimers" … "Runrig" expert baytree37. And I miss their expertise in the Forums nowadays.
And let's not forget The_Beatles. – their humour was/is very appreciated. Well, nowadays death threats are forbidden but often people could do better with some of their approach …

My special thanks go to Eviltoastman. I have learned the most from their expertise in the forums and the advise and comments given with my submissions. Also thanks to anyone not mentioned for taking care about the database and keepng the emphasis on accuracy and correctness.

Diognes_The_Fox
I this.

If people don't start thanking me, I definitely don't it. [goes into massive sulk]

I'll give a +1 to thanking Myriad for giving me good advice and in some submissions when I was new around here.

First and foremost, a big thank you to everyone who cares about the database, and works towards making it better. Including andrenafulva. :-)

Thanks to el_duro for the thanks yous. <3

Thank you to also all of those with whom I have had chats, who I've met irl, who helped me as a noob back in 2005, who have voted/commented on my pending submissions, with whom I've argued, and who have dared to point out my mistakes. You know who you are. :-*

And last, but not the least, thank you Discogs staff for starting Bookogs. The submitting never ends...

Thanks to https://www.discogs.sie.com/Smiths-Strangeways-Here-We-Come/release/5538685 . I've learned a lot more since then and am still learning, but that first one you checked certainly gave me the confidence to continue contributing to the database.

Not in any particular order:

Thanks to mjb for casting me so many EI - NMC - NmC and a few C votes. Those explained votes put me in the right path 10 years ago. (Almost I've caught on CIP) Also he is very helpful on forum.

Thanks to hafler3o for help me in my begginings here and for being comprehensive with my poor english.

Thanks to euroduo for casting my first C&C vote. He was very polite and helped me a lot with my first big update. He also encouraged me to add all credits and info on subsequent submissions.

Thanks to hugohugo for your help and friendship. I really miss you.

Thanks to NLK for vote on the submissions that nobody cares and nobody will look at. A real gentleman.

Thanks to borderes for take care of latin artists' profiles and help other s with your forum thread.

And finally, thanks to Elvis Presley for my first LP ever.

Special thank you, vinyljunkie66, for teaching me what to see, and letting, "we don't know" be enough.

It is always a pleasure to help out.

Opdiner
a massive help back when I first tried to work out how this all fitted together.

thanks! I guess you helped me just as much as I did you!
I would perhaps have never had the perseverance to stay here without IronFist (no longer active unfortunately) who mentored me with patience through my humble first steps.
I also recall gratefully the many funny interchanges with Internaut
Also grateful to tarantoga for his exemplary classical submissions.
And sorry to all the many others that I now fail to mention. I have not forgotten you...

Ta very much andygrayrecords!
He's helped me along the initial stages of subbing and answered my queries along the way. My mentor.
Thanks also to FromLondon for in some tricky circumstances ..very much appreciated!

I think it also has to be said that everyone sometimes gets things wrong, and I appreciate it when instead of being jumped at the throat, I get a gentle hint that " this needs correcting" etc.
It's how we all learn. By encouraging, not by poking a sharpened stick.

chn74
I don't know if everyone re the times when they were new at submitting here. I think everyone should.

Thanks for the thread.

My first steps were largely facilitated by mods Opdiner + many more that have left with V4.

Thanks to Uso800 for the help with the most difficult Chinese releases and I probably forget many more....

whether they want it or not 🤠 specialy thank you : berothbr
and others people that we talk pleasantly in PM

I don't think they're active anymore, but 8mm was instrumental in getting over some initial issues I had while learning the guidelines here.

I have received help and guidance from many, many s here but my big thank you goes to Myriad, my first mentor here. Thanks, bro.

Huge thanks to tam89rds, (and more who I am probably missing, deepest apologies if I did) for their massive assistance with transcribing Thai, Indian, Arabic, Chinese, and other non-latin character set submissions. I definitely could not have done this without any of you!

(more thanks to come. There's a lot of people who have significantly helped me over the years :)

Thnxalot to staff for solving the glitches/bugs yesterday. Hugs from the Netherlands.

my first thanks go to teo and nik and the rest of Discogs staff
for making all this possible without them this would not be happening.
i always wanted to know exactly how many records i owned but never even dreamed of counting them
one by one but now this is (almost) done it makes me smile in a way i can't describe *---*

like some have already stated, some s may not be around anymore
also, i am not pinging anyone as they may not want that :) so their credits are as follows
Helped By - Bunkerheadz << this man persuaded me to add a lot of obscure stuff
and even to persist after my first subs got N votes also, being my mentor for the first few subs
so eternal thanks to you mate :)

Other [Rejected By] Dmaxx or Maxxyne
my first sub got N voted by either one of the two (i can't which)
and due to them i learned and got it right the 2nd or 3rd time so thanks
for using constructive criticism in the best possible way , i learned quickly so all good!

now to the people who commented instead of voting and generally helped me (in the beginning)
and yeah i cannot all of you, this list is in no order all are equally respected here!
Assisted By [Polite Assistance]
Haze
MJB
rassel
Mayday
Kergillian
Spankwa
helix
hafler3o
killawatt
i have to it there are many more from back then and even more from nowadays
so you know who you are there are too many to name that have helped me, but basically ...
i say thanks to all those who share the same common goal :
"to archive the past.present and future of music as correctly and completely as possible"

the database is more of a priority to me because it will essentially make the marketplace better
if everything is done properly, easier said than done i know but hey...
it's why i am here as much as my free time allows!

el_duro
Also thanks to anyone not mentioned for taking care about the database and keepng the emphasis on accuracy and correctness.

And to you!

Diognes_The_Fox
P.Cha

you mean "Vomit..Golden.Shower" is back?
> https://www.discogs.sie.com/forum/thread/767124
> https://www.discogs.sie.com/forum/thread/767095

So a 3 month suspension is what he got for disabling around a thousand images?

Lets hope he doesn't fall of the wagon again or gets blackmailed by a seller, he sure learned his lesson, considering that he has not re-enabled any of the images which he disabled.

Thank you chn74 for all the work you do fixing bad submissions, fixing and merging all those releases after incorrect removal attempt, being a good example for other submitters.

phallancz
Lets hope he doesn't fall of the wagon again or gets blackmailed by a seller, he sure learned his lesson, considering that he has not re-enabled any of the images which he disabled.

We had a lengthy discussion.

Thank you 8m2stereo for helping me as a newbie on Discogs.

DonHergeFan
Thank you 8m2stereo for helping me as a newbie on Discogs.

Thanks, I forgot to mention 8m2stereo with my posting above.

Diognes_The_Fox
We had a lengthy discussion.

I'm now imagining you doing your Serious Voice.

DonHergeFan
Thank you 8m2stereo for helping me as a newbie on Discogs.

And to you and your very helpful Commented Submission Guide!

4theLuvOvMusic
Thank you chn74 for all the work you do fixing bad submissions

I pretty much live here so I try my best to keep the house clean :) I fix what I can, if I can. It's something I learned from Jayfive and I find that fixing things myself is actually a lot easier and more effective than commenting-waiting a reply-voting.
Also, mentoring is not really my forte so I happily adopted this policy quite early.

chn74
mentoring is not really my forte

but when you tried it you did it beautifully, thank you chn74!

I gave maskingsound eye cancer according to him with my bad photography of unedited records( I am an award winning photographer, so it is sort of funny to me) yet in spite of this he has been very cheerful and helpful in showing me the ropes. So thank-you!

stephenlouis
I gave maskingsound eye cancer according to him with my bad photography of unedited records( I am an award winning photographer, so it is sort of funny to me)

They might be very artily taken, but they could certainly be improved for the database. Here images are for two main purposes: identification/matching of an exact version of a release, and to be able to read as much information on them as possible. The maximum displayed width of images in Discogs, no matter how high-res are the ed originals, is 600px. It's therefore important not to include any surround that isn't needed for either of those purposes: so please crop your images to show only the labels; no blank or generic (not release-specific) company sleeves and no surrounding disc surface. And please rotate them so that text is horizontal! Otherwise they are needlessly difficult to read. See RSG §13 for some guidelines about best practice for images. Thank you!

andrenafulva
stephenlouisI gave maskingsound eye cancer according to him with my bad photography of unedited records( I am an award winning photographer, so it is sort of funny to me)
They might be very artily taken, but they could certainly be improved for the database.!

LOL, Im aware my shots for the site were crap. was busy and thought they need only be view-able and that any shot was better than no shot. Ive conformed since.

On my first edit on a release (the 4th release i've added to my collection), i've changed the Country of okso, a i didn't know, changed it immediately back and introduced me to the Guidelines on the revert comment and trough a private message.
Then, with patience, he guided me trough my first Unique Release Contribution (a Classical 5xCD Box Set).
If it wasn't for him, i would probably get a EI vote and, eventually, leave Discogs.
So, i want to thank okso for the help he gave me at the beginning (now i usually seek for help in the Forum) and also for contributing to a more (beginner) friendly site.
All the best!

Your welcome Miguel, glad you are enjoying Discogs!

Thanks to all who are here for camaraderie and not to compete

very interesting and thoughtful thread, community is always a plus. on that note I would personally like to thank Showbiz_Kid and many more. .. I appreciate all, and wish the best.

oh and of course I cannot forget SeRKeT such a pleasure!

Thanks to anyone who's subs I've copied to draft!

Well this is very cool and thanks Opdiner are also wonderful humans.

And a special thanks to Darrell_Johnson, a legend among us, who has helped me with countless bits of inside-the-industry knowledge.

Thanks to everyone who pitches in and works to truly improve things here :)

Showbiz_Kid,
Thanks for the acknowledgement. As I look through the list I see lots of folks who have made Discogs a truly rewarding effort in creating a useful database. I've learned a lot, but also realize there is so much more to learn. One sub at a time.
Special thanks go to zelik who assisted with my first entry.

Showbiz_Kid
are also wonderful humans.

I think you're giving me too much credit. However, sebfact's runout thread experience.

kkuenz56
and mr_mando

I'm glad I could help.

Thank you Showbiz_Kid for always making me feel welcome here. You and others like mossinterest, steelydave, nik, and sebfact, among many, have helped me from the very beginning to navigate the often muddy waters of Discogs. It is my wish that other recording engineers would take an active role here and contribute their inside industry knowledge. It would help us to build an even better and more accurate database. The thing that irks me most is those who jump in and try to take over; often appointing themselves the king. Then trying to impose their interpretation of the guidelines as a set in stone rule. My personal belief is that they are true "Guidelines". By being guides and not laws the opportunity to expand important and significant knowledge while applying common sense and good judgment allows for a more creative and comprehensive collection of information. All the darn nitpicking that goes on is only counterproductive and childish. After all, it is the very thing that brings the majority of us here...the love of music an all things relative to its creation and sharing.

thank you discogs, for having worked on the search engine linked to the forum threads, during this last summer ! and thank you for having made it more comfortable and efficient in its results, with my mobile device ! now i’m abble to find if a subject was already treated in the past, or not, it will change my life of young contributor...
thanks a lot !

dub_e_72 I'd like to thank for helping me navigate some waters I've never treaded before. Thank you!!

Huge shout out to all that assisted / voted in the merge process associated with The Casablanca Singles 1974-1982. This large merge has now been completed.
To name a few names...
BloodstainedSurgeon
Thanks!

I tried to keep track of all that participated but may have missed some names, if I missed you here is a special thank-you just for you. Your help was greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Stephen
:)

mccontrol thank you for the acknowledgement and the relentless quest for the truth!

You're very welcome... and THANK YOU, mccontrol, for having the courage, the conviction,
and (most importantly) the ION to launch and coordinate this very necessary merger.

So many are simply lax or lost upon the idea of ensuring the completion of a discographical entry --
especially in of the labelscans (I still can't understand why, for the life of me).
But the ion you put into this one -- for whatever reason -- makes being a Discogger
so much more worthwhile. This was an exciting journey, and I am VERY happy and
very proud to have been a part of this. A toast to you, M.C.!

~ DLC

kkuenz56
@ mccontrol -- Thank you for the acknowledgement and the relentless quest for the truth!

Kudos on that, kkuenz56! I couldn't agree more.

I'd like to acknowledge trailoff, sometimes you find the most unexpected in the best places. Thanks for your consideration, and for being here with us! Appreciated!!

Thanks to all involved in getting the pending merge release list from a permanent 1K+ to now a one page issue. Its great to see the pending merge list almost as small as the pending removals! Great work folks. ;-)

I'd like to say thank you to everybody, especially RECORSCOUT and TYPOMAN2 for introducing me and having so much patience...

Spending so much time in the forums, it's super easy to point out the rough spots.

Spending time getting caught up on release notifications, I see something else. It's almost entirely all positive updates. When incorrect updates are made, in many cases you all catch and revert them before I can.

This is a great community and you all do so much fantastic work here. Thank you all so much.

JCH1966
I'd like to say thank you to everybody, especially RECORSCOUT and TYPOMAN2 for introducing me and having so much patience...

Thought I'd link to the s names so they read your message typoman2.

You are welcome, JCH1966.
Da nich für. Bei irgendwelchen Fragen, immer wieder gerne ;-)
Wir müssen zusammenhalten!

...and thank you, Dave The_Beatles. ;-)

Diognes_The_Fox
Spending so much time in the forums, it's super easy to point out the rough spots.

Spending time getting caught up on release notifications, I see something else. It's almost entirely all positive updates. When incorrect updates are made, in many cases you all catch and revert them before I can.

This is a great community and you all do so much fantastic work here. Thank you all so much.

Super happy to be here & contribute :)

[quote=mccontrol][/quote]

Agreed, this is Discogs!

Chachere
thanks for adding a series label

You're welcome, and thanks for the shout on this great thread. Since I'm here, I'd like to thank Electro-Magnetic for the correct votes on releases and further guidance :)

Your welcome!

panopticonopolis
Chacherethanks for adding a series label

You're welcome, and thanks for the shout on this great thread. Since I'm here, I'd like to thank aemjae and okso who were the first to gently guide me through submitting correctly. Also, among others: brycemania, floating, mjb, marcelrecords, Joseph_S, hoppkorv, Fauni-Gena and Electro-Magnetic for the correct votes on releases and further guidance :)

Great thread idea! Will certainly aid in positivity around here!

I wanna big thank seppuku, the ghost buster, for the big help he gives behind the scenes.

ChrisCrass
I learned the hard way. Stubbornness and run ins with other s. Not a great start. I'm a lot more relaxed in my older age......a lot more!

HaHa!! That sure was me too!
He's gone now, but Curiopete took a lot of time, comments, messages and yes, finally NMC's to straighten me out.
i've still got some of his messages saved in my mailbox....

Just a quick thank you to all the regular contributors here for their help, critiques and guidance.

Happy Christmas to all and a Merry New Year.

I wanna thank Myriad for taking the time to help me out when I got stuck. What a champion! :-)

Thanks to everyone who helped make 2018 an awesome year for the Discogs Database!

Big list of thank yous over here: Biggest Contributors of 2018 - Thank You

Entered with the left foot here, a thread about my bad edits was started by brianvy with his incredible matrices shared knowledge which helps a lot in narrowing dates.
A lot of s helped me with their comments in forum or submissions: Fauni-Gena and many others I can't their nicks now: Thanks!

big up to INCredible™ Sound Of Drum'n'Bass Mixed By Goldie’, on the marketplace ! the issue was the result of a new request, probably better than mine (after one year, better than never...) !
cheers, _jules’

ing this thread because the topic reflects how I feel about Discogs.
Ten years ago I was an active contributor to "Rate You Music" database. That was necessary because very little Classical was in that database when I started and there was not flexibility in their schema to the level of detail required to manage a large collection on line.
Now I have started the process again on Discogs. I ed last year, became active a few months ago, and have so far added 3,333 items from my collection. All but a handful of releases were missing and had to be added. Eleven million listings gives excellent coverage in nearly every genre.
Best of all, the web site is fast and reliable. New contributions (additional releases and edits) are visible to searches right away, typically a few seconds.
And I haven't even mentioned the Marketplace. Yes, it has the same high quality as the rest of the site. It's a well-thought-out protocol to connect buyers and sellers with enough states to prevent most misunderstandings. Works for me.

Every once in a great while I get stuck. Surely, the first Beethoven cycle by Alfred Brendel on Compact Disc would be in at least one other person's collection. I could not find it, so I submitted it.

This is a really nice thread; I only ed last September after returning to the UK and before I left we barely had the internet; an online place for my collection, matching owners with 'wants' and monetising, wow! Seeing all my old CDs and inherited vinyl again was a little overwhelming; onto the 'cloud' they all go and then it's a little exciting when I need to create a new sub - "no-one's got this!!". So thank you to those who have helped me along from my first edit or contribution, and I suppose for those who weren't so kind with their words I've learned from them too. When the 'you now have voting rights' email came through I knew I'd made it in the world, the best I can do is try to get things right first time, and pay it forward by helping others with a smile on my face. Thanks to my parents (you WILL love The Beatles when you're born) and my favourite weekend job ever, Trumps Records Hornchurch this is coming in a close third in of music history knowledge. PopMaster here I come. Thanks all, be patient, be kind and Happy Friday!

So nice too see the gratitude here. Thanks.

syke helped me cut my teeth among many others. Latter day, the help and input I got from everyone in the CD matrix thread was invaluable - too many people to mention.

To anyone I offended during my time "working" here, please know that in real life I would probably destroy you ;)

Eviltoastman
To anyone I offended during my time "working" here, please know that in real life I would probably destroy you ;)

There are few s I miss more here than you ETM. Thank you.

Eviltoastman
Jayfive, Mr.Mystery, Opdiner, nik, ChampionJames, Kerry and syke helped me cut my teeth among many others

For the last time, sir, your dental bills are not my responsibility, I don't care how strongly your attorneys feel about the matter.

Opdiner
There are few s I miss more here than you ETM. Thank you.

I miss you too.

ChampionJames
For the last time, sir, your dental bills are not my responsibility, I don't care how strongly your attorneys feel about the matter.

Seize and Der Cyst, Jimmy.

Oh heck, how did i miss this thread??!!!
Absolutely a terrific idea -Kudos to the one who started it and, er, Thank you.
Hopefully this will give some thought to those egotistical and know-it-alls who think they control discogs and are so rude to the newbies.

chazfromtoronto
Hopefully this will give some thought to those egotistical and know-it-alls who think they control discogs and are so rude to the newbies.

How? And also you're missing the point.

Kerry

I think you mean _kerry?

I'm going to celebrate my 's 1st birthday by thanking the following:
_jules for being simply competant
and everyone else for living and letting the idiot live.

Cheers