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This is a perfect example of the hypocrisy of treating TV sets and movie sets differently.

We had a huge fight (several fights actually) before settling on the current method of master/child profiles for each TV season, and have to include ALL the stuff in the master to satisfy certain people.

There is NO DIFFERENCE between a single TV season and a mega set, except that it's MORE.  And guess what?  Putting six, or seven, or ten seasons worth of stuff in the master IS really stupid and cumbersome, and a royal pain to work with - JUST LIKE WE TOLD YOU IT WOULD BE!

So, now, you all want to vote to not do the megasets the same way.  If it wasn't so damn sad, I'd be laughing my ass off.

I promise I won't say I told you so...  not too many times anyway! 

Why don't you wait how the vote goes before spraying your venom...

If we make each Season/Series a Box Set, then there is no way to make the profile for the "Mega Set" the parent... On the other hand, so far (as of my post) the majority has voted to treat the "Mega Set" as a Box Set, so the "Mega Set" profile is the "empty parent" and the children "Season/Series" profiles have all the data.

But you haven't changed a damn thing, Achim!  You've just shifted it from one master to a lower level master, and you can't even DO the child profiles yet at the grandchild level.  How have you improved anything?

Do the megabox as the master, then do a child profile for each disc, and forget about the individual season boxes for now.  When Ken bestows the ability to add a season boxset to a megaset master profile all you have to do is add six, or eight, or ten secondary master profiles for the individual season boxes.  You still can't do grandchildren, but at least the data is in manageable chunks ready for that level when it comes.

I just don't get why you guys are so bloody paranoid about calling TV boxsets and movie boxsets what they are -  BOXSETS - and then doing the profiles accordingly.  It would make things so much simpler all the way around.

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Do the megabox as the master, then do a child profile for each disc, and forget about the individual season boxes for now.  When Ken bestows the ability to add a season boxset to a megaset master profile all you have to do is add six, or eight, or ten secondary master profiles for the individual season boxes.  You still can't do grandchildren, but at least the data is in manageable chunks ready for that level when it comes.

Had you added this to your previous post it would have been much easier to understand

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Ken has made it clear how he wants this stuff done.  Ken has two sections: one for Movie Boxsets and one for TV Sets.  Why?  Because he wants them done differently!

Why don't you just accept it?

Because Ken has shown that he is willing to listen to different opinions, and suggestions to make changes to the rules. Why is there a Rules Committee?

At least try to stay open-minded.

This is not the Rules Committee forum...it is the contribution discussion forum.  Here we talk about what the Rules tell us to do TODAY!

There is a discussion about how some would like to change the Rules in the Rules Committee forum!  Take it there!

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Do the megabox as the master, then do a child profile for each disc, and forget about the individual season boxes for now.  When Ken bestows the ability to add a season boxset to a megaset master profile all you have to do is add six, or eight, or ten secondary master profiles for the individual season boxes.  You still can't do grandchildren, but at least the data is in manageable chunks ready for that level when it comes.

If this is what you wish to propose, fine.  Go to the appropriate forum and propose it!

Or start a vote.

For now, the Rules tell us ow to do a "megaset" TV series.

Why not just make everyone happy? Have all the info the the parent and have the child profiles as well. I personally don't need child profiles for my TV series so I want the parent to have all the info. Those that want the children can delete from the parent whatever they don't need.

If you wanna add even more grandchildren go for it, I won't try to stop you...but don't prevent those who wanna use only 1 profile per season to do that...it seems to me that is the way you want to go. That's why I said 'why not make everyone happy'?

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All that is neede here is Grandchildren and they are on the way. Until then we are trapped, just be patient and don't twist things.

The rules tell us how to properly profile those sets now. Mega Set is the parent, the seasons are the children.

Why would I need to be trapped and wait patiently for an undetermined amount of time then? Once the grand children are in place, adjusting it from teh way it is done now will be very easy.

Exactly.  When and if "grandchildren" are added, we simply need to add the exisitng disc level children to the seasons........done.

But of course, we might get "tabs" for doing episodes also, so what then.

The point is, we cannot do things today based on what we might get later down the road, 'cause none of us knows for certain what that's gonna be!