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From a strictly rentalg POV WHAT is being collected.

"Watched" statistics.

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Quoting Winston Smith:

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From a strictly rentalg POV WHAT is being collected.

"Watched" statistics.

That'sa joke right. You COLLECT Statistics?

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Quoting m.cellophane:

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Quoting Winston Smith:

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From a strictly rentalg POV WHAT is being collected.

"Watched" statistics.

That'sa joke right. You COLLECT Statistics?

I know you are hanging your hat on the word "COLLECT" but it's really a pointless endeavor. Items in my Wish List or even my ordered tab are not part of the physical collection in my house. With custom collection tabs, one can have a "Rented" collection tab or even a "Sold" collection tab.

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no one has answered the fundamental question i have asked.I submit it is because you can't answer it,but THAT is normal around here. From a strictly rentalg POV WHAT is being collected. NOTHING. I will probably pass out if I ever ask a question and someone actually answers it.

The answer to your question is "data".  That is what is being collected.  Data about DVDs owned, ordered, desired, or dreamed of.

Don't hit your head on the way down.

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Wrong NoName. The problem is not me derailing anything, that is NEVER,I repeat NEVER MY objective. So maybe people need to look to themselves first and perhaps try and engage me in a serious discussion for a change. You might learn something and I might learn something, that's always fun. I said I asked a serious question which still remains unanswered,danced around,but not answered and i would love someone to explain how Rentals qualify as a collection. So far i gotten what seem to me to be one very funny response and one pretty vague one from my friend James. I am still chuckling about collecting statistics,and while i understand the rental Tab he mentioned,THAT is local and I can see local use,I simply don't understand how Rentals qualify relative to the Online,they are NOT a collection of anything. The best that can be said of them is that they are a LIST of movies that one has watched by renting them, but a sa collection...NO.

Now as to the personal attack, your comment is extremely thinly veiled and ithink any and everyone knew exactly who you were referring to, There is very little doubt.BUT for me(the target) it did not rise to the level of a red arrow.You make some assumptions about me, which simply aren't true,but as long as you understand that in reality you have very little upon which to base your assumptions, you only have what you believe you can glean from a bunch of postings in a forum,you know very llittle about tme,who I am, what my life has been for 60 years (which is actually quite interesting,I think and in some ways boring).

I will offer this again to everyone including you NoName,a user recently mentioned something about me not caring about anyone's feelings, and guess what he is right ,and do you know why, because from POV most of you have shown very little consideration for mine, as your very thinly veiled remark demonstrated. I didn't start it,it was started by others and carried on by some even today. I remain willing to meet everyone in the middle or try to, but that is not going to happen as long as my feelings mean nothing to you and you chose to not engage in serious discussion,m you people have hurt me,greatly,I am bruised, battered and angry, but willing to put all that aside when I see some decency in these forums.

I have an answer.....

The online is not a collection for any one person.  It does not maintain statistics, collection numbers, or who has or does not have any particular DVD in their collection (except in an individual online collection listing).

The online is a repository of information that a community has spent numerous hours compiling, so that the individual profiler can use the data for informational purposes within their own collection.

The client side of profiler only gives the ability to track a personal collection of discs and the data that is associated with those discs, that may or may not be included within the online data cloud.

While I will contend that the client is for assisting the individual in the cataloging of their own personal collection, the online is only the data repository.

With this idea, contributing information to the data cloud is not an act of collecting, only an act of sharing.

So why should we not contribute valid data to the online repository of information?...

Charlie

Wow, NoName. I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Funny,if I thought i was funny I would be at the Improv.

Interesting Charlie,thank you.

Right they are NOT collecting aything. Therfore RENTAL titles should not be in the Online by your own definition. Now once they are owned that becomes another tale, but then there is also the conundrum I mentioned before. But at least you recognized the basic premise finally. Thank you.