Ideally, we would like not to delete items, but merge them together. This way, when someone wants to see who all has used a Fender Telecaster, they would search the title and it would pull up all users. Currently, the sites submission field is very specific. If someone makes a submission for a Fender Telecaster and another for a Telecaster Fender, the site will only show one user for each and it will think they are completely different guitars. This is also why we now are more strict with the titles of a submission. If a word is mispelled, out of place, not capitalized, etc, it makes the search engine think it's a instrument of it's own.
To know where a bad submission has been made, one would have to visit the page of an artist or see them on the recent activity scroll. Due to having two full-time jobs and going to school 15 hours a semester, I simply do not have time to visit every artist I can think of read through older submissions. However, I do look over all the new submissions and reviews that we get in a day and moderate those that need moderation.
I have no issue with you, but I do have to fix your posts as part of my role here. In the last few days, you have had the most submissions that envolved instruments I am familiar with. I have had to correct other guitars and amps within these days as well. You are not alone. It is not personal. My job here is to ensure that the site has as accurate of a catalog as possible.
The site currently does not allow instant messaging or e-mail between members. I think if we had this, corrections would not feel so aggressive. We could talk in real time. Many new members go back and undo the changes made by staff. This just wastes everyone's time and puts more friction in the environment. A lot of new members don't even visit the forums, so they don't get to know why the submissions were editted if they don't read the editting info.
I encourage you to continue to make submissions. If you think a certain tag is needed in the title, do put it in the submission. When we see it, we will make a decision on whether the name needs to stay the same or be editted. If it is editted, you will still get points towards your gear IQ and int he best case scenario, the item is either copy of another item and will be merged or the title will just be adjusted.
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