Locking Submissions

I'm getting tired of seeing submission pages like these:

https://equipboard.com/pros/kurt-cobain/fender-kurt-cobain-road-worn-jaguar-electric-guitar

https://equipboard.com/pros/kurt-cobain/fernandes-stratocaster-hss

https://equipboard.com/pros/kurt-cobain/gibson-sg-standard-electric-guitar

https://equipboard.com/pros/cliff-burton/gibson-flying-v-electric-guitar

If you will look through the Comments/Edit History of pages such as these, what you'll see is a large amount of argueing, bickering, and useless edits & posts chanting 'I think i'm right therefore i am', all this while ignoreing the hard facts & source evidence, aswell as the standard rules of the site. These aren't nearly isolated incidents, so what I propose is that we make "Lockable Submissions" or "Privilaged Edit Submissions" were only profiles with say around 5000 GearIQ (note: exceeding my current GearIQ), can edit or rate them, much in the same way Wikipedia has some pages that can be edited by the general public, and other pages that are locked to such people with the only way to edit them being that you must ask a higher official to edit something in if they feel it is fit to do so. The reason why I'm making this proposal is because I'm tired of these profiles with their GearIQ in the double-digits basicly wipeing a professional, factual submission just because they heard some rumour that they belive is true. I'm not proposing we lock all submissions just the ones that are either highly popular/in no more need of improvement/or have been highly abused.

I hope you will consider my proposal, thank you.

Looking at those threads, I'd be frustrated too, Clifford.

Does this kind of thing happen with artists who aren't 1) wildly popular across multiple generations of fans and 2) also dead?

If I was a troll looking to get a reaction out of people, those are the types of artists/submissions I'd pick on: Artists whom lots of people, young and old, hold sacred. Especially artists that people first bonded with in their early teens... those are the best targets.

Bad targets? Pretty much any artist I submit for here... tumbleweeds. :)

If EB locked any submission that got trolled, then some of the most-viewed, most-important submissions would get frozen in-time... people could no longer update the source when a link when dead, or add new info when it pops up... unlike forum threads, where you can just spin up a new one, there can only be one submission for whatever franken-Strat Kurt played through a PA head at whatever specific live appearance... or at least, there should only be one submission... that's a different problem.

Anyway... we have Moderators here. I'm curious as to what specific power the Moderators have to check people who seem to be behaving poorly?

I'm not saying we would lock the artist being submitted to, just locking certin items on their page (e.g. Kurt Cobain's '65 Jaguar) one could still submit new gear to the page, they would just have to request to edit certin items.

I'm not saying we would lock the artist being submitted to, just locking certin items on their page (e.g. Kurt Cobain's '65 Jaguar) one could still submit new gear to the page, they would just have to request to edit certin items.

I know. I was not confused as to what you were suggesting.

Individual items still need to be updated/edited as links die and new information surfaces. Putting up barriers to doing that, whether it's having to request permission to edit or wait until you have thousands of IQ points, lightly-punishes thousands of people for the actions of just a few trolls.

I'm asking if maybe there's a way to limit the bad-faith editors, instead of limiting the entries themselves.